Alternative anxiety symptoms

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Does anyone else find that they salivate excessively, or are excessively aware of their saliva, or both, when they are called on to speak in public, or make a difficult phone call (etc.)?

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

yep actually i get 'dry-mouth' its pretty awful.
plus shakey-jaw hahahaha not the best public speaker

― donna (donna), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I get super-conscious of my hands, where they are, what they're doing, and end up making annoying gestures as a result. Annoying nervous habit, but the more aware of it i am the less i seem to be able to control them.

― petra jane (petra jane), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

That's exactly it, once you become hyper aware of these responses to stressful situations, they magnify and become worse. The trick is to try to substitute the usual response with a new suggestion. For example, when you normally would say, oh no, here's a big gobful of saliva now, try heading it off with a mantra or some other thought. It takes a bit of practise, but it does work.

― Saskia, Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

My habit of rising three hundred feet on a pillar of flame whenever forced outdoors has caused adverse comment at least once before now.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I try to brush my hair behind my ears. I have had short hair for over a year, which makes this habit particularly odd

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Monday, 30 September 2002 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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