Use in anxiety disorders is not really a new phenomenon. It's a non-selective beta blocker that's been used in performance anxiety for decades. I have to give a talk in 6 months and I'm going to prescribe myself propranolol so I can give the talk without feeling adrenergic sympathetic activation/fight or flight. So if I can't feel a sympathetic response centrally or peripherally, I'm going to have minimal performance anxiety and therefore no fearful memories of the event. Hopefully it goes smoothly. I would hate to be calm and give a pathetic shitshow of a talk and then not feel bad about it later..
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