[hogFeast]

Taking medication doesn't make the problem go away.

I understand why people do it if their job relies on it...but the point of taking medication is so you can expose yourself to the fear, and then don't need the medication at all at some point...not using it as a coping strategy.

I have gone through something similar, unfortunately something significantly more disruptive. And I have succeeded and failed more than anyone over ten plus years...medication isn't anything. Your choices are: expose yourself to the situation and hope it goes away, or avoid it totally (and btw, both are fine choices...I think people assume that the latter is failure but life is complicated, sometimes it isn't possible to get over it...choosing not to do public speaking and talk openly about why, imo, takes some guts).

[oh_sigh]

Do you wear deodorant/anti-perspirant? If so, why? It doesn't make the problem go away. Sometimes just managing a condition is good enough rather than trying to solve the potentially unsolvable root cause, if the management protocol is easy/low risk enough