Susie TaaffeChief of Staff, RAMMP · Chief of Staff & Strategic Operator | AI-First | RAMMP | Building What Doesn’t Exist Yet

Crippling Fear? How to breathe through it. Your central nervous system is frazzled!

19 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker shares personal experience of sudden, overwhelming bouts of fear that feel suffocating. She explains that the more we fight fear, the deeper we sink—comparing it to quicksand—while emphasizing that breath can be a way out. She describes how the central nervous system translates multiple stress inputs into a heightened fear response, making each individual trigger feel larger than it is. By segmenting fears and using conscious breathing, she suggests we can calm the nervous system, reduce the intensity of the fear, and regain a sense of control.

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Like the more that you sort of fight, the worse it gets and the more you sink. And whilst quicksand, you can't breathe your way through it, I believe with fear you can. So, um, I have been having bouts of crippling fear, like crippling fear lately, like take your breath away. God, like, oh my God. And another thing will come at me and it's like, oh my God, how am I gonna make that work? Oh my God, how am I gonna make that work? Like, So many things just going pelted at me, pelted at me. And so breathing and realizing that our nervous system is going to translate these fears, it will translate these inputs into fear. So everything by itself, if you could segment it out, it's not such a big deal. But if you're already carrying a level of Like a high level of understanding.