Hello doctor,I am 28 years old. I am suffering from social anxiety. Some years back, I joined as a lecturer. After some days, when I start teaching the students and if they do not understand what I am teaching, I feel profuse sweating in arms and face. So, I get very shy. I left the job now. I considered changing my field to the software industry. Now again, I am suffering from the same problem of facial sweating when I am facing an interview. So, I could not clear the interview. Also, now I am jobless. I consulted a doctor in my native. He gave some tablet. It did not suit me. Now, I am unable to pay the fees for a doctor's consultation. So, I am going with this free consulting. Please help me out. Give me another chance to live like every one.
Hello. You may indeed have a social anxiety disorder. You need to build up confidence in yourself. Start talking with yourself by looking at a mirror with eye to eye contact. Talk with a new person daily, just small talk like hi or hello. Start doing exercise daily. Go for swimming. Spend time for your creative hobbies like painting, reading, writing, learning new languages, learning music, etc. Be bold. Do not lose hope. You may have introvert nature. Then accept it and use it. Do meditation. Take healthy food. Avoid junk food, do not drink alcohol or tobacco. This is non-pharmacology management. Still, if you have severe anxiety during facing persons, you can take tablet Propranolol 10 mg just half hour before interview or lectures. Tablet Clonazepam 0.5 mg also you can take 15 to 20 minutes before interview or lectures. Tablet Clonazepam may cause drowsiness. So, you first try at home, if you have a sleepy effect than take 0.25 mg or half of 0.25 mg tablet. Do not take more than 2 mg of Clonazepam, it will surely cause sedation. Tablet Propranolol and Clonazepam are taken only when you need it. Do not take it daily. If you have still a problem, then take tablet Escitalopram 10 mg daily for short time. Consult your specialist doctor, discuss with him or her and start taking the medicines with their consent. But at first, you must try to deal without medication - nonpharmacologic management. For more information consult a psychiatrist online -->