Question:
what is the best way to get over spiders?
2012-07-19 22:55:14 UTC
i need help is therapy the only way....to get over spiders....iv been terrified for years...whenever i see one...in a house or in a picture Evan on TV i get scared....i freeze in my spot and start crying i have to look every where when i walk into a room and if i see a spider...i call my mom....i want to get over it....but I'm not a social person and i don't like therapists there any other way to get over it....is so bad baby's terrify me..i didn't leave my room because i saw some of dust that looked like a spider(before i got my glasses) and it was caught in a cob web i sat in my room crying for an hour.....I HATE IT....pleas ....help me..
Seven answers:
Leo
2012-07-19 23:07:30 UTC
Live with them. I have a house full of cellar spiders there are two GIANT cellar spiders right beside my toilet. This one time one was walking toward my sweet spot when I was sitting down. That kind of freaked me out. I made an agreement with the spiders. I told them that as long as they take down flys and other insects, and stay out of my bed they're welcome to stay. Lately they haven't been abiding to the agreement. I don't understand for years they've listened, 9 to be precise, but all of a sudden they've been attacking me while I sleep. This one night one bit me on my ball sack and that's going too far. I was this close to kicking them out, but told them I'll give them one more chance. They're becoming territorial. One day I looked inside my couch cushions and I saw a pregnant spider moving her eggs. The father was bobbing up in down in a fighting position. I said woe there that's enough of that behaviour and sucked them all up with the sweeper.
2012-07-20 06:03:24 UTC
When you come across a spider in a room; don't call your mom. Stay a good distance away and just examine it. Leave where you are and go do something to get your mind off the spider. Go back later when you have some time to spare and with some sort of shoe, flip flip, or fly swatter and slowly move in on the spider. Now, KILL IT. Even if you start crying, hang in there and do it anyway. Do this over and over until your fear slowly fades.
daniel g
2012-07-20 06:19:46 UTC
Counseling with a clinical psychologist that specializes in animal phobias may be your best option.

Therapy is not what you fantasize it to be. It is easier than you may think.

Killing spiders is not going to help your fear at all.

Here is a response I gave for a person asking how they may overcome this, I hope it helps:

First, you have to understand your fear and what it is.

This is a mental conditioning, like brainwashing yourself into fearing spiders. this would start the first time you ever feared spiders, or something you learned from perhaps parents that feared them.

The lack of familiarity and knowledge plays a big part, and growing up, you hear all the horror stories, urban myths, and hyperbole about spiders. Not knowing better, when you see a spider, you let fear take control. You practice this repeatedly, and dwell on your fear until this becomes subconscious.

A bit like memorizing lyrics to a song. you dwell on these thoughts, until they are no longer conscious.

You can overcome this, but first you are going to have to change the way you think about spiders.

Preferably, not thinking about them at all, and just ignoring them.

Everything you think you know about spiders is false, especially little horror scenarios you fantasize in your mind, like they will jump on you or bite if one is crawling on you.Nothing is further from the truth.

You are going to have to have enough will power and determination to become familiar with spiders.

You are probably not afraid of your pet cat because you are familiar with it. It is the same for spiders.

Learning a little about spiders helps a lot and you might even find this interesting.

Read about their anatomy.

Look at photos of spiders, and how different they can be. Some can look intimidating, some actually cute. Watch videos of spiders and how they behave. Get to 'know' them.

If you can confront your fear with a little will power, catch one in a jar, watch it and observe it.

Think of it more like a pet than some demon that wants to harm you. Take it outside and set it free.

Even this will give you a sense of accomplishment. you will feel anxiety, but don't push yourself so fast as to panic and give in to your fear, you have to chip away at it a little at a time.

Right now, the last thing you may think you would ever do is let a spider crawl on you.

I grew up playing with all sorts of spiders, and no one told me I had to be afraid of them.

I liked spiders because they were different than other bugs, and over the years, I have handled thousands of them. small ones, big ones, fast ones, and docile ones.A few times, even dangerous ones. Most, simply don't bite, some can, but I have never been bitten where it wasn't my fault, usually from trapping the spider between my fingers. None were no more than just another 'bug bite'. Maybe like an ant sting.

A good place you might start, is to uncover some truth about spiders, and dispel some of the awful stories you likely believe. Here is an interesting site, loaded with things you never knew about spiders:

http://www.burkemuseum.org/spidermyth/index.html
Mr. Ortega
2012-07-20 06:00:40 UTC
Ok step one.. Stop being a pussy. Step two since it appears you are a pussy you need to "man up" "ovary up" whatever but it takes intestinal fortitude to do anything in life. There is no spider that can kill you. We can get into the details of what type of spider here and there but really no spider is going to kill you. You should do the killing. Grab a shoe and start taking out these 8 legged bastards out. Once you start mudering a few you'll get your confidence up then you can get creative and use gases and clorox to watch them suffer then you'll be empowered by playing God. Or you can just leave them alone and they will leave you alone. Stop crying look in the mirror and realize how retarded you look.
Tara
2012-07-20 06:03:30 UTC
I know how you feel I have a deep fear of all bugs including spiders. It's hard to live with with your fear everywhere. First you need to get used to the idea of the spider. You need to ease yourself into being comfortable looking at it and think of it in another way. I usually thought of them as crawly creatures but then I changed my point of view of them. I saw them as creatures who eliminate the bug population of other undesirable bugs. Adjust yourself to being comfortable around them and if one is in your room and bothering you really bad seize the courage to get near it to kil it. Look up facts about them to increase your knowledge and perhaps get some kind of spider extermination spray. Hope it helped! :)
2012-07-20 05:58:00 UTC
Pretend you are the boss. Don't be afraid of something tiny compared to you.
Mortal Dimunitive
2012-07-20 06:41:00 UTC
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