[Okay123]

Hey!
I’m a 16, soon 17, year old boy. I have throughout my life experienced ups and downs, but especially this part of my life is one of the biggest downs. I have always been the person who thinks a lot about what to choose, if I should do it or not and what people think of me. I am, at the moment, nearly finished with my 1st year in high school.

It all started at the end of the (minor school), at 9th grade, our class were about to finish. It was last school day, and we were going to take a costume on, and throw caramels to the other classes. After that, we went to a park, with all other that finished at that day, and we were throwing shaving cream at each other, very fun! At the evening we all ate together, and it was the first time for me to drink alcohol (get drunk) as well. I wore a shirt and I don’t know what happened but I apparently started to sweat a LOT in my armpits, and I got embarrassed by it, so I occasionally went to the bathroom to dry it out, and I tried to hide it. As the night went on I began drinking alcohol, and the next day I woke up at my home. Now all we needed to do at school was the final tests, and I sweated hell of a lot there as well, at one of my tests I even sweated through a T-shirt and a sweatshirt. It was here I started to be really confused at what was happening, because I have never sweated like that in my life.

Fast forward to summer vacation, I was going to a park, with a friend that I never really spoke a lot with but yea I was still going. I was wearing jeans, a T-shirt and a sweatshirt. This day was like the start of the high school he was starting on, so they learned each other before they started. When I was going home, I noticed that I had been sweating around my ***, which I thought was really gross, but this was just the beginning of that.

I was at that point also working in a ice cream shop, and at the start of the summer, or after the last schooldays – I started to sweat when I was serving ice cream, but that was just a small bit of what its like today.

I also started noticing that when I was going to fitness. I was sweating in my *** again when I was riding my bike to the fitness, that has again never happened before. My fitness place is like 5 km (3 miles) away from my home, and I always arrive with body all sweaty, I’m used to not be like that. When I’m done training, I am of course going to take a shower, and when I come out of it, drying myself with a towel, I still think I’m sweating, it is still coming even though I have been in shower and drying the water of.

My high school was a little further away from a bicycle ride, so I’m taking the train to school everyday, and at my first day, I of course was a little nervous – like who don’t get nervous at their first day at something? So yea, I got nervous, of various reasons, like im not used to take a bus, or a train, to school, and I didn’t know a singe person who was going to the school. So at the school I started to sweat a lot in my armpits, forehead, ***, and feet. This has forced me to wear adidas training pants almost all this year out, and I really don’t like it. It’s still like that, to this day. Another thing I have noticed, if I get asked in class, I also began to sweat. I am also the kind of person that don’t raise my hand so often in class, so my verbal grades aren’t the best – but not the worst either, but then I am good at the written.

So in the morning on the train, I am mostly sweating at my ***, and there is a lot of people on the train. Then one day when I was going home, there wasn’t that many people on, and I went for a ride home, WITHOUT sweating.

I have lately also been really, some kind of tired all day even though I sleep 7-8 hours a day. I feel like I don’t want to do anything, like that I just need to be at home, all the time, even if my friends ask me if I want to go with them I am hesitating a little bit, sometime I even says that I can’t, even though I am not doing anything the day. I’m maybe just not that easy to decide if I want to do something?

I am also working at a super market where I’m a service employee, im mostly putting stuff up and doing the service job. I have a shirt on and wearing jeans, in this case I’m mostly sweating on my ***.

As I said at the beginning, I am the kind of person to think about what others think of me, and I think that is why I sweat in the train when there is more strangers on it.

Even though I am sweating like that, I still made really good friends, that I also see out of school.

Actually I haven’t actually been talking to other than my doctor about it, she said that it maybe just was because of all the hormones?

Is this happening because I’m like nervous of my environment, or is it just some kind of anxiety? Like how do I fight this? Is it because of hormones? Could I maybe start raising my hand in class – since I maybe strengthening both my verbal grades and fight my nervousness/anxiety in a way. Is it just because I’m in a period where my body is changing a lot (puberty) and then sweat comes more frequently?

I really hope that somebody can help, since It takes away my focus for a lot of things in my life.

Thanks beforehand

[Skeezyks]

Hello Okay123: Well... quite honestly I don't know the answers to your questions. I think your doctor is really the person who is in the best position to advise you with regard to this. There certainly are people who just sweat a lot. It's a physiological condition. But then, also, hormonal activity in your body at your age certainly sounds plausible too. And it is also true that everyone perspires more when they're nervous or anxious than they do when they're calm. So what you're experiencing could be a combination of any or all of these factors I would suppose.

As far as how you "fight" it... well... I don't know... My personal opinion is that you don't. My perspective is that the worst thing one can do is to "fight" anxiety. What I feel is important is simply to accept that one has it & try to work within it. Perhaps, if you have access to a counselor or therapist you might explore, with that person, what it is that is going on with you. But trying to ignore anxiety, or stuff it back down, is a prescription for even more difficulty, in my opinion. As far as raising your hand in class goes... sure... if you feel reasonably comfortable doing so... go ahead & be more vocal in class. That's certainly a good thing! But if you find that it is unduly stressing you out, then I would not try to force it. Here again... I would try to get with a counselor or therapist, or even a trusted teacher or other person, someone who can help you to learn to be more comfortable in the various types of social situations you encounter in your day-to-day life, as you've described.

It's certainly possible that this is just a temporary circumstance in your young life. It may simply pass on its own as time goes by. So, from that perspective, I would suggest you not become too concerned if you can avoid it. However, if you find that this is something that just seems to be going on-&-on, and you just can't let it go, then for sure seek out some professional help for yourself. Oh... & keep posting here on PC too... it can help! I wish you well.

[Okay123]

Thanks for the answer!
But yea, its like when im thinking a lot about it, then it just comes, if im thinking "what if they can see it" it again just comes.
Ill try not to think to much about it!
Again thanks for the answer!

[Thunder Bow]

Going by all the intense work outs you are doing, no wonder your sweat so much. This is due to good health and being so physically active. Take a day off once in a while.