Are YOU afraid of the dark?
Mariella Frostrup confessed to a fear of the dark in The Observer newspaper. When responding to a reader, the Agony Aunt mentioned in passing, that she has “an irrational fear of the dark”. One of the biggest mailbags she’s ever received followed. She explained that “the letters weren’t just from those sensibly nervous when wandering the empty streets after midnight, but full-on phobics like myself paralysed with fear and virtually unable to sleep alone”. Fear of the dark is a common but relatively unspoken fear which almost always originates in childhood. It is a fear that we are expected …