The strangeness of my Anxiety Problem.

I have recently downloaded a pdf file to help me with my anxiety problem, which i know is not as severe as many other peoples but needs to be tackled all the same.
I am only 19, but a previous relationship has left me constantly low on self-esteem.
I think personally the easiest way to tackle this problem is to be completely selfless, many people may dislike me if i am but if i stay the way i am at the moment, im sure i'll have an equal amount of friends!!
Anyway, the incident i am about to tell whoever reads this, is a very weird one. I always avoid eye contact, because i dont want people to feel like i do when people are looking at me! even though the majority of people i know dont suffer form the same problems as me (a viscious circle!) i often go round my friends house to play on the playstation sitting right next to him, he talks to me in conversation sometimes looking at me and i concentrate on what im doing during, which makes me worse. I DONT KEEP EYE CONTACT WITH HIM. However, there is a mirror directly opposite but about approx 10m on the other side of his room, maybe less im not sure but not that close! i can look directly at his face through this mirror without feeling anxiety. How come this very peculiar situation is occuring. UNanxious because im talking to a mirror even though there is a person there? I can imagine most anxiety-suffers feeling the same as i do but whom would never have this random situation occur. PLZ PLZ PLZ tell me what you think, and if any specialists read this forums, could they give me their opinion also.
Does my body see a figure that i can communicate with easily in the mirror because it thinks it is a mere object in the mirror? or am i thinking too deep?
regards,
Tom.

Friend,
Its same prob. with me too. Not exactly like u but a wierd thing like u. I also feel very feary or somewhat unusual while talking to my friends. I feel something gonna wrong with me and they will have to take me to a hospital and then i will finally land into the ER. really psychogical but dunno how to do away with it. I feel my head shaking, my legs shaking i can't stand properly. Ppl are looking at me and must be making fun of mine. Nevr practiced talking in mirror, but i also have one more thing. I have lost interest in most of my activities, get a dry throat every day, then chest pains, feel feary abt. the future, think alot. I have to even make my mind to move straight on the road that i will not fall down or things like that and then find myself having travelled a long distance even when my destination was just near me. I just get into such dreams, i keep on thinking abt. myself. I also get great heartburns, but my Dr. always relate with Stress. Now what sort of stress is this, i dunno know. Its completely like a disorder.

you can gradually train yourself to use eye contact by looking at the TV newsreader
also sunglasses make it easier

I also could say I am shy. When people are looking at me i react wierd. Weither diverting my eyes(dont want them to see my pain,I guess) or I end up grinning like a stupid iddiot. It is what it is. Some people and some situation it is more evident. There is some sore of detachment you get when not looking directly at someone, Kind of like email, you can just say thing easier. You are you and you are fine. Go make some new friends and time should reduce the effects. Im not saying to get rid of your old ones.