I've become increasingly anxious about doing anything that involves being the centre of attention - never much enjoyed it but have got much worse in recent years. Even to the point of getting v nervous about presenting in small meetings or approaching someone who I need to impress in some way in a work-related context (actually, even in a social context sometimes). All this is exacerbated by the fact that I do less and less of this stuff now (freelance so work from home mostly and don't have to do the client-facing/presentation type stuff v often).
Anyway, I've got an important interview coming up. I have to interview a celebrity and my boss will be sitting in on the interview - it's also the main feature for this issue of the magazine so it needs to go well. As it happens I'm considering a career change at the moment (have posted in the careers section) but that won't happen soon enough for this. In normal, unpressurised circumstances I'm quite capable of doing a perfectly good interview but I'm really, really anxious about this one. I'm totally convinced I'm going to balls it up by being all shaky and weird (and tongue-tied) – I've tried breathing exercises etc but in the event I know I'll end up being very obviously nervous. What the hell do I do? Wondered about asking the doctor for beta blockers - would that help? Would he/she even prescribe them for something like this?