How Do You Overcome a Fear of Spiders?!
Question: My friend is bloody terrified of spiders and I was wondering how I could help her overcome it. Please give me your best answers not stupid ones this is important.
Answers: My friend is bloody terrified of spiders and I was wondering how I could help her overcome it. Please give me your best answers not stupid ones this is important.
Exposure - You must face your fear to overcome it. When there is a spider around, don't automatically smash it. Take time to examine the spider, but at a distance that if it is life-threatening, you have time to do your justice to it.
Acceptance - Know that spiders are everywhere, and unavoidable. You will never fully escape the presence of spiders.
Knowledge - Know which spiders native to your region of the world are harmful and know what they look like. There are very few spiders in some countries that are actually deadly. Other areas of the world have more risky varieties. For those that may be harmful, there is almost always a cure at your local hospital.
Behavior - Spiders don't hate you because you hate them. Even though you may daily stomp away at these pests, it isn't every day that they come plunging at you meat-hungry. Don't over-react.
Overcoming Your fear - Have someone you trust and feel safe with buy some toy spiders and some pictures. To truly overcome your fear, you have to learn how to deal with spiders in your presence. Starting with something small like a toy or picture helps a lot. Sit near the person you trust and have them slowly and quietly take out the toy or picture and try to sit still for a couple of seconds. Each day when you feel comfortable, try to increase your time spent with the toy spider or picture. When you feel safe or comfortable enough, try touching the toy or picture. Again as time goes by when you feel even more comfortable, increase your time spent having contact with the toy or picture.
make her eat eat one... jkjk. try telling her that they are good and if they didnt exist there would be many more bugs like mosquitos attacking everywhere
you have to face it head on. like find someone that owns a spider and touch it and stuff that helps.
I used to be deadly afraid of fish and my mom made me touch it and i figured out it wasnt as bad as i thought
De-sensitization is the only way. Print out a picture of a spider, tell her to tack it next to the computer monitor and have her look at it. Her fear will be reduced.
Avoidign the object of fear will only make it worse. Facing fear will help her overcome it.
Honestly, exposing her to spiders until she gets over it is the best way to help conquer her fear. Really.
stomp on the pieace of shyt.tell her that spiders are more araid of humans than we are of them...well now dats not true cuz more ppl are afraid of them now...i shud stay quiet now...
As long as they are a willing participant, and WANT to overcome their fear, then being around them alot is a good way to overcome it.
My cousin had the same problem, you have to touch it and hold it and stuff, you just do it once even though its hard, and then it gets easier. Eventually you wont be scared at all. That what my cousin did. Its probably the only way too.
I think the best start is facing your fear, but in a realistic way. In this case, I'd say watching spiders might be a good start. Take your friend to a zoo with spiders safely encased behind glass. Or if he/she isn't quite ready for that, watch a video of spiders in their natural habitat.
Anything to show that a spider's natural inclination is to stay away from humans, not to come after them. This probably won't get rid of the fear of spiders being near you (which most people wouldn't like anyway), but it could help your friend be able to deal with seeing a spider in a windowsill or out in nature.
The Maury show had people on about issues like this. My family thinks I show get help with my fear too which is of snails (yuck). I love the rain. But I hate to go out in it because of my fear of snails
i do not know really know but i have heard that you should face your fears with your fears. like let a spider crawl on you or whatever. but i would not let one crawal on me i'm very terrifed of them
Tie her up and let a small, non poisonous spider crawl all over her face.
i don't know never feared spirders