I used to have social and stage anxiety. I could bear to speak before a lot of people. For me it used to be my biggest fear to speak on stage. I never had confidence to participate in any co curricular activity which involved singing, speaking and dancing in school or college.
I joined hospitality as an employee. Here I am supposed to speak and meet people around the world with varied culture and strata. I had to mold myself for everyone to be comfortable. Corporate parties and get together s used to be nightmares for me. You need to look polished, could not repeat an outfit and are expected to smile at others. It took me a long time to adjust.
I had also suffered from minor from of depression due to life problems, which got cured with counseling.
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