Shaky voice ALL the time.

[Ponder]

When I struggle with my voice, it's usually because I feel worthless ... sick and tired of soldiering on - my emotions are all over the place. I am tired of having to act a certain way and sick of trying to please that I no longer know how it is that I am suppose to be, or just giving in to those things inside my head that may not even exist anymore.

Of course this in only my take ... your spin my be entirely different. I try to look beyond the physical manifestations of anxiety because I already know that that is ... and in this case it's a shaky voice that simply won't go away. My explanation given, pretty much sums up how I am feeling when I struggle like so.

Good luck with working out what makes yours shake.

[Im-Suffering]

When I struggle with my voice, it's usually because I feel worthless ... sick and tired of soldiering on - my emotions are all over the place. I am tired of having to act a certain way and sick of trying to please that I no longer know how it is that I am suppose to be, or just giving in to those things inside my head that may not even exist anymore.

Of course this in only my take ... your spin my be entirely different. I try to look beyond the physical manifestations of anxiety because I already know that that is ... and in this case it's a shaky voice that simply won't go away. My explanation given, pretty much sums up how I am feeling when I struggle like so.

Good luck with working out what makes yours shake.

This is correct, in a sense.

Now, this is an old thread, renewed because some of you need the answers.

More directly, you (readers to whom this affects) fear criticism. And so you are timid in speech and action. Critiqued to such a degree, whether by the self and/or others, that you now repress emotions, afraid to express the voice shakes and the body trembles.

You may also feel you are guilty of something. Your carrying it with you. Guilt eats at you until you are unworthy of opening your mouth at all. You never purged this guilt properly, constructively.

Epilepsy (and its milder forms, some anxiety symptoms) is a (condition) result of such fears where the body expresses what the psyche can't. Symbolically. The whole body shakes in what would seem like a violent release of energy.

[Joe.]

This is correct, in a sense.

Now, this is an old thread, renewed because some of you need the answers.

More directly, you (readers to whom this affects) fear criticism. And so you are timid in speech and action. Critiqued to such a degree, whether by the self and/or others, that you now repress emotions, afraid to express the voice shakes and the body trembles.

You may also feel you are guilty of something. Your carrying it with you. Guilt eats at you until you are unworthy of opening your mouth at all. You never purged this guilt properly, constructively.

Epilepsy (and its milder forms, some anxiety symptoms) is a (condition) result of such fears where the body expresses what the psyche can't. Symbolically.

I have stuttered quite badly in the past, and still stutter a little bit now. What you said about fear of criticism is a good explanation as to why I stutter, also with it seemingly running in my family.