I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

I have been attacked by crows and men with grotesque faces; I have been set on fire by the boy who almost threw me off a ledge; I have almost drowned - twice - and this> is what I can't cope with? This is the fear I have no solutions for - a boy I like, who wants to...have sex with me?

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.