Oh… I get you so much… I also studied linguistic (ironically, I’m good at it, what a joke) At first I was more confident and participated a lot, then less and less since my anxiety was growing, up until once I had to read my course paper aloud. Even when I knew everyone in that room, I was pretty confident in my work, and my mentor was a delight, I could not read a word. At first I tried changing the words on the go (usually it creates a horrible mess), and it became worse and worse, until I felt I’d rather die than try to read any more. All that in complete silence. Then I just said, you know what, you can put me an F, I’m not gonna do it anymore. It was such a fail for me… academically speaking I was broken… Personally lexapro tends to help me a bit (sometimes a lot, depends if I have a good or a bad day). started to take it years after my studying ended, and wish I did it earlier, maybe I would experience less trauma and thus less anxiety. Hold on! You are not alone in this