So I just recently did a clinical study for a new anxiety medication.    It was a very short and simple study I signed up for because I could use the money and it paid decent.    Basically just took 2 visits, first one was basic health history, blood work and all that stuff to make sure I would  qualify which I did.    2nd visit I was told I would take the pills, wait 1hr and then was expected to give a 5min speech.    That freaked me out but I really needed the money and 5min isnt long right?

So I get there, take the pills and thats when they told me that I have to wait 1hr and during that time I could decide what my speech was about and gave me some examples.   That threw me for a loop because for some reason I thought it was going to be as simple as them giving me a paper to read off of.    So of course I am sitting there freaking out, mind is going totally blank on what I am going to talk about.

Then the person comes back after an hour and says its time.....fuck.    i follow her to a room and there are 3 fucking people sitting there staring at me and a damn camera......WHAT.    So I am just standing there, watch them turn the camera on and say "Go".     It was like a damned nightmare I didnt know what to do.    I just stood there like a deer in headlights while they continuted to stare at me for awhile and then amongst each other.   I could only weakly mutter "sorry"   and left the room.    

Had to tell them I simply could not do it, its not physically possible for me to do a speech as it turns out.    They seemed to understand m, did some mkre awkward paperwork at that point answering questions like "How did giving that erm....speech make you feel" and such and then went on my way..

So whatever type of pulls they gave me definitely werent for someone on my level of anxiety thats for sure.    Just curious if anyone else ever got put into a position where they had to nope out of due to their anxiety or other mental health issues?