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Get notified when your care plan is ready. Your doctor shares a personalised note with clear next steps, and sends prescription directly to local pharmacy of your choice.

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Ask follow-up questions for a visit upto 365 days for free. Your care with August is just a few taps away.

Ongoing support, always available.

With an online doctor visit, you connect with licensed physicians who treat everyday health needs and more complex ones too.

Our licensed MDs follow your progress and adjust your care over time. If you get a prescription, we manage the dose and watch for side effects. You can also chat with August AI for a free symptom review anytime. You never have to handle your care alone.

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From your first online doctor visit, we help you weigh your options, connect you with the right licensed MDs, and manage your prescriptions. It's complete care that looks at your goals, history, and lifestyle, so you can move forward with confidence.

Why Online Performance Anxiety Treatment

Reasons to start online doctor visit for Performance Anxiety Treatment

Performance anxiety — in any context — is treatable. This visit helps identify whether the cause is psychological, physical, or both, and what works.

Anxiety before performances, presentations, or high-stakes moments is intense
Physical symptoms like shaking, sweating, or racing heart show up when it matters most
You avoid situations because of how anxious you know you'll feel
You want to know if a fast-acting medication could help in specific situations
Anxiety is limiting your career, relationships, or confidence
You want a referral to a therapist who works with performance anxiety

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — when performance anxiety is persistent, disproportionate, and leads to avoidance or significant impairment, it meets criteria for social anxiety disorder or specific phobia. Situational performance anxiety exists on a spectrum from normal stress to clinically significant impairment requiring treatment.

Cognitive behavioral therapy — particularly exposure-based — is the most evidence-supported long-term treatment. For immediate situational relief, beta-blockers like propranolol reduce physical symptoms (racing heart, tremor, voice shaking) without impairing cognition. SSRIs treat underlying social anxiety when it's generalized.

Propranolol reaches peak effect within 1–2 hours and is typically taken 30–60 minutes before a performance event. It blunts the physical manifestations of anxiety — palpitations, tremor, flushing — without sedation or cognitive impairment, allowing performance to proceed more naturally.

Beta-blockers used situationally do not cause psychological dependence. For many people, successful early performances while on medication help rebuild confidence and break the anxiety-performance cycle — reducing the need for medication over time, especially when combined with therapy.

Propranolol may cause fatigue, mild blood pressure drop, and is contraindicated in asthma and certain cardiac conditions. SSRIs may cause GI symptoms and sexual side effects. CBT produces no physical side effects — initial exposure sessions may temporarily heighten anxiety before improving it.