Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 1999/12

From: "Daniel A. Paprocki" <danbascl@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] stage fright
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:15:51 -0500

You might want to check out my article on how to control performance
anxiety. Here is the web address:
http://www.ocr.sneezy.org/articles/paprocki1.html
This also appeared in The Clarinet a couple of issues ago.

Dan
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Daniel Paprocki
Clarinet & Saxophone Studio
Angelo State University
San Angelo, Texas

> From: Ken Wolman <ken.wolman@-----.com>
> Organization: GSTG-NY
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:19:56 -0500
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] stage fright
>
> nyip@-----.edu wrote:
>
>> I don't know any breathing techniques to help me relax. Does anyone else
>> have any suggestions on how to overcome stage fright? I would really like
>> to get rid of stage fright, so I can play much better.
>>
>> 1) The use of herbal tea
>> 2) Alexander Technique
>> 3) inderol
>
> I don't know what the Alexander Technique is, but herbal tea is nice. I
> just websearched Inderol, and it APPEARS to be a beta blocker prescribed
> primarily for people with severe migraine headaches. It is problematic
> for people with potential heart or BP problems. It is also problematic
> for people being medicated for clinical depression.
>
> IF inderol is a beta blocker, don't start screwing with it unless (1)
> you see a doctor first and (2) see No. 1. I'm not kidding. Have
> yourself medically evaluated and psychologically screened. Why?
> Because if this stuff is or acts like a beta blocker, if you have ANY
> predisposition to clinical depression, the med in regular doses will
> produces the symptoms and behavior of Bipolar I depression. Again, I'm
> not kidding and I'm not exaggerating. This happened to me in 1995. I
> had in fact been bipolar for years and the only reason it ever got
> diagnosed was because of going on a beta blocker for high blood
> pressure: inside of six months I went nuts. The symptoms subsided over
> a period of about five months, but I "settled" into cyclothymia which
> has since metamorphosed into Bipolar II, a less severe but still
> unpleasant illness for which I'm taking regular medication.
>
> If inderol is a beta blocker...one mo' time...you'd be better off with
> the herbal tea. Come to think of it, you'd be better off drinking a
> pint of scotch before you perform:-).
>
> Ken
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