Can i cure my fear of spiders?

Sure, but it will take a lot of will power and determination. The catch 22 is you need to become familar with spiders, something your fear prevents.

You are a long ways from handling spiders, but give it time, you may find it easy.

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First, you have to understand your fear,what it is, and why you have it.

This is a mental conditioning, like brainwashing yourself into fearing spiders. this would start the first time you ever feared spiders, or something you learned from perhaps parents that feared them.

The lack of familiarity and knowledge plays a big part, and growing up, you hear all the horror stories, urban myths, and hyperbole about spiders. Not knowing better, when you see a spider, you let fear take control. You practice this repeatedly, and dwell on your fear until this becomes subconscious.

A bit like memorizing lyrics to a song. you dwell on these thoughts, until they are no longer conscious.

You can overcome this, but first you are going to have to change the way you think about spiders.

Preferably, not thinking about them at all, and just ignoring them.

Everything you think you know about spiders is false, especially little horror scenarios you fantasize in your mind, like they will jump on you or bite if one is crawling on you.nothing is further from the truth.

You are going to have to have enough will power and determination to become familiar with spiders.

You are probably not afraid of your pet cat because you are familiar with it. It is the same for spiders.

Learning a little about spiders helps a lot and you might even find this interesting.

Read about their anatomy.

Look at photos of spiders, and how different they can be. Some can look intimidating, some actually cute. Watch videos of spiders and how they behave. Get to 'know' them.

If you can confront your fear with a little will power, catch one in a jar, watch it and observe it.

Think of it more like a pet than some demon that wants to harm you. Take it outside and set it free.

Even this will give you a sense of accomplishment. you will feel anxiety, but don't push yourself so fast as to panic and give in to your fear, you have to chip away at it a little at a time.

Right now, the last thing you may think you would ever do is let a spider crawl on you.

I grew up playing with all sorts of spiders, and no one told me I had to be afraid of them.

I liked spiders because they were different than other bugs, and over the years, I have handled thousands of them. small ones, big ones, fast ones, and docile ones.A few times, even dangerous ones. Most, simply don't bite, some can, but I have never been bitten where it wasn't my fault, usually from trapping the spider between my fingers. None were no more than just another 'bug bite'. Maybe like an ant sting.

A good place you might start, is to uncover some truth about spiders, and dispel some of the awful stories you likely believe. Here is an interesting site, loaded with things you never knew about spiders:

http://www.burkemuseum.org/spidermyth/index.html

Here is a young lady and her brother that overcame their fear by keeping a captive house spider for a pet. They learned about it and became familiar with it like any pet. They thought it scary at first, but now they love spiders. You might read the comments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxNpitlKc_s

Godspeed

Get a rubber spider and play a prank on family and friends with it.Hard to be afraid of something that gets a a laugh from time to time. This is not a cure all but it's a step in the right direction.

I think you will be able to touch one and yes you can overcome your fear - but don't be too hard on yourself as fears of certain animals are natural and part of our evolution as a species. If you take up some hobby such as gardening you will find you come into contact with more spiders in their natural environment, and begin to appreciate them, and if you try learning a bit about their behaviour and ecology, you'll see that they are fascinating creatures. As we do not have dangerous spiders or related creatures in the UK, there is no rational reason to be afraid - the only animal you need be in any way frightened of are humans, who are the only ones to cause suffering and pain for no reason - but I know this won't help much as phobias don't correspond to facts and figures. I myself am somewhat scared of spiders but as I've got older I've learned to appreciate their role in the eco-system, the strange beauty which I find in many of them, and in general I've tried to just laugh it off whenever I've seen in in the house and felt afraid. I suppose the only other way you'll overcome it is if you're in a situation where you simply have to get rid of one.

On your final point, yes you can spend your whole life avoiding them if you really, absolutely want to. You could move somewhere where there are few or no arachnids, such as Iceland or the mountains of Alaska.

I am the same as you,there was one once standing next to my boyfriends foot whilst i was on the toilet and i literally ran out the bathroom with my pants round my ankles lol i laugh about it now,but yeah you can cure your fear of spiders

http://www.wikihow.com/Overcome-the-Fear-of-Spider...

Go on that website and it will tell you how to

Me i wouldnt do this in a million years hahah

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To crush your fear of spiders you need to understand therm...I over came my fear by dressing and acting as one for a week.Around the house, at work, at the shopping mall and picking the kids up from school. You need to be dedicated for it to work. Trust me!

My best friend now is a spider!

I'm exactly the same... The thing is I know its stupid but I just cnt help it, if one is in my house and I'm alone I will literally leave the house I can't bear to go near it too catch it, because the thought of it touching my hand is too much! So if you find a cure let me know :-)

You can't cure a fear, simple xx

If you see one. Kill it. It may sound harsh but you'll eventually feel more dominant to it as you are controlling it and it can't do any thing to you.

I hear once you pick them up the fear leaves.