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Question: How to overcome fear of dark?

(Posted by: on 2010-08-22 16:09:55)

I usually stay up at night, but I'm really scared of the dark. Being alone in the dark is hard for me, even if I'm watching television. Also even if the lights in my room are on, if I look at anything dark, weather it's looking outside through the window at night, or that darkness inside the closet, I'm scared. If there's any dark it's basically all I focus on. Even when me and my younger brothers were hanging out in my room, they were having so much fun, but I was so paranoid about the darkness I saw in the corner of my eye, I was having much less fun. And I can't just leave the lights on when I sleep, I share the room with my older brother, and he doesn't want the lights on when he sleeps, me and him are on a very similar sleeping schedule. How can I overcome my fear and be able to sleep upstairs in my room instead of sleeping on the couch downstairs all the time? By the way, I am 11 years old (that's probably too young for this site but I really need help and my family doesn't give much help).And I recently got the second bed upstairs because my sister who slept there moved out, so I share the room with my older brother now. I've had that room for about 10 days, I've only slept up there twice.