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What is performance anxiety?
Felix Economakis defines performance anxiety as a fear of performing in front of people.
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What is performance anxiety? It's bit like it says on the tin. It's anxiety about performance. Now performance could be sexual performance, getting an erection, losing erection. It could also be public speaking. It could be anything where we feel we're performing in front of people. And we feel judged in some way, and we put pressure on ourselves.