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I suspect many of the rated pilots here have experienced what I have:
vertigo as bad as it gets in a long flight while in the clouds.

Maybe, although I've read that a great deal of IFR flight actually takes place
in IMC, so even rated pilots might not get that much experience flying through
clouds. Flying through clouds has other hazards besides a lack of visibility.

JFK Jr is a well known example
of someone who could not unlink primal fear from primal but incorrect
action.

JFK had issues, apparently.

He was not alone.
There are many who suffer from delusions of competency.
The results are often fatal.