There is a fine line between genius and madness, or something like that. I may be walking here, but I would like opinions.

I have some pretty fucking intense fears, mainly gore and suffering. They can sometimes plague me if I feel depressed, because when I get hung up on things I get very extreme. It's never "Oh crap, I'm gonna fail these tests", it's always, "Oh crap... sadism, brutality, etc.". That's just the way I am. We are all subjectively different and I just think in that extreme way. It has its pros and cons.

I want to find a way to overcome these fears in life so that they do not bother me every other day. I am not a manic depressive or anything, but whenever I do get depressed like I was this Christmas my mind completely short-circuits and I have nightmarish moods and paranoias because of these fears.

Now... is it possible that inducing nightmares would have a theraputic effect in helping me to accept these things and face my fears... or would it do exactly the opposite? Nightmares do leave me in a sweat but can't this god-given phenomenon have a different purpose?