Mottephobia - anyone successfully conquered it?

Madamoiselle

Madamoiselle

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So I have a pathological fear of moths - I just can't bear to be anywhere near the things and I especially freak out if one gets in the house. Now the weather is pleasant and warm I'd like nothing more than to settle down at night with the windows open and light some candles but I can't because one will inevitably find its way in and that's me banished from the room it ends up in until I can find some brave soul to dispose of it for me. I have no idea why I fear them so much, I love butterflies and other flying insects just don't bother me at all.

Does anyone else here share this fear, or had it in the past and managed to get over it?
 
MAN UP

Sorry that's about as helpful as I can get, they are just moths...

Wish the simpsons bit of the moth attack was on youtube too
 
They actually have a name for this?!

Arachnophobia I can at least understand, some have the ability to kill, but moths are like dirty butterflies, how could you possibly be afraid of them?
 
i don't get phobias :( - as in i don't actually "GET" them.. i just can't understand how someone can be SO scared of something.. unless it literally ripped their legs off..
 
It's pretty common, I've known loads of people who really really hate moths.

They don't bother me at all, but most people have something - I'm not that keen on artificial heights (vertical waterfall rock climbing fine, mountain's fine, tall thin buildings make me spin out)
 
There is help out there and it starts with your GP.

My eldest is now 26 but when she was 16 her fear of frogs got diagnosed into a proper clinical phobia and something had to be done because it affected her day to day life.
She was referred onto a Psychiatrist and the very first test was us to write the word frog and put it on 3 doors in the house. It took around 3 months before she was comfortable and then frog was wrote on all the doors plus fridge door etc which then took a few more months.
At around 12 months she had a major setback where she said the word 'frog' to the Psychiatrist and it was as though she had said the worst thing in the world.
Around 15 months we had to buy toy frogs and place them around the house and the break through came around the 18 month mark.
We had a Sylvanians Dolls House in the living room that we'd got down from the attic for a young niece and my daughters next task was to just pick a toy frog up but she kept delaying day after day. It was a Thursday evening and I kept going on at her and she suddenly jumped up out of the chair, shouted '****' and then proceeded to collect all the frogs up while shouting the word frog and placing them in the dolls house.
Her next mission was to go to a water gardens where she sat by a pond full of frogs and she handled it no problem. Since then she hasn't had a problem with frogs.

She also used to have a fear of flying and would cry uncontrollably until the plane took off. She would then cry when it was landing but she would go through with it.
She put all the lessons into place she had with the frogs and now when a plane drops because of turbulence she doesn't even wince.
 
grudas said:
i don't get phobias :( - as in i don't actually "GET" them.. i just can't understand how someone can be SO scared of something.. unless it literally ripped their legs off..
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I don't understand it at all either. :confused:

All I know is that silence of the lambs stays with me not because of the depiction of a creepy cannibalistic hyper-intelligent serial killer, but that room full of moths :( *shudder*
 
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