My camping partner has EXTREME OCD and Arachnaphobia! Help!

[Jaranja]

This may seem strange, but my camp partner has unbelievably strong OCD. Thing Nicholas Cage from Matchstick Men, he can't relax unless everything is organized and straight. He's also as afraid as spiders as John Ferguson is as afraid of heights in Vertigo. Problem is that its in Hawaii, and therefore bugs thrive year round. I don't suffer from OCD like him, but i have the attention span of a ferret. (I see something shiny, i tend to stare) How do i keep this guy calm without totally spazzing out and ruining my Christmas Camping trip?

Sounds a bit offensive to him near the end.

You can't help him over the course of a camping trip. Tell him to see a hypnotherapist.

 

[Jark212]

Get the man something to drink... Otherwise you must learn Patience...

 

[Claymorez]

placebo effect him

This may seem strange, but my camp partner has unbelievably strong OCD. Thing Nicholas Cage from Matchstick Men, he can't relax unless everything is organized and straight. He's also as afraid as spiders as John Ferguson is as afraid of heights in Vertigo. Problem is that its in Hawaii, and therefore bugs thrive year round. I don't suffer from OCD like him, but i have the attention span of a ferret. (I see something shiny, i tend to stare) How do i keep this guy calm without totally spazzing out and ruining my Christmas Camping trip?

placebo effect him - get fuck loads of bug spray and then go camping - use it alot and tell him it cost like £15 or $25 a bottle and is very very gd and will keep the bugs away - having extreem OCD is unlikely to be an issue here if he agreed to go on the trip - just respect his choices and if he ultimately wants to call an end to it then respect his choice. Plus tell him that spiders stray away from camp tents because of the color of the tent - defence mechanism - worked for my m8 in a similar situation.

 

[rokkolpo]

if u really want him out....tape a stick with a plastic spider on his head so that it hangs infront of his face.

by the time of your first night camping he already crossed the sea running.

 

[El Poncho]

Mess with him, it's all I can say, if you can't make it better why not make it worse fur the lulz?

 

[Cargando]

Get him a nice big fly swat for the spiders and let him organize things as he wants. That is all I can really say.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Slip extremely strong sleeping pills into his coffee/beer/juice. Problem solved.

 

[Pimppeter2]

What you complain about, I see as an opportunity to play some hilariously cruel practical jokes

"One man's trash is another man's treasure" Huh

 

[ninja_thae]

Leave him at home, drug him, get him drunk, or abandon him in the woods.

You may try explaining to him that the woods are filled with dirt, and the parts that don't have dirt or sticks in a state of disarray have spiders.

Lots of spiders.

Hey, does Hawaii have tarantulas? What about banana spiders? If it does, I'd be scared too.

We have giant rock spiders in the Lava Fields.

Okay, giant rock spiders sounds like some monster from a video game and give my overactive imagination a ton of fun and horrifying images to play with. If I was going to a place where giant rock spiders dwelled, I would be a bit wary as well.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Get him pissed out his head. I prescribe Absinthe.

 

[ShawnRiles]

I think there's a 10 second respawn time in Hawaii. Kill him :3