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Paranoid when home alone

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I'm 16 years old. So this is kind of embarrassing. But here it is. I hate being home alone. Especially at night. I have to go through the house checking if the doors are locked. Then I have to look in my closet sometimes because it's pretty big and I think people might have gone into my house and hid in there. Then I look in some more places that people could hide. Once I lay down and close my eyes, I keep picturing someone coming up to the side of my bed and stabbing me to death and killing my family. So I get up and look around some more. Every night it takes me about 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours to fall asleep because I'm so freaked out. How can I get over being so paranoid about people breaking into my house?