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Arachnophobia Persuasive Speech Outline
Preparation outline PURPOSE
At the end of the speech everyone will know the severity of Arachnophobia, the ways to over come it, and how it’s caused. INTRO
Archeologist W. S. Bristow estimated that an average country acre is home to 2.5 million spiders which kill insects. My front yard is a quarter acre. That means there might be 250,000 spiders in just my front yard. The spiders sneak in naturally through windows and door. For some reason people are just naturally
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Unlike people with mild arachnophobia they cannot be in a room with cobwebs. They are so uncomfortable they feel threatened for their life if they stay in the room.
2. If they see one they will have panic attacks. The symptoms of a person with severe arachnophobia are worse then a simple panic attack. In some cases they heart beats so fast and the person is startled so much that they have heart attacks.
3. People with severe arachnophobia cannot even look at pictures of spiders, or touch anything that might resemble the way spider feels or they will panic.
Signpost. Now that we know how people get arachnophobia and know about all of the unnecessary precautions they have to take in they’re every day life, lets talk about the solution to arachnophobia.
III. WAYS TO OVER COME ARACHNOPHOBIA

Signpost. Blaine P. Friedlander, Jr. states there are two ways to cure arachnophobia, exposure, and education.

A. Exposure therapy
1. Exposure therapy is one of the ways people with arachnophobia can overcome their phobia. Shayna Brouker stated that this exposure therapy consist of 3 things; education, touching the spider to show that the spider is more scared of you than it is of it, and talk therapy to change the way people react when their terror is triggered by spider.

2. Simple

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