S. S. S. Spiders

By Dani Morena

Arachnophobia is the second most prevalent fear people have. Here is one girl to woman's experiences and how she eventually learned how to overcome it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Maha Ete
• Release date: Mar 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005281199

Dani Morena

Born in Trieste Italy, migrated to Australia as a baby, settled in Whyalla and rose to the top in radio advertising in Melbourne and Sydney and Canberra eventually running her own company and working for SBS and Channel 10.Married the wrong man, had two daughters and suffered tremendously thereafter.

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Introduction

I have a dread, an awful, terrible fear, morbid fear, a horrid, debilitating phobia, and why is it that I, with this severe affliction, have to be continually subjected to meeting a spider face to face when I least expect it?

I can feel a spider moment coming. I get the feeling I’ll see one soon, and I do, and I’m always right.

I can sense them in the room, and sure enough, they come out, set me in their sights, plan their moves, and attack!

I know no one else has such frequent encounters with spiders as I do perhaps, ironically, aside from a school friend I had who kept spiders as pets and who let them crawl all over her!

Four years old

I was just