Fear of spiders…
How many of you have it?
I do and it sucks…If I see a spider, I can’t sleep…I know it’s in the head and that I am about 10,000 times bigger than a spider, but still…My fear overcomes my rationality…
After seeing one usually if a cloth, or anything touches me, my hairs stand on end…
I went to this site and right now even a slight wisp of air is making my skin crawl…
:mad:
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Wow.....I know some grown men that will leave the room until such time as it is cleared of the spider(s).
I have not been able to understand this fear. All you gotta do is stomp on them if you really can't deliver them to some place outside.
I know.....I know......it's a phobia......
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I'm scared of spiders too even though I try to remind myself that I'm bigger than they are and I can easily stomp on them, as Muzna mentioned. Unfortunately the fear isn't limited to spiders alone and it extends to most creepy crawly things.
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I used to have arachnophobia, then one day while I was in bed I noticed HUGE spider on the ceiling above me. After staring at it for 30 minutes in terror I got over it.
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maddy, did it fall on you?
I don't think Lajawab is gonna come back to this thread.
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Fortunately not, otoherwise I would have screamed like a little girl :D
But by the time I woke up, the spider was gone along with my arachnophobia.
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Maddie, I bet it crawled into your ear/nose/mouth and laid baby spider eggs.
Spiders don't scare or annoy me. Those little brown moths annoy me, they flip flap so bloody fast and I can't stand the noise a trapped bee makes when it gets caught up in our blinds.
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I have no such phobias, alhamdulillah. If anything I don't do too well without a night light, but that is no phobia really. It's just a personal preference.
I wouldn't mind watching a few guys scream like little girls at the sight of spider(s). :D
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The only thing i fear more than needles is spiders. They totally freak me out. My dear hubby told me a story about how one time Muhammad (pbuh) needed to hide, went in a cave and the spiders built a web over the opening as fast as they could. When his hunters came looking, they thought that he couldnt be in there cause of the webs over the entrance. The spiders saved him.
That didnt help my phobia any really. Maybe it will help you guys....
I have to try to be brave. I dont want my boys to get this phobia from me so when they see a spider and want to play with it, I have to tell them wow, look at the spider, whats he doing etc etc. They try to pick it up, play with it etc and I have to control myself not to go running from the room in a screaming fit of hysterics!
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^ yeah, i agree. Roaches freak me out. Not the american ones. I am tallking about the really nasty, filthy creepy Oriental ones that live in the sewer.
And some people eat them, fried and crunchy. hurls
But how come there is no word for roach phobia.
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I had a dream that someone boiled a baby and then a puppy at McDonalds... :(
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^^^ What have you been eating lately???? Only spicy food gives kind of dreams you have described.
I have no such phobias, either. On the contrary, i can easily use a paper towel, pick the spider up and throw it out the window:) Everytime, my hubby sights a spider, he starts calling me to pick it up and throw it out.
I do have a major fear of rats/mice. I am so grateful, i don't live in NY, i have heard horror stories.
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i don't think it's a phobia, but me and borther and sister HATE daddy long legs (the ones with wings), i mean the length of thier legs and the sound they make when they fly against a wall or ceiling, ewwwwwwwwww
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Oh my God!! I am s**t scared of spiders. It’s my biggest fear. 
I am so scared of them I cant tell you. Especially the big gigantic ones. I always dread the summer months cos they’re everywhere in the house. I always check the room I’m entering all around the walls and ceiling. Sometimes they be hanging in mid air. I have to get my hubby to remove them. Sometimes I just suck them up in the vacuum cleaner and then keep wondering if it will crawl out. 
Can they crawl out of the vacuum?
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Uhmmmm nopenothing spicy!!
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I wont go to that site Lajawab. I’m scared enough as it is. If there was one thing in the world I could get rid of it would be spiders. 
Glad I dont live in Australia. Have you heard all these stories about poisonous spiders in bunches of bananas? I always check my bananas at the supermarket before I buy them.shudder
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What do you call the phobia of cockroaches? I have that. I get a severe panic attack on seeing one. Even a dead one on the street.
The common spider does not frighten me. I feel it's a cute thing. Any bulky insect with many legs give me the shivers but cockroaches...... I just cant describe how disgusting I find those.
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ok well here goes....there was a little brown spider in my room. It seemed happy in its little corner of the ceiling so i went to sleep (after keeping a watch on it for a few hrs). When I woke in the morning, my face looked deformed, the dam thang bit me next to my eye and sucked my blood. It was all bloated, dead right next to my pillow. My face was so horribly swollen on that side that I called in sick to work, I looked like the elephant man. Disgusting, creepy creatures they are.
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Sem you should try picking one up by it’s legs and dangling in front of your siblings! It freaks the daddy long legs out and you can blackmail your siblings at the same time. It’s a shame our house doesn’t have any.
