overcome my fear of spiders

Myself & a fellow arachnophobe got close enough to take this picture. That’s a big step.

Scutigera coleoptrata, or House Centipede

I used to be creeped out by the House Centipede’s intense spideriness, but these little dudes are actually very helpful: they eat other bugs (including spiders!) and won’t bother you a bit. They live mostly indoors and have a lifespan of up to a year and a half.

Little dudes, you are welcome in my place from this day forth!

I see one & I get so scared, I feel like i’m going to have a heart attack or something lol. Does anyone know how to make you be less scared of them?

I see one & I get so scared, I feel like i’m going to have a heart attack or something lol. Does anyone know how to make you be less scared of them?

One day last summer I noticed a HUGE orb spider on my back porch. I wanted to kill it soooo bad! But my husband and kids said to let it live because it would keep flies out of the house. And the spider made a beautiful web. But the web got really big and took over our porch, so my husband knocked a part of it down. And I think the spider moved to a different house. She was so creepy! I am a big-time environmentalist… so I need to appreciate ALL creatures! Even the yucky ones!

I was taking some stuff out of my suitcase and i noticed these tiny little bugs crawling around on the op of it. I thought tey were ants but soon noticed they were baby spiders…thats not what scared me…THERES PROBABLY A BIG SPIDER IN MY SUITCASEQ!!!! aaaaah im going straight to the pesticide spray department. Yuck..

I dont know when it started, maybe when i was around 6 or 7.
Anyway i went on camp a few months ago with my grade and we went on a mountain hike. I saw a spider and i freaked…i started squealing like a 3 year old and jumping around so that it couldnt climb on me. Then later i realized that they were everywhere!! I started crying hysterically (im almost 16!!) because i felt that they were trying to crawl onto me the whole time. I made such a fool of myself. Everyone was watching and the teacher even got annoyed with me. But they dont understand. Im scared as HELL of them. I dont know why. And i dont know what to do. Please help me!!

They keep showing up where I would least expect them, perhaps it’s why they scare me so much. This time I went to find internet connection… So I found a free table with internet wires (apparently not wireless) and connected it. I opened my screen just a few minutes ago, and the first thing that pops up is a SPIDER crawing from around the side and onto my keyboard.

Where the hell did it come from…?! I just GOT here.

Anyway, of course this occurred near other people. My reaction is to jump out of the way and scream. I’ve been doing this since I was 10 years old and it’s not changing. I can see myself being a 90-year old woman jumping out of her rocking chair (with the smelly cats on my lap) because a spider just made its’ special appearance.

And that will be the death of me. Little bastards!

They say confronting your fear is the way to beat it… I can’t see myself ever doing this. Isn’t there a way to immediately banish all spiders within 100 feet of me at all times? Can’t I get a power like this?

I am still afraid of spiders, but I now overcome my fear of them and other bugs, meaning I don’t frantically kill them. It seemed unfair. I don’t usually scream at the top my lungs when finding one on me anymore. I trained myself to literally blow them off instead of hitting them. But I coldbloodedly kill mosquitos and flies and parasites, and, if overpopulated, cockroaches. Now I feel good about spiders, they’re decent company really, so long as they aren’t huge and leaping out at you. They mostly eat things you’d rather not have proliferating, which is good too. But they’re wierd. They seem attracted to vibration so stamping your foot to keep them at bay just attracts them. I think they understand human language, though I’ve never seen one laugh.

iil just avoid the little monsters for now