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Is anyone else arachnophobic?

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Newbie    0

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Man this is ridiculous - a bran flake fell out of the box of cereal yesterday at a weird angle, hit the side of a box of juice and flew off onto the counter and i thought (looking at it out the corner of my eye) a spider had jumped out and i almost jumped out of my skin. If i see a spider sometimes i can barely look at the thing, let alone catch it.

Small one's don't bother me, but larger ones (say the size of a 50p or quarter etc) freak me the hell out. I can't get it out of my system. I remember the first time i got freaked was when i was in South Africa staying with relatives, maybe aged 5 and i went to sleep looking at 2 or 3 largeish spiders on the ceiling, and when i woke up they had gone and i was freaked out because i didnt know where they were. Thats the earliest memory i have of arachnophobia. I once tried to cure myself by looking at a largeish spider for ages, and i did this for a while (5/10 mins?) until it scurried somewhere and i ran screaming from the room.

Does anyone know how to cure arachnophobia/has been cured of arachnophobia? My friend from Texas is staying with me and said she caught sight of "the biggest spider she has ever seen in her life" in the TV room the other night and i just can't relax in there now.

"Skydiving is a door"
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Newbie    0

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all i'm saying is thank god your attachment didnt work for me. Curiousity got the better of me, and although i don't know what a camel spider is, the thinking behind it, is it would be something that would probably scare the bejeebus out of me

"Skydiving is a door"
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weegegirl    2

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***Raises Hand***

Terrified here.

I got a horrible spider bite as a young kid that put me in the emergency room in panic mode. Even before that I remember being afraid of them, but now it's just stupid-irrational-out-of-control fear.

I couldn't get through the opening credits of Arachnophobia the movie. And even that gave me nightmares for two weeks. :S

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Newbie    0

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My friend had bruises from my elbow for a while when that movie came out!

The worst thing is, people are like "just kill them" but i can't - for one i don't particularly like killing things, but the main thing is, i suffer not only from arachnophobia, but whatever the phobia is of squashing bugs - the thought of killing a big spider with a shoe/newspaper totally grosses me out, i have no idea why.
Damn i'm a wuss.

"Skydiving is a door"
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gmanpilot    0

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Dude, I feel your pain. When I was around 4-5, my Mom found a Brown Recluse in my sheets while making my bed, and I have been fucked up ever since. If I see a big one on TV, my chest tightens and I will look away. One of my college roomates tried to put one on me...I screamed like a little bitch and knocked the dog shit out of him without thinking. It makes no sense. I've freely risked my life at work and I'll show up tomorrow for more of the same. I've narrowly escaped death skydiving several times and I'm still doing it, but a little spider can freak me out.

I guarantee you if a Tarantula crawled up on me and I could not move, I would pass out or have a heart attack. I don't mind killing them though. I figure if it's got eight legs, it's a motherfucking Tarantula and should die.
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katzurki    0

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Once I landed on the far edge of the field on one of those days when it's not hot and hasn't rained for a couple weeks.

I noticed a lot of small shadowy things scurrying from under my feet. I mean, a lot like maybe a hundred.

For some reason I cannot comprehend, this particular piece of field was swarmed with small spiders.

How I ran... :) and didn't pack the rig for a couple hours afterwards, I kept thinking a few possibly had crept inside.

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RevJim    0

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No, But I suffer from Sesquipedalophobia.

So long words like arachnophobic freak me the fuck out.:o

Please stop using them.:P



Well, I have Anglophobia, so please stop posting.
:ph34r::D:P
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livendive    8

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Maybe just a little. OK, they scare the living shit out of me. I can still kill them though, unless they get me first. A few weeks ago I noticed one on the ceiling over my computer armoire. I grabbed a newspaper and stood up on my computer chair (recliner w/ swivel)...as soon as I got close to it, it jumped, I screamed, the chair swiveled, and I fell off and landed flat on my back right between my glass coffee table and my very heavy TV sitting on a glass shelf. That spider kicked my ass! B| I couldn't find him when I got up. I figure he's hanging out over my bed every night doing a victory dance.

The walking through a spider web dance is still hilarious though (unless it's me, at which point wierd noises escape my mouth and breath becomes a rare commodity).

Blues,
Dave
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RevJim    0

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ROFLMAO!

Damn, Dave, I never knew you could be such a, um, er, PUSSY!

If I see a spider inside, it's exterminated with extreme prejudice. Outside? Bah, they eat those other bothersome bugs.

And, Taratulas are cooool!
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Newbie    0

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I don't even want to know what a Brown Recluse is but it sounds horrific. I was in bed a year back, half asleep, reading with the table light on and saw a shadow moving on the wall next to the bed out the corner of my eye and flew out of the room in double quick time - big house spider on the wall next to me, freaked me out bad, couldn't sleep properly for ages - although, in a rather heroic moment of mine, i managed to capture that one and get him out (no WAY was i going to be able to sleep if he was in the room with me).

I had a friend who once threw the top stalk thing of a large tomato and me and yelled spider and i freaked out so bad i almost physically attacked them so i know how you feel on that one.

It's nice to know there are perfectly rational grown men out there who get freaked out by these things as bad as i do.

"Skydiving is a door"
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arlo    0

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i'm glad there are others that completely freak the fuck out. :D

i almost beat happythoughts (bill) half to death on a ride to altitude one day (well, it was either him or mike woods, or both). :ohe was sitting on the floor in front of me when one crawled out of his rig. i immediately tried to unass myself from that position while simultaneously attempting to beat the spider to death with my full-face. poor bill.[:/]

another time i caught the carpet on fire by grabbing whatever i could to kill the spider (normally i can't kill them...i can't seem to get that close). anyway, in this case, it was hairspray and a lighter. that was interesting. between feeling paralyzed, having trouble breathing and being in a state of holy terror, it made for another interesting day.

once i was leaving a sam's club and i almost stepped on the mother of all hairy spiders in SC. you've never seen someone huck boxes and bags of groceries like i did that rainy day. i had groceries strewn from the entrance door up the parking aisle all the while screaming like an idiot until i had enough distance between myself and the spider.:D

my fear is bad enough that one of the guys with the exterminating company i use gave me a can of THEIR souped up stuff and told me to PLEASE be careful with it and do not breath it in. use sparingly. he said it will kill anything and was something only licensed to extermination companies. hey, whatever it takes.

i could go on and on. but any of my friends that know me know the deal with spiders.

spiders = BAD
spiders = spawn of satan

...and you can tell me all day long about how they eat mosquitoes and all that other happy horse shit but it doesn't work with me. that's what DEET is for. :P


irrational fears. god bless 'em.


disclaimer: i am NOT responsible for anything i say, do, or any harm inflicted to surrounding people or objects if i am faced with a spider. i lose my head and will do whatever it takes to get away from said spawn. :D:P

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RevJim    0

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Nice vision there, Arlo. Sounds like my buddy and his fear of snakes. (I used to have 2 as pets.) i sked him what he'd do if I showed up with a snake. He told me he had a gun. I asked, "To kill the snake?" to which he replied "No, to shoot the fucker holding it."
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livendive    8

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Nice vision there, Arlo. Sounds like my buddy and his fear of snakes. (I used to have 2 as pets.) i sked him what he'd do if I showed up with a snake. He told me he had a gun. I asked, "To kill the snake?" to which he replied "No, to shoot the fucker holding it."
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I don't like snakes but am not irrational about it. A good friend of mine though, a manly man if I ever met one, is absolutely freaking terrified of them. We go rattlesnake hunting together. :D There are too many hilaritious stories to tell them all here, so suffice it to say that I like walking through the tall grass behind him and watching him jump when the grass makes just the wrong noise (or I make the noise just cuz it's too quiet). Anyhow, a couple years ago we took a third guy with us. We shoot the rattlesnakes in the head with .22 pistols loaded with birdshot, then use frog gigs on broom handles to chuck them all into a pile. We keep a VERY accurate count, so that when we approach the pile we can be sure they're all still there and not sneaking around waiting to get us back. Well Trevor (my friend) and Dana (the new guy) went to the pile to start taking care of the dead, while I wandered around about 30 feet away looking for more. Suddenly Dana yelled "DAVE!" and I looked up to see a flying rattlesnake closing rapidly on my position...he'd thrown it at me. I'm not sure what freaked me out more, the rapidly approaching rattlesnake or simultaneously seeing Trevor going for his gun. :o The (quite dead) snake bounced off my shoulder and Trevor managed to holster his pistol without shooting Dana. When we talked about it later though, he said he was quite certain he wouldn't have been able to restrain himself if Dana had done that to him...and he was serious. Irrational fear is irrational fear, and self-control, restraint, and logic simply don't enter into the equation. Also, a .22 pistol w/ birdshot isn't exactly dangerous. Shooting yourself in the foot kinda stings but that's about it. Anyhow, Dana was invited to never come back and I don't play those scare tactic games with Trevor anymore (except when I KNOW he's not armed). :D

Blues,
Dave
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dixieskydiver    0

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Spiders are really the only things that freak me out now, but I mean I'll squash it as long as it's not over the size of a quarter. If its over the size of the quarter I'm gonna stand in the distance and throw shit at it (or shoot at it). But I still freak out when I walk into a spider web and start jumping around and batting at my head.

Dixie
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kimgriffin    0

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My dear friend Arlo and I shared a house for a year. Her room smelt like Raid many a night. She has a bed frame that is less likely for a spider to be able to crawl up and does not like to sleep under AC vents in case a spider might drop on her in the night. (Yeah, Arlo, I still say you shouldn't be sleeping with your mouth open just in case.) I saw the burn holes in her last apartment carpet. Once we all moved out she got Kissa the cat. Someone has to kill the spiders. Too bad cats won't kill on command and can't get them out of the bathtub.

I've seen her be okay with a reserve ride and then be shaking in fear later that night because a spider got in the house.

When a group of us knows there is a spider in a room w Arlo we all do our best to keep her distracted or eyes away from the area. Ignorance is bliss :)
I say this all a bit in jest but it really isn't funny. I learned very quickly that THIS kind of strong, irrational fear isn't something to tease your friend about. Arlo and I play jokes on one another but I would never ever involve a spider or even a fake spider.

Florida is a pretty challenging state to live in when you're afraid of spiders or snakes (or cocroaches)!
-Kimberly Griffin

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