Anxiety in social/personal training course.

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I'm taking an (NT) adult course about personal empowerment and I'm considering to quit because of anxiety.

The course doens't include a book, so I can't prepare for the training. To make things worse, the course includes roleplaying and talking about yourself. I hate to do that because those are the situations in which I can't keep up my NT-appearance and in which people (especially woman) consider me weird, cold-blooded and worse. While trying to roleplay I tend to 'lock-up' and can't speak a word anymore; very embarrassing. Instead of telling my own feeling I tend lie and tell more socially accepted stories instead. I never had any problem with engineering-courses though.

Does anyone have tips about dealing with these situations?

have you tried any anti-anxiety meds? something as simple as beta blockers [such as atenolol] have been shown to lessen generalized anxiety, that is the effect they have on me, in any case. they were prescribed to me for hypertension, and the anti-anxiety side effect was a welcome bonus.

I locked up often when I was in a social training class. Keep in mind that the class is there so you can screw up, and learn how not to screw up that way. After a while, I actually began to enjoy some of the role-playing.