To never go in my little girls room again!?

[FedUp1850]

Soooooooo Aragog is residing in my little girls bedroom. He is massive. I just can't go in there. He's been in there for days, I shut the door and put a blanket down at the bottom to hopefully keep it in there.

I'm petrified of spiders. My mum said that her mum put one right up in her face when she was a kid, thinking about it almost sent me into cardiac arrest 😅. Someone help me overcome this irrational fear!

Pp sorry not op

I have had hypnotherapy - twice. Didn't work.

I also personally know three men with arachnophobia.

My phobia hasn't been passed on to my DC. Neither of them have it.

I could not be in the house let along the room as now you don't know where it is & could be anywhere - would of had to drink the vodka, put on a pair of boots, gloves & a hat (in case of flea like jumping skills) & arm myself with the hoover tube at the longest distance it goes before spraying it with a can of Deathlac (so it dies in the hoover) & bravely sucking it through the tube.

My DH is worse than I am. I used to be bad until we moved into a house that had been empty for four years and was infested with the things. Exposure seemed to semi-cure me. Now I can happily sit in a room with a spider and don't come over all sweaty and shakey. Still can't bear them mind but I've never killed one and stop DH from doing so

Open a window. Throw a towel over spider. Scoop up towel. Run to window. Hurl towel as far as possible.

My friend’s dad captured an absolute monster in their house, in a towel. However he made the error of not throwing the whole towel away. He went out the back door and shook the towel in the direction of next door.

Spider flew out just as the neighbour came out. It hit her directly in the face.

@mydogisthebest To be fair, if I had such an extreme phobia, I wouldn't be reading a pages-long thread about spiders as odds are there's going to be a picture at some point!

It's millipedes in our house at the moment. I don't know if they're better or worse than spiders. They have a lot more legs.

I would really happily swap my phobia with you if it were possible,imagine having a BUTTERFLY phobia,in fact it's way worse than a phobia.I must've had it when I was born

@Celebelly to be fair I didn't think on a thread about fear of spiders someone would be stupid and inconsiderate enough to post a picture of a spider. There was no need to so why do it?

I was savaged by a butterfly a couple of weeks ago Hollywolly"

Well - to be strictly accurate I was faffing with a dog, and a Red Admiral (probably drunk!) flapped straight into my face and gave me the shock of my life. I actually gave a little scream . . .

It will be along time before I live that incident down. (Why are there always witnesses to these things? )

The orange and black one's, oh how I've suffered all these years and it's not just a summer thing it's all year round,can't open windows or doors even in the car.l don't open or close my curtains,tidy out certain rooms or sort laundry. I understand your phobia of spiders if it's anything like mine

If you're local I will come round and remove it for you. I like spiders

As an illustration of how not logical fears like this are, I quite like ladybirds. Why though? They're beetles. Normally I'm not fond of beetles. But those are tiny and cute and so they're fine, somehow.

Helps that they don't bite and that they bear absolutely no resemblance to cockroaches.

When I was around 23 and living alone I once ran into the pub over the road to get some one to deal with a spider in my flat.

As I've got older I've become braver and even really large ones I can suck up Hoover, you don't have to get really close just take brush off end and suck into tube. Then put brush back on and wrap tight in plastic so it can't crawl back out.

I hate them too. when DH is away I throw an old magazine over them (from a distance) hammer on the magazine to make sure its dead and then bin the lot.

As an illustration of how not logical fears like this are, I quite like ladybirds. Why though? They're beetles. Normally I'm not fond of beetles. But those are tiny and cute and so they're fine, somehow.

Don't turn them upside-down.

They are NOT CUTE when you see the undersides . . . . they really, really aren't.

:(

I screamed, threw my laptop across the room and now feel sick and shaky. I will be seeing that picture all day now and possibly dream about it tonight

Thank goodness your laptop is still working and you were able to come back to a thread about spiders that contained a picture of spider.

Take a look at Lakeland - they sell a spider catcher. Well worth the money.

I have a massive spider called Rooney who lives behind my mantlepiece clock. We get on OK but I sometimes have to sweep away the string of webs he leaves when he goes walkabout, Seriously, they are harmless and eat a lots of worse creepies like flies and aphids.

...and ladybirds are voracious cannibals. So really not cute.

@Nanamilly presumably she came back to comment about the unnecessary picture and I don't blame her. As another one terrified of spiders just why do some sick people think it clever or funny to post a picture of a spider?

Also people talking about spider catchers. If you are terrified of them you CANNOT use a spider catcher or a glass or a towel or hoover it up. I also cannot stay in the same room as one. In fact if it is downstairs I have to go upstairs and if it is upstairs I have to stay downstairs

Spiddies are cute. 🕷🕸

I have never been worried about spiders ( well except when we go to Australia and that’s a rational fear because they have some extremely nasty items) and thought my DDs would be the same but DD1, adult, really, really doesn’t like them , even pictures. She thinks that it is some strange reaction to the cartoon that was actually her favourite when she was little, that had a song that begun ‘ Spider I the bath, spider In the bath....’! Also was in a house in uni that was basically web central - I bought her a spider catcher with a long handle that helped. Her sister has the same attitude as me - unbothered and will happily but kindly remove spiders to somewhere else for those who are afraid.

Any of these phobias are real but may not necessarily be learnt behaviour from parents.

My phobia developed when I was about 4. I remember getting into bed one night and a huge house spider ran across me. It gave me such a fright and ever since then I get the same panic response whenever I see one. I’ve tried to control it through things like CBT but nothing has helped so far. I hate how fast they move and if you look away for a second then you don’t know where it’s gone and it could reappear at any moment.
My phobia is nothing to do with worrying about whether they are harmful or not.

You want one of these - changed my life! (I moved to the countryside, spiders everywhere).
www.lakeland.co.uk/20455/Spider-Catcher-Vacuum-Insect-Catcher