You can scream or run away to find assistance from a family member who doesn’t suffer from the same fear of these off looking creatures.

Or maybe you can be cruel and vacuum the poor, defenseless creature away from your home.

In the short term, one of these options probably the only solution open to you.

But let’s face it, you’re hundreds of times bigger than even the beastliest spider. So when did you decide to allow these marvels of nature to rule your life?

Start by finding out how deep your fear of spiders is. I’m guessing that because you’re reading this page, you’re OK with the actual printed word “spider”. But you’d likely prefer not to get any closer than that.

Some cures for fear of spiders involve looking at photos or pictures of spiders and you could use (say) Google’s image search to do this, but unless I was treating you face to face, it’s unlikely you’d do this. If you’re feeling brave, give this a go now, but don’t worry if you don’t.

Instead, see if you can remember when you first became scared of spiders. Were you afraid of the spider? Or did the look and feel of the spindly spider’s web creep you out, maybe as you accidentally walked into it and it got caught in your hair? If it’s the latter, there’s a good chance that your phobia has been strengthened by various movies – cobwebs feature in a large number of horror movies.

Then think back further in time. Were you merrily playing a game with a spider when your sister found you and started screaming? If so, that is near enough guaranteed to be the exact time you learned that you were “supposed” to be afraid of spiders rather than co-existing with them.

On the plus side, since you learned fast to be afraid of spiders, you can “unlearn” just as fast. If you’ve got a hypnotist in town, they’ll sort you out. Or you could save quite a lot of cash and still get your phobia removed by getting hold of a hypnosis spider phobia cure and listening to it a few times. You can get immediate access to a hypnosis cure for your arachnophobia here.