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Re: beta blockers

Author: ClarinetRobt
Date: 2017-03-20 07:07

Karl...I agree. But I can't help feeling if someone (let's say in an audition) is experiencing the same performance anxieties with physical side effects as you, and the competitor has access to the bb you don't, then it comes across as an unfair advantage.
There's seems to be an implication from the original post ten+ years ago, some musicians are obtaining bb from questionable sources. We all know not everyone has access to a health professional. Or can even afford a doctor...much-less finding a doctor to write the script is not a guarantee.
So if I'm buying bb on the street to level the playing field (in my eyes) to keep up with with what my competitors are doing, the whole thing comes across as sordid in nature.

Now if I was actively competing and bb helped me, I'd take it without reservation. I figure - I got to do what I got to do. But I also understand why others would cry foul they didn't have that 'advantage' or the means to get the help. Few things in life are ever fair.

~Robt L Schwebel
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