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Bundokji, I had some anxiety early on when I started realizing what anatta entails. I thought that Buddhist practice would somehow erase my Self, and "I" might become some sort of zombie. But then I read and realized that there was never a Self in the first place, except as a perceptual illusion, and that realizing anatta wouldn't change any inherent aspect of being. Getting rid of the illusion is not losing your Self; it's realizing that Selfhood has always been an illusion. Realizing that opens a practically infinite number of possibilities and helps free one of the imaginary chains that bind us to a static, pre-programmed state of being. That's not to say that you will never experience any unpleasant feelings, but that you will start to not identify with them, cling to them, or see them as any sort of threat. Fear will dissipate as your understanding of how things are deepens, in my experience. Trust the mind. It knows a lot more than the "person" does.