Advice on Arachnophobia/Hypnotherapy

Mosquito said:
What exactly are you spraying them with?

What I use have given me something like these stats over the last year or so:

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Critter        Kills          Observed time til death
Ants           Thousands      0-5sec
Roaches        >100           1-5min
Dogs*          4              2-10min
Spiders        0              Still living after 3 days of grace, shoe-time!

And yes, I have sprayed quite a number of spiders. Given them an unhealthy dose, in fact. Just doesn't seem to do anything but piss them off (they get absolutely hyper for a while, then they just keep going on with their business as if nobody just emptied a large spray-can of industrial strength poison in their eyes.


Mosquito

*Well, not really, but I think it would work, should they keep trying to give me a heart attack. Self defence, I tell ya!
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The one I've got at the moment is called 'the ant and crawling insect gun' manufactured by a company called 'Scotts'. It doesn't kill spiders immediately but I work on the assumption that they crawl off somewhere to die (I have seen ones that were dead a day later after getting a dose). Its not intended to kill immediately - it leaves a film of poison on the sprayed surface that the spiders etc... do not want to touch and its pretty effective at that. Sprayed in the usual spider haunts (corners of rooms, holes in bricks etc... it will keep them spider free for a good while.
 
Aw, thanks for remembering! I had to postpone for a month, unfortunately, as I had completely forgotten we were supposed to be somewhere else that weekend.

I'll post an update when I've done it, I think I'm going to 3rd September one now.

A friend of mine gave another recommendation for the same course, his friend went on it and said it worked very well.

In the meantime, my long-suffering husband has done some major work in the bathroom to try and prevent any more 'incidents' (we had a few corkers last week), so fingers crossed, everything seems to be OK at the moment.
 
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This was one of the first threads I started, almost a year ago. The plan was to go and do London Zoo's hypnotherapy course, but the spiders seemed to go away once we had some work done in the bathroom to block off the pipes, so I left it.

Well, things are bad again. Very bad. We live on the top floor, with an attic above us, and there must have been a nest hatch in there recently because spiders have started coming into our flat through the light fittings.

I can't quite describe what terror that has put me in. We've had 7 in 3 days, and I'm at my wits end.

So, I'm doing the zoo thing, I just emailed them to get a date. I'll keep you posted!
 
tkingdoll said:
is there a spider about to drop on my head??!!!
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The Big Brown Spider on the Wall

I watched it walking up the wall
and why is it I’m the only one
who ever seems to see these things, anyway?
I must have radar for tiny, creeping things
and a particular irresistible flavor to small
mouths and wicked stings.

Naturally, it reached the ceiling and
crawled across and came to rest right
above my head, of course, and frozen
in fear I wondered if it would spin
a sticky thin thread down which to rappel?
Like Damocles, I began to sweat.

Would it shinny on down and reach furry
legs to touch my hair and set my scalp to
tingling or would it light on my shoulder
just behind my line of sight and whisper
the secrets of miniature lives in my ear
in a voice just below the threshold of my hearing?

And if I couldn’t hear it, what would I miss?

The worst-kept secret of little critters
is that their lives are of a size with their
bodies, and knowing this I reached for the
shoe, the book, the rolled-up newspaper
not caring which first came to hand
and swung.

--Slingblade
 
Ha! Superb poem! That's exactly right, except I think it's not so that I have an irresistible flavour, it's that I am their god and they want to be near me to worship and cherish me.
 
Crap! My smiley won't work, and the D keeps going back to d!

BIG SMILE OF AGREEMENT AND THANKS!

...stupid smilies.
 
There's only one thing about spiders that I don't like: if you sit still long enough, they will eat you!

Luckily, I've discovered that in a one on one fight -- I can take 'em.

If I see a spider, it must die. That's all there is to it. Once it's dead, I'm ok. There is a downside to this method of dealing with the problem. Word has gotten around. They know about me, and they keep coming for me.

I'll be sitting at my computer, minding my own business, and a spider will come down right in front of my freaking face!!!! Or I'll get up off the couch, and notice that on the wall right behind where my head was, is a spider!

Coincidence.. not!

That's ok, let them keep coming for me -- I'll be ready.
 
Molinaro said:
Luckily, I've discovered that in a one on one fight -- I can take 'em.
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You haven't seen some of the spiders I've seen. Like this big, furry, jumping things. I'd put even money on the spider against most people I know.

I'm a moderate arachnophobe. Not debilitating most of the time; but there are things I cannot do, places I cannot go, and parts of my apartment I cannot clean because of them. And getting spiderweb of any sort on me just freaks me right out (if there's a spider in it, I go ballistic).

Unfortunately, I cannot allow myself to be hypnotized, I have a serious mental block against it (almost a phobia on its own), so that's right out.

I have an aquaintance who has arachnophobia almost as severe as tkingdoll. Her husband thought he would be helping her by buying her spider-themed jewelry to wear. One piece was a huge shiny, sparkly spider about the size of my palm, made by linking big white rhinestones together with silver; which she wore on a black wool tophat (she's old-school goth, and dresses in a sort of spooky victorian style pretty much every day, think "gothic Mary Poppins", but with more crinolines; she'd look at home in a Tim Burton film). It didn't help, but she did like the jewelry, and it fit her style very well.
 
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