Instinct or paranoia?

Intuition has an very unemotional feel to it.

Supercharged feels aren't intuition, it's fear in disguise.

A gut feeling does not feel like a huge emotional charge.

Those people who do bad things but plead innocent

 Intention is not mitigation.

What's stopping growth?

What change is painful and what change isn't painful?

What does a father offer?

Just a hypothesis; father's bring bravery and apathy to situations that many mother's wouldn't in similar situations. What if high anxiety and depression is imprinted - in part - because mother's reactions (by accident or design) taught the child that the world is always an unsafe place. That 'second influence' allows many things to shift from "this is bad" to "this is just inconvenient" thus remodeling the world for children to be more at peace with life's obstacles.

Is it worth being frustrated?

Commitment gets us through the frustration, and frustration is the partner of learning.

"it shouldn't be this hard"

If the easy thing worked, you would have done it already.

This is what happens when you worry in the creativity world.

While you keep your head down and look at the map. I keep my head up and navigate with the stars.