Like most phobias, the cure is to start off handling the smallest subject ( Money spiders ? ) and work up to the largest - supposedly over time, you will become inured and won't throw a wobbler when you come across one.
The money spider desensitising method doesn't work!Ā I have no problem with them anyway, and spiders in the garden don't bother me, and I agree some of them are beautifully patterned.Ā It's the buggers in the house with hobnail boots that I don't like.Ā No was would I pick one up.Ā I will put a glass over it and chuck it out, but they ain't gonna be pets any time soon.
I had a moth phobia, would go into screaming hysterics if one came in the house, when I had my first child I was determined not to pass this on, so as with spiders I stared of touching tiny ones until I got out of it. Ā All phobias can be cured with the right mind set.Ā
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā
I used to be the same @Hostafan1. When I was little, we used to get them in our bedroom all the time, and some of them were huge. My mum had a big, old chair in there, and I'm sure they liked living in it. That's where it started with me. The 'fluttering' is what did it - especially round the lights at night...Ā Ā I've always known, as I grew up, that it was silly, but once it's in your head, it's hard to get it out. I've got over it - mainly due to @nutcutlet, although my oldest daughter, as a young child, rightly showed no fear because 'it's just like a little butterfly'. I always hid it in front of her as I didn't want to pass on my stupid fear to her.Ā
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
we visited a butterfly farm in Malaysia and one the size of a dinner plate landed on my shoulder and I was perfectly fine with it, but moths!! scary feckers
My Dad had a problem with moths. I won't tell you why because it won't help your phobia.Ā In the part of Cornwall where I grew up, woodlice were called 'grampuses' - so the map needs a little more work, I thinkĀ
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ
Ants in the house. OK in the garden, I like spiders and anything that eats mosquitos, we even have a house scorpion (the european type are pretty small). But ants - shudder!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I'm not sure what I'm more grumpy about today. All I've seen today is cars parked up with the engines running while the occupants mess about on their phones, far more brand new Range Rovers than electric cars, people buying 'reusable' plastic bags on every supermarket trip seem to be in the majority now, litter everywhere, people smoking outside the maternity entrance to the hospital. Welcome to the world kid, have a lung full of smoke as your first taste of the outside.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Ā I've always known, as I grew up, that it was silly, but once it's in your head, it's hard to get it out.
I've got over it - mainly due to @nutcutlet, although my oldest daughter, as a young child, rightly showed no fear because 'it's just like a little butterfly'. I always hid it in front of her as I didn't want to pass on my stupid fear to her.Ā
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
In the part of Cornwall where I grew up, woodlice were called 'grampuses' - so the map needs a little more work, I thinkĀ
āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ