I've experienced severe anxiety attacks before. I hyperventilate, cry, shake, the whole shabang through the stress I accept in my daily life. However, I also have a problem with communicating and interacting with men. I've felt uncomfortable near them even though I am 100% straight and have never been abused/raped/hurt by a man before. Now, this problem got significantly worse this year. I am a freshman in an engineering college where 80% of the student population are males. I've started to feel uncomfortable and it just led to something serious a few days ago. It was something like an anxiety attack, but for some reason I was shaking twice as much and started to claw at my head because I was feeling a sensation similar to that of scratching a chalk board. I ended up leaving a few cuts on my scalp, luckily they re covered. I was wondering if someone could elaborate on what this could be. I might be an androphobe, but honestly this is getting out of hand. I've personally asked my guy friends to refrain from hugging me during finals week for the time being, hopefully that will relieve some stress. However, I would really appreciate if someone could give me even a hint of advice! Thank you!
