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I mostly concur with french touch there, but even more so. If you are getting scared on squats you are "doing it wrong" there is no need at all to go so heavy that technique breaks down and getting stuck becomes a possibility. Same goes for bench press too actually! Going that heavy achieves little, you want perfect technique and increase volume/frequency for training stimulus. Those ugly maxes just burn you out, stop you getting the volume, risk injury, stop the the effects you are trying to achieve, from being achieved. Really its counter productive anyway.
I only mastered the squat once I trained at a weightlifting club and all they had was wobbly homemade single squat stands that fell over with a slight knock. This is similar to what they have in WL clubs around the world. But that doesn't stop the lifters at these places being the best at squatting.
You want to "know" that you are going to get the weight without any doubt, but the effort will be to get it "perfectly". You will get plenty of training effect without pushing yourself to breaking point.