I do have an "intense, violent, deep seeded hatred" of spiders, though, and this does little to change that.
Injections of stress hormone may reduce fear of spiders "Arachnophobes around the world can rejoice - the answer to their darkest fears could be a simple injection away after scientists found that a dose of the body's natural stress hormone, cortisol, can help phobics deal better with fear of spiders."