From my questionnaire i found that the majority of people who had a phobias it was of spiders, however people also had fears of snakes, the dark, drowning, rats, clowns and fish skin! My personal phobia is Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, i cant even look at them without shivering. So i tried a combination of flooding and systematic desensitisation techniques to try and concur my fear. My drawing below was the second part to my desensitisation therapy, drawing a spider. The first was looking at photos!
I then went to The Tropical Museum in Syon Park in London to see a real live Tarantula. This was where i went onto the flooding technique of getting over my fear, before i went i had decided that i was going to hold a tarantula and document it through film. I almost backed out at the last minute, in fact i did but then my friend convinced me. The particular spider i held was a Chilean Rose Tarantula or specifically a Grammostola Rosea.
This video is still a work in progress!
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