Hi Wi,

I agree.

Also there is something worse that can happen to us on this theme.

Sometimes if we are around someone who gets very distressed, we catch it off them like a kind of virus. You see it all the time. People are very uncomfortable around a really distressed person.

I once saw someone having a bad panic attack in college, and everyone in the room was upset. They were either gathered around the unfortunate person offering (useless) advice or they were out of there. Everyone in the room looked scared, embarrassed, uncomfortable.

IMHO fear is catching; it's like chickens in a hen coop when the fox is prowling.

Cheers, M