“The gold standard treatment for phobias is exposure therapy ... So for being afraid of the dark, this means going into dark rooms and being alone at night, in the absence of monsters, ghosts ...

The paper's title includes the phrase, "out of a dark place," a direct quote from a breast cancer survivor who said that she joined the study to support "getting out of a dark place." Other ...

People who seek treatment usually have a debilitating phobia. Saltz: Sometimes it’s not even the flying per se. Sometimes it’s a fear of being in an enclosed thing in the air and not being ...

Britain is becoming a nation in fear, as dark terrors ... sit shuddering alone or locked away. More than 16 million of us apparently suffer from an anxiety disorder or phobia that affects our ...

I attribute this to nearly being bitten by ... For people with everyday phobias they have to face daily, the treatment could be genuinely life-changing. In the UK alone, an estimated 10 million ...

It needs to be interfering with their life in some way. People who seek treatment usually have a debilitating phobia. Saltz: Sometimes it’s not even the flying per se. Sometimes it’s a fear of being ...

The NHS has even attributed claustrophobia (the fear of confined spaces), to possibly being the result of one getting trapped in a confined space during childhood and that trauma manifesting itself as ...