Don’t Let Performance Anxiety Hold You Back

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Do you second-guess yourself when it comes to the romance department? Have you ever worried that you couldn’t “perform” when you wanted to? For some men, performance anxiety is an occasional nuisance that they can easily shake off. But for others, it can be debilitating. Unfortunately, performance anxiety can prevent you from doing what you enjoy. Worse yet, it can negatively affect your self-esteem and self-confidence, which causes even more anxiety. How can you break the cycle? Dr. Danoff has some tips.

Don’t Let Performance Anxiety Hold You Back

I have witnessed an increased development of performance anxiety over the last forty years. It is worth analyzing the social conditions that have created this outbreak. One could argue that men have always struggled with this condition. It could also be argued that the increase in recent years is only because men today feel more comfortable talking about their health problems. This is not the case. Powerful social and historical factors have contributed to, and continue to create, performance anxiety among men today.

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Dudley Seth Danoff, MD, FACS, is a diplomate of the American Board of Urology and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Danoff is a graduate of Princeton University, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his medical degree at Yale University with honors. He completed his urologic surgical training and fellowship at Columbia University Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Following his training, he served as a major in the United States Air Force Medical Corps. For more than a quarter century, Dr. Danoff taught on the clinical faculty of UCLA School of Medicine. Currently, he is attending urologic surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is the founder and president of the prestigious Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Tower Urology Medical Group, the leading urologic practice serving the Southern California community for over thirty years. Dr. Danoff and his wife, Israeli singer Hedva Amrani, are longtime residents of Beverly Hills, California, and have two children: Aurele Danoff, an attorney, and Doran Danoff, a composer.

 

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