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?

Fear is a natural instinct that helps protect us from harm, but some phobias go way beyond the realm of common fears. Have you ever wondered about the unusual and bizarre fears that some people might ...

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 ...

Each year they deliver several life-changing courses at Drusillas Park zoo in East Sussex that help participants cure their spider phobia. The zoo claims a 100 per cent success record.

Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, is one of the most common phobias – even for those without a full-blown fear, these eight-legged beasties still give plenty of people the creeps. But before ...