Fears have expiration dates. Most of yours are only fresh because you keep avoiding them.

Fears stay fresh through avoidance. Every time you route around the phone call, the conversation or the room, you confirm to yourself that it needed avoiding, so the fear gets topped up instead of tested. Contact is the only thing that expires it, which is why some things have scared you since you were eleven.

Take the oldest one on your list and arrange one small contact with it this week. Not the full version, only enough to get a real result. Then compare what you expected with what actually happened.