>>504123
Listen, you can either seek conscious help at the time of your choosing or "wait" for your symptoms to get to a point which the "occasionally" becomes something else. Some say that the possible story told by a "fear", "mallady" or "curse" (here I am giving an arbitrary example of possible meanings that could derive from looking into a "symptom") also contains in someway it's hint to a "cure". It's interesting what you said about it being "like a monster/imaginary predator" alongside the walking up the stairs alone. From what you said, I'd advise you to "walk up the stairs" WITH someone who works with the imaginative, depending on where you live you might find it more or less easily; something along the lines of analytical psychology. It may help stop progressing the fear into a literal predator/attacker by looking into it in another way (not alone!), as I had that impression at some point.
>>502635
This anon is not wrong, if something feels like "convincing" then perhaps seek someone else; though there are what some call "resistance to treatment", people aren't stupid enough not to distinguish for themselves, at least on a "feeling" dimension, if something makes or breaks sense to them. Each person has it's own "psychology". Even though people have their similarities, a good professional has it's background but works from the ground up alongside with what the patient brings forward.