losing grip

• slippingLosing footing unintentionally
• fallingMoving downward freely
• controlAuthority to direct
• fingersAppendages of the hand
• unravelingProcess of coming undone

fading · weakening · hold · release · desperate · fumbling · sliding · edge · panic · grasp · clinging · sweaty · palms · drop · plummeting · sanity · reality · traction

• self-controlself-control, restraint, willpower, composure, moderation
• dizzinessdizziness, dizzy spell, lightheadedness, vertigo, wooziness
• moral decaymoral decay, moral decline, moral collapse, moral bankruptcy, degeneration
• muddlingmuddling, jumbling, scrambling, mixing up, disarranging