The fear of spiders is the most common phobia worldwide

It's the most common phobia, and the London Zoo is helping you overcome it.

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00:0050 years of traumatizing, making people get out of bed to come to my house to save me

00:17from spiders.

00:18My two-year-old son having to collect them and put them in the garden.

00:35People are often terrified of spiders but there's no reason to be whatsoever.

00:38Some of these people have lived with a phobia for over 30 years and it's a very serious

00:43thing and it's not, sometimes people make a joke of it but if someone crashed a car

00:47because of a spider being in there then that makes it very serious and that people can

00:51harm themselves and other people.

00:53So it's really debilitating to those that do genuinely suffer from arachnophobia.

00:59The thought of doing that an hour ago would have put me into a spasm of horror and now

01:21I really do feel I'm bonding with her.