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“Historically, we believed the ‘right’ amount of anxiety was like a U-shaped curve — too little, not good, just enough — ideal, and too much also not good,” said Alex Dimitriu, MD, double board certified psychiatry and sleep medicine specialist, and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine. “More recent research seems to point to any cognitive anxiety before an event being maladaptive, which basically means, the calmer you are before and during the ‘performance,’ the better,” Dimitriu told Healthline.

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