Year help: Regained a phobia - Help.com

sometimes phobias do resurface, mine has recently, concidentally also of spiders, but will go away again, just gradually try and get used to them, instead of killing/getting rid of every spider you see, perhaps just ignore smaller ones, thats what i tried to do and it helped me. obviously different for everyone but i dunno, jus how bad is your phobia?

I locked myself in my room last night because there was a huge spider on the landing. I’ll leave the room usually and if I have to go back into it, I scan it carefully, and I usually tremble, just expecting it to jump at me!

if its a huge spider, its understandable, i freeze and cant really do anything if i see a huge one, i have to get away but i dont want it to move cuz then i wont know where it is and i dont want to kill it cuz its mean, its just a spider, i doesnt know anything. normally i jus get my dad to chuck it out but if i cant then i jus have to shut it in the room and not go back in there till i know it will’ve gone. when i go into somewhere like a public loo, i have to look around to make sure theres none in there, but sometimes i can control myself not to look around cuz then i wont be able to use the loo lol, i scan my bedroom every time i go in there to sleep, and recently on holiday i was a nervous wreck and slept with the light on for three nights. its bloody annoying havng a phobia of something so common but i think maybe phobias jus arise every now and then then they fade away. im not really sure why. i realise i havent been much help in helping you get over your phobia but erm, maybe itll help to know you’re not alone?

I’m glad I’m not alone. I just wish I knew what triggered my phobia, when did I suddenly stop being fearless of spiders, that kind of thing. Well I guess I was never really fearless of them. Even when I used to catch, they’d still freak me out, lol.