Reign of Gaming

that Soraka splash art is so nice :) i am so curious how LoL will look 2 years from now :D

my opinion on this is that you "play to learn" so it is possible for you to not feel destructive stress which would come if you have "played for win"

that destructive stress will severely undermine your performance... this is instance of changing cognitive frame of situation so it can be processed without or with less anxiety while the goal is the same... by "playing to learn" you create frame where it is impossible to lose in any real sense which would be emotionally painful so that way you can play relaxed and perform better

now this all is OK and i do it too btw :D but what is NOT OK is imposing that frame on people who are able to operate with manageable levels of stress in "play to win" frame 

you probably started to feel a bit shaky about your theory so you wanted to reinforce it by positive feedback on forums (for me personally this trick failed when i realized i can feel stressed about not being focused enough to consider my training a success so i can perceive a failure and start to have stress about it) but as i said, changing frame is OK and it works ! so good luck with it ! :)

Maybe you can use LoL as a way to slowly desentitize yourself from your fear which is if i recall correctly one of the methods to deal with such a phobias. You surely can recognize its a game and that it is only a 3D model so maybe you will slowly adjust to it and then maybe later when you see some small spider for real it will be less horrifiing :)