Right so lately I'e been having a lot of trouble trying to sleep. A couple days ago I read a creepypasta called Candle Cove (if you haven't read it and are easily scared, do NOTlook it up) and, as scared as I was, I stupidly Youtube'd it and watched the video. (again, not advised). And again, in another rousing act of stupidity, I looked up Slenderman and what not. Creepypasta and everything.
And now, I am petrified of my own Goddamn shadow.
I've always been a bit of a fraidy cat. When I was 11, I watched the film adaptation of IT and I was so scared I couldn't sleep for weeks. A couple years before that, I snuck downstairs to watch Nightmare on Elm Street and I woke up with nightmares for months afterwards. But now, a somewhat cynical 19 year old lad is petrified of a story he knows is made up. Thing is, it's started to affect my health. I stay up till all hours awake in bed, jolting at every flipping thing that goes bump in the night. I can't be at my house on my own, even during the day.
Can The Escpaist offer anything that might help ease my touble? I know it sounds so stupid, but I could really do with som advise. I know it's ridiculous, believe me, I keep telling myself the very same thing.
And to all you other fraidy cats out there, have you ever been like this before? Did you find a way to deal with it? And if so, helpa brother out?
EDIT: Crap! Wrong area of discussion, coulda Mod move it for me?
And now, I am petrified of my own Goddamn shadow.
I've always been a bit of a fraidy cat. When I was 11, I watched the film adaptation of IT and I was so scared I couldn't sleep for weeks. A couple years before that, I snuck downstairs to watch Nightmare on Elm Street and I woke up with nightmares for months afterwards. But now, a somewhat cynical 19 year old lad is petrified of a story he knows is made up. Thing is, it's started to affect my health. I stay up till all hours awake in bed, jolting at every flipping thing that goes bump in the night. I can't be at my house on my own, even during the day.
Can The Escpaist offer anything that might help ease my touble? I know it sounds so stupid, but I could really do with som advise. I know it's ridiculous, believe me, I keep telling myself the very same thing.
And to all you other fraidy cats out there, have you ever been like this before? Did you find a way to deal with it? And if so, helpa brother out?
EDIT: Crap! Wrong area of discussion, coulda Mod move it for me?