These creepy-sauce American cockroaches are the absolute BANE of my existence. It was different back home though. Your email address will not be published. I, too, am phobic! I had to wash all my sheets and spray raid to make sure there was no more . I am so scared what can I do? It also may be that certain personality traits or brain chemicals leave us more vulnerable to phobia development. I hope it died somewhere out of my room though, because I am not looking forward to finding it when I have to move out. Yesterday I saw one and froze, then my heart started beating really fast. I sprayed enough on him that it should have drowned him. My real big issue is I cannot kill them, like I will make my partner catch it and take it down the street and put it somewhere. What is the species you’re calling the Texas Terrorist? “Katsarida” is the Greek word for cockroach, which ties this fear of the household pests directly into the term. I washed all the dishes it was near (even though it didn’t touch them) with scalding water too, disinfected all the counters, the stove, the cupboards, sprayed orange oil because they hate the smell, set up fresh combat traps hoping to kill the nest, and sprayed a protective layer of roach spray around my bedroom doorway. I just told almost this exact story to my step mom because one was in my house yesterday. For this strategy to be most effective, it is best to gradually build up your exposure. There are several lifestyle changes that can help. That is what I feel about those big damn B52 sized roaches. • Think of Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows at night so you’ll dream of unicorns rather than… you-know-what. I love cockroaches especially the hissing kind. I just really, really don’t like them. I was sleeping and I suddenly felt something crawling on my arm, I opened my eyes, and there was a huge roach on me… I jumped, and screamed and cried like a baby.. It’s the Texas Terrorist I would get from time to time. My dad was an evil man for various reasons, and he loved to freak me out by acting as if he was going to throw a roach on me. And it bothers me so much, all the time, just thinking about them makes me all itchy and I feel knots in my stomach.. And all I want is to not feel that way.. To be able to actually sleep in a bed again, and go in my room what do I do? Went down the hall to my grandmother, and she refused to kill it… I’ll be sitting here until I die…. These are the Texas Terrorists. Europeans, the article implied, are able to take them in stride. I thought I saw one on my bedroom wall too so I told my mom and sister and they couldn’t find it. That could be the reason why my cockroach phobia is horrible, first off I scream or cry or even freeze or step back. For some reason I don’t fear spiders – just cockroaches – after this event. The little ones just give me the creeps. I would NEVER put myself through any of these “therapies.” I have thrown out my neck, and almost stroked out (I have severe hypertension) to where I have to have my BP rescue meds. I can’t stand them! I just got up to go to the bathroom and as soon as I flipped on the light there was a monstrous cockroach on my facial soap! I have severe hypertension, I have rescue meds. Cleanliness doesn’t matter for the big ones. It ran off and I still could not move. I’m so ashamed of my fear and I almost vomited at the sight of the top photo! I need help with these feelings of being petrified. I grabbed my towel which was hanging on a hook after turning off the shower. Such facts will not be encouraging to people who suffer from extreme cockroach phobia. Aside from that, humans have evolved to be frightened of certain objects because they are naturally threatening. It looked like a small black little figure. I cant even look at pictures of roaches without elevated heart rate, feelings of disgust and terror. I have a horrible phobia of cockroaches and I don’t know what to do. For example, you may think that…, Cockroaches are difficult creatures to find. I was with my girlfriend (now ex) and my dad at that time, so imagine the embarrassment that I had. I honestly thought I’d get over a bug by now but recently I moved into a house I know to be infested with them, and because of that memory it’s making it hard to eat anything in the pantry, or even take a shower, which ironically I’m doing now after finding a roach in the tub and teaming up with a squatting spider to rid the house of their filth. Once you get comfortable with that, you can level-up maybe to a more realistic cartoon, but this wouldn’t happen within one session for most of us. I actually spent some time online for a period of time, reading about spiders and roaches, the facts about, getting used to the scientific side of these animals, trying to view them from a scientific point of view as opposed to an irrational disgust and fear point of view of a “laymen”. The dead roach carcass has been sitting in the same spot of the room because I’ve been too afraid to pick it up. I’m Indian and can say without a doubt, I’m absolutely cripplingly terrified of them. Writing my story out is helping though. I had to turn off the light so I left for 5 minutes and came back. Not only do they terrify me but they disgust me so much that I can’t kill them. Once I was trying to kill some roahes on the walls just below the ceiling, with a long stick. I have ocd and want all parts of our house to be spotless and i have no clue where these guys come from because my dad sealed all the cracks and holes in the roof and attic and im just lost on what to do because we dont really have anywhere to move to and we have tried everything! But, then i saw my fly swatter and grabbed it. I retreated under my blanket, and even though I was hot and sweaty, I stayed there all night long. I never get my beauty sleep because I’m constantly waking up turning on my phone’s flash light and checking if there are any lurking in my room. I have recently had a cockroach infestation. I was watching YouTube videos when all of a sudden a roach comes flying down on my bed (I heard the wingbeats and everything) I screamed and now my mom is forcing me to sleep in my bed fml. In the middle of the night I woke up and saw a massive cockroach and a daddy-long-legs spider crawling on my pillow besides my head. I didn’t go back into my room until my dad killed it. I started hyperventilating and cursing and just freaking out. There are big ones all around outside and they keep darting for my door when I open it. The ones which cant are not a problem at all. It is a fact that cockroaches will outlive humans as they can withstand 2000 times the radiation levels than us and can also go for days without food. Then it moved towards me and I ran for my life! roaches can move up to speeds of 3 miles per hour. Re: I'm scared of cockroaches You have to find the pockets that the roaches are living in, then use bait (apply in small dabs) near those areas. To this second I’m swearing at myself nonstop; my pride and my image are now big jokes to my mom, I assume (funny how the only person I ever tried to impress was her). I’m 15 years old and I HATE cockroaches (the big ones that fly). I find most insects and reptilians interesting but I cannot handle roaches. There are a wide variety of therapies that can help you not be scared of cockroaches. Whenever I see one, I start to breathe very quickly, my heart rate speeds up and I freeze up and then can’t move until it has gone and even then I have trouble walking past that particular spot. If I could move to Alaska, I would just to get AWAY from these things. I'm terrified of them," the actress, 27, tells New York Magazine's Vulture. There are even certain states I would NEVER move to and the only reason I am in Texas is because of the military. I have the opposite of your family. I just bought and remodeled a house on the coast of NC. That’s when I turned the lights on to see a huge roach crawling on my door. You’ve lost it. They're no different than a butterfly or ladybug. Such traits leave one more susceptible to developing a certain phobia. Luckily in this part of Vic. I actually MOVED OUT of my last home because of the roach infestation and the fact that my grown children who were living with me would not help me keep the house clean at all or help spray them on site to help get rid of them. I am a grown man and I am absolutely terrified of cockroaches. I see it wiggling it’s long disgusting antennas at me and It makes me want to vomit. They are absolutely terrifying. Out ran a huge one of those creepy things! There was this cockroach coming towards me and the was nowhere to go except over it. I grew up in Florida and as a kiddo if I saw one in the house -would wake my parents or stay up all night I felt like I couldn’t move and I was just frozen. Hey, usually people like us with this fear eventually turn into very orderly people. Try to approach the cockroach and kill it yourself. In the meantime, remember that it is no more irrational than having a PTSD after a trauma. To this day I have not been able to walk in there. I have to check on my own body about once every hour because I once woke up with one on my neck. But, I bought a used fridge and brought in German. Being afraid of these walking disease piles is just self preservation and logic. People think I’m joking when I tell them, but it’s been 7 years since I left and I am still shuddering as I type this. Other studies have also demonstrated that the treatment has sustained benefits over the years. I literally was shaking, and every itch made me paranoid. WTF.. Then they started showing up everywhere. :cry:megagene Haha I saw your thread. Such apps have been created to simulate cockroaches crawling on your floor. I keep picturing it crawling on me. I’m not crazy or anything but I just can’t stand it. . Shaky breath, trembling, cold sweats, the whole nine-yards. Here, they say, if you build, to fill your walls with boric acid. Reporter Foti Kallergis says he is afraid of roaches, so it's fitting we found him this morning at the bug house at the Houston Zoo. I finally was able to leave and I did not return to my apartment until daylight. And people know to do this in my house because I’m usually screaming and stomping a lot if there’s one present. I woke up early this morning to tinkle. It doesn’t help that some can fly. Carry a light and a flyswatter (just in case)! At night you could hear the scratching noises and see the wallpaper ripple as nests of cockroaches moved beneath it. I obsess about cleaning, taking out the trash, eating carefully so I don’t spill anything and washing the dishes almost instantly after using them. When I would open the upper kitchen cabinet doors at least a dozen of them would fall on my head and crawl through the strands of my hair causing me to scream and shake my head and swat at them. By the time I let out my rage on the intruder, it looked like a mashed, oozing raisin and it was STILL moving and flapping its dented wings in vain. Eventually I moved out and idk why I’m so scared of roaches my mom told me that when I was 2 or 3 yrs old I would collect roaches in an empty Kleenex box eww. You’d rather run away from it than having to kill it. Just to read the articles makes my heart go fast. How does it work? I am ready to MOVE. I really don’t know when it all started. I've always had a fascination with all kinds of infestations and am committed to improving the lives of those who've been affected. Nothing anyone says against me will change that. Everything that this website said explains literally everything of how I feel. My greatest fear is cockroaches and I've heard they are a terrible problem for chicken owners? For instance, two people can experience the same traumatic event. I moved the dogs water bowl to my bedroom. During late spring after school I returned home with my mom then when I went into my room, what I saw on my bed, was a massive cockroach, I screamed so loud I think the neighbors heard me from 3 doors away. After about 5 minutes of crying and hyperventilating, mum had to open the door and feed them. You can at least go outside. I can’t wait for it to be morning so I can leave my house. In case of facing with those cockroaches that can fly I might react unbelievably crazy meaning that the whole of my body specially my knees start to shake and my heart will be about throwing out of my body and I scream and escape from the spot and I won’t go back again, and most importantly this will have a huge damage on my nerves for several months after the incident. However, this viewpoint was developed in the 19th century and is severely outdated. Hypnotherapy is another effective way of getting over Katsaridaphobia. The fear of cockroaches often leads to obsessive compulsive disorder. What a Coincidence! I have never screamed so much for some reason i started biting at my shirt sleeve. I’m just damn scared of cockroaches, period. Sometimes my breathing gets so bad I might just pass out. I pulled my legs up onto the seat and I couldn’t move and I started crying, even though I hadn’t seen or felt it on myself. Wish me luck. Another may. It's a cockroach! Sorry for writing this long thing, but I had to get this off my chest. The sound of this huge thing wriggling through the crack and flattening its body literally woke me up on the couch. I am a 35 yo man, and I have been scared of cockroaches since childhood. However, I'm afraid of killing things. When I first saw it, I didn't know what it was until I looked really closely. "I'm only scared of birds. Most childhood cases of Katsaridaphobia resolve over time. You may have terrifying fantasies about what might happen when you’re around a cockroach. The only safe place is the subway, because they hate the vibrations. It was literally crawling all over my makeup brushes and lipsticks. I once woke up to a cockroach on the wall right next to my bed. We just moved to southern Florida and I’m really contemplating moving back to Illinois. I just can’t agree with them…. What did my friend do? Such phobias are actually symbolic of some hidden, unconscious feeling. I’m absolutely terrified of cockroaches. I mostly hate them because they come out of nowhere! I have full blown panic attacks. Our ancestors have learned to fear the unknown, as this was a potential danger to their life. I’m also intensely scared of butterflies and just flying bugs in general. I threw the shoe at it and missed, shaking, and it just sat there. Yuk. I have tried so much to get rid of them, but nothing worked. haha. I almost screamed. I have no idea as to what caused it or anything, just always living with it. Put the key in my door to unlock and three are on the trim. I was in a panic state and I cannot move properly. But another thing is, if I’m ticked off for any so reason, I can mercilessly crush any roach into oblivion but I won’t be able to clean up the mess later. This story leads to 1 question. Thousands of others face what you are facing every single day. I had a fear of cockroaches but I don’t anymore because I made myself go near it and not panic, run away and start screaming. This went on for 10 months until she tried killing me. You don’t have to actually like cockroaches, but it’s quite OK not to be absolutely terrified of them. There is a strong liquid called viper and you mix it with water and never have those horrible bugs in your house. But what I try to think about if I see one (eek!) They were alwyas were in my granny’s house in her laundry room or pantry! Whenever I see one walking around, I scream and cry. They make fun of me every time we talk about that. I also didn’t want to eat at any outdoor restaurants on that street because of it, which annoyed her (understandably). My biggest fear is to actually touch one or have one on me. Me and you are literally the same person. I screamed, then my sister came in and saw me crying. Cockroaches are a pest that is known for eating anything. Again, good luck! And if they are flying, nope, i will sleep OUTSIDE. To let you know how much I am vulnerable in this case, I will tell you a recent story. You are not not a weirdo.. or not to me. If I see one my heart races and anxiety increases but I am easily capable of killing it because the thought of it getting away and breeding terrifies me. You can allocate time out of each day using the app. I put my house up for sale shortly after several bad encounters, even though I keep a neat house. I get paranoid and im get freaked out when I see something dark in my room or anywhere. I’m getting sweaty just writing this. Cockroaches and Hell. Let’s just say my natural mother didn’t like to change my nappy that often. It’s so sad. Helpful. Due to that overexposure as a child I not only have a phobia but also a serious allergic reaction to them. Also I’ve been super paranoid about my surroundings and I always see something move when it doesn’t. I asked my dad to help me and he told me not to spray because he didn’t want chemicals going on the dishes we eat off of. According to Harvard Medical School, phobias are defined as fears that are: Depending on the severity, it can lead to intense anxiety and even paranoia. Ever since then, I’ve been scared to death to even walk in my room.. Or touch my bed.. When I was little I took some medication that caused me to hallucinate. until I moved to New Mexico. But of course I´d rather not have them in my apartment… D: I´ll be in … Here’s the story of when I saw a huge big black one in my sisters room. Books and bookcases provide a convenient…. If you have received any answers that have helped,, PLEASE let me know. I cried i shook and everything and my mom finally invited me to sleep in her room and i did NOT disregard the invitation. Such a disgust response is usually evolutionary; our prehistoric ancestors were programmed to stay alert to these creepy crawlers when they slept in caves and out in the open. We went to stay at my grandma’s house until the bomb’s effects take it’s course. For people like this, it’s hard to live with the phobia. I’m 39 years old and I was embarrassed of this phobia. After I see one any tingle on my leg and I freak out. Im gonna have to turn my room upside down. I have recently encountered two big ones in my apartment and have not been able to sleep at night, I keep waking up. I think it was the very last section that has it, but I may be mistaken. Well, unless you wash the shoe afterwards right? I was trembling like crazy the whole time, I didn’t even fill up the whole bowl before I decided that I had had enough. I started to feel something crawling on me but I just ignored it and went back to sleep. now I was supposed to go to sleep at 9:00 to get up early for school in the morning but nope Nada no sleep for me I’m still looking over my shoulder for itand now…I’m sleeping in the den and it could come up anytime and crawl on me ugh just writing this makes me shiver, I recommend watching cartoons like the previous person, the last time I had an encounter with those ‘Horrible creatures’ (which was only 5 minutes ago) I was paralysed my heart rate was going crazy, I was crying (I still am doing most of these things) I couldn’t scream or even talk, the thing is was that I saw one on my bed and one in the bathroom, I saw one downstairs, I know I will not be sleeping upstairs in my room or down stairs, I live in Sydney(Newtown the home of the ‘things’) I’m actually still in tears from what happened. I scream and run as fast as I can to get away from them. All I can do is run when I see one. However, roaches cause me to scream, cry, and even have full-blown panic attacks. I am 50 yrs old, 6 ft, 200 lbs. My house is simple, clean and no spots for roaches to hide in. Forum Posts. So I understand everything that you and other posters are going through. Using these apps can help you gradually expose yourself to cockroaches. Hello. I’m honestly rocking back and forth because I’m suffering with extreme paranoia right now. idk why im scared of them, everytime i see one i get scared and walk away, i guess it is cuz my helicopter parents overprotected me and made me a pussy, i want to pee but i cant cuz theres a cockroach in the bathroom, i will have to pee in a bottle I will be joining a hostel soon and I don’t want embarrassment there…. What made me even madder is that it looked up at me like ‘that all you got’? Omg I can relate to this. Why I'm Afraid of Cockroaches. Proud of my ‘victory’, I texted a picture of its dead carcass over to my husband who was deployed at the time. 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