I am married with a young daughter and live in a nice estate. However, I am PETRIFIED of being left on my own overnight. I have OCD anyway and get a lot of intrusive thoughts and images but when my Husband has to work away from home about one weekend per month I get so traumatised. I imagine an intruder is going to break in and attack me and my daughter. I sleep on the sofa in the lounge so that I can see both the back and front doors and spend my nights drifting in and out of a troubled sleep, checking the doors, checking my daughter, checking the cat (!) and feeling totally freaked out and panicky. As I write this, my Husband is away and I feel so full of fear. Has anyone got experience of this type of fear or being scared of the dark?