But no one would tell you to go out and bungee jump but to just take the first step toward bungee jumping (whatever that would be); phobias can be gotten over.

I have trouble though with Fear Truth #4 My unknowns are not another's so the idea that, "Everyone else is just as afraid as you are!" (would be my stepmother's line) is not true for my unknowns when I have them; I would be afraid to bungee jump but I don't have a phobia of heights, could force myself to "do" the height thing but would take awhile too for me to do the bungee thing.

I think the biggest thing with my fear is that I'm afraid of being afraid. I think most people have an inaccurate idea of what something will be like; have built up a monster in their own imaginations when it's actually something more benign. One can't fight my virile imagination with any rules out there