How To Get Rid Of My Fear

Question

Hey, I'm 15, male. I want to be more brave.

I have an irrational fear of murderers. I'm scared to go to rooms in my house during the night because I'm scared that there will be a murderer who got in and is waiting to kill me.

After watching that trailer of The Strangers I was pretty freaked out for a week and being paranoid thinking there was a murderer in my house.

How do I face this fear?

Answer 1

don't watch scary movies?

Answer 2

don't watch those kind of scary movies unless,you want to, then think logically about it if there were a murderer around the corner there would probably be some kind of trial(broken window) and you would be able to hear him, and learn some selfdefense moves

Answer 3

The next time you are afraid, don't run and try to get rid of the fear. Just sit there and accept it, and learn what is behind the fear. Understand that the fear does not come from the outside, but that you create it based on your past and the memories and images you create.

Being brave is not the solution of fear. Seeing things for what they are is the solution.

Answer 4

best way to get over a fear is to face it... it make ttake some time though.. just take baby steps

Answer 5

The best way to get rid of your fear of murderers or in fact "any" fear, is to face them. It is very simple. The more you are familiar with the fear, you soon become use to it, almost comfortable being around with the fear.

By the way, the Strangers was not the a bad movie, there's been worst.  

Answer 6

That is a tough fear to get over. Maybe if you realize that nobody has any reason to kill you, you would get over the fear. I have slight paranoia, and i have to look inside the shower curtain when i go to the bathroom. But you arent a sissy to be afraid to die.

Answer 7

The Strangers was the worst movie ever.  Don;t be scared of murders and that kind of stuff.  Maybe to get over your fear you could watch CSI?  There are tons of "dead" people on those shows.  Or just type in "dead people" on a un-filtered Google search and scan through the dead body pictures.