Sim Gets Fear of the Dark After Being Cured (Patch 1.116.223)

Have had to turn off wants and fears as its getting a bit ridiculous. My four child sims (who are now teens as of last night thankfully) had the fear of the dark every single day because the monster under the bed was relentless, it would appear on all four of their beds at least twice a night and even by conquering the fear without the potion the fear just came straight back or the confident moodlet would get to 0 seconds and just get stuck until I travelled off my lot. Same with fear of being cheated on it just comes straight back after conquering it with or without using the potion 😔 also with wants and fears turned off my sim got flirty with her love interest and the want to go on a date appeared but it didn't look right, it looked like the old whims system bubble. 

And the fear of the dark moodlet appears during the day! I can't add or remove the fear trait for the affected Sim using a cheat. The trait doesn't appear in any selections.

PS4

Version 2.18

Still have the afraid of the dark bug to this day :(

It's annoying! I do not use cheats, and already tried the potion, the turn-off want and fear. Nothing works. 

We can't even use mod to fix this looooong on-going bug. Why is it so hard to fix, though? It has been literal YEARS at this point.

Going to put this out here. I really, really do hope this will help.    

I have issues with "afraid of the dark" not being cured.  I thought it was linked to the alien abduction because Zoey has had this issue since the 7th time she was abducted.  But she also got the Clear Perspective around that time as well.  

Zoey has the "afraid of the dark" issue and Clear perspective trait - Chelsie does not have either.  I also have not allowed Chelsie to be abducted a 7th time.  - I am going to wait on that for now.  see where this leads if it leads anywhere.   I have not allowed Life styles for either of them. 

Now here's what I am seeing.   see picture please... Zoey, cannot seem to get rid of it!  She can make it go away with using the Clear Perspective trait earned by one of Wellness aspirations.  I tried to keep a somewhat consistent time record to show that "afraid of the Dark" never disappears, no matter what I have her drink, except when I use the trait from the wellness. 

Now I think it's this.... the clock on the "afraid of the dark" never went below 2 hours without resetting itself to 4 hours unless I used the Clear Perspective which did make it go away for about 4 hours!!!  Then it came right back up again!  No other method available worked for me, in my game, to make "afraid of the Dark" disappear for any length of time; The Clear Perspective prevents it  for about 4 hours.  In my game.   I circled the times on the shots in red.   

Edit:  the jpg's shows several different times.  I had to cut - copy- paste - to make these 3 jpg's.  

I am currently experiencing this glitch :(. Cheating the fear in with the command & then waiting a few hours and removing it with the potion didn't work. Please help I've been playing this family for so long :(

18 some days ago I posted some info that I thought would help with finding the issue.  I saw that many had turned off the wants and fears so - 18 days ago - I did the same thing - turned off the wants and fears wh8ich I had never done before.  I exited the game, removed all the .package(s) and restarted the game.  within the 1st hour -, game clock time not real time, Zoey got the Afraid of the dark buff again and today, it is still there!  I am going ask the forum how to remove the wellness trait - clear perspective and see if it (Afraid of the dark") goes away.   

Ok, this is what I have done . I removed the trait "clear perspective" from my sim and the "afraid of the Dark" immediately disappeared!   I went offline, went into my game after clearing the all thumbnail.cache(s).   I was not in the game 5 minutes and the "afraid of the Dark came back.   Here are 2 exceptions files.  The older one is where I removed the trait and the buff disappeared.   The newer one shows an error, perhaps it is the undesired/undeserved "Afraid of the Dark" buff?   I will attach them to this post 

crinrict​ Sorry to bother you --  I know your super busy.  I tried to post the attachments/ last exceptions but for some reason they did not stay.  do you want them? and how can I get them to you if you do.  One shows error but I honestly do not understand them. I am trying to help!!  I will not use OneDrive, sorry.  I will not be back here until tomorrow, just FYI.

I'm personally not looking into this one. It's on needs info so you'll need to provide info to them.

You can't attach lastExceptions as they are XML files. You need to either copy/paste the content or upload them somewhere else (or remove the xml line from the text file and upload it without it)

Since removing the "clear Perspective" trait the "Afraid of the Dark" buff now comes an goes, it no longer stays 100% of the time. 

It does come frequently though and should the sims go to work with that buff - it, so far i see that the clock resets itself until they leave work/get home and then it disappears immediately. 

In a  couple of hours (sims clock time - game clock?) the "Afraid of the dark" reappears and so far, it does disappear after the clock runs down. 

So far... I get that buff about 3 times in a 24 hour period (1 sim day).   I am still keeping track but I know you don't want 100 screen shots either!  Its how i am keeping track of times and info.     If I notice anything else definitive, I will share with you.