Fear, Spiders, Phobias and Health: Creepy crawlies

Creepy crawlies

By joolsie - 28/02/2010 02:03 - United Kingdom

Today, after a particularly gruesome nightmare about spiders due to my irrational phobia, I decided to try and desensitise myself by googling 'house spiders'. I can't stop the feeling of something crawling over every inch of my body, but at least I now know they can live up to six years. FML

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By Anonymous - 04/10/2024 08:00 - United Kingdom

Today, and every day for the last ten days, I’ve woken up in the morning and found another new spider somewhere in my room, ten days in a row. I don’t know where the bastards are coming from but I’m seriously considering sleeping in another room, or buying a new house. FML

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By Boyufd - 09/09/2018 03:30

Today, knowing that I have severe arachnophobia, my brother brought over his friend's tarantula. One hour later, the spider got loose. It's been 5 hours and I'm afraid to go to sleep. FML

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By eyes wide SHIT - 28/12/2013 01:37 - Australia

Today, I spotted a huge spider in my bedroom. I freaked out at first, but I managed to confront my arachnophobia and killed it with a book. I was ecstatic and went to tell my boyfriend. By the time I returned to my room, the "dead" spider had vanished. Now I'm too scared to sleep. FML

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By dickwebs - 22/11/2010 03:42 - Germany

Today, I was taking off my underwear to change into fresh clothes. Pulling them down, I realize there's a big fat spider in them. Not only did I have a spider chilling with my genitals the whole day, but I'm deathly afraid of them. FML

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Freaked

By AussieGirl - 21/11/2009 11:40 - Australia

Today, as I put on my pajamas, a large spider ran down my leg. After freaking out, killing it, and recomposing myself, I went to the bathroom. As I sat down to go to the toilet, I looked up to see hundreds of baby spiders hanging over my head. FML

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They're out to get me

By Anonymous - 14/09/2023 16:00

Today, the last 8 spiders found in the house have all been in my bedroom. Not the kitchen, or my sister's room, or our parents' room, or front room, laundry, or garage. Always in my room. I’m the only one in the house scared of spiders. The bastards are haunting me, trying to scare me to death. FML

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By Anonymous - 20/11/2014 15:23 - United States - Tracy

Today, it took a whole half hour of scratching my head before I realized with horror that the weird tickling sensation I'd been feeling was actually a spider crawling around in my hair. FML

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Freaked out

By klanciee - 16/07/2012 02:00 - United States - Valencia

Today, when I woke up, I noticed something crawling on my bed. A white faced wasp was dragging the corpse of a rather large spider. I'm not sure what I was more disturbed about; the fact that the wasp was dragging something twice its size, or that these bugs even live in my house. FML

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Collect the set

By Anonymous - 20/04/2022 12:00

Today, some spider must have had babies somewhere in the walls, because every five minutes I seem to find yet another spider on my ceiling, in my cupboards, under the furniture, everywhere. I’m so fed up of smashing them, I’m thinking of getting the house fumigated. FML

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By thatsnotacat - 21/11/2013 17:52 - Australia - West End

Today, I woke up to something tickling me. Thinking it was my cat, I reached under the covers to give her a friendly scratch behind the ears. I imagine the giant spider that was actually there enjoyed my terrified screams. FML

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dman4412 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 9:08

why did I have to read this right before I go to bed...

PsychoMerk 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 9:14

It's ok OP, I have an irrational phobia of owls... yet my favorite place to eat is Hooters... the irony makes me ashamed of myself :(

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bebz_fml 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 10:23

hahahahahahahahaha! no.

plethora 3

Sunday 28 February 2010 10:38

They don't live 6 years around here. SQUISH!

kitzukitten715 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 10:47

I used to be severely arachnaphobic. A friend brought a tarantula into my house one day. I saw it, jumped backwards into a bookshelf, then turned and ran to the furthest room, curled into a ball, and shook while crying and sucking my thumb. I decided enough was enough. I now have a tattoo of three spiders on my left arm and play with small ones before releasing them out of my house. I'm considering getting a rose haired tarantula as a pet.

chikiitaaa 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 11:10

ew the thought of u playing with them just made me shiver. I hate them.

shiritt 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 10:47

spiders are awesome...

doctormudkip 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 10:51

they can't live for six years when I stomp them bitches

Eddie_Paints 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 10:53

What's the matter with you people? Spiders Rock!! 1) They Kill bugs with no purpose except to bug you. (Yes pun intended!) 2) They spin those fantastic works of art call webs.

Osakhomen 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 11:09

Time to see a therapist. You don't want to live like that.

moonshine_bek 2

Sunday 28 February 2010 11:16

Or you could all just get a cat. Cats like to eat anything small that they see moving. Probably only best for the UK though cos we don't have poisonous spiders here.

Dachosen1 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 11:26

Fun fact of the day! On average humans swallow 8 spiders a year...the reason they crawl into your mouth when your sleeping. this is a true statement

dudeitsdanny 9

Sunday 28 February 2010 11:33

Sadist. But when you take third world countries into consideration, i feel better

mudd 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 11:34

spiders rule! i

AndelleRae 9

Sunday 28 February 2010 12:50

Someone already brought this up, but that really is a myth. It's not that bugs and spiders never crawl into your mouth while you're sleeping, but for the most part they stay away because of survival instincts. Also, those "statistics" are based on more than just one or two countries. Countries that have much less elaborate housing are including in the research, so that brings up those numbers. Personally I know for a fact I've never eaten any manner of 6 or 8 legged creature. If I feel anything on my face when I'm sleeping, I wake up immediately and get it away from my face because it annoys me. Not once in my 22 years has it been a spider or anything like it.

ImaginaryFoe 0

Sunday 28 February 2010 20:01

To poke further holes in the myth, how would anyone know how many spiders a person has eaten in his/her sleep? There's no realistic or reliable way to track something like that in order to come up with an average.