•1 The fear of something as a thought-thing (reified thought) will not be easily surrendered since the thought is considered real without having to match any reality other than itself.
•2 The fear of the consequences of something as thought-things (concretized thoughts) will not be easily surrendered since the thoughts are considered real without having to match any reality but themselves.
•3 Fears of thought-things are ghosts in your mind that haunt your survival impulses and continually trigger emotional and physical reactions to impending acute danger.
•4 The survival emotional and physical reactions to such irrational and unreasonable fears are rational and reasonable and need acceptance, not targeting as problematic.
•5 Target the thought-things (hypostatized thoughts) and deconstruct them and the rest will naturally subside over time from the lack of feeding.