How do yoiu deal with phobia?

When I was young,I used to be very araid of the dark.This continued well into my teens.I wanted to try and get out of the fear myself because everybody would tease me that I was a scaredy cat.One day I just stood in the dark, and scared as I was,I stood there for atleast 10 mins.I felt that any moment something was going to grab me but nothing happenned.I did this for the next 2 weeks.After that I was never afraid of the dark anymore.I was also afraid of heights but once I started using escalators and travelling in flights,that fear too went away.I guess the trick is to confront the fear in the face which helps most.Hope you get out of your phobias too:)

The only real phobia I have is of lightening. I have a really hard time during a lightening storm. I just want to burrow or something. I've learned to talk myself out of the intense fear but I'm not always successful, especially during a severe storm.