Is it normal to be this afraid of spiders?

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My house tends to have a lot of spiders :/ I was sitting in my bed and a big spider started crawling across it! I killed it (but it was really fast and took a while) and by the time I got it I was crying and having a full on panic attack. So I took all the bedding off my bed and shook it out and washed it all, vacuumed all around my bed, lifted up my mattress to make sure there weren't more under there... This has happened a couple times before as well.. I feel like I see spiders out of the corner of my eye a lot too, or feel them crawling on me, but they're never there. Is this normal arachnophobia or is this just going too far..?

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  • alv1592
    11 years ago

    Normal, I'm exactly the same.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    It's normal, I'm terrified of them too! You need a venus flytrap or some other carnivorous plant, but they need to be PROPERLY taken care of! I used to smoosh them with the "swiper" floor mop, it work well for a awhile, but sometime they would avoid it and crawl down the handle! My favourite weapon of choice is febreeze. It may take awhile to kill them, but at least they died smelling fresh.

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  • Thewomanizer
    11 years ago

    dont worry, like i mean worry about the spiders but u are deffinately NORMAL! My sister is pretty much exactly the same or even worse like if there's a spider even far away in the corner from her bed she'll ask me to take it away for her. Also she's worse than that if she finds a spider on her bed and looses it she wont sleep in the bed for few nights so yay ur pretty normal if u ask me and million of other spider arachnophobiaists lol

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  • iEatZombies_
    11 years ago

    I"m pretty much like that. So to me it's normal.

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  • AssBurgers
    11 years ago

    It's normal, you've got arachnophobia, nothing to feel ashamed of.

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  • Who_Fan4Life
    11 years ago

    You really had a full-on panic attack from this?

    I've had panic attacks before and I'm really familiar with them. Didn't think of fear of spiders could cause so much fear in a human being.

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    • alex1189
      11 years ago

      Yeah, but I have anxiety already in general so I suffer from panic attacks kind of often. But almost everytime I have to deal with a spider on my own I have one :/

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  • Devyn
    11 years ago

    In the same way that people with a fear of dogs often overcome that by being around a friendly docile dog, you could try to get over your arachnophobia by getting one of these as a pet http://animal-world.com/encyclo/reptiles/spiders/MexicanRedKneedTarantula.php.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Spray around your door and window with spider-spray, as a deterrent. It is made with chrysanthemum flowers so it has a pleasant smell.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    oh nasty, the cobalt blue tarantula is only for experienced spider owners, its aggressive and fast and not affectionate like the others, also it hides under the lid waiting for fingers all angry and dripping with venom, not a wise choice for the beginner

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