Really, I fear feeling content, which is why I've ignored my anxiety up until now.
Second only to fear, feeling not good enough is another way you may be holding yourself back from the life you truly desire.
The degree to which you fear feeling like an idiot is the degree to which you look to others for your self-worth.
"As a disabled person travelling you always have an element of fear, feeling very uncomfortable, of panic, of just wondering if you are going to get off".
Most of the migrant workers we interviewed, by contrast, conveyed a sense of constant fear, feeling trapped by their lack of immigration status.
In the times that I've really been consumed by fear, feeling nauseous and paralysed by it, I have longed to just obsess about some bullshit again.
"But the biggest one," Adler said, is "shame, embarrassment, fear, feeling worthless".
Maybe lack of self worth, fear, feeling like a fraud... really it comes down to lack of self worth.
While the diagnosis of MBC had significantly impacted all areas of QoL for those interviewed, the emotional impact (anxiety, depression, isolation, fear, feeling down, and uncertainty) was noted by all, but one, of the 19 women interviewed.
A strikingly high percentage of GPs refuse to treat MMT patients for reasons linked to relationships or management of emotions (noncompliant patients, fears, feeling of powerlessness, or burnout in the past, as illustrated at Table 5).
