[johnny]

I used to be severely arachnophobic, to the point that just seeing a photograph of a spider would cause my heartbeat to increase out of fear. If I saw a spider in real life, I would literally just freeze in place. I wouldn't be able to even attempt to kill it with a shoe or anything, because I think I had this ridiculous notion that if I missed and it escaped, it'd come back for me out of revenge. xD

But I've been working on it, and now I can deal with photographs (though they still nauseate me) and I can actually move in the presence of spiders enough to either go get the bug spray or whack them with something, rather than screaming for my mother to come and kill it for me.

I still have this phobia of spiders and other bugs crawling into my ears at night, though. Not sure how to get rid of that one.