Insect Phobias --HELP!

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Insects bother me too . . . certain things haven't helped.

When I was about eight or so years old, I was at my gran's house for dinner, and she was cooking some eggs in the grill. It was summer, and there was a large, intimidating fly-type thing careering about in the kitchen. I have no idea what it was - it looked like a daddy-long-legs, and was about the same size, but it was a lot chunkier and more muscular-looking. It was pale brown, if I remember rightly. After a while it flew into the grill, and began circling above the eggs. Later on when I was sitting at the table, my gran came in from the kitchen and presented me with a sandwich, containing some of the grilled eggs. I opened the sandwich (I always do that with sandwiches, because I like to smell the contents before I eat them) . . . and, horrifyingly, the back half of the insect was sticking out from the surface of the egg. It has grilled itself while flying, and then collapsed head-first into the egg, and gran hadn't noticed. I felt really sick, and my sister (who was about five at the time) saw it too and began to cry. My mother cut out the offending part of the egg, and I was instructed to eat it . . . but insects have for some reason bothered me a lot ever since then. There's something very disquieting, I think, about the fact that the insect is so greedy and stupid as to grill itself in pursuit of food. It's very hard to explain, but remembering the incident makes me feel quite panicky and queasy.

I had a house centipede last week, scariest thing I've ever seen. IDK where he went but I was scared to sit in my living room for 5 days. lol, I REALLY can't stand them. I think what happened for me is that I just reached a fear plateau or something. I was SO scared that I finally just got over it, I couldn't handle being scared anymore. I'm still gonna be scared if I see it again but I seriously could have had a panic attack before, or passed out. lol.

Um.. maybe you could think of them like something you enjoy? Like, moths and bumble bees you could think of as puppies or something cuz they're fluffy, and june bugs and beetles you could think of as cool little robots.. XD;;; And it's not too big a leap because bugs are animals and animals are machines.

Spiders freak me out, but not tarantulas, because I think of them as rodents. XD;; Fluffly little mice.

PS eeeeew, Poppy that sounds like a cranefly. Totally gross. XD;

Like some of the others, I caught bugs in jars and stuff when I was a kid but I have a phobia now. It's only of roaches though, so maybe that is a little different...

It's gotten in the way a lot, I would really like to do something about it. I've addressed it with a psychologist and it didn't help me. If I'm staying in a house where I see roaches often enough, I stay on this high anxiety level all the time...checking my shoes and clothes before putting them on, shaking out the covers on the bed before sleeping, sleeping with light and noise on to scare bugs off. I move into the dorm in the fall and it will be a major problem if there are roaches

bees,wasps,yellow jackets and hornets-cant stand those sneaky critters

I love many bugs now, but I used to be afraid of ants. Particularly if finding them was unexpected, and they were in a large group.

The only ones that I don't like (but am not afraid of) are cockroaches. It is because they are really unsanitary, and they will vomit or defecate on food or things that they consider edible. I will not stay long in a place with cockroaches if I can help it, and I am very leery about accidently bringing one home hidden in clothing or items.

I do get bugs in my apartment (earwigs and spiders, as I live somewhat below ground level) but these don't bother me.

They really never sting unless you piss them off. They'll land on you and not even know you're a thing they can sting. XD; But I have a friend who freaks out and swipes at them when they land on her and she's gotten stung because of it.

I have been stung on the neck-never saw her coming or knew she was there-they just come after me for some reason-if I see them I swat them from above because they don't expect anything to come at them from above.