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Helping a young mother to overcome her arachnophobia.
Magasinet TV2 14.11.2006

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  • I'm always in awe of the sensitivity shown to arachnophobes in arachnophobia documentaries. The video clip eases the tense arachnophobe into a comfortable state with a close up of huge goliath bird eating tarantula.

  • @haydencantact I'm sorry that it's all in Norwegian. But i hope it makes some sort of sense anyway.

  • It is not happening by magic, it is about facing your fear (with a little help) and overcome it.

    It is not enough to just touch a spider, the point is to get someone to feel less fear and in control over the situation. That can be done by repeating the same thing over and over until your body starts to relax. So I both talk to give information but also to let my voice be a distraction from the fear. I hope you can overcome yours.

  • I'm gonna call this guy to kill Aragog on my Harry Potter game

  • @ralithelion Np... I'm good at games ;)

  • do most psychologists use hypnosis if so i cant get this done

  • @darkusmaster96 No they don't. The most effective way is to get the kind of therapy where you are exposed to the things you are afraid. It will be very scary in the start but over time with the help of the therapist you will learn the body to relax. When the body don't scream that you are about to die anymore it gets easier to get the mind to listen.

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  • I dont hate spiders, but I am afraid of them. I wish I wasnt, but I cant help it :-(

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  • @Clairecotter i feel ya man ._. and u know whats ironic my name is ara and im arachnophobic ... ._. my name haunts me

  • cant believe im saying this but ,,, that spiders kinda cute,...

  • The first spider that appeared made me start shaking and I cried

  • Want to know how I cured my fear of spiders? Magic Mushrooms. Honestly, took some magic mushrooms one time, saw some huge house spiders in my house (real ones, not hallucinations) and instead of being scared, I was fascinated by them. Not been scared since. True story.

  • shes pretty far along just being able to sit in a room with a spider that big, i cant even go near the cages of Tarantulas at a Petsmart.

  • iF THEY MAKE ME GO THERE I,ILL KILL ALL THE SPIDERS AND THE STAFF AND BURN THE ALL HOUSE DOWN.

  • I almost started drying just from watching this.

  • is he retarded!? you can't just expect a person SUFFERING from a phobia to go and hold the bigest fucking spiders just like that :O

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