Fear of lizards is very common. It is extremely common among kids. As one grows older, the phobia subsides but there are many adults and teenagers as well who are just as scared of lizards as very small kids. The fear of lizards is known as Herpetophobia. It is the phobia or fear of reptiles. The phobia includes all reptiles, such as snakes, lizards and crocs among others. While fear of snakes is justified, lizard phobia is not, unless it is one giant lizard, like the one seen in Lake Placid.
Usually, people who are afraid of lizards are fully aware that the small reptile is harmless and can do nothing to a fully grown up human. It is also harmless for kids unless a kid comes across the stool of lizards which is toxic and should not be meddled with by kids.
Unfortunately, you cannot do much about lizards. Even if you fumigate your house, keep every entry and exit point blocked and take care of hygiene, there might be some lizards you will come across, at least during the springtime and summers. You will also come across lizards at normal places, parks and elsewhere. Hence, you have to deal with the fear of lizards and overcome the phobia.
Fortunately, there are many ways to get rid of this phobia. Some people experience severe emotional reactions to lizards, such as nausea, anxiety and some also have panic attacks. Such cases require immediate intervention by a psychologist. If you don’t have such reactions and are just bothered with a lizard or two crawling on the walls, then you should try out some home remedies.
You can get rid of the lizards or poison them so they don’t invade your property at all. But you should also try out some tricks to get rid of the phobia. There are three very popular techniques which are used, typically by psychologists, to deal with such phobias. The methods or approaches are EFT which is emotional freedom technique, LOA which is law of attraction and NLP which is neuro linguistic programming.
You can train yourself emotionally, try and distract your awareness away from the presence of the lizard and strengthen your neural responses so you don’t have to be afraid of the lizards. You can find a lot of information about EFT, NLP and LOA online. If you wish, you can consult a psychologist and get advised and supervised on every step.