first of all, happy new year to you guys!

second.... I'd like to kindly ask you -with as much respect I can put into it - to not to comment with complaining about how you hate math and how you don't need/avoid it in your life.

What I ask for is to share ideas that could provide us practical improvement in this topic!
I did do some home-reasearch a little time ago in this topic and this is the best article I've run across: Coping With Math Anxiety

So for my part.... in my whole life I was struggling with math anxiety and avoiding anything involving mathematics, which is a tendency I see in everyone with so called "human science interests".
Now, that I'm on my way to figure and balance out some issues in my life I found that I DO have a sense and logic for math and now that I had to reconsider career choices I ran upon this problem again. For reasons I first wanted to be a psychologist, but when I put it on "analysis" and found that it isn't the best that I can study (considering the effort versus outcome with all the circumstances and opportunities I have now), but instead go waaaaaaaay back and find out what was I interested in elementary school in my early and preteens and figured I really liked science, specially chemistry and figured how I was always handicapped by my disabilities in math.
I now aim to be a chemist, but that's a different story.
For now I see a lot of people from all kinds of various fields have the same problems.... for example now I'm studying sociology and my fellow collage mates were really scared to find that it is a requirement to study statistics (social statistics - which in that case isn't that hard, IMO it is kind of "magic with words")...
as one of them have put during one lecture "I came here to study something WITHOUT mathematics... and now here we go" - with an honestly terrified expression.
And a lot of things require certain levels of math... such as for example graphic arts - working with vector programs and in especially print shops.
if you read that article it says it is just another tool or ability like reading... and I tend to very much agree with it.
as for my self.... however I can very much understand pretty complex ideas I'm still very anxious when I have to use the "magic formulas" for solving problems.... and experience a certain high amount of anxiety even if I'm alone and try to practice.... and this always leaves me putting off practice thus further deepening the problem.
I thought this is completely because the very bad teachers I had, but now I have a really good one - completely the opposite of the stressing/ignorant/inpatient and snobbish ones I've met up to this point.
And I still have this problem..... so I figured this must be deeper than that.

I'd be very happy if some of you could share ideas/techniques upon this topic! or even the related practice and study issues......