article_snippet.sent: Before today, Dawn Williamson, 39 and based in Scotland, could not even confront a plastic snake without panicking, and would obsessively check a plastic snake toilet for the reptiles every day.
article_snippet.sent: Dawn, who is now able to take Amanda seven-year-old daughter on a dream holiday to Florida later this year thanks to Amanda treatment, said: 'All my life I’ve been terrified of snakes. '
article_snippet.sent: Lifelong phobia: Dawn had been petrified of snakes ever since Amanda watched B-movie Venom when Amanda was seven years old .
article_snippet.sent: Dawn had been petrified of snakes ever since Dawn watched B-movie Venom when Dawn was seven years old, Dawn explained. '
article_snippet.sent: Dawn used to compulsively check Dawn home for snakes, and would frequently shake my boots to make sure my boots weren't hiding any .
article_snippet.sent: her was also shown clips of Carl Fogerty with a snake slithering over Carl Fogerty in the I’m A Celebrity jungle, as well as having to confront a tray of plastic toy snakes which made Dawn shake with fear and break down in tears.
article_snippet.sent: her continued the session by getting Dawn to concede that her fear of snakes was indeed irrational, before pointing out the irony that in hunting for snakes around the house, her was seeking out her fear.
article_snippet.sent: Dawn was then asked to talk about Venom, the horror movie which ignited her fear of snakes in the first place, in which a snake kills everyone involved.
article_snippet.sent: Dawn then asked: 'So just from that one event, watching a film you’re frightened of snakes? '
article_snippet.sent: The Speakmans then held up a series of pictures of snakes to test Dawn’s reaction.
article_snippet.sent: Dawn was then presented with a tank of live snakes, and admitted that although 'bizarre', Dawn was no longer has a phobia of them.
highlights_snippet.sent: Dawn Williamson, 39, had been petrified of snakes since the age of 9 .
  