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If your phobias are so bad that they are impacting your daily life, hobby and preventing you from enjoying a videogame without photorealistic graphics, you really should seek out cbt or exposure therapy to spiders or w/e is ailing you. This isn't the mark of a healthy person or life.
I am also an arachnophobe but I gotta admit, WoW spiders never got to me. They are just too blocky. That room would weird me out for sure but I would forget it next time I go there.
Spiders in Skyrim and in Bloodborne... those gave me legit nightmares.
Do you know their life? You do know that neither of those are guaranteed to work, right? It can help elliviate symptoms. Some can be cured. Some will still have fear for their entire life.
You act as if know the people with phobias. Which you don't. Work on yourself before you judge others.
What do you even gain by kicking people? As I said multiple times you are showing behaviour that's more childish than people who struggle with their phobias.
Maybe work on yourself.
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Overcoming a phobia is very possible. I used to work a seasonal job where very often you would find a spider crawling on the back of your hand or very close to it. I jumped a lot, but at the end I was just giving them the blank stare and shaking them off.
The thing is, you need to expose yourself willingly to the phobia, which is not something everyone is keen on doing. I was not keen either, I was in just for the money. And I was wearing gloves so the fear of them crawling of me was weaker.
Also this practice takes a LOT of constant effort. If I went back today, after months, I would be jumping again like I never lived that experience.
In short, yes, you can fight the phobia, but in order to do so, you have so expose yourself to it constantly. I'd rather get the occasional scare than living a life of terror like that.
If you can't handle peoples' judgement on phobias in a thread literally dedicated to phobias i'm not really sure what to tell you.
I can accept that it's a long and tough journey for most people with crippling phobias to overcome them, however you absolutely should work on them and you should seek help if they are debilitating, for your own sake.
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Yes. You generally need psychological help to do that. Definitely do not self-medicate without consulting a professional; you run a serious risk of making it worse.
Phobias aren't "childish" any more than depression or PTSD. You're making it quite obvious you've never dealt with any of these.
I had issues going underwater in Super Mario 64 haha! Phobias are so weird. I have the same phobia as you, but I always have to see even though its uncomfortable Sea creatures are so fascinating so gotta see them!
Spiders though, I grab them in my hand and put them outside. But tbh we should keep them inside, they are so important for our ecosystems! Still creepy creatures though ^^
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If people are free to judge, which they are. Then others are also free to judge them for their behaviour. But for some reason being called childish is not something the person seemed to enjoy which is ironic since calling people childish is something he/she started.
It goes both ways. Equal treatment you know.
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Honestly, everything you said there is absolutely ridiculous. There are literally billions of healthy adults with many different phobias all over the world, are they all "childish"? Some of the greatest people in history have had odd phobias, that doesn't make them childish. Attaching a phobia to the concept of being young is just about as incorrect as you can get.
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its in our minds man and it is annoying, i really dont like snakes, in wow they never really bothered me tbh, but i detested every time tomb i had to explore in Assassins Creed Origins cause the snakes popping left and right, and you got that mission to fight a gigantic cobra it was the most uncomfortable thing i had to do in my 20 years of gaming
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