In college, I brought guys into the forest at night because it was a place where I was less scared than they were. As a woman ...

the phobia of darkness, doesn’t only affect children. Nearly half of the respondents said they disliked or feared the dark, and only 4% identified as enjoying darkness. This fear can be ...

Sleeping with a light on can help alleviate fear of the dark, but if this fear persists into adulthood and becomes excessive or irrational, it may indicate a phobia. This condition, known as ...

One internet site (www.phobialist.com) catalogues more than 1,000 phobias, ranging from the common (for example, achluophobia - fear of darkness) to the bizarre. Some people suffer from ...

APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS, BUT THEY ALSO COULD BRING SOME DARK AND STORMY NIGHTS ... SO ASTRAPHOBIA IS WHAT’S CALLED A SPECIFIC PHOBIA. IT’S AN EXTREME FEAR OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING.

Somewhere along that range, fear can cause us to feel uncomfortable or anxious in certain situations. And to the extreme, it can show up as a phobia, in which the level of fear we experience in ...

Movie"It's not just in your mind." A brilliant young psychiatrist is forced to confront the dark creature that dwells deep within her own unconscious when she investigates the supernatural ...