As I lye awake here dreading having to get up in a few hours because once again I have gotten no sleep.  I have realized that fear is really taking over my life. I believe this fear started when I was a child. My parents seem to think it was from watching things like polterguist and other scary movies as a very small child - i think i was two.  I always woke up with nightmares, I was afraid to go to sleep, and always ended up coming to their room. When I got a little older I began sleeping with towels wrapped around my neck afraid of vampires getting me.  I remember always being afraid of something.  Now that I have experienced more pain and trauma.  It's escalated into a much worse situation.  I constantly feel afraid of predators thinking almost all are out to hurt me in someway. I am afraid of getting up at night. I don't want to pass by a window or get up to use the restroom.  I don't want to move until daylight. I wake up over and over with night sweats but now not remembering what I have dreamt.  When I stay over and someone's house lately my friends are saying that they hearing me screaming in my sleep. I am feeling so frozen and so afraid. I am not only afraid of people I am afraid of every little sound thinking it could be anything.  How do you fix this kind of problem?  It is too draining to go through life this way.