...The best way to face your fears is to turn them into something as trivial as a game... That's quite an interesting solution and one I think I could use. It's even possible that I may inadvertently have begun to use this as a natural coping mechanism, by introducing spoken word into music, often ...

I've tried to write song lyrics, but I feel physically sick whenever I read them back. When I try to sing them, I actually gag on the words.