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Amy Reast & Nia Dalton

Mum suffers severe phobia of 'overflowing baths' after horrific childhood accident

A woman who experienced a traumatic incident as a child has lived with a severe phobia of overflowing baths for over 30 years.

Darcey Croft, 48, was just four years old when she witnessed the ceiling crash down on her mother while she was in the bath, which in turn made the water overflow.

The young girl feared the house would fall down and kill her whole family, and this trauma stuck with her for decades, leading to monthly panic attacks and nausea.

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