We live in a world that glorifies control. From career paths to personal relationships, from health to finances—we are taught to manage, manipulate, and master. But what happens when things slip ...

Appropriate fear is aimed at the object or event we are afraid of: for instance, fear of a rattlesnake about to attack us. Our response to appropriate fear is to flee, fight, freeze, or appease. If ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's a particular kind of dread that keeps certain people up at night—not fear of failure exactly, but fear of fading into the ...