Okay, I suffer from this too much now I can't stand it anymore!
In recent months I started to look for an answer after one day I had to present a report for class. My report was great i put a lot of effort to form it but the day came when I had to present it and I went in front of my class and it was one of the most embarrassing moments . I started to read my report I stuttered i tried as loud as i could to to make my voice clear but then the shakiness of my voice just made me feel really stupid as if I i could not read at all. Thank god most of the people in my class knew me and they were good people I didn't get mocked or anything liked that. Then at school the whole day I could not focus I thought about what serious of an issue this became. I was always a shy and nervous person but I thought of it as a norm. Never took it seriously but now i realize it affected my whole high school enrollment . When ever I had to speak in front of two or more people I got nervous i always had to repeat my self in conversations. When I talked to people I never could look at their face and when i spoke i stuttered some times and my voice starts to shake. I never have the problem that much when around friends and family. I am a smart student and my mind is highly capable and for this stupid disorder my teachers thought I was a slacker. When ever I do something and someone looks at me and I am aware of it I immediately start to get nervous, sweat and loose focus. For the past recent years I never engaged much in social activity, because a panic struck automatically and i could not do much of it.

This is my senior year in high school I regret not being able to participate in class, I regret for people to never see the real me, I regret not being able to ask a girl out. But my friends are one of the best people and without them honestly I would have isolated my self from society, because this disorder would have caused trouble in my life. It was because of the comfort of the internet, talking on forums debating kept me in reach of people.

I really need help any advice would be great. i want to be able to talk to people with out any type of hesitance. I want to be comfortable around people just like the billions of people around me. I'm going to college and I wish this BS does not get in my way. This disorder is irritating me please any one i need much help as you guys can give me. Oh yea by the way I recently have told my mother about seeing a psychiatrist but my mother thinks I am trying to make excuses for school. I know she isn't aware that I am suffering from a problem because we never go out much together and shes mostly busy with work so she never really saw the way I am around others that i don't know much. But I still am convincing her to see what I have been going through.

PLEASE GIVE ME SOME ADVICE!!!!!

Thank you.