| Performance anxiety is experienced by a large | | | | linked to your inexperience with speaking in front of |
| number of people. There can be different reasons of | | | | groups, then you can learn the techniques that will |
| anxiety. Anxiety may be due to some big reason or | | | | help you excel at it.Glossophobia is that stage when |
| some small reason. Anxiety can result if you are | | | | your performance anxiety has reached to an |
| worried about your performance. A true | | | | unmanageable stage. It is derived from the Greek |
| Psychological disorder or just a small twinge can be | | | | words glosso- meaning tongue, and -phobia, meaning |
| the outcome of performance | | | | fear or dread. If you are a victim of glossophoboia |
| anxiety.SymptomsPerformance anxiety is quite a | | | | then it is recommended that you take professional |
| common phenomenon. More or less everyone has | | | | help. That way your actual condition will be assessed |
| undergone performance anxiety in his or her lifetime. | | | | properly and the professional helper can guide you |
| The common symptoms one faces during | | | | towards the most suitable course of action. The best |
| performance anxiety is usually damp hands, a feeling | | | | treatments may be common medications like Valium, |
| of fear in the pit of stomach, cramps, sweating, and | | | | Xanax, Celexa, Zoloft, and Paxil or therapy like |
| nausea are just a few of them. As a result of | | | | cognitive behavioral therapy. In this type of therapy |
| anxiety one tends to become more nervous and | | | | the patient undergoes counseling with the health |
| jittery since anxiety leads to fear.Hesitant to perform | | | | professional. Even if your performance anxiety has to |
| upon being called is a chief symptom of performance | | | | reached to an advanced stage, treatments like |
| anxiety. For example when you are reluctant to | | | | medications and therapies always help.CausesNo solid |
| accept a promotion or participate in some activity in | | | | reason for experiencing Performance anxiety has |
| fear of possible humiliation. If you feel your | | | | been presented by the psychological community. |
| performance is taking a toll on yourself then you | | | | Many people can suffer from Performance anxiety |
| might as well seek some professional help.Coping and | | | | owing to some past experiences. One may suffer |
| TreatmentIf your Performance Anxiety is bothering | | | | from performance anxiety out of the fear of the |
| you, there are ways of coping. For people who have | | | | real life situation. Anxiety can be hereditary as well or |
| manageable anxiety levels, simply socializing more and | | | | it may be caused due to chemical imbalances. Only |
| performing more can help to alleviate or make your | | | | after you find out the actual reason to your anxiety |
| fear and anxiety disappear, as you become familiar | | | | you can be cured completely. Undergoing treatments |
| with performing and it becomes no longer a feared | | | | medication and therapy, research has showed that |
| unknown. There are also organizations like | | | | many people suffering from performance anxiety |
| Toastmasters International that can help you improve | | | | disorders have been cured within a short period of |
| your public speaking so that if your anxiety was | | | | time. |