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 Re: One in Four Classical Musicians Use Beta Blockers
Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date:   2006-03-29 04:26

Sylvian:

"...[From the study I read] Not all need it, but all benefit from it. Should all use the drug?"

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No. Only those that believe that they need it in order to help overcome what they believe is their own personal performance deficit in their own music performance-related lives. Others can continue without medication using other techniques than medication that may be as helpful if not more helpful in their particular case.

The point is that the individual has to decide for themselves if they need it based on their own unique experience, not on any statistical study in the abstract. As you know, statistics do not apply to individuals (which one has to admit that in this particular study, there's a smaller than small control group in relation to the general musician population).

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Sylvian:

"I have never used BBs, as I always feel I am under control, but I still feel nervous. If I were to participate in a competition (a very unlikely event I must say), I would seriously consider a prescription only because somebody else might be using it and I am at a disadvantage to that person. Where do you draw the line?

The parallel with performance enhancing drugs in sport does not seem this far fetched to me.

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You would only be at a disadvantage if you did not perform your very best. That's the illusion of competitions - that you are competing with someone else when you are actually competing with one's self. If you believe that in your individual case, BBlockers relieve a deficit in your own ability to produce your very best, then you should by all means take them. It has nothing to do with the "others".

The medications are not performance "enhancers" as much as they are performance "allowers". As soon as one accepts that differentiation, the analogy to steroids simply vanish as pure fantasy. The two are simply not analogous on any level if one understand one basic thing:

That if we give no one credit here for anything else, let's at least give credit to those knowing more about themselves than the rest of us....or than from extremely small threads of woefully insufficient scientific research based purely on statistics. We would all benefit with the realisation that we all are not statistics but are individuals with individual needs and aspirations.

Gregory Smith

PS. Sylvian - I hope that I have addressed your questions as directly as you desired. If I am not clear or am still missing some point, please, I would definitely like to know what it is....



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