To HATE spider season? (No pics)

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I'm so fucking terrified of spiders. I always have been. If I see a spider I literally can't go into that room again until someone deals with it for me. I will literally start shaking and hyperventilating if I see one, or if it comes near me.

DP was away for a couple of days last week, we recently moved area so I don't have any friends here yet, there was a fat hairy bastard in my kitchen and I was too scared to go in so I ate takeaway for 2 days with the kitchen door permanently shut.

It makes me legitimately angry when people say 'it won't hurt you' or 'it's more scared of you than you are of it' like no. I barely have a life outside of obsessively avoiding spiders. I dream about spiders, I can't look at pictures of them and it's taken over my life.

Agreed, they are evil. I found one on me the other day, knocked it off and it ran back at me! So it died for it.

Get a cat, they usually eat spiders. Mine found a massive one, killed it then brought it to me as a 'present'.

Er that's not a normal reaction you need to get some help to cope with it. I've always had a phobia of wasps but I just get on with it when I have to. I used to behave like you but then one day I thought fuck that and squashed the bastard. Then I thought even if it did sting me - will it be worse than childbirth? Nope! So I just made myself stop being scared. You can do the same or get some coaching to do so. It is literally just a tiny little creature going about its business.

You're not alone, I have a terrible phobia of them. I wasn't too bad until I witnessed one jump from a curtain onto the floor. I can't even use a spider hoover.

I hear you OP. My life in various houses has been spent begging parents/housemates/DH to get rid of them and actually dreading being at home during autumn when they seem to be everywhere relentlessly. I too have refused to go into a particular room when nobody else is about so I do feel for you, it's hard for non-phobic people to get how debilitating it can be!

I still don't like them but have had some hypnotherapy which has improved things a bit - I am told that in some people it makes them completely non phobic, but I have a lot of other anxiety which I am trying to treat at the same time so it's more difficult for me. Have you considered therapy for this? Spider repellant plug-ins seemed to help a bit last year too.

There are several treatments for spider phobia, that have been mentioned here on previous spider threads. Please investigate which is accessible for you, rather than continue to suffer and reinforce the phobia.
Many children learn a phobia from seeing their parents react. Please, please don't show fear of spiders in front of your own children.

After reading Charlotte’s Web I looked upon spiders quite differently. If they look just like a normal spider I always leave them as they are fly catchers and I can’t stand flies.

YANBU. I hate it too! I remember having a panic attack when a massive house spider ran across the living room at 1am once. I had to get out the room and upstairs but couldn't move incase it came near me..I am alot better now though. I wish I had some advice but I don't really know how I got better at dealing with them. I still need someone to get rid of them, I can kill them but I'd rather not unless absolutely necessary.

Spiders are horrible, I'm currently redecorating my hallway and I took off some flooring trim so I could l sand the skirting boards down and every time I put the sander on a huge spider would come out like it was going to attack me lol. Soon put the vac nozzle to get the bigger!

Bugger*

I like spiders

I feel you OP, I’m petrified of them too. I have one of those spider grabber things, which looks like a litter picker, but I’m so terrified I can’t even use that.

It’s really frustrating when people don’t understand and just tell you not to be scared 😐 as if it’s that easy.

Last night there was a big one in my bathroom, asked DP to get it and he lost it. I could’ve cried.

Oh I've started looking everywhere when I walk into a room so that I don't get surprised by one. Sometimes that's worse for me. I feel I can handle it abit more then.

A right big one ran at me in my bedroom then escaped before I could kill it. It's in there somewhere. I can't find it so I've been sleeping on the sofa.

I am similar OP. Woke DP up twice last night to deal with two separate giant spiders I discovered on bathroom visits! And they were too high up to catch, had to be vacuumed...Might have to bin the vacuum.

Having proper arachnophobia can be deibilitating at times. I find myself constantly jumping at little things like creases in the bedsheets, thinking it’s a spider. Every time I enter a room I compulsively check all the walls and corners. I don’t move things that have been where they are for a long time, in case a spider has made a home there. It’s more than just being a little creeped out!

I'm horrendous with the big mutant ones. Reading this thread alone has raised my heart and breathing. It's ridiculous really but they terrify me.

I am the exact same re scanning every room before I enter. Also the stairs, checking before I walk up or down. I know in my head that I am being ridiculous but they really do terrify me. I hate it.

I hate them too, terrified in fact, however I think it's horrible to hoover them up, takes them hours / days to die and it's very cruel, so despite my fear and hate of them I will ask someone to get them out.

My arachnophobia has actually got better as I've got older. I'm by no means cured but don't feel as anxious as I used to.

I hate the massive house spiders. I don't remember them being this big when I was young? In my old house one actually made a 'thud' noise when it jumped off the windowsill onto the laminate floor!

I've held a tarantula and was fine with it but those house spiders are something else! They will actively run at you, not away from you. Don't mind most other spiders, can put a glass over them etc but even pint glasses don't always cover the leg span of some of those house eight-legged hairy mofos.

I hate it too, bought some spray so hoping that's effective at keeping them out. Came home last night and no less than the king of the fucking spiders was on the wall of the house (outside thank goodness). Looked from leg to leg as big as my hand. Would have had a heart attack if it had come in the house, but desperately trying not to have DC see my reaction to them. It's a shit shit phobia.

We have lots because we live in an old house , and grew up in old house they don't bother me in slightest but wasps i am a gibberish wreck .My eldest DC (13) on other hand woke their younger sibling to get the huge spider that in their words was walking deliberately across the bed to scare them .I heard all this at 3am , cue youngest it's gone , eldest refused sleep in bedroom rest night told her DF to find it , pretty impossible in old house if it want's to hide but she is now back in residence. Not nice op though if they scare you .

I think most people understand what a phobia is and even that it is as debilitating as you say. What they/I DON'T always understand is why you don't seek help to try to deal with it.
Refusing to use your own kitchen for 2 days means it's taking over your life to an unacceptable degree.

Explain to me why you are just accepting this and not trying to find a "cure" for want of a better word.

Terrifies me too OP, had 2 giant house spiders recently, i googled as they were so big, my husband is ok with them and even he had to take a few breaths before catching it (pint glass, was too big for a regular glass)
Hate this season

One made a thud?? Unless you live in Australia and it was a giant huntsman then I highly doubt that!!

I'm the same as you OP. The other night my son came down to grab the spider catcher for one he spotted in his bedroom then went to the loo, I went in straight after him and there was a massive mother fucker on the wall opposite the throne, the loo is tiny so I do not know how he didn't see it! I screamed, ran to the end of the hallway to wait while he caught it and lo and behold I spotted another big one on the ceiling! Ran into the kitchen shaking and hysterical by this point. Finally I go back into the lounge and there's another one on the fucking back door! Well I'm crying at this point and my poor (hero) DS had to check the whole house over before I calmed down a bit. Afterwards I was basically tiptoeing round the house, imagining a giant spider round every corner on every wall and ceiling. It was just awful. Luckily I've not seen a spider in the 3 days since, but I am still always on high alert, and am now thinking I really should get some help with this fear, because once my kids leave home I will be well and truly fucked!