It is normal to be afraid. by Zuzana Valkova

Scientist just found fossil of scorpion big like small car, which lived almost 400 million years ago. Can you imagine to live in that time and meet this "animal"? Can you imagine what would people with some kind of phobia do? When they are afraid of bugs big like pin, it would be killing for them to meet bug big like that. Some people just do not like looking at them, or do not like to touch them. But some people can be very stressed or get a panic attack. This is called Insectophobia which is fear of bugs, insect or worms. Other kind of phobia is Arachnophobia of Apiphobia. It is fear of spiders and bees. Symptoms are the same. Shivering fit, anxiety, panic or even worst. For this people exist some kinds of treatment. They have to cooperate with therapist and are told to write about situations when they are frightened of bug or spider. Then they are trying to solve these situations from the less frightening to the most frightening. At the end of the treatment they go to real situation, and when they are prepared, they have to touch real bug or spider. When they are able to do this, it should be signal that their fear is under control. It seems very easy, but I am sure that it must be very hard and last very long time.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/biggest_bug_ever;_ylt=AuXxcNCyg2m7uIj8eNirSfSs0NUE

by Zuzana Valkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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