Anne Truong MD explains how performance anxiety affects work, sports, and sex. Excessive anxiety tanks performance across all three. The fix starts with recognizing the pattern.
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A common issue that affects various aspects of your life, from your work to sports, performance, even your sex life. Performance anxiety is also known as stage fright or performance nerves. It's a type of anxiety that occurs when a person feels intense fear or worry about performance well in performance that are in front of others or they tell themselves to try to meet high expectation. While some level of anxiety can be helpful in keeping you alert and focused, however, excessive performance anxiety can have a debilitating effect on your ability to perform your best and particularly during sexual encounter.