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

I am afraid I will never succeed in my career because I will be so specialized that I cannot figure out how to anything except what I'm doing right now.
I am afraid of failing and everyone saying, "I knew he would. He should have never tried. He was always going to fail."
I'm afraid that I will drop a baby if I hold it.
I'm afraid that I will put unrealistic expectations on my future kids and they will grow up even more fucked up than I did.
I'm afraid that I will blame my wife if we have children that aren't born healthy.
I'm afraid that I will never be able to accept a compliment without thinking that the person was obliged to tell me "Thank you."
I'm afraid that one day my wife will wake up and realize that I am too broken and that she cannot support me anymore.
I'm afraid that I will lose my mental capacity and end up with dementia or Alzheimer's like my grandpa.
I'm afraid that I will never be able to make enough money to get out of debt and my family will suffer for it.
I'm afraid that I will not be paying attention while driving one day and as I am making a right turn from a stop, I will hit someone because I was looking the other way for traffic.
I'm afraid that my words are so powerful that one day I will speak my mind and it will offend everyone so much that they leave me and don't want anything to do with me ever again.
I'm afraid of being abandoned.

That's all I got for now.

I'm afraid that I will not be paying attention while driving one day and as I am making a right turn from a stop, I will hit someone because I was looking the other way for traffic.

Same thing here. Living in a larger community with more pedestrians is terrifying. Making right turns close to my job gets so scary as so many people are crossing the street.

I am afraid I will never succeed in my career because I will be so specialized that I cannot figure out how to anything except what I'm doing right now.

Am I correct in assuming that you are/were in grad school? Because I know WAY more about the thiol-induced reactions of 1,2-benzodithiozone-1-oxides than 99.99999% of every one on this planet.