When I started full time work quite a few years ago now, I would in certain situations like when having a meeting with a superior or an authority figure be completely unable to get words out because I would be having what I now know to be a panic attack. This went on for years as I just thought its the way I am. A few years later I had built up quite a phobia of answering phones because the same thing would happen, I had changed jobs and it just so happened that my new job required me to be answering phones multiple times a day, so I went to the Doctors. He gave me medication and it literally stopped happening from that day onwards.
The first thing he put me on were beta blockers which I guess I built up a tolerance to and they werent really effective. I've since learned I have social anxiety and I now take Paroxetine on a daily basis and these issues have completely disappeared. To quote Stuart from The Big Bang Theory -
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my therapist changed my anxiety medication and I stopped caring about the blood in my stool.
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