Yeddians, do you have any Fears and phobias?

I have arachnophobia. I used to like spiders, or at least not fear them, but my mother told me my father changed all that when I was around 3 years old. He was on a dig and found some horribly ugly looking spider, so he caught it and put it in a jar.

When he came home, he evidently pulled it out and showed it to me without preparing me at all for what I was about to see. According to my mother, I went into screaming hysterics and have feared spiders ever since. It is important to note that I have progressed quite a lot in fighting my fear of spiders.

I now can be in the same house with them and I can also kill them myself (I just won't remove the bodies). This may not sound like progress to you, but I once had to leave my apartment because there was a spider crawling on the window shade directly above my bed. I knew I had to kill it, but I also knew I couldn't hit it while it was on the shade, because it would fall down into my bed and I would never be able to sleep in it again.

I went outside and kept coming back in every 15 minutes or so. When the spider finally reached the woodwork, I whacked it to death and then I moved my bed away from the window and waited until my BF came over so he could wipe up the carcass. There are many more instances of my spider phobia, but you get the drift.

Good-bye rational thought!

Oh my god! How could I forget that! I also suffer from arachnophobia.

Geeze, Uhg. Who doesent? Ever heard of a camel spider?

They're the size of your foot, and have a numbing bite. So it's not uncommon to wake up to find them, eating you.

Oh great, thanks. We'll just see if you dance with Morpheus tonight, young man! As far as who doesn't have a fear of spiders?

My stepsister, for one. There is actually a photograph of her (as a child) wearing tarantulas on her ears, just like earrings! Double ugh with goosebumps!

You might want to keep an eye on your sister, I think she went mad along time ago. Spider earings.....Uhg.....Bet she won't do that with a camel spider. Also Morpheous, and I don't jive well on weekends anyway!

My guy friend has a fear of spiders ,i came home from work to see him standing on the couch throwing a shoe at one of those big wolf spiders , it was the funniest thing to me cause he was so seriously afraid of it ,I actually will pick them up and put them outside .

No, no... Shoes don't work. For big ugly icky spiders, my first solution was always: Call somebody to come kill it! Literally.

I once called my husband to come home from work and kill a spider that was in the bathtub so I could take a shower and go to work. Unfortunately, he wouldn't do it so I was forced to call his little brother (he was 12). But if you can't get someone to come save you, the next best solution is to suck it up with the cannister vacuum cleaner.

The only thing about that is, you'll have to keep turning on the vacuum at regular intervals in case the spider has been walking down the hose and is about to exit the vacuum cleaner. (I TOLD you I had issues! ).

I'm a spider lover. What can I say? I have a fear of heights.

I have a fear of beinbg trapped, crushed, confined, unable to move. Don't know why. It isn't claustrophobia.

I don't know what it is. I have a fear of growing old and dying alone. And so far nothing is happening in my life to give any hints that might not happen.

Ayshia, you are braver then I. JK, unfortunately being a guy, I cannot call for help and have to fend for myself against the legged menace. Here are my steps for both of my insect fears.1.

See wasp/spider. 2. Panic and run out of room.3.

Fight the natural instinct to never not go into that room for the rest of the day.4. Grab bug spray if available, if not, grab a towel, or rag.5. If bug spray is present, back up to full range.

If spider, then unload on the little bugger, if wasp, grab towel, because the bug spray will have no effect .6. If you're on this step it's a wasp. Grab towel, and roll it up to full tightness, walk slowly up to it, running out of the room if it twitches.

When you get the nerve to get close. Swat it with the towel, and run as fast as possible. Come back later to check for a body.

If there isn't one, then panic, and feel really paranoid for the rest of the day. Not wanting to sit down in case the wasp is under the seat, or fearing it's waiting for you in the cabinets. JK, looks like we both have issues .Mr.Bones, I feel for you on the being crushed thing.Uhg.

Don't worry so much about getting old or dying alone. Everyone has those fears at one time or another, even me and I'm only 20. The less you worry the easier it will be to find someone.

There's one for everybody, even the ones that love spiders.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.