While many phobias can arise in early childhood – perhaps after hearing a frightening story or seeing a scary film – and others can pop up once one an adult, certain phobias are so deeply ingrained in the human psyche that they seem to have no dateable origin whatsoever. They are innate and uncontrollable, and sometimes – going against the grain of the very definition of phobias themselves – have very rational, and even evolutionary roots. One such phobia is achluophobia – or the fear of the dark. The dark is our only certain uncertainty, a constant, the one thing
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