Pan-ic as ... Growth?

Dealing with incipient panic...I've done it all my life. I am still musing about Pan's Labyrinth. Watching this film about a young girl who faces fears that are unearthly as well as her Mother's desperately difficult pregnancy and her step-father's evil makes me believe that perhaps I can watch my fear like she did and live through it. I take whatever solace I can find as I become me.