Quote

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.