Arachnophobia comes from the Greek Arachnid is spider and phobos is fear arachnophobia does not have latin elements because it doesnt have a latin room arachne is greek meaning spider and phobia or phobos which is greek for fear of. arachnophobia is greek.

This may be useful, but you will have to do some more searching for the specific type of oak. Apparently, if you have wood from a certain oak tree in the house you won't have spiders. Some of the beams in Westminster Abbey are made from this wood to discourage spiders and therefore cobwebs. Even though we have no venomous spiders in England, we still have large black housespiders, which I loathe, so I am going to look further into this and give it a go! You can also use an item you can buy at Lowes or Home Depot. It's really a mouse trap, it has this really sticky substance on it and when something walks on it it sticks to it. I don't have mice but I do have a lot of spiders and this thing works great for trapping spiders plus other insects. Just place them around the house, garage etc. and let it do the work. No smelly or unsafe chemicals either.

It would fall under irrational fears or phobias I think.

yes she does have a fear of spiders

My brother is in the hospital he has an arachnophobia after my cousin tries to surprise him in his birthday with a spider.

It is not entirely irrational.

Fear of common house spiders would be irrational but fear of large spiders e.g Tarantulas, or poisonous spiders would have a rational basis.

Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia. http://phobialist.com/reverse.html

Arachnophobia, coined in 1925, is a compound of "arachnid" and "-phobia" which come ultimately from the Greek aráchn ('spider') and phobos ('fear'), respectively.

A phobia, by definition, is an unreasoned fear of something, in this particular case, spiders. It is questionable that one can ever be truly "cured" of a phobia but by working with a psychotherapist perhaps you can learn to 'control' your fear. There are different types of medicine out there for panic attacks but i suppose the only way to get rid of it is through therapy! google it and i will guarantee that you will find a website to help you!

Fear of spiders is Arachnophobia.

The best way I know, for spiders and a lot of other things, is like this:

Go somewhere near a spider, but so far away from it that you're not scared at all. (If that means it's hundreds of feet away, that's okay, as long as you know where it is.) Then go towards it JUST UNTIL YOU START TO FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. Then STOP, and back off or go away, far enough that you're completely comfortable again. Wait at least a little while before going back; then do the same thing -- go only as far as you're comfortable and then stop. Keep repeating this. Maybe you'll do it once a day. You'll find that you naturally get a little closer before you get uncomfortable. Just keep on repeating this until you're satisfied that you're no longer afraid of spiders.

Arachnophobia is different to a fear of spiders in the sense that a phobia is a lot more irrational and affects a sufferers life more than a fear. i have arachnophobia and even writing about it is slightly difficult. the one thing i cannot do is look at them or even look at pictures of them. I would say a fear of spiders is common however a phobia of them wouldn't be so common.

The old man, having arachnophobia, was deathly afraid of spiders, and would often scream like a litle girl when he spotted one.

it means the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

Start by taking baby steps..do things you usually would not. For example,instead of the usual cream cheese and bagel in the morning eat a dognut.I don't know..

I think very few people are afraid of peanut butter sticking to the roofs of their mouths.

by2030 it will increase up to 20%

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Common house, funnel web, grass, hobo, recluse and wolf spiders are examples of brown spiders whose belly may look white-spotted because of actual patterning or because of lighting effects. Brown recluse spiders have uniform coloring instead of patterning even though other impressions may be given under extreme lighting circumstances. Hobo spiders model dark- and light-defined chevron patterns on their abdomens whereas female wolf spiders uniquely mislead observers about abdominal colors by carrying abdomen-located egg sacs.

I have arachnophobia and even sitting and writing about it now in my room makes me check the corners of my room and sends a shiver down my spine! But the thing is you wont outgrow arachnophobia you will just learn to deal with it.

Not true...Fear is all psychological. This means that psychological measures need be taken so that the fear is cancelled out. So, there are two methods. The first, is flooding which is where you overwhelm fear with what is feared. The other is in forms of conditioning, association. Associate the fear with a positive reward or subject and everytime that fear is confronted the person is "rewarded"

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