Never_Forget
April 9th, 2009, 03:27 PM
I don't know if this is in the right forum... But...
So like, from when I was maybe around 6/7 until i was 10 I had a major problem with walking down my stairs. When I was walking down I always saw figures following me out of the corner of my eye, like a shadow with most detail taken from it. I always had to run down the stairs looking back, and since the figure was a shadow, it caused my fear of the dark (what kid DOESN'T fear dark?) to become irrational.
So one day, I was in my mums room, and I was going over to the other side to get something, and all of a sudden, the shadow figure is there again, but right in front of me, and blinding white. Needless to say, I screamed and ran and stayed downstairs for the rest of the day. This only escalated my fears. Then about a year later, I watched the movie 'Scream', at the age of 8.
For a few years now I've not been as scared as I used to be but now my fears have started picking up again. At night I hear noises while I'm still downstairs alone, I'm then downstairs for an extra hour. When I'm in bed or in the bathroom at night, I hear creaks and stuff (yes I KNOW it's the pipes and floorboards contracting and expanding) and after that I can hear footsteps. I have a fear of the dark, and I can't sleep unless I can see the door to the room I'm in, and that it's closed. When I'm in the kitchen at night on my own I can't stand in front of the windows, or look out of them. I can't sit in the conservatory at night with the blinds open the tiniest bit, and when I walk along halls or stairs at night I get the feeling I'm being watched. When trying to get to sleep I have thoughts like "they've killed my parents and they're coming for me next", even though I don't know who 'they' are. If I'm awake I have to open my eyes every few seconds to check nobody is there and I can't make a noise, I don't want 'them' to hear me.
Does anybody know how I can stop all of this? Not only does it terrify me almost every night, its downright annoying!
So like, from when I was maybe around 6/7 until i was 10 I had a major problem with walking down my stairs. When I was walking down I always saw figures following me out of the corner of my eye, like a shadow with most detail taken from it. I always had to run down the stairs looking back, and since the figure was a shadow, it caused my fear of the dark (what kid DOESN'T fear dark?) to become irrational.
So one day, I was in my mums room, and I was going over to the other side to get something, and all of a sudden, the shadow figure is there again, but right in front of me, and blinding white. Needless to say, I screamed and ran and stayed downstairs for the rest of the day. This only escalated my fears. Then about a year later, I watched the movie 'Scream', at the age of 8.
For a few years now I've not been as scared as I used to be but now my fears have started picking up again. At night I hear noises while I'm still downstairs alone, I'm then downstairs for an extra hour. When I'm in bed or in the bathroom at night, I hear creaks and stuff (yes I KNOW it's the pipes and floorboards contracting and expanding) and after that I can hear footsteps. I have a fear of the dark, and I can't sleep unless I can see the door to the room I'm in, and that it's closed. When I'm in the kitchen at night on my own I can't stand in front of the windows, or look out of them. I can't sit in the conservatory at night with the blinds open the tiniest bit, and when I walk along halls or stairs at night I get the feeling I'm being watched. When trying to get to sleep I have thoughts like "they've killed my parents and they're coming for me next", even though I don't know who 'they' are. If I'm awake I have to open my eyes every few seconds to check nobody is there and I can't make a noise, I don't want 'them' to hear me.
Does anybody know how I can stop all of this? Not only does it terrify me almost every night, its downright annoying!