((((hugs)))) Yes, that you can now feel safe enough to "FEEL" your anxiety, you can learn to "deal" with it, and lessen it. Probably in the past you weren't secure enough to even allow yourself to accept the anxiety. (It usually is part and parcel of depression.) Who wants to admit there's something that "scares" us??? And GAD... means you aren't even "sure" about what you fear!... because maybe it could be anything -or nothing.

Social anxiety is a little easier to "accept" maybe? ... in that whew! No telling what someone else will expect or ask or whatever for/with us! (Or what baggage they have etc.)

I'm just babbling here, I think. Overall, learning about ourselves, as you are doing, is a good thing. Taking control of the reigns and facing our shadows is tough, but worthwhile. You course is a tough one... and dissociation will not make it easy. It might take you longer, but once on the other side, you will be an asset to the profession, imo.

As for the class exercises lol try and remember we ALL went through that... take your time, breathe, THINK about what is obvious (most newbies miss that and go for the deep diagnoses) and simple, first. There are no trick questions, it's all part of life. Knowing the answer is not the real issue, if you ask me, but guiding the one through the maze to find it for themself, is. Sometimes, like with interpreting dream someone else's dream, our answer is not the true one... but what THEY feel it means.

Did I say anything you can use, Rap? I'm kinda out of it...