According to the news in Khaleej Times, Indian-origin comedian Manjunath Naidu lost the battle of his life on stage, while performing a comedy gig. Just when he started telling people about his tryst with anxiety with a pun to it, he passed out and could not get up forever. During the act, he complained of restlessness and sat on the bench next placed on the stage. The audience thought it to be a sequence from the play, which led to unlimited laughter and clapping. Naidu was born in Abu Dhabi, but later he settled in Dubai.
On this case, Naidu’s fellow comedian Miqdaad Dohadwala commented. “He started by making people laugh on his stories. He mentioned about his father and family. The whole crowd was enjoying his act. He even mentioned how he suffers from anxiety and just a minute after that he collapsed. We all thought it was a part of his act. However, when we realised that he was not moving, we all rushed to stage and found him dead.”
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He added, “He stopped breathing while he was in our hands. We immediately transferred him to the hospital, but he succumbed to death after 20 minutes of trying to revive him. The man made everyone laugh with his performance and in a minute left all of us in tears. We noticed a dip in his energy in 15 minutes of his act. I was aware that he suffered from performance stress, but that was never this big problem.”
How Pressure and Stress Affect Your Performance
Naidu’s case was a resultant of performance stress and anxiety, which led to a cardiac arrest. As per the analysis, his condition can be marginalised as a post-traumatic stress disorder. This can be a resultant of terrifying activities, flashbacks and severe anxiety. Following are some of the symptoms of PTSD that we should aware of:
Disturbing memories
- Unwanted stressful memories
- Having flashbacks of trauma events
- Disturbing dreams on a recurrent basis
- Physical reactions to trauma events like emotional outbursts
Escaping
- Trying hard to avoid thinking about such events
- Avoiding contact from people or places related to those events
- Changes in Mood
- Negative thoughts about oneself
- No hope for the future
- Problems in memorising things
- Difficulty in maintaining close relationships with people
- Overthinking leading to physical changes
- A habit of faking emotions in public places
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Physical and emotional changes
- Having a self-destructive behaviour
- Trouble in sleeping
- Always thinking about past events, leading to a lost nature
Anxiety and Cardiac Health
Little anxiety and stress are fine; however, chronic anxiety can even lead to cardiac arrests in extreme cases. It is said that excessive thinking and worry can be the roadway of some severe heart problems. Generalised anxiety leads to endless thinking about events, affecting the daily activities of the individual.
Following are some simple questions that one should ask to determine generalised anxiety disorder:
- Have you been thinking about something and worried for more than six months now?
- Have you been worrying every single day about incidents from the last six months?
- Do you face any of these symptoms – Restlessness / Fatigue / Concentration problems / Muscle tension / Problems in sleeping?
- Do you have difficulty controlling your thoughts?
- Do these symptoms cause stress or disturbance to your thoughts?
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