Wiktionary
n. 1 anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience; stage fright. 2 A similar anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance.
Wikipedia
Performance Anxiety is a 2008 gay comedy romantic drama film directed by Paul Dangerfield, written by Josh Macphee, starring Luke Mitchell and Joss Mars. The film debuted at the Brisbane Queer Film Festival on 25 May 2008.
It is significant as it is Luke Mitchell's first starring role in a feature film. It is also the first gay-themed feature film shot in Brisbane, Australia.
Usage examples of "performance anxiety".
That is, a second-order of stressful problems (self-doubts and self-criticism) develops that could overwhelm or sabotage the mending of the original problem (the performance anxiety).
I felt constrained by performance anxiety and distracted by the press circus, and I wished I could have just shown up unannounced and ridden without a word, fighting through my self-doubts anonymously.
I think he suffers from what used to be called performance anxiety.
Kell's father had diedat Janson's hands, in factwhen fleeing from a fight in the early days of the Rebel Alliance, but Kell's own problem with freezing up in the face of adversity had always seemed more like a very strong case of performance anxiety.
Kell's father had died-at Janson's hands, in fact-when fleeing from a fight in the early days of the Rebel Alliance, but Kell's own problem with freez-ing up in the face of adversity had always seemed more like a very strong case of performance anxiety.
He had played many big games before and never suffered performance anxiety.
I had a certain amount of performance anxiety-it had been a long, long time.
She supposed she could see how ripping a hole through the fabric of the universe big enough to slip an angel through the very first time he had sex might cause Dean some performance anxiety.