Arachnophobia for years has plagued different people. It doesn't happen
             only to men, women, children, or old people; it happens to all kinds of people.
             The statistics do show however that about 80% of all reported cases of
             arachnophobia occur in females, and the majority of them are between the ages
             fifteen and sixty five. The symptoms of arachnophobia are the severe fear of
             spiders. A highly acclaimed movie was made called arachnophobia. This movie
             led to many people catching the syndrome. The year the movie was released
             more cases of the phobia was reported than any other year in the nineteen
             People who have the phobia often tell their accounts of being around
             spiders as highly terrifying and even some physical changes. One account was
             said as making the person feel a quickened heart beet, shortage of breath, higher
             blood pressure, and of course, extreme fear. Physiologial changes have been
             seen in some people. A reported case noted that one patient from a Cleveland
             hospital, had a heightened metabolism just at the sight of a spider. If scientists
             could find out what causes the heightened metabolism, it could have a major
             The causes of arachnophobia are generally caused by something from the
             patients past that left a bad memory in the head of the subject. Some people
             may just be frightened badly by a spider when younger if their parents strongly
             tell them not to get near spiders, or possibly a bite that mad them sick, or maybe
             even if they knew somebody or had a family member that became sick from a
             spider bight. Just merely seeing a spider eat another bug may scare someone
             bad enough to give them the phobia. There are probably a lot of children that
             will develop the phobia in the future just by merely seeing the movie
             It is not known why most of the people who have Arachnophobia are
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