Massive spider in lounge, shut the door and sealed with masking tape last night,now what?

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What do I do now? Never enter the lounge again?

There is help available to overcome this phobia- why not seek it?

If you're suffering from this mental illness, which is what a phobia is, then not taking responsibility and seeking treatment for it, plenty of which is available, is totally self indulgent.

People who say they've got a phobia and don't seek treatment must enjoy having the phobia in some kind of way.

Maybe the cost of these courses is prohibitive for some people.

It certainly is for me, is there help available on the NHS?

I have 3 auto immune conditions that I have a lot of appointments for, not sure I could cope with anymore!

Try having more empathy and being a bit less judgemental @Topa887 Also consider having a sense of humour transplant.

Is this treatment available on the NHS? , I can’t afford private therapy, I already have lots of medical appointments due to various conditions I have, to add more would cause me immense amounts of stress.

I’d need someone to always be available to come with me. It’s not as easy as just telling someone to just seek help.

You really don’t get it, do you?

I can’t even look at a picture, and I hate typing the word as an emoji appears. Just out of interest, would you be totally fearless of picking up a snake or wasp, or anything really that some people are afraid of?

A quick Google but there is lots more on this online

Hilarious!

That thing about eating spiders is an urban myth.

This is a difficult if you have an absolute fear, phobia then in your eyes you are taking reasonable action. Not sure what Country you are … in terms of size and danger??. My son and I absolutely hate spiders ( and moths) .For not a real beast ( thinking tarantula) a plastic beaker and a postcard plus piece of very firm thinish card work a treat… if you can bare it. Cover said spider with cup hold firm slide firm card under the beaker. Open a door carefully lift card and spider with the flat of your hand throw out! We don’t like flies either!

No way will OP be doing that!

Give it a name and it will seem more friendly. I hate them , but weirdly once I have named them they don’t see so bad.

Colin and Steve are quite popular in our house… we have also had Gary, Larry and Winston.

Move

It’s Mr Spiders house now

We did this in Spain when I spotted a cockroach in my ground floor bedroom

We shut the door and wedged a towel in the gap between door and fooor and I slept in dd’s room all holiday

You could use some deodorant and a lighter. Going at it Ripley in Aliens style usually does the trick..

Oh honestly- huge. It’s not a tarantula which dinky die Aussies (the old people) kept them as pets to eat the mozzies and other insects. Yours is a garden spider with long legs. I had one called’ Fred’. Every evening at about 10 pm he’d run across the room. In the end I decided that the garden was his real home so got a tumbler and sheet of cardboard, popped it over him and went into the garden put the tumbler on the grass and he ran away and everyone lived happily ever after.

Thankyou for that 😊

Could be something to look into a bit more

"Now what?" Obviously remortgage the house. Leave the furniture and any children in that room, they belong to the spider now.

That’s just it now, you have, effectively a time capsule.
did you use that room much?
id call the estate agents and market the house. (Or actually get them round to view and get them to get rid of it)
I had a health visitor catch a bird that had got into my kitchen once. when she was visiting me and my newborn.
im normally fine with birds l, they somehow always ended up inside my house…but on this occasion I actually went to shit. I’ll forever be grateful to that lady …
in short get someone sympathetic round to help deal with it or move out.

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What’s pathetic is you being completely devoid of any empathy or understanding of phobia’s.

Just because YOU don’t get frightened by them, doesn’t mean that other people are the same as you. Good for you, you’re not afraid of spiders. Have a gold star 🙄

Often phobia’s are irrational and you can’t just suddenly overcome your fear of something, just because some random on the internet tells you to ‘get a grip’.

Get off your high horse.

You're being sensible OP, cant risk a bite and have to be Spiderman after your teens

I think snakes are beautiful. I've held lots as neighbour keeps them. Wasps don't bother me, I waft them away. If I was allergic to them I'd carry an EpiPen like a relative does.

I suggest you have therapy as has been suggested above to others if you're unable to look at a picture of a spider. I hope you don't show this irrational fear in front of any children you may have.

Nuke it from space. Just to be certain.

You should seek help for your phobias, there's plenty available. I have no sympathy for people that have phobias yet don't seek treatment. That makes it appear they somehow get some kind of positive feelings from their phobia, maybe it makes them feel special in some way.

If people have a mental illness, which a phobia is, they should seek help as they would do if they had depression or anxiety. I'd have no sympathy for people who didn't seek help for that either.

I do think that a lot of phobias are learned behaviour and people don't try hard enough to overcome them.

This is a myth btw