Hello, I’m a 20F student who needs to give a short 2 minute speech tomorrow presenting an architecture project I worked on to multiple professors and my peers and it’s making me so so so nervous. Last time I did this, I fainted due to how nervous I was and I had a horrible speech. After that situation, I’m only more nervous.
Now I’m presenting in-front of more people and I can’t even gather my thoughts on making a script I can read before hand. Recently, in high pressure speech’s specifically for my design work my thoughts tend to disappear and I do not talk like I normally would. I have taken speech classes before and passed and didn’t care much. I have critics weekly and I am able to do those with ease. These critics are me presenting the work I did for the week and asking for opinions on what I should do to change it etc.
The thought though of presenting my fully completed work from start to finish and explaining it leaving me so nervous in a way I never have been before, ever worse I’m scared I will faint again just from how nervous I am and I rather have a horrible speech than faint. I just feel so sick, and it’s awful because I like my work and want to explain it for critics I just feel like I can’t speak the words I want to say.
Update: I did not faint and it went okay!