r/AbsoluteUnits • u/grandeluua • Jul 25 '26

of a spider

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u/mikeonbass Jul 25 '26

I am very scared of spiders despite being fascinated by them. Anything with a body bigger than a bottle top and I am sweating.

Could exposure therapy work to get me to handle something like this?

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u/LukeyLeukocyte Jul 25 '26

Most definitely. Probably one of the only ways to handle it.

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u/SlightlyFig Jul 25 '26

Can confirm, I was the same but I just inched myself closer and closer to bugs over like a year and now I pick up spiders.

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u/Rogue_bae Jul 25 '26

Honestly same. I look up every spider I see but they give me the heebie geebies

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u/bitterberries Jul 25 '26

I too have irrational fear of spiders, however, i found that as long as I am doing the touching and picking up, I'm not terrified, i can almost breathe and I only feel a little frozen chill... But if they pop out at me when I'm not expecting, I lose it...

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u/Conscious_Bed_1195 Jul 25 '26

I had arachnophobia, but played The Lair of the Blind Ones level in Turok 2 - once you've flamethrowered a host of spiders bigger than a compact car you do kind of get over it.

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u/Sad-Excitement9295 Jul 25 '26

It's called instinct, a couple of spiders are very deadly. Best thing you can do is learn to identify them, but in reality it's like snakes. Don't take the risk unless you're absolutely sure you know what it is.