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What is the best way to get over fear of spiders?

How to get over my fear of spiders?

  • I often feel like theres something crawling on me and i always think its a spider and me biggest fear is that there is going to be a spider in my bed when i get in it! And im afraid of every spider there is! Big small posionious or not! I live in northern canada so we have no posinious spiders and are spiders are small compared to most places but they still terrify me and seem huge to me! Everytime i see a spider i run as far away as possible screaming and i usually start crying and hyperventalting. after seeing the spider it takes me like atleast 5 or 10 minutes to calm down. My fear of spiders is so bad that whenever im outside in the summer im constatly scared and ruins my fun. Some things i cant even do for fear of seeing spiders. I also cant kill them im way to scared to get anywhere near one and always get my mom or someone to kill it. And seeing pictures of spider or on tv and even toy spiders its pretty much just as bad! On a few occasions when there have been spider in our car and i started freaking out and crying i even almost caused my parents to get in an accident! I know thats horrible but i just couldnt help it. I hate just thinking about or talking about spiders as well. I constatly think about how scared i am of them crawling on me and also my other biggest fear is one landing on my head thats hanging down from a web. And whenever i see spider webs or they got on me i also freak out. And people that know how scared i am of spiders try to put them on me or close to me cause they think its funny and they dont understand how scared i actually am of them. I honestly think im gonna die of a heart attack when it happens! And the last thing is i often have nightmares of spiders! They are actually the only thing i have nightmares about and its horrible i usually wake up sweating and than i think the dream is real and that they are crawling on me! Please help this has a huge affect on my life and i really need and want to get over this fear!

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    You might read my response to a similar question posted here. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Arjw7nsw.BxtOjLigdu52mvq1KIX;_ylv=3?qid=20120406233234AAggMYd I might point out that not everyone can overcome this themselves, and may require counseling with a professional therapist. (The shock therapy mentioned does not work, and usually has the opposite effect.)

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This sounds like arachnophobia (the fear of spiders). I honestly think that the only way to get over this is to expose yourself to spiders. Next time you see a spider, don't run away or scream. Stay calm and stay there. The spider will not hurt you. Exposure treatment is usually used to overcome arachnophobia to show the person that the fear object (in this case, spiders) will not hurt them. If you dont get help this could get worse. Since you have anxiety about spiders, you could develop a panic disorder if you don't get help. Panic disorders can be very serious. This will take time and it will take dedication and courage, but you can get over this. Good luck!!

Reagan

Next time you see a spider find the closest thing to squish it flat and throw it away. Do this a couple of times and they won't want to mess with you anymore.

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two therapies are available shock therapy or gradual integration, shock therapy entails you go to an entymologist and ask them to stick you in a room and allow spiders to crawl over you allowing you to realize they are harmless, gradual integration means you slowly allow interaction between you and spiders maybe not whacking them but picking them up and carrying them outside and put them in a bush you do this over a long period of time and you'll get used to it but shock therapy is quicker. GOOD LUCK

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Those darn scary movies, etc! I got over my fear by LIVING WITH TWO HUGE "HUNTER SPIDERS" when I lived in Japan for a year. When I first saw them, I ran for the landlord, to get her to kill them. In her halting English, she informed me that there was something ELSE that was WORSE, and would hurt me, but these spiders were "Hunter Spiders" and hunted down and killed something that was far worse, and that WOULD hurt me! With more info, I finally accepted them. They followed me around the house like house pets! At night, I always sat in my "basket chair" reading under my one lamp. Always at 9 p.m., one of them would always circle my chair at the edge of the light. When he/she got to where it had started from, it would look straight at me for a number of seconds---Just as if it were saying, "AREN''T YOU COMING TO BED YET?!" Since my husband was frequently away on TDY, I started answering it---"No, I'm going to read some more. You go ahead!" And they would troop into the bedroom without me. I had finally guessed that since there was no central heat in the house, and the temps got down to 40 degrees, the pair slept on the ceiling, directly over my head! Some months later, I found out what they hunted down---it was a scorpion that had dropped from a crack in the ceiling into my hot tub!! I learned that they were not "too poisonous, but the sting would hurt considerably!" From then on, we co-existed--after having scolded them for not having been thorough! FIND OUT WHAT THE SPIDERS EAT; WHAT BENEFITS DO THEY DO FOR PEOPLE; ETC. INFORMATION OPEN THE WORLD TO US!

Martell

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