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Mar 16, 2013, 02:11 AM
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Hello,
When I was younger, my parents would always watch horror movies, and I watched it with them. I never really thought anything of it. It never affected me till a few years ago though. A few years ago, I started getting super scared in the dark. I'd here a noise and I'd like panic. I kept thinking a ghost was going to appear. I ended up getting rid of it for a while, with my stress levels over all decreasing. Anyways, it came back a few months ago, but it's been getting worse and worse. Now I can't sleep with the light off. That was fine for a while, but now I've got this worry that the light is going to shut off. It makes no sense but I'll start to worry in the middle of the night that something is going to turn the light off. Obviously I know nothing will, but it's still in the back of my mind. I'm even worried to go to the washroom, because I'm worried something will do the exact same thing. I feel like I watched too many horror movies when I was younger, that now it's like grown into a possibility in my mind. My mind also likes showing me pictures of horror movies, or gore, which I have no control over. I wonder, is that anxiety? Or is something else causing these thoughts in my mind? It's based on stress mostly, the more stress the more thoughts and fears. No stress, no nothing. |
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Mar 16, 2013, 04:24 AM
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I went through something similar to what you describe. My solution was to confront it head on. I turned the light off. Waited for the ghost/monster/whatever. Nothing.
Also went into cemeteries at night. Nothing. I eventually came to love the night. There are no monsters. There may be ghosts but I've never seen or felt one and I've been in some places that you would think ghosts might be present if they exist. I think your mind conjuring up frightening images may very well be anxiety. |
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Mar 16, 2013, 05:20 PM
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Watching horror movies added to my anxiety also; of course I had other things going on, also, but the movies didn't help. I would actually have nightmares about being possessed by the devil and evil spirits trying to rape me, etc.
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