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I don't know the name of my phobia. I fear huge "floating" things. So... I always thought I had selenophobia (fear to the moon), because I just feel a very high vertigo just by looking at it, and I think it's the only "huge and floating thing" I know... but I've seen once a plane flying not very high, above me, and it caused exactly the same effect on me. I played games where huge things like planets and anything are floating over there and I feel a huge vertigo.
I don't fear heights that much, so I don't think it's that... it's more like a reversed vertigo or something, I would like to know the name of my phobia.
Like your White Tail, the Brown Recluse causes severe necrosis. One of the guys I work with was bitten under the arm. He picked up a box and apparently the thing was in it. He said it felt like a sweat bee sting; not bad, just annoying. He lost a huge amount of flesh and muscle. That Trapdoor spider would be enough to cause me to die on the spot.
I admire your attempt to manage your arachnophobia. Around here, if it’s in the house, it gets the Raid – industrial strength. If that doesn’t work, then I hit it with the can. I’ve had a few that refused to die when sprayed, so I had to get a more aggressive.
One of the things I learned about Australia from nature documentaries: they have very scary spiders!I have so many horror stories about spiders. I think for fear to be classed as a phobia, it has to be considered irrational. I'm sorry, but my fear is well established in a history of "events" that gives me a pain in the chest just thinking about.
One of the things I learned about Australia from nature documentaries: they have very scary spiders!
Maybe if you'd grown up in the USA, you'd have the calmness of this girl who decided to major in Entymology with a specialty in spiders. Spiders in the United States : Identifying Spiders of Pennsylvania - YouTube
If ya'll are all put off by our own types of spiders then perhaps it would be imprudent of me to mention the fearsome Yowie, the terrible Bunyip and the Hairy Bogan.
All naturally occurring, often spotted in the urban landscape on dark nights as well... then of course there's bushrangers to consider!
But I wont go on, life down-under is at times too horrible to contemplate ; ]