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[quote=Anonymous]Our 10 year old has pretty significant performance anxiety.  He loves baseball with every fiber of his being and skills-wise is very good but has many games when he just loses it.  Forget about pitching.   He ends up messing up and sobbing.  
At try-outs he was won of the top 2 kids out of close to 200.  He is just a complete anxious head-case in stressful game situations (which happen almost every game). 
He also has a ton of anxiety before school exams.   However, the rest of the time he does quite well with life.  He's a bit moody but nothing too concerning.  He does very well in school and has lots of friends. 
It's just that any sort of high pressure, performance situation makes him really, really anxious and this can be accompanied by a mix of crying/screaming/anger. etc.

We have tried CBT (he's worked with therapists for months at a time) but when he's in the heat of the moment of an anxiety fueled melt-down he CANNOT talk him self out of it. 
When he's not in this state he could teach a course in CBT.  Then he can tell you exactly what he should be doing and feeling to talk himself down.

Are there medications that can be used or this type of performance anxiety in kids?  Obviously we will ask his psychiatrist (just got referred to one from our psychologist) but I'd love to hear any thoughts. 
We are getting desperate (as is he).  [/quote]

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