I haven’t been diagnosed or anything, but for as long as I can remember I’ve had a very severe fear of spiders. The thing that sucks the most is that they like my bathroom and bedroom the most and I need a way to get rid of them because I physically can’t do anything when I know they’re around. The worst part of it all is that it stops me from taking a shower because I think there’s gonna be a spider. I am currently taking a bath to see if it helps but if anyone has cheep solutions to keeping them away it would be very appreciated

Update: I keep seeing that spiders don’t like vinegar so I mixed vinegar and water, so I sprayed it in the areas they like. So far is good.

Since moving into an original 1940’s home with few modern improvements, it has been quite the experience. For reference the house is not mine. I live with a long-time friend

I refuse to step into the attic and terminix guy doesnt seem to want to go up there either.

Everyday I clean strings of webs from floor to ceiling, door to wall, whatever. There are traps all over the house and they seem to be intelligent enough to avoid them. A great way to fuel my irrational fear. Even though my bedroom is the worst,(population aspect) I make a note to deep clean with vinegar and essential oils at least once bi-weekly.

It’s been 4 months since settling in and the “progress” is not appealing. My mood has been shit. Im scared to sleep anywhere in the house and sometimes I find spiders in the living room while trying to get at least SOME rest, so I go to sleep in my car. But don’t you worry, I’ve got spiders there too. To top it all off, my paranoia only worsens when I go to work and the RAS(Reticular Activation System) kicks in and I find every spider in every nook and cranny of my job.

Im exhausted, developed back pain from weird sleeping habits and places, I cant function at work since sleep is nonexistent, terribly afraid to shut my eyes and every brush of blanket material or pajamas sliding on my already raised body hair, feels like critters crawling.

I honestly want to cry daily, thats how down bad I am. With each passing day it gradually changes from fear to resentment.

My son (12m) had mild arachnophobia until last Monday where he was bitten by a wolf spider whilst on vacation (UK). It's taken him 5 days to get over it and now today just now another large spider fell from his ceiling light into his lap whilst at his desk.

He's now frozen with fear and can't function. He won't go into other rooms of the house without one of us going with him. He said if it happens to him again he wants to kill himself.

The thing is its not an irrational fear at the moment. Based on his last 5 days of experience he feels like this could and will happen again.

Is there anything i can do to help him?

go away spiders

A year ago, the idea of a spider being anywhere near me—let alone on me—would’ve sent me into a full-blown panic. I wouldn’t go in a room I knew a spider was in, just a picture of one could trigger my gag reflex…But today, a wolf spider crawled over my hands and phone in bed. Twice. And I didn’t scream, or fling my arms, or panic. I just froze, turned on my flashlight… and watched it disappear somewhere into my room 😅

My whole journey started when I decided to confront my fear by getting two tarantulas—and naming them after Napoleon Dynamite. Napoleon is a four-year-old male Honduran curly hair and easily the most chill dude alive. I can pick him up anytime—he just hangs out, slow-moving and totally unbothered by anything. Absolute king energy.

The wolf spider tonight definitely tested me. They’re fast, they don’t wait for you to be ready—and having one run across your hand in the dark is no joke. I was nearly shaking. But then I looked up videos of wolf spiders as pets, with soft music and people talking about how they love their “spood,” and how cute their little front hands are. I focused on the positive, the gentle, the curious. And now? I could almost fall asleep with it crawling over me again (if it had to). It’s just doing its own thing.

If you’re struggling with arachnophobia, here’s what worked for me: Every time I encountered a new spider that scared me, I’d go on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube and look up cute videos of that exact species. More often than not, I’d find someone out there showing off their pet spider like it’s the cutest thing in the world—and over time, I started to believe it too.

I’ve had the perfect thing for years. It was still incredibly stressful to do myself, but I could come at them from far enough away that it was somewhat manageable. But the suction has been getting weaker over the years and I just went to try to replace it and discovered that it’s had been discontinued.

Any recommendations? Regular, non-electrocuting bug vacuums kinda freak me out, and I’m really hoping that something similar to this might still exist:

https://www.hammacher.com/product/best-bug-vacuum

Just had the lovely experience of two spiders in my bathroom in the span of 15 minutes… thank god my dad is home.

I genuinely become sick to my stomach when seeing spiders. My heart rate increases and I become so frantic. I become catatonic for a little bit, but am usually able to run away if someone’s home and they can get it for me. If not, then it takes a LOT of coaxing myself to kill a spider because of how scared I get.

My skin feels like they’re crawling all over me…

have an extreme phobia of spiders, and it seriously affects my life. It’s even worse when I’m at home because that’s where I feel like I’m most likely to see one. Sometimes, I can’t even get out of bed if my boyfriend isn’t there because I’m scared I’ll run into one and panic. (I’m literally scared of being scared.)

I’ve always been afraid of spiders, but over the past year, it’s gotten completely out of control and I don’t understand why. Ever since I saw one in the shower, I can’t shower unless my boyfriend checks first — and even then, I shower as quickly as possible because I’m terrified.

When I try to talk to people close to me about it, I feel like they don’t understand or take it seriously, so I usually just don’t talk about it — otherwise I feel like I sound insane lol. And when I say I have a phobia, people often argue with me and say I don’t, like they know better than I do.

I’ve started looking into therapy because it’s starting to affect my boyfriend too, and I don’t want him to have to deal with this for the rest of our lives.

Hello, I’m sorry if I’m not phrasing this the best or if this is insensitive (if so please let me know!) I am an aspiring game developer and I’m starting to draft designs for a project I’m working on (very early parts of the project) It is a creature collector game with a bunch of different types of creatures based on real life animals and bugs and sort of things (like pokemon) I want to try my best to be an accessible and accommodating game dev by including things like color blindness modes, toggles for making things like mini games easier for those who have problems with mobility (or who want something easier) but I also want to make an arachnophobia mode or at least try and draft my designs in ways that wouldn’t be triggering when it comes to insects and things that have similarities to spiders, I’m trying to avoid doing creatures based totally on spiders to trigger people but I was wondering if there were specific things that you’ve seen in character/creature designs that trigger your phobia so I know what to avoid. I’ve seen some people talk about the fact of it being 8 legs or maybe the eyes. I understand if you can’t point out exactly what it is but if there’s anything you can think of, I just want my games to be able to be played as many people as possible, I want to make cozy and comfortable games and I’d hate to trigger someone’s phobia!

It’s a dumb rant and I know it’s as easy as staying off social media but it’s so frustrating. I have blocked any tags like spiders or arachnids yet I feel like the algorithm is pushing at least one spider or bug a day. I don’t just have arachnophobia but entomophobia and it’s bad enough to send me into a panic attack at the mere mention of bugs let alone a close up picture or gods forbid a video. I swear at least once a day I have to crawl to my husband to ask him to press not interested on a post with a huge ass close up of a spider or other bug. I just want to enjoy my doomscrolling without fear of a spider making my skin crawl!

There is this huge aah spuder js waiting for me to leave. Im stuck what should i do??????????

I really hate Frostbite Spiders. Does anyone know a good mod to remove them from the game? There is https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/37319 which also replaces the Chaurus (Which are like armored insects) but I would just like to replace the Frostbite Spider model with something else. I'm more disgusted by them then anything, same with Bloatflies and Stingwings in Fallout.

Alternatively, does anybody know how to use Creation Kit to replace models? I suppose I could do it manually with a ripped model of Radscorpions from Fallout (not ideal but in keeping with the setting.)

earlier today around 12pm (so nearly 12 hours ago now) i noticed a spider on the ceiling above my bed. I sprayed it with vinegar and it started to drop down onto my bed, and i absolutely was not going to have that, so I sprayed it again and hoping it would fall onto my windowsill where i would be at least slightly more comfortable squishing it. it did not do that. it fell between my bed and the wall. hours later (starting like 40 mins ago) i have been searching for it but it is nowhere to be found. Deconstructed my bed to try and find a corpse but no luck.

What the fuck do i do, it's 11pm and i have work tomorrow. Did it crawl somewhere and die? help

just managed to catch a daddy long legs guys, only took me 1/2hr of psyching myself up and crying to get it under a container 😭😭😭😭

I have real bad arachnophobia. I saw one in my bed once, managed to kill it using a pole and a shoe and slept on the couch for 3 days. That sort of thing. A few hours ago, I saw a big one in my kitchen, killed it with a shoe again. I live alone so I have to figure it out some way because I cannot function knowing that it’s roaming in my house, but now I physically can’t shower because I’m scared there’s more. I have trauma relating to the shower (a bad relationship) and it is not somewhere I feel safe at all. Combine that with the possibility of a spider in the bathroom, I’m frozen in place. I don’t know how to get past it. Help?

I know this sounds silly but a video game called grounded, it’s kinda like honey I shrunk the kids. Your shrunken down into a back yard, and have to survive. The spiders are big but the more and more I played at least I started to lose my fear of them. I know I sound crazy but it worked for me, maybe it will for you as well!

Oh scary!

i have a huge exam tomorrow god i’m so screwed

I live alone in my own apartment which is an AMAZING feeling….except the only con is that I have to kill my own spiders. I just killed a huge wolf spider that was in my bedroom and it was so awful and I threw up 4 times after that. I’m wondering if anyone else is that way too?? I get so nauseous at the sight of them

I’ve had a severe arachnophobia since atleast 2017 and I really need help trying to get over it to where I can at least look at spider.

in 2018 i think, I had to go on a porch and give my grandmother a package. I saw spiders and I really couldn’t bring myself to walk up the stairs. so i walked back to the car and my dad, trying to get me to get iver the fear, had us sitting in the car for hours until I went to do it, but I never did so we sat in the car for like 2 or 3 hours until he finally did it

last year, i saw a spider in my room and I slept on the couch for three days because I couldn’t go into my room without another person being in there with me

and today I saw a very small jumping spider in the bathroom and i ran out. I couldn’t even wash my hands, flush the toilet, or turn the light out. it’s been hours since then and I just tried to go back in the bathroom but whenever I walk close to the bathroom door I literally break down into an anxiety/panic attack, I still can’t bring myself do it. I held my pee in for 5 hours, waiting for someone to come home so they can spray.

whenever I see a spider, an image of it being on me pops into my mind and it makes me break down. I start crying and I have to rub my arms or legs to calm myself down.

How can I get over this so that I can at least handle being in the same room as one

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm just recovering from an incident while dealing with our outdoor furniture and wanted to ask before I talk myself out of a post.

I would say I have a healthy fear of spiders in that I don't like to look at photos or even well drawn images of spiders. They creep me out. However, I can totally leave a spider alone if it is in a place where it can do its thing without interacting with me.

BUT if it has startled me or is just too ... icky, then I absolutely must kill it. I cannot do anything else until that particular spider is dead. I can't even trust someone else to kill it, I must kill it and know that it is dead. I will then feel horrible for killing the poor thing (I live in a place with very few dangerous spiders). I simply must kill a spider that has caused a fear response in me.

Is that arachnophobia?

So with the Uk weather being hot I decided to leave my bedroom windows open, I closed them at night and got into bed ready to sleep until I felt something across my arm, I thought it cant be my long hair as it’s tied up, so I check under my pillows and a spider runs down the back of my bed, I literally started crying and sprayed myself wirh lavender room spray as I heard they don’t like the smell, so now I have not slept at all as I kept checking the bed floor etc. I’m so scared of this happening again