Fear is a slippery thing. You can't eliminate it. You can't ignore it. You must bear it, when you have it. Bearing it causes suffering, of course. Putting it off means you'll suffer later, perhaps more than you might if you just handled it when it was smaller. I tell my daughter it's like piling up laundry in the corner of her room. At some point you are going to suffer a lot more by not having clothes to wear to school AND you still have to do a crap load of laundry all at once.

Fear based security is stupid, wasteful and simply puts off what fears you might have until some point trust is violated by those doing security. Then the real suffering begins.