get over my phobia

My first and foremost is my intense fear of spiders.
I’m incredibly scared of them and this can be seriously embarassing.

Then i have a fear of clowns, but only from a psychodelic point of view.
This applies to some dolls and things of this nature as well.

And strangely enough i can’t stand the site of needles! (Coming from a man who enjoys getting tattooed!!!! (It looks more like gun so its fine, but i wont watch the guy put the needle in the gun)
Maybe its the whole syringe thing? I dunno

im usually not bothered by needles unless their piercing my skin.
and clowns just haunt my nightmares aswell as spiders and ghosty shadows. but dummies and dolls just disturb me.

i have a chronic phobia of needles… i went into a full on panic attack in maths because there was a picture of a needle in the book.
even when i type the word i cant look at the screen it freaks me out.

I don’t like being in big rooms such as a gymnasium. I just freak out and start having a panic attack. In the end I have to come out of the room.
I feel like I’ll never be able to get over it.

said that we must conquer ourselves before we can conquer the world.

i have a fear of gaining weight.
im skinny, but i think its just because i have such a big appetite.

wish i knew how to cure this phobia. =[

I have a couple of phobias and I would really love to be free of all of them. One at a time though. The one that bothers me most and embarrasses me the most is insectophobia. Even looking at this picture freaks me out a little bit. There are certain ones that I can handle, like lady bugs and pill bugs (if I don’t look too closely at them). It’s the segmented bodies that really freaks me out. All flying insects and spiders will send me running. I hate being affected by this and I know it gets on my husband’s nerves. I’m not sure quite how to start but slow exposure I’ve heard is a way to begin. If anyone has any suggestions…I’m all ears! Give me snakes and reptiles anyday!

Automatonophobia – An abnormal and persistent fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, humanoid robots, life-like statues, dead bodies, etc. I found out abut my phobia at the worst possible time a few years ago-when I was surrounded by over a dozen wax maniquins. Ironically enough, at the time I was visiting a mental health museum that had once been a mental hospital. This irony did not reflect on me properly until we left the two rooms hold over a dozen maniquins to move right into the display on phobias. What luck…

I am so afraid of playing a sport of any kind in front of other people, but I want so badly to play something. I think it mostly has to do with body image issues, but it must be more than that since I have never played a sport to this day, and I am 24 years old for God’s sake! It’s driving me cray! I want so badly to try rock climbing…I can’t even play pool in front of anyone! so sad. :(