Quote Originally Posted by Ice Cold Boxing

If you don't have these in America and the UK, thank your lucky stars..

In the UK we mostly get money spiders, i've never seen any big spiders over here. I just read your story god damn man how can you stand it ?? i would run out of the house if i see one of those things
Funny, last night my girlfriend was trying to persuade me at 11:40 pm to ring up and get a hotel room for the night so we didn't have to sleep in my room... It was near years even and still a million degrees outside so I didn't feel like driving around looking for an empty hotel room on New Year Eve..

Anyway, I did realise something important late last night which helped dramatically. I've been studying hympnosis/psychology/alternative therapy for the past few years and DUH, I figured i'd try some on myself to see if I could treat my spider phobia... I thought it was a real long shot, but I honestly had paralyzing fear and paranoia last night and I was letting it completely take over....
Anyway, I spent just over 10 minutes doing 2 different things...

And absolutely amazingly, I got my paralyzing fear under control.. I was still paranoid as hell though and every single tiny black mark on a wall or roof was immediately a spider before a closer observation. I had to constantly scan all over the place all night to keep checking for movement, but my fear was gone.... I actually think if i'd worked another 10 or 15 minutes I could have got rid of the paranoia,,,,, but I thought that a little paranoia and caution is probably still a good thing considering their was an actual reason for me thinking their is spiders everywhere.. Because their IS, and I don't want to get bitten...

BUT, without fear, I was able to sleep relatively peacefully, and have finally cleaned a large portion of my room and feel MUCH better..