if some of you want to make fun out of this

I don't, for one. Things that cause fear and anxiety are no laughing matter. However, it is a great help in dealing with them if you have a clear perspective on how often the feelings are right or wrong.

I claim this has parallels, if not the same. Most of my wife's life she has been fearful of strong winds. Whenever we had strong gusts at night she would lie awake worrying in case the roof was holed, and then the rain would come in, and then there'd be so much damage and, and, and ... Getting that under control involved learning to see just how often nothing came of these fears. Concentrating on the [few] times when something did happen - a lost tile here, seepage through a poor window seal - let to a great many fearful nights 'just in case'. About a decade ago she had CBT professionally and it has helped greatly, and now while no-one would ever claim she likes high winds, they do not bring the fear they did.

So that's my advice - it is worth a good deal of effort to get fear in proportion.