As a preschooler,Amanda Sprague would cling to her mum or dad around new people,slept with the bedroom door wide open and the hall light on,and was skittish about bugs. To her parents this didn't seem all that unusual for her age. But when she started school, Amanda's worries multplied and intensified,says Laurie,her mother. She would cower in bed, paralyzed with fear during a thunderstorm. When she spotted two ladybugs on the ceiling, she ran screaming from her bedroom and refused to go to sleep.