Specific phobias are out-of-proportion fears to objects, animals or situations, and fortunately, they can be treated.

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them. Can we learn to love them?

I had a lifelong spider phobia and panicked right when I saw it. I could feel my skin crawl — I was convinced it had somehow jumped through the screen and onto me. I'd taken many steps to ...

The key to distinguishing a fear from a phobia is that that while most people get the jitters if a spider crawls on their arm, people suffering from arachnophobia -- the fear of spiders -- are ...