Performance Anxiety
Anxiety specifically triggered by situations where performance is being evaluated — a common experience ranging from mild to significantly impairing.
Quick answer
Anxiety specifically triggered by situations where performance is being evaluated — a common experience ranging from mild to significantly impairing.
Recognition
Do any of these feel familiar?
People describe heart pounding, shaking hands, difficulty thinking clearly, a blank mind at critical moments, nausea before performances, and prolonged anticipatory dread.
What is Performance Anxiety?
Anxiety specifically triggered by situations where performance is being evaluated — a common experience ranging from mild to significantly impairing.
Approaches Commonly Explored
Commonly explored for conditions related to Performance Anxiety, grouped by mechanism — select your subtype above to highlight the most relevant path.
How to use these approaches
Most people begin with Stabilise approaches, then progress toward Resolve and Sustain.
Cognitive patterns, emotional processing, and stress response.
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