It’s debilitating and can control one’s life. The feeling of fear is like how one person described it, like when you're walking on a bridge that is over a river and when you look down at the waves crashing on the rocks and suddenly the fear kicks in. Without any conscious choice, it feels like your heart is in your throat. I then start to sweat and lose the ability to focus on anything else. Everything and everyone else around you just disappears. It’s just you and this massive drop into the river – fear with rationality going off the bridge. You've even forgotten that the railing is there just because you have this feeling that if I get too close to the edge, you'll fall. Even just by standing where you are, you still think the same thing, although you're not too close. It feels like it's
