Fear of Being Wrong

The fear of error is a torment. Being wrong is associated with a feeling of shame, the enormous effort to do the right thing, paralysis, doubt, and, of course, a tendency to isolation and obsessive rumination, where ideational loops are triggered, reasoning possibilities for action and eventual consequences...

Being natural is very threatening. In his internal world, replete with codes of conduct, the distorted conscience is a court with trials, awards, relief, and coercive sentences. In that judicial, punitive atmosphere, he is the implacable judge of himself, his worst enemy.