Phobias!

[Jessicrawrr]

I've got a serious phobia of spiders, last night there was a spider crawling across the floor and I ended up in tears, I don't understand what I find scary about spiders, I'm just scared of them.
I'm actually a little bit worried about the way I react, I'll do anything to get away from one.
Anyone know anything that could sort of, cure my phobia, or anything that will take my mind of it, I have to check places before I go in, like small spaces I can't go in for ages cus I'm scared.
agh i sound so sad, but anyone got advice?

[Stephen]

get a money spider.. Put it on your arm
get a bigger spider.. Put it on your arm

keep doing that til you reach

http://challenge-services.co.uk/images/CPC%20-%20House-spider.jpg

[FlyingJesus]

get a money spider.. Put it on your arm
get a bigger spider.. Put it on your arm

keep doing that til you reach

http://challenge-services.co.uk/images/CPC%20-%20House-spider.jpg

I have a fear of fat people will this work for me too

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[Thomas]

I have a fear of fat people will this work for me too
if you want a broken arm, go ahead

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[dbgtz]

I have a fear of fat people will this work for me too

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01277/Lu-Hao2_380_1277167a.jpg

you start small and then keep lifting heavier ones until you try one day, you fall over and get crushed

anyway the best way to fight phobias is to shove it in every day life I reckon. I dont know how you could do it but its my theory.

[lAbby,ox]

yeahh i've heard best way to get over a phobia is to be around things you have a phobia off everyday
but don't worry i have the same problem when it comes to spiders i actually ran away from a little one yesterday....

[Moh]

I'm terrified of spiders too :(

I don't cry or scream, but I get really shook up by them. I think it's because they're so ugly/scary looking, they move fast for their size and they're so stealth!

I'm not looking forward to summer when the house spiders come out :'(

[Stephen]

Don't you hate it when they creep up on you like you're sitting on the toilet taking a dump or something and then BAM there's this massive mother****** watching you

[Moh]

Don't you hate it when they creep up on you like you're sitting on the toilet taking a dump or something and then BAM there's this massive mother****** watching you

Not whilst on the toilet o.O

What really did scare me to death, the other day I was half asleep and I put my arm above my head. Then when I moved my head, my hair stroked my arm and I thought it was a spider and I jumped out of bed :(

Another time I was talking through the garden and I walked through a spider web with a spider in it. I ran across the garden, went inside and took all my clothes off.

[Conservative,]

Spiders, Wasps & dogs.

[Jessicrawrr]

get a money spider.. Put it on your arm
get a bigger spider.. Put it on your arm

keep doing that til you reach

http://challenge-services.co.uk/images/CPC%20-%20House-spider.jpg

**** myself.
fml, and it's a picture;l
I can't even put a money spider on my arm ;l

[Laurenxo]

I HATE Spiders.
When I was 12, I had a bunk bed.
I woke up in the morning to see a HUGE Hunting spider above It fell on to hair,
I screamed like hell.
That's why I HATE Spiders..

[Banana Pancakes]

eurgh I hate spiders as well :(
my ex has a phobia of spiral staircases while we're on the topic :P

[Stephen]

**** myself.
fml, and it's a picture;l
I can't even put a money spider on my arm ;l

I seriously read that as spider monkey for some reason. Was gonna say you must be scared of the word or something

[Jessicrawrr]

hahaha, yeh i have spider money word phobia;)
No but seriously, if there was a picture of a spider, I wouldn't be able to touch the picture or anything;l

[chantellehugs]

I hate spiders too, I can only cope with money spiders, but anything bigger than that just scares me. Especially those little ones that can jump, or the ones that run fast...
A few days ago I was in my room with the door shut and I noticed something black on the floor in the corner of my eye, it was a spider similar to the picture above, and I just jumped on my bed and screamed my head off. When I started screaming it began running around the room which scared me more because I thought it was going to go under my bed, and usually when they do that you never see them again. My mum got it for me, but it was seriously massive! I could never imagine putting that sort of spider on my arm, I would faint or something.

[ChickenFaces]

Avoid spiders :)

[Jessicrawrr]

try my hardest, didn't see one for months, so was all happy, now i'm paranoid;o

[Robbb]

Spiders, big moths, blue bottles... oh and Marmite!

[e5]

Loads of people have Arachnophobia

I'm scared of them too :( But im starting to over come it! Only little ones though... big ones and im a gonner!

[Robbb]

yeah. lil ones are alreet, but the big mo' fos that run across your lounge in the night aren't!

[Niall!]

Slenderman. Just slenderman. He is my phobia.

[beth]

i'm scared of wet food, banana's, food touching eachother and FLIES.

[Chris]

Just those huge spiders that run through the room in the middle of the night. Small spiders don't bother me. :D

[Mr-Trainor]

I've got a serious phobia of spiders, last night there was a spider crawling across the floor and I ended up in tears, I don't understand what I find scary about spiders, I'm just scared of them.
I'm actually a little bit worried about the way I react, I'll do anything to get away from one.
Anyone know anything that could sort of, cure my phobia, or anything that will take my mind of it, I have to check places before I go in, like small spaces I can't go in for ages cus I'm scared.
agh i sound so sad, but anyone got advice?

I have a fear/phobia of spiders as well :(. As above, small spiders aren't that bad though.

[Mathew]

We've been doing about phobias in Psychology quite recently and if it's something that you really want to overcome then there's plenty of psychologists and therapists out there who can help.

To be "cured" as such, they will do something called systematic desensitization; aim of which is to change your thoughts about the phobia. First they will put you into a relaxed, meditated state and then, once fully content, they will start to talk to you about spiders. First letting you imagine one, then showing you pictures, holding the picture, etc. After a couple of sessions, you may be ready to hold a spider in a jar and then hopefully in your bare hands. You will do all this while you're relaxed so you will instantly relate your phobia with relaxation.

Really do reccomend it. You could say I have a slight phobia of snakes.. they're fine behind glass but once they're out.... bloomin heck.
Anyway, good luck.

[Jessicrawrr]

I don't think i'd ever be able to hold a spider, not a massive one, I used to not be scared of spiders :(

[IceNineKills]

I used to hate spiders until I picked one up, well, one walked over my hand then I realised that it's not going to hurt me so I played with it for a while, then killed it. Other than that, I'm not scared of anything.

[toribbz]

Ahh oh my gosh. SPIDERS. I have a crazyy story.

So I was in Math class one day, and my teacher wanted to take us outside to do our in class excersizes. We went outside and sat on the bleachers. There was a spider web under one of them and everyone was like "eww, a spider web!". Me, trying to be all relaxed, was like ohhh it's fine. We're about to go in, and I tell my friend: "Heyy, maybe that spider is on you?" (trying to be all flirty.) AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE IS A HUGEEE SPIDER CRAWLING UP MY SHIRTTT. OMG I STARTED CRYING & FREAKINGG. i was like ew ew get it off! and then my teacher had to hit it off (hes a guy ._.) and it was in the worst place >_>

ughhhhhhhh. I HATE SPIDERS. ):<

[Niall!]

We've been doing about phobias in Psychology quite recently and if it's something that you really want to overcome then there's plenty of psychologists and therapists out there who can help.

To be "cured" as such, they will do something called systematic desensitization; aim of which is to change your thoughts about the phobia. First they will put you into a relaxed, meditated state and then, once fully content, they will start to talk to you about spiders. First letting you imagine one, then showing you pictures, holding the picture, etc. After a couple of sessions, you may be ready to hold a spider in a jar and then hopefully in your bare hands. You will do all this while you're relaxed so you will instantly relate your phobia with relaxation.

Really do reccomend it. You could say I have a slight phobia of snakes.. they're fine behind glass but once they're out.... bloomin heck.
Anyway, good luck.

How would they stop me being scared of a faceless 10-15 foot man with tentacles lurking at my windows?

[Mathew]

How would they stop me being scared of a faceless 10-15 foot man with tentacles lurking at my windows?
Probably just diagnose you with "being weird" and throw you on some sugar pills.

[Niall!]

I'll tell them to watch Marble Hornets and see if they think I'm weird.

[prettyhotpixie]

im scared of spiders &.. ghosts. if they exist? LMAO.