I'm suddenly afraid of spiders?

This is just you, not being familiar with spiders, and beginning to 'brainwash' yourself into fearing spiders.

Spiders are still the cool little animals they always were, you are just beginning to think of them differently.

If you still can, perhaps try catching a common house spider and keep it for a pet. when you get familiar with them again, your anxieties will just go away.

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.

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

This young lady went from arachnophobe to aracnophile by keeping pet house spiders, now she raises them and studies their diets.(cool) (scroll down to bottom)

http://seattletimes.com/html/picturethis/201274485...

If nothing else, keep looking at spider photos until you are comfortable with them again.

I have been keeping and studying spiders since I was a young kid, so I know the little critters.

Godspeed.