Deadmau5 reveals how he deals with frequent panic attacks on stage Wikimedia CommonsCanadian DJ and music producer Joel Thomas Zimmerman, better known by his stage name Deadmau5, shared how he deals with frequent panic attacks while live streaming on Twitch. During a June 17 Twitch broadcast, the musician was asked if he ever had panic attacks on stage, and revealed that he experiences them quite often. In fact, he believes that he undergoes one every five shows or so \u2013 which is definitely a high amount, considering how stressful they are. Luckily, he\u2019s developed a trick to help deal with the attacks, and it\u2019s been working for him very well. If you\u2019re not familiar with what a panic attack is, Deadmau5 explained it all quite well. \u201cThe best way I can describe it, it feels like a sense of impending doom,\u201d he said, amusingly as he cut up foes in Diablo. \u201cIt\u2019s not specific. It\u2019s not like I have a fear that I\u2019m going to have a heart attack or something like that,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s anything. You don\u2019t know what it is. If I had a fear of something directly that I can put a tangibility to, I would address it.\u201d As for what helps him overcome the panic, Zimmerman has a method that, while he claims is \u201cdumb\u201d and works for him, it probably wouldn\u2019t work for anyone else. \u201cI have a really vivid memory of sitting on a jet ski. I went out to Lake Ontario and just went a quarter mile out from the land, and I was kinda by myself\u2026 what I did was I shut off my jet ski and I was f**king sitting there and it was so quiet,\u201d he thought back. Basically, the memory of sitting on the jet ski smoking a cigarette in peace is vivid for the artist, but just thinking back to that feeling of harmony can help him overcome panic attacks. \u201cWhen I\u2019m having a weird sense of impending doom on stage, I literally put my mind in that exact same spot and I think about the situation,\u201d he said. \u201cI recall the colors of the jet ski, the number of clouds in the sky, the overall feeling of just total relaxation.\u201d It\u2019s definitely clear why Deadmau5\u2019s technique for dealing with panic attacks wouldn\u2019t work for everyone, but the fact he can transform a bad situation into one of comfort on stage is quite an impressive feat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deadmau5 reveals how he deals with frequent panic attacks on stage Wikimedia CommonsCanadian DJ and music producer Joel Thomas Zimmerman, better known by his stage name Deadmau5, shared how he deals with frequent panic attacks while live streaming on Twitch. During a June 17 Twitch broadcast, the musician was asked if he ever had panic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}