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Social Anxiety #5: College


I talk about my embarrassing first day at college and how social anxiety made me pass out. I also talk about how anxiety clouded my judgement and almost got me in to trouble. The fight or flight response kicks in and becomes more fight than flight.

Anger, anxiety, College, disorder, Management, phobia, social

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  1. #1 by frakdox on January 27th, 2009

    After watching all your videos, it seems like a lot of what you said is what I have gone through.

  2. #2 by nocjosh on January 27th, 2009

    Mark, I’ve had the same sort of thing happen to me with that kid kicking your chair. And with SAD I was thinking when it happened to me, “Oh great, if I don’t fight this guy all the girls and guys in class are going to think I’m a wimp.” I’m never violent either but I also saw myself flipping desks and grabbing the person by the throat and strangling them.

  3. #3 by eduar001dfd on January 27th, 2009

    its know it funny. I will be like your making me angry you wont like me when I m angry. I don know how to control myself in that situation. I can sympathize with that.

  4. #4 by ashley78999 on January 30th, 2009

    “anxiety clouded my judgement”….wow so ture

  5. #5 by KDW74 on January 30th, 2009

    glad to have found your vids. I need all the help I can get. At the 2:00 min mark, you talk about blocking out, do you mean “dissociating” or just trying to forget ? I remember in school almost having blackouts because of my SA almost as if I left my body (especially when getting up in front of people).. Just wondering :) Have a great day-

  6. #6 by ThruLightProjected on January 31st, 2009

    Man, you worry me about this college thing. I don’t know how you got through it. I’ve been out of school so long, I don’t know if I can tolerate juvenile behavior like that. I don’t think I’d get into a fight, but if I snapped, I might say some pretty regrettable things. I’m hoping that going to school will just force me to improve my social skills, but that might be wishful thinking.

  7. #7 by amlaped09 on February 2nd, 2009

    haha that arnie flick made me laugh, i’ve probably done that maybe 15 times in my life, so much adrenaline it’s crazy

  8. #8 by BulletProofMonkeon on February 2nd, 2009

    When I say block out, it’s like sometimes I will feel a bad memory coming forward, so I’ll push it away and think of something else. Eventually over time the memory fades and isnt so clear in my mind anymore.

  9. #9 by 3childrenofbodom3 on February 14th, 2009

    dude your life is exactly like mine

  10. #10 by RHayabusa on February 17th, 2009

    GREAT VIDEO (as usual)! I can relate to the anger stuff so much. Ironically you have to wonder why these jerks even pick on people? Like don’t they fear that the person would tear them to shreds? I mean they would be so shocked I don’t think they would have time to react.

  11. #11 by Minan3 on March 12th, 2009

    i hate the feeling of social anxiety because i fear to be different. its best to be noticed but its letting bad in with the good. i’m going to college this summer. i may be the same as you on my first day.

  12. #12 by wshort12 on March 18th, 2009

    your videos are so funny when you add those little inserts, it brightened my day as I feel the same

  13. #13 by DHammerr on March 27th, 2009

    im sure he knows that also but its kinda hard to do it when youre so anxious of even talking , i know the feeling

  14. #14 by mazzvanity on April 3rd, 2009

    I always thought S.A was a “mental illness” but i recently fund out its just emotions that take over and become uncontrolable, when you were saying that you got so worked up you nerly smacked the lad, i just what i feel everyday, the thing is sometimes i cant rustrain myslef. im going to college next year and i am already shitting it. + me ill probably will pass out, but anyway, i love watching your vids, they really make me think positavley about S.A and helps me through the day so thankyou =]

  15. #15 by njchampnj on May 4th, 2009

    I know the feeling bro. I keep going from mad nervous to really excited about going to Johns Hopkins University this summer/fall. I dont have SA per se but i have generalized anxiety disorder which probably has some SA in it as well. Its a pain in the ass but I manage with exercise and some low dose of SSRI, which i hope to get off in a year or so.

  16. #16 by 2FERGIE7 on May 7th, 2009

    Hypnosis works for social anxiety, download some tracks from the internet.
    You should also check out some NLP books.

  17. #17 by velociped on May 11th, 2009

    I know what you mean about that bully.
    I remember I like really gave this guy a real-telling off infront of my whole class because he was a racist ^^ It was quite embarassing if I think about it now but I still stand for it because he deserved it.

  18. #18 by 4Bronwynn on May 12th, 2009

    I can relate alot to this one. I am in Uni and at first I thought I could cope and I guess I am coping quite well but every day is a bit of a struggle. I find work has gotten very difficult in the past year.

  19. #19 by letangoable on June 17th, 2009

    This is a revelation. I’m from Australia 31 and have suffered from SA all my life. After starting uni 2 years my SA resulted in my withdrawing from the course after only 4 weeks!! I realised then that It was SA that was the problem. I have been seeing a psy for the last year and returned to Uni this year. It is a slow process but the techniques I learn with CBT have really helped. It is so comforting that their are others that share this experience.

  20. #20 by PositiviT on June 18th, 2009

    Sounds to me like the asshole got what was coming to him.

  21. #21 by YeAhSuperGirl on June 25th, 2009

    Michael Michael … he cant be death!!!! argghhhhhhhhhhh

  22. #22 by calladuz on June 30th, 2009

    I know what you mean… I can pick many examples in my life of people walking on me as if I was a doormat, making sure to stomp on my head.

    And as for passing out, that must be been embarrassing, congrats on being strong! My SA?AvPD is so strong it would not allow me to faint lol, instead I experience depersonalization, I either feel I’m outside my own body or trapped inside with all movements frozen.

  23. #23 by dimsdale321 on July 18th, 2009

    You got balls for turning out videos like this with social anxiety and all, i know i couldn’t do it. You seem like a really decent guy, why is it that the worst things happen to the best of us? Oh and keep rockin those sideburns, we share the same taste in style, lol

  24. #24 by Zarathustra06 on July 26th, 2009

    NO! No No No! I wanted a violent ending. Yes you did the right thing etc. etc., but couldn’t you have embellished a bit first? I got angry on your behalf!

  25. #25 by HealthQuestion on July 28th, 2009

    I know that feeling.. At work everybody hates me and wishes i would die..When I dare talk I’m so full of adrenaline that I can’t pay attention to what they are saying. I’m just charged on adrenaline all day makes work 3 times as hard.

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