So I'm just surfing this site while working on some college work and on Youtube I look up and see a spider on my ceiling close by me.  I'm terrified of spiders so I told my mom to get it with a broom so she hit it and it disappeared.  That terrified me more and when I found it it was running/swinging.  It was very fast.  It was about to escape until I brought it near me with a broom and started beating on it until it died.  Now when something brushes up against me I jump and I realize that it's just my hair etc but now I look on the floors and at the walls etc.  I keep imagining one is going to drop on me.  The ironic thing about that is the previous day or so I had a feeling that I would come across one since I heard that a student in my class got bite by a spider and he had to be out for a few days.

Just had to get that off my mind.   

I hate spiders, roaches, crickets..all those nasty little critters.

Those hopping crickets that look like spiders are the worst.   

  Spiders I usually leave alone.  If you educate yourself on the type of spiders and their characteristics, you may lose your fear.  They eat the nasty insects.  Black widows, I leave those ladies alone when they're outside and out of my way.  Black widows and brown recluses inside I kill on the spot.  I have done so.  Spiders in my garden are neat to watch.  I have relocated tarantulas at a couple of campsites so they won't be stepped on.   
  Joelene

I looked up all the poisonous spiders in my state and they include the brown recluse and the norther and southern black widow and another spider in the recluse family.  I thought it would help ease the fear but it seems like every time I see a spider, poisionous or not, I go into this "kill or be killed instinct as if all spiders are deadly."

A few weeks ago I did see a daddy long legs and it was kind of cute.  I felt bad for killing it but it seemed like it out just out of instinct for me like if I don't kill it, it will come back to find me.

I like spiders and harvestmen are funny 
In my house they can live freely, there is some dust spiders about two inches big and noone have a problem with them and they eat annoying plying insects 

A few years ago my then cat was trying to eat a Geico in my room.  I pried that cat's mouth open before he could start chewing and too the Geico out releasing it back outside....I think that little guy owes me a favor right about now.

i used to have major arachnophobia, but i dislike having a fear that's both irrational and debilitating, so i ended up getting a pet tarantula to try to cure myself.  worked for a while, but after a few years the fear seemed to return, and then abated... right now i don't mind spiders too much, i don't care if they're in the house or even nearby, but if one appears out of nowhere it can make me jump pretty hard, which i hate, because it feels totally unjustifiable: in the uk we have no venomous insects or spiders.  there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to jump at a small, frightened creature deciding to scuttle across the floor.  i don't like killing them... the last time i killed one i felt pretty guilty about it, like i assumed i had the right to destroy a living thing just because i don't like the way it looks.  though i can appreciate killing dangerous ones inside for safety's sake. 

otherwise, i quite like bugs, apart from ants... but i've been attacked about three times by ants, once pretty badly- sat on a red ants nest around a campfire and found myself covered in several thousand biting insects... ->-bleeped-<-, i can't even talk about it without itching all over.  still, they're interesting creatures and it's not an ignorant fear, i know quite a lot about them, i just can't deal with seeing pictures of them or being anywhere near them without getting agitated. 

indiana jones and the crystal skull was difficult...

I think that I can be scared to death by spiders. It almost happened one time when the nasty thing crawled on my arm , my heart almost stopped!

Quote from: Malachite on January 30, 2012, 07:29:50 PM
So I'm just surfing this site while working on some college work and on Youtube I look up and see a spider on my ceiling close by me.  I'm terrified of spiders so I told my mom to get it with a broom so she hit it and it disappeared.  That terrified me more and when I found it it was running/swinging.  It was very fast.  It was about to escape until I brought it near me with a broom and started beating on it until it died.  Now when something brushes up against me I jump and I realize that it's just my hair etc but now I look on the floors and at the walls etc.  I keep imagining one is going to drop on me.  The ironic thing about that is the previous day or so I had a feeling that I would come across one since I heard that a student in my class got bite by a spider and he had to be out for a few days.

Just had to get that off my mind.   

The secret spider world council has condemned you.
You are on borrowed time.
Beware!

@Jamie I have some insect bombs I could throw in my room and if that still doesn't work  I have a broom.

@Carolina I think I can too-I think one crawled on my arm but it was too dark to tell and I swatted it off.  That was a scary experience.

@Beverly I wish I were that brave-My instict would tell the woman to kill it and just run off LOL jk  I might be shaking but if I have to do it for a lady I will.  I would probably be a bit more brave to get the mouse.  At any rate I will have gloves on that reach to my elbows.

Aw, poor guy! I love spiders, but we don't have any dangerous ones up here in Alaska. They are great because they eat the bat-sized bugs we get here. I am not even kidding, our mosquitoes are like fat infant Dracula clones in the summer -.-.

But then, I have always liked little creepy crawlies. The only time this did not hold true was when I was living in California. I stepped on something and when I looked down, all I saw was eight hairy legs twitching on either side of my foot. That would have been okay, except when I picked up my foot it walked away. Only spider that ever scared me.

...That memory still bothers me. 

Quote from: Malachite on January 31, 2012, 05:05:11 PM
@Jamie I have some insect bombs I could throw in my room and if that still doesn't work  I have a broom.

Raaaaaid!

I checked the corners of my room and shivered as I read this thread haha

I'm not keen on spiders at all and I'm in the UK where we don't get the one's you guys get

*shiver*

If I had a girl watching me, I'd probably force myself to face the spider or mouse. Ze ladies are my weakness, I could do anything for them.

Without a girl there, I'd probably just gasp and throw a book at it, lol. I do wonder how I'd react to a mouse these days; I used to be terrified of them, but in the past year I've owned hamsters, which were scary at first but now don't worry me at all. I just hate how effing small mice are, that's what scares me the most.

A shoe generally does the trick for me. Redback or otherwise.

Spiders. I loathe them.

The only kind of spider I can stand, is daddy longlegs. Everything else terrifies me. I saw a black widow in the corner of a room I stayed in during a holiday in the summer, and I was so anxious that I couldn't really fall asleep in fear of it crawling over me.

The worst thing is, though, that I can never, ever bring myself to kill one. A part of me is completely terrified of it, the other is screaming "Don't kill it! Just ... Throw it out or something!"