Help for Spider Phobia?

Does anyone know of any good websites for tips and advice on how to deal with arachnophobia? Any info would be great, thanks.

Reply 1

Ghetto_Princess12

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/ask_the_doctor/arachnophobia.shtml

Reply 2

Sithius

16

Aye I used to be scared of spiders really badly, then I started to have dreams where I picked huge ones up and suddenly I wasn't scared. If I see a huge one now I just go 'haha, what you gonna do? Crawl on me? Fool'. And pick it up then take it outside and SQUISH.

I'm cruel.

Reply 3

loser88

12

Sithius

Aye I used to be scared of spiders really badly, then I started to have dreams where I picked huge ones up and suddenly I wasn't scared. If I see a huge one now I just go 'haha, what you gonna do? Crawl on me? Fool'. And pick it up then take it outside and SQUISH.

I'm cruel.

Wish I could learn to be like that- I SH*T myself anytime I see one (not actually...but you know...)

Reply 4

Laaibah

1

Hypnotherapy is meant to be good for phobias.

I'm also going to covering this topic in psychology in about 3/4 weeks, so i could let you know more then, but maybe thats a bit too long.

Reply 5

Rolli!

I have a mate who used to be scared of cows, really terrified, he couldn't even look at a cow without being reduced to a gibbering wreck. But then one day while he was eating his sunday lunch he realised that he was eating one of them and so they should be scared of him not the other way round, having realised this he went into the field behind where we lived which was always full of cows, walked straight up to the biggest ugliest cow and punched it in the face, and from that moment he has never been worried by cows.

So I used a similar tactic to try and cure my phobia of spiders, as a fellow sufferer you will know what I mean when I say you get the feeling that a spider is trying to stare you out. Anway the next time I saw a spider staring at me I just walked over and killed it. This pretty much cured me.

Spiders just think they are the Kings of the world with this hold they have over some humans, once you kill a few then word will get round the spider grapevine that you are not a human to be messed with and then you will have nothing to fear.

Now I'm not entirely sure that spiders have such complex thoughts and networks but it helps to imagine that they do.

Reply 6

Shockley

OP

15

Rolli!

I have a mate who used to be scared of cows, really terrified, he couldn't even look at a cow without being reduced to a gibbering wreck. But then one day while he was eating his sunday lunch he realised that he was eating one of them and so they should be scared of him not the other way round, having realised this he went into the field behind where we lived which was always full of cows, walked straight up to the biggest ugliest cow and punched it in the face, and from that moment he has never been worried by cows.

Probably hurt him more than it did the cow. And I wouldn't recommend animal cruelty as a way of curing a phobia.
But I see your point, but trust me I wouldn't get that near to a spider! I get someone else to squish it while I stand on a chair, lol.

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