CarpeDiem,

I find that the best way of dealing with anything is not to try to avoid it but to be with it.  When I have fears or anything that really is bothering me, I sit with it in meditation.  I let the “bother” be in my body and notice it where it is physically.  Then I breath into that part of the body and not try to push that stuck feeling away but to make friends with it.  It can be very uncomfortable and even painful but it works for me.

Mark