Exposing yourself to spiders can actually help to decrease the body’s arachnophobia! Exposure therapy :]
Oh yes, we've tried something like this before. We spoke of this in the comments of another post just now, but we haven't been very successful :,) One of us tried to desensitise us by looking at photos of spiders for extended periods of time, which we normally have no reaction to, but that somehow made it worse and now we can't even look at spider photos for very long anymore 😭 buuuut we can approach large spiders in our bathroom now to at least get rid of them, soo... i guess thats a win??
Mark my words I WILL be the one to get us to properly do exposure therapy with spiders. I'm fairly sure we could do professional exposure therapy, but that's not particularly accessible to us at the moment, so I'll most likely just attempt it through interaction with our house spiders. 🤷
