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Mental Health Sleep paralysis and extreme fear of the dark

viridarius

viridarius

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Okay, I've been having issues with sleep paralysis and its caused me to developed a deathly fear of the dark. It started after reading a lot of creepy stories about a urban legend of sorts about these creatures called fleshgaits/skinwalkers(not the native American legend). I got really freaked out(like extreme anxiety for several days) and one night i went to bed extremely anxious. I woke up to a black aparition crawling towards me and feeling it put its weight on my bed. The thing is the hole time this was happening i could move. I didn't want to because of how scared i was but movement was possible and the second i felt its weight on my bed i flung myself away and started screaming at the top of my lungs. Since then I've heard something moving around my room in my sleep and when i wake up i don't see anything and I've also felt something grab my foot gently in my sleep and kicked out at it thinking it was my sister or something. It grabbed my foot and pulled me forward a foot or so or that's what it felt like. Is this sleep paralysis? Also due to both the stories and the stuff i just described I've developed a intense phobia of the dark/night. How could i deal with this?
 
When it felt like something touched me the pulled me forward when i opened my eyes my room was empty and i had my door locked like i always do so there's no way someone could have been in my room plus my rooms so big that they wouldnt have had time to leave between the feeling and me opening my eyes.
 
I had hell bad Night terrors for awhile and I found closing my eyes ( could still blink) helped alot. You still have to be psychologically tough but at least then you can't see whatever "dark shadows" are roaming around your room. Also realizing that your not in any danger at all, and it's all in your head, that's something they teach you to try and think when you having a regular panic attack.
 
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