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I sometimes felt a little bit like this when I was starting out. The two things that helped me the most were learning the proper way to play the game and winning money from people using that knowledge.

You may also need to play at a lower limit. If you're scared of losing the money, you're playing too high. You may even need to play at the play money levels just to get more comfortable with the game.

Eventually you want to get to the point where you're just assessing each action based on its probability of making you money. If you get raised, but you think you probably have the best hand or have good odds to draw to the best hand, you shouldn't fold just because you might lose. That's one way to guarantee you will lose long-term.

As a side note, don't be surprised if this feeling comes back a little as you move up levels. I recently moved up, and it took me a week or two to get completely comfortable with bets that were twice as big as I was used to.