This week in conquering our phobias...
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My bedroom after I hunted down and killed a small spider.
It’s a victory on several levels. First of all, it crawled across my Kindle screen, which was on my lap. Did I scream like I was being murdered? No. Throw the Kindle into the air while jumping 4 feet? No. Did I leave the house and call my dad to come deal with it? No way.
I’m a big girl now, lol. I killed it myself. 
Go me!
Anybody else made headway with a phobia?
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well the spider didn't
LeighShelton
Level 8
May 6, 2020
0
The spider didn’t what?
@CarolinaGirl60 the spider made no headway
Yes they sure do creep one ,out esspecially when you are startled by them ,
RoyMillar
Level 9
May 6, 2020
1
Yeah, if I see them first it’s better!
Yes I agree
Mark013
Level 7
May 6, 2020
2
I have a policy: outdoors, bugs get to live, except mosquitoes.
In my house, nope.
Maybe look at the positive side of what you are afraid of, that little spider may have killed many mosquitoes carrying a deadly virus, just as snakes kill disease-carrying rodents.
Now your little protector is dead.
nogod4me
Level 8
May 6, 2020
2
I get that, but he should have stayed under the bed!
Both my kids and I have spider phobias. My older son came back from university permanently and a few years later himself and girlfriend stayed in the cottage. He came inside the main house and said he needed my help very quickly. I asked what's the urgency. He said there's a spider in the cottage and his girlfriend has already locked herself in the bedroom.
Now that's four of us with spider phobias. I got to his cottage and this spider, the size of my hand on the kitchen wall. Ok so now the motherly protection comes into being to "save all of our lives" lol. I said ok, bring the broom used to sweep the garage. The handle was broken so had half the handle and both sides of broom had a strong flat side to it. Ok so all three of them including my younger son stood by the door and watched. I went into my baseball stance (played it at school) and aimed and had a damn good shot. None of them would even assist with the cleaning up of it. Damn I was scared myself!!! I found out my younger son had a fear for spiders when he ran to me when he was 2 yo because he saw a tiny spider on the wall. ...so thought ok him too . At bath time he would look all over on the wall. I grew up with no creepy crawlies in Port Elizabeth near the coast. All I saw were small grey garden lizards. I saw the rest at the zoo.
TimeOutForMe
Level 8
May 6, 2020
1
Spiders, snakes and scorpions a total no no for me. I'm not meant to be near those creepy crawlies.
I have famously grabbed up my 11-month old—I was almost 9 months pregnant—, the phone(long cord, this was 1982) and started backing up, screaming each time this HUGE spider moved. It had been under my son’s playpen. I called my husband at work, panicked, screaming. Finally he yelled; DAMMIT BETH, ARE YOU IN LABOR?
I started just crying, saying huge spider...and screaming when it moved. He was so annoyed. He said call your mother.
So I did. She said, wait on the porch, I’m coming.
Later that night, my husband apologized. He said that WAS a big one.
I’ve left cars on the side of the road. Twice. Left another house, too. That one had been empty for awhile and had both wolf and brown recluse nests. I was a new RN and I felt this odd sore spot on my right hip. I went down by the ER just to ask what it was... this hospital was an offshoot of a major one in the city, so it was interns and residents. Here they all came, me leaning on a stretcher with my scrubs half down, and the chief resident decides to drill the interns.
“Who knows what this is?”
They all stare at my upper butt...sigh. None of them know. Brown recluse bite. Bite? Bites. Lots of them in one area. That freaked my shit out. That spider must have been in my BED. While I was ASLEEP. Luckily I was fine after antibiotics, but we got that house practically irradiated.
how about a little flooding for your phoboa? Try this one. They're very common in aussie households and not poisonous. It's called a huntsman spider. Do you think your big girl panties will help? 
Cyklone
Level 7
May 6, 2020
1
Hell fucking no!!!! Ugh, no way.
This is why I need a flamethrower. Long range weapons for the giants.
The big ones in my part of the US—NC, on the East coast—are probably garden spiders, who live outdoors, and wolf spiders, which can get as big as that thing you’re holding there. They have an unpleasant bite, and while it’s not venomous, some are allergic. Like me.
Brown recluse are small but aggressive. Black widows are small and not aggressive.
My phobia began when I was 8. I broke my leg and was in a cast for 8 weeks. My brothers teased me with spiders all fucking summer long. Bastards. It took lots of therapy not to panic like I used to.
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