Overcome Fear of Spiders

Are you afraid of spiders ? You're not the only one. Many people are afraid of spiders.It's usually caused by past experiences or other peoples stories. This article will help you overcome your fear.

Steps

 * 1) Determine the origin of your fear. Did a spider crawl on you when you were younger ? Did you hear a story about a spider killing someone? Things like this usually make people fear spiders.Remember when it first started and you can work from there.
 * 2) Realise that spiders don't attack humans on purpose. They really don't. Spiders will only bite you in self-defense. Spiders are antisocial arachnids and want to be left alone.
 * 3)  Realise that spiders are more afraid of you, than you are of them. You might find this hard to believe but spiders are more afraid of us. In our eyes they have disgusting features like 8 legs and such, but in their eyes we are giants and look more intimidating. Spiders don't want to scare us, they are sometimes curious and want to see what you are. Depending on how you react you might just have a little visit, and that's it. But if you panic and try to kill the spider it will try to defend itself.
 * 4)  Look at spider pictures. When you are more confident you could look spiders up on the internet and stare at them, you will feel uncomfortable but you will get used to it. its just a picture it can't hurt you.
 * 5) Capture a spider. If there is a spider in your house attempt to catch it with  a glass cup, then look at it. You will obviously see how stressed out it will be and it won't look as intimidating, look at the spider and stay there until you feel more comfortable and safe. You could even talk to it, even though that sounds weird it will make you feel like you're communicating with it and that will remove some of your fear.
 * 6) Touch a safe one. If you are very confident, you could try and touch a non venomous and non agressive spider (daddy long legs is your best choice, since it doesn't have fangs and its technically harmless).

Tips

 * Think of spiders like you would think of a cat or a dog.
 * Spiders don't want to scare you, their looks are just scary.
 * If a spider is close to you, take this opportunity to see how long it takes you to leave.
 * If you have symptoms such as: dizziness, nausea, sweating, accelerated pulse and breathing when you see or think about spiders you might want to seek professional help.

Warnings

 * If you are going to catch a spider make sure its not dangerous, if its big you better get someone else to get it and remove it.

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