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I haven't got to the CAE stage just yet but I do know the effect it can have given the stressfull "bottleneck" it creates in your career. I think that any advice regarding drugs or psychiatric help is a distraction by way of unhelpfull complication. You're not the only bloke who finds this a big deal and you want to talk to a few trusted muckers over a beer not somebody who does not fly for a living.
Personally I would cope with the situation with a thorough blast of book revision (detail) moving through to some armchair profile revision (less detail) and for the week before, a couple of flights, some normal family life and some beer!
An acceptance of a realistic perception that you can only do your best and that this will probably be directly proportional to your state of relaxation (easier said than done) is the key. At the end of the day you have to have a F**k 'em attitude and realise that it's only a job.
Keep it simple stupid.
