Author: Katherine Pincock
Date: 1999-08-17 14:01
Using drugs like betablockers can be of real help to people with severe performance anxiety, but in my opinion, if you can avoid it, you should avoid using anything. Of course, you're going to get nervous--I still do, and I've been doing performances on various instruments since I was about 5 years old. But with experience, I've learned to turn the nervousness into a kick that makes me produce really good performances under pressure. If performance anxiety is a real problem for you, by all means, find the help you need to make performing easier; these medications are wonderful for just that reason. But if your performance anxiety is more due to inexperience with performing and natural nerves, try books like The Inner Game of Music first. The strategies you develop using techniques like that will be useful to you in many more ways than you might expect, and it leaves intervention through medication for times when you really need it.
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