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<blockquote data-quote="LittleWolf" data-source="post: 427222" data-attributes="member: 66893"><p>I don't care about rats, mice, snails, bats, slugs, eels, snakes, toads *ANYTHING* except for spiders.</p><p></p><p>So many people say they are scared of spiders when really they just find them gross (particularly other girls) The fear is a learned reaction, disgust or a simple dislike of anything scuttling.</p><p></p><p>I have a REAL true phobia of spiders which can be crippling at times. No matter what the size, the simple fact it IS a spider sends my heart rate through the sky, I break into a cold sweat and an overwhelming sense of fear, dread and PANIC consumes me. I won't sleep in a room I've seen a spider in and have literally stooped on a footstool all night in the middle of my bedroom because m y dad wouldn't let me sleep downstairs and yelled at me for being scared. I've nearly caused accidents when a spider has dangled in a car, I've spilled hot drinks on myself... I can't walk near bushes or put my hand in the grass or sit on it without checking for spiders, I love climbing trees but I've let go and fallen having caught a glimpse of web and/or spiders so don't do that so much anymore...</p><p></p><p>Honestly I love animals and bugs, I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty, I'm not ignorant of how wonderful a marvel of nature spiders are. I respect them, I think they're actually quite cool, but nothing runs deeper in me that this paralysing, raw, primal TERROR that engulfs me if a spider is near, I don't know if they give off some chemical signal that phobics react to or what but I've never seen anyone with a fear to the degree of mine.</p><p></p><p>Ive seen people on 'phobia clinics' who go through exposure therapy etc and they seem cured so easily. Absolutely not. I can't be feet away from a spider let alone have it crawl on my hand and 'bang' I'm cured. I will bite, struggle, scream and claw at whoever happens to be in the way if a spider get anywhere freaking near my hand. </p><p></p><p>I am seriously worried I'm going to hurt myself and others because of this phobia and HATE living in an old house with loose floorboard and skirting boards. I literally check for spiders for 20 seconds on entering a room, especially enclosed spaces like the toilet where I have been trapped with a spider before (resulting in me grazing myself scrambling onto the toilet in a very small room </p><p></p><p>Geez I know you all don't like spiders either but my stress levels are sky high at the moment which might explain my record high BG (24.8)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from the <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig" target="_blank">Diabetes Forum App</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleWolf, post: 427222, member: 66893"] I don't care about rats, mice, snails, bats, slugs, eels, snakes, toads *ANYTHING* except for spiders. So many people say they are scared of spiders when really they just find them gross (particularly other girls) The fear is a learned reaction, disgust or a simple dislike of anything scuttling. I have a REAL true phobia of spiders which can be crippling at times. No matter what the size, the simple fact it IS a spider sends my heart rate through the sky, I break into a cold sweat and an overwhelming sense of fear, dread and PANIC consumes me. I won't sleep in a room I've seen a spider in and have literally stooped on a footstool all night in the middle of my bedroom because m y dad wouldn't let me sleep downstairs and yelled at me for being scared. I've nearly caused accidents when a spider has dangled in a car, I've spilled hot drinks on myself... I can't walk near bushes or put my hand in the grass or sit on it without checking for spiders, I love climbing trees but I've let go and fallen having caught a glimpse of web and/or spiders so don't do that so much anymore... Honestly I love animals and bugs, I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty, I'm not ignorant of how wonderful a marvel of nature spiders are. I respect them, I think they're actually quite cool, but nothing runs deeper in me that this paralysing, raw, primal TERROR that engulfs me if a spider is near, I don't know if they give off some chemical signal that phobics react to or what but I've never seen anyone with a fear to the degree of mine. Ive seen people on 'phobia clinics' who go through exposure therapy etc and they seem cured so easily. Absolutely not. I can't be feet away from a spider let alone have it crawl on my hand and 'bang' I'm cured. I will bite, struggle, scream and claw at whoever happens to be in the way if a spider get anywhere freaking near my hand. I am seriously worried I'm going to hurt myself and others because of this phobia and HATE living in an old house with loose floorboard and skirting boards. I literally check for spiders for 20 seconds on entering a room, especially enclosed spaces like the toilet where I have been trapped with a spider before (resulting in me grazing myself scrambling onto the toilet in a very small room Geez I know you all don't like spiders either but my stress levels are sky high at the moment which might explain my record high BG (24.8) Sent from the [url=http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig]Diabetes Forum App[/url] [/QUOTE]
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