YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

I'm afraid to compete in any way, shape or form for fear of self-humiliation.

I'm afraid I will live too long, suffering with a disease that can't be cured and for me barely treatable.

I'm afraid that I'll never be able to be generous with my children.

I'm afraid that perfectionism is ruining my life and keeping me from trying anything.

I'm afraid of surprises and the unknown because I don't think I can handle it.

I'm afraid that I won't be able to control my critical nature because it keeps people at a distance, and I fear intimacy.

I'm afraid that my inaction will allow me to lose all that is important to me.

I'm afraid that my son will have inherited all my worst mental deficiencies.

I'm afraid that in their own way & appropriate to their situation, everyone is pretty much fed up with me.

Neverbetter wrote:I'm afraid that I won't be able to control my critical nature because it keeps people at a distance, and I fear intimacy.

I totally get this one, I do the same thing. I'd just so much rather be a bitch than be not good enough.

Thanks churble, it feels good to be understood.