"This excessive fear is becoming a hindrance".
And so we have excessive fear of vaccines.
"I think it's important that they learn effective strategies to cope with their excessive fear.
The excessive fear of communist subversion was fed by numerous sources.
It wasn't until the nineteenth century that hypochondria came to be narrowly defined as an excessive fear of illness.
"But it is critical that New Yorkers and Americans not succumb to excessive fear over these kinds of incidents".
Montaigne, as a young man, had an excessive fear of death, and it made it almost impossible for him to enjoy living.
Clinton's biggest mistakes, like setting up her private e-mail server, spring from excessive fear and caution, rather than excessive confidence.
The availability heuristic, as Kahneman and Tversky called it, leads people to both excessive fear and unjustified complacency — and it can lead governments astray as well.
Symptoms include nightmares, intrusive images, excessive fear and anxiety, powerlessness, emotional numbing, irrational guilt and physical symptoms such as headaches, backaches and gastrointestinal distress.
We are not trying to teach them to get fear out of their lives but excessive fear that gets in the way of their functioning".
