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

How to get over my fear of spiders?

• can someone please help me? and PLEASE don't say, pick up a spider and then you will be fine. actually no, last time i had a spider on me i almost threw my laptop that i was on across the room. once i see anything remotely similar to a spider i scream and get out of that room as fast as i can. i will then not go in that room for another hour or so and stand in the middle of a not crowded room so i can see anything trying to crawl over to me. i seriously don't know why i act like this, i didn't have any traumatic moment in my childhood that scarred me. after i see a spider/creepy crawler i start to feel like they are everywhere, all over my skin. i will jump and slap where ever i feel that little sensation, i even let out a yelp tonight. i live in the coldest room in the house (i have seen one so far, the one that decided it would be fun to crawl on my arm), which is closet to the kitchen (which i have seen two together on the kitchen table and one on the ceiling) and i have seen two in the bathroom which were on my towel right as i was about to dry myself off with it. please, please help me, i have even thought i might have arachnophobia. what might help me are facts about spiders that might calm me based on my situation, etc, 'spiders like warm places and you live in a cold room!' (even though that isnt probably true) maybe like tips to keep spiders out of my house, or my room because i know spiders keep the other bugs away, and yeah they can have fun doing that on the ceiling, not on my stuff or me!! don't answer with 'yeah i have spiders too' because that doesn't help me at all. do you think i should see a doctor because my irrational fear of spiders? OH, i have seen mostly white ones and one darker one i think! thank you guys, i am counting on you!

• Answer:

  •Say to yourself that as long as you leave it alone, it will not bother you. •The thing is so much smaller than you. It is more scared of you than you are scared of it. You are practically a giant compared to a spider. •You do not go to doctors for fears like this. •There is no way to keep bugs out of your house. The only way that would ever be possible is if you never go outside. Whenever you open the door, that is when they come in. Or they come in through windows or small cracks. Make sure you always close doors tightly, and if you do have windows open, makes sure the screen is still down. •Think of it this way: if it weren't for spiders, there would be bugs that carry so many diseases EVERYWHERE. Spiders kill the mosquitoes with malaria. Would your rather have no spiders in the world, get bitten by a mosquito that carries malaria, get infected with malaria, and then have a worm inside you? Or would you rather have these helpful little creatures alive so they can kill disease filled bugs like that? I think I am the only girl on this planet that is actually fascinated by spiders and loves them.