witchymand
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Irrational? Clubman...?!?ClubMan said:I used to have the same irrational fear of spiders
podgerodge said:(Don't listen to Clubman when he says they are harmless - these particular buggers have pincers that break the skin and inject a fluid that renders humans unable to move for a couple of hours while it proceeds to lay eggs).
Yeah - that's the sort of thing that my DIY approach mimics.podgerodge said:I use the following "bugcatcher" - you open a trap door, push the thing over the spider , slide back the trapdoor underneath it and bring it safely out of the house - normally to the garden of a neighbour I don't like!
It really does work - and you can inspect the spider at close quarters when you know it's safely contained.
For those who are squeamish about spiders this is just a joke.(Don't listen to Clubman when he says they are harmless - these particular buggers have pincers that break the skin and inject a fluid that renders humans unable to move for a couple of hours while it proceeds to lay eggs).
What do you mean by REM? Don't forget that they run out of steam very quickly and are then surprisingly docile/defenseless. And they are harmless.fobs said:Seemingly from watching a documentary about phobias its the REM that makes us afraid. THey can move very fast relative to their size.
I'm not sure because it happened slowly and quite a while ago but the first step must be (I imagine) to convince yourself that your fear is irrational even if you still think there's something repulsive about them. This step really shouldn't be all that hard; I mean just look at the size of yourself in comparisonHow did you overcome your own fear of them out of curiosity?
Maybe carbon nanotubes are the answer but I'm not sure about us spinning them out of our bottoms just yet!legend99 said:Incidentally, if could create artifically what spiders make to weave their webs, it would solve some amount of problems for us....a spiders web is I think 4 times strongr than steel of the same thickness, while the spiders web can be stretched by a large factor without any damage. As far as I know, the US military have spent millions of dollars and lots of hours trying to create artifical spiders web material..
Sounds a bit like a standard Cognitive Behaviour Therapy approach towards reassessing and challenging what are ultimately irrational beliefs about and reactions to circumstances and reframing one's beliefs and reactions in a more logical light.darag said:I'm not ready to write the equivalent of an Alan Carr's guide but I guess the process might go something like:
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