Originally Posted by Catfucius

OH MY GOD Jay that sounds fantastic on the one hand and yet spine tingly sickening on the other!

did anyone faint!,, i cant remove the buggers, in fact i bought one of those stick things with brushes on the end to remove any from my house and my hand shakes lifting it up towards the critters ! i cant crush the things either! so im caught between a rock and a hard place..but i will bookmark what you said cos i know for sure i will need all the help i can get , thanks for mentioning it


hey jay what did the guy say in this bit......The session begins with an explanation, by hypnotherapist John Clifford, of how phobias can become established,...id love to know how these ideas get formed..

Originally Posted by Lettik

I hear ya!! phobic to hyperventilating on occasion! I have got better since talking with a psychologist a few years ago (don't know how like...) and providing its not too big can now (taking about half an hour) place a glass over it and maybe remove it if the card is thick enough. If its on a wall, I've been known to stand glued, panting looking at it for ages before placing glass over it and then can't move!!.....even at that, it can't be higher than me for me to do this.

I've not arrived in Aus yet, but what I'm doing is looking at our common spiders (if they aren't huge) and going up close for a look. My theory is that if I can understand the small ones, and even by the time I go pick one up then maybe the big ones in oz won't seem quite so scary.....I'm probably totally kidding myself, but worth a try.

I'd like, well maybe like isn't the right word, to try the zoo thing, but I live in Ireland.

For some reason wolf spiders are the things that have me quaking - don't they carry their babies on their backs or something..... huntsmens are mostly legs aren't they? like a big house spider you get here???

Snakes, sharks anything else - bring it on!!