xKuroiTaimax
Well-Known Member
I am seriously scared of spiders.
Lots of people SAY they have a phobia but this as extreme and irrational a fear as it gets. It's not bugs in general or toy spiders, if it is a spider, regardless of the size I am frozen with fear, crying, shaking, whimpering, or trying to scramble away. I can't breathe, I feel dizzy, all my hairs stand on end and you CANNOT tell me to 'just ignore it, it's only a spider'.
It's not because I think they're 'gross' or something, it's a completely knee jerk reaction. I work on farms and stables, I'm used to dust and rats, bats, lizards, snakes, toads, giant african snails and such- it is just spiders that set off my panic button. THE worst form of torture you could EVER put me through would be tying me up and dangling a spider on front of my face or on my skin.
Vertigo and claustrophobia are pretty normal human instinctual fears, but mine is pretty redundant comsidering no spider around here in the last few millennia could do me much harm. I feel sorry for that woman on the documemtary with a fear of buttons...
Lots of people SAY they have a phobia but this as extreme and irrational a fear as it gets. It's not bugs in general or toy spiders, if it is a spider, regardless of the size I am frozen with fear, crying, shaking, whimpering, or trying to scramble away. I can't breathe, I feel dizzy, all my hairs stand on end and you CANNOT tell me to 'just ignore it, it's only a spider'.
It's not because I think they're 'gross' or something, it's a completely knee jerk reaction. I work on farms and stables, I'm used to dust and rats, bats, lizards, snakes, toads, giant african snails and such- it is just spiders that set off my panic button. THE worst form of torture you could EVER put me through would be tying me up and dangling a spider on front of my face or on my skin.
Vertigo and claustrophobia are pretty normal human instinctual fears, but mine is pretty redundant comsidering no spider around here in the last few millennia could do me much harm. I feel sorry for that woman on the documemtary with a fear of buttons...
