I remember falling asleep in a rural house when I was a kid and some loud metallic screeching noise woke me up. I listened, but it was gone. A minute later the noise repeated. I turned on the lamp. Right in front of my nose, on the edge of a blanket that covered my face, sat a bug and slowly wiggled his antennae.
Exposure therapy for arachnophobia can benefit unrelated fears, study finds
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#12I had quite brutal vertigo my whole life, 4-5m on some roof was enough to make me clamp railing like there was no tomorrow. So what did I do? Grabbed my chance when friend was organizing small trip to nearby via ferrata. He had trust I could do it, and I've tried small bouldering efforts before. So we went, in few minutes we were >100m above ground on properly vertical cliff, just holding bits of metal drilled into r…
Congrats to have overcome one obstacle in life. Be careful with pushing away toxic people though, this sounds to me like instagram psychology, that surrounds all of us and does not have to carry the burden of consequences, when trumpeting their wisdom. It is just popular click-bait. Your fellow neighbour may be toxic, but maybe he has fears just like you. Judging people is a rabbit hole. You might be considered toxic…
Thank you for advice, don't have instagram so not sure about that part. Pushing away toxic folks comes from raw experience - I can't help them, thats always the case eventually, they just drag me and everybody else down their drain.
Maybe its just about meaning of those words - "i just do not like a person. No one forces me to deal with them." - sounds like my approach too, the key is to recognize it quickly, so I can focus time and energy on those more compatible with me.
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#13There is ABSOLUTELY no way in H-HADES that exposing ME to those evil, creepy creatures from the depths hell could benefit a soul. ESPECIALLY not if they are close to me when trying it. I have run through a campfire (completely missing the long steel rods being used to roast hotdogs, but just by a few inches). I have twice lost clothing IN PUBLIC over thinking one was on me (and proved to anyone looking at the crazy s…
Seems like you need prescription-spiders.
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#14I had quite brutal vertigo my whole life, 4-5m on some roof was enough to make me clamp railing like there was no tomorrow. So what did I do? Grabbed my chance when friend was organizing small trip to nearby via ferrata. He had trust I could do it, and I've tried small bouldering efforts before. So we went, in few minutes we were >100m above ground on properly vertical cliff, just holding bits of metal drilled into r…
Good for you! As they say: face your fears, live your dreams.
> ...this may have come also from my interest in psychology, who knows...
Do you have a good recommendation where to start for someone who had zero interest during school years, but is now curious?
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#15This might be because the mental processes that develop through exposure therapy are not centered around the specific fear itself but the patterns that create fear in general.
For example if somebody has found mental tools to overcome one type of fear (like emotional regulation skills), they can apply them to other fears as well, even the fear of the unknown perhaps.
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#16I may have personal experience of something similar.
Exposure therapy for social phobia reduced my arachnophobia.
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#17I may have personal experience of something similar. Exposure therapy for social phobia reduced my arachnophobia.
Was that a clinical intervention? What does that therapy involve?
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#18I may have personal experience of something similar. Exposure therapy for social phobia reduced my arachnophobia.
Was that a clinical intervention? What does that therapy involve?
Kinda yeah.
I worked with a therapist who I would agree "homework" with, and then she would help me process what happened. The homework started with something simple like walking into a grocery store, and then progressed gradually.
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#19Australian here.
When you have the world’s most venomous spider which
- has fangs that can go through boots
- hides in holes in the ground
- is aggressive
- is common in the most populous part of the country (east coast around Sydney)
you want strategies that make you more afraid of spiders, not less
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#20Australian here. When you have the world’s most venomous spider which - has fangs that can go through boots - hides in holes in the ground - is aggressive - is common in the most populous part of the country (east coast around Sydney) you want strategies that make you more afraid of spiders, not less
No way am I going to want to get more comfortable around our spiders, no thanks
Huntsmans are enough to send shivers down my spine