"It" is a pronoun used in place of the noun. To avoid using "it", use the noun or a synonym. However, avoid using too many instances of the same noun or too many instances of "it" in the same sentence, same paragraph, or same page.
There are more than 500,000 words in the English language. "Is" is just one of them. You can use all of them.
existed
lived
consisted
amounted to
there is alot of words you can use for scared such as terrified or
Myself, me
The other words can one use other than confused are deranged, confounded, blended, mixed, disordered etc.
awesome
i apologize
you can use hello, howdy and so on
extremely
others, some people
Mad, twisted
you can use or , otherwise, or rather than.
you can use ..."is" "am" ... it really depends on the content of the sentence ...
Talking, communicating, verbalizing.