arachnophobia

[welshwil]

has anyone overcome this, and how?

[Lonnie]

I saw a telivision programme where a woman was cured of this by Paul Mckenna, I don;t know, buy there was a thread, I think on B&S, where there were a few who said his tapes were good.

[CiderMonkey]

London Zoo do something called the Friendly Spider Programme which is meant to help people overcome their fear of spiders

[Floella]

Why would you want to overcome it? The fear is there for a very good reason - to keep you away from the horrid 8 legged beasties.

[Lily_b]

I haven't completely overcome arachnophobia, but I have become more tolerant and less reactive.
I used to freeze so much I couldn't even say the word 'spider' to tell people what was wrong. Maturity progressed this into at least saying '8 legs' and pointing to the offending creature.
Since having kids, I figured that I had to be brave so not to pass on my fear. Now I am able put a glass over them & wait for OH to get home, or if smaller than 5p piece I can put something under the glass and flick them into the garden.