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What Can You Do If You Have A Panic Attack During a Public Speech
Anxiety — a feeling of flight response that creates a difficult situation for someone who neither can breathe nor can they stop shaking. It sometimes can be caused by various factors. Sometimes, even unconscious factors can trigger such situations where it becomes a challenging task to endure, let alone experience.
A panic attack is something that I am fairly experienced in. I have perhaps never really given it much thought. Whenever I have experienced it, it was if my heart wasn’t listening to me, and it started pumping faster — this sudden sensation causes me to lose my senses and in some factors my control and threw me in a wide sense of disarray that disrupted many important points in my life. There have been times, that I have experienced a panic attack and thus lost my opportunity to win.
This anecdote perhaps shows how I persisted through a situation that might give others the strength to pull through what I experienced if they however someday experience something similar.
It was perhaps 5 years ago, I was participating in a regional public speaking competition. We were given topics to discuss and provide valid discourse on each one. I choose the topic of emotional intelligence, with my team. I encouraged my teammates to not worry, and I will help them reach the finals. We…
