Several different factors are linked with Entomophobia or Acarophobia; these may be categorized as environmental, psychological, medical or drug related. Animal, blood, storm and water-specific phobias typically develop in early childhood, whereas fears related to heights and other situations tend to emerge later. What I think you should do is buy lots of bug spray, and don’t go outside and camping as much as you might. And now we found a bunch of earwigs in our house and I can’t sleep. One night my family was sleeping, and I was out in the living room watching a movie, after I finished it, I went to the kitchen and saw a freaking roach or something, and I totally had a heart attack, I’m just 12 yrs old dudes, and my mom won’t listen to me, what should I do? Finally, a name for what’s been bothering me! However, it’s ultimately your decision whether you go to therapy or not. I was terrified and i phoned my parents. Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name. I close all access to any holes in my body (mouth, stuff down there) and I usually don’t try to mess with them and I’ll get my dad or I’ll get them with something to where I won’t have to touch it. At first I thought she was lying, but I found out it was true. I don’t know when my fear of bugs, insects or anything related to them actually started. I will full on have a panic attack. To live without fear, face it head on is the only way. And before there was a bug (idk what kind) in my room at night time. I can’t even get myself to go into my garage because cockroaches are everywhere. Am I going overboard and being paranoid or is this justifiable measures? They say I’m having an insect phobia which is correct I’m too scared of bugs and insects. At night I feel like bugs are inside my skin, due to a house I lived in once had a flea infestation, now moved. I want to be brave to kill them when they are in my house so they don’t get away while I get paper to kill them. When I finally do get settled in and can at least sit on the bed or chair my eyes are constantly looking for anything that may move. I like to keep spiders alive to deal with them. 🙂 I’m uneasy with many bugs tho I’ve found wooly aphids kind of cute and butterflies are not a problem to me, tho I don’t want even them to be on me. But it’s ticks.. they wig me out totally and I clean and organize like crazy so I can see them coming. I was so casual with killing and touching them. I can not help but reading these stories of other people like me has made me feel slightly better so I hope this can comfort you. Entomophobia is a poorly documented and under-reported mental disorder. God bless. I still have my parents kill any bug I see. Knowing that an insect has the ability to fly is probably the most scary part. Required fields are marked *, You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

, – Entomophobia – Fear Of Insects – Fear Of Bugs – Insect Fear – Bug Fear – Bug Phobia – Insect Phobia – Phobia Of Insects – Phobia Of Bugs – Insectophobia – Fear Of Cockroaches – Cockroach Phobia, Highest Level 'EV' Site SecurityAll sensitive and private information sent from this site is protected by extended 'EV' SSL encryption, the strongest encryption and identity verification available7771531 8880823. So I looked this fear of bugs up because for weeks my 4yr old son has been terrified to leave the house and go outside. Just memory makes me cringe when I think about a lane of roaches in my Kitchen. I never open a window without ensuring there are no tears or openings in the screen. So we ended up moving and alot of stuff was thrown out because only two people can do so much moving of boxes and furniture in one night. Pains or chest pains 7. Now, even the thought of a moth, housefly, any bug in general and especially cockroaches make me feel a little short of breath and slightly nauseous. Fear of Infestation . Can someone help me out? Like 50% of people my brothers are not afraid of bugs like i am. I feel disgust, i hate how they look, it makes me sick and want to throw up. If I see a bug, I have a panic attack or just cry because I’m too afraid to kill it/of touching it (even if there’s an obvious barrier, like a shoe or something). And any other insect, I just hate them and I’m really scared to be close to one. I’m also super afraid of stepping on them, especially big ones, imagining that they’d make a big crunching sound. It is important to take into account the individual’s mental state and other such characteristics. I didn’t want to kill it so I grabbed something like a glass and try to get the bug in it by putting the glass upside down. Because, all phobias can to some degree limit a persons daily activities and are in some cases the root cause that make someone experience anxiety and leading up all the way to depression. Reading about insects to make believe that the fear is rational. I have it all, this page explains me so well and I’m gonna keep in touch with this website. Some display obsessive compulsive disorder where they may clean constantly to repel bugs. Also the other day a wasp came in the house and i was all by myself. The word Entomophobia comes from Greek entomos meaning insects and phobos which means deep dread or fear. Constantly searching on the Internet to self-validate their beliefs about insects. If they stay away from me and my home, they get to live. I am also very afraid of insects, especially if they fly. Entomophobia is the fear of insects. Fast forward to having my son and now it’s not bugs, it’s anything aside from a bug or cat/dog that crawls. Make sure your parents understand that it’s something you can’t control, that you can’t just get over it in a minute. Like how all of my other experiences with bugs go, I did not sleep that night. I’m kinda glad that there are other people like me since everybody else around me seems to be perfectly fine with killing bugs. The more pressure we put on studying, the more intense these feelings become. A deep sense of gloom or feelings of being overwhelmed are also symptoms and could potentially manifest themselves as a panic attack. 1 comment. Numbness 8. I got really upset to the point of crying. My city was having a storm so the streets were flooded, roaches started to crawl out of sewers because of that. INSECTIPHOBIA-- FEAR OF INSECTS OR BUGS --Welcome to my site for Insectiphobia. The phobia of cockroaches , also called katsaridaphobia, is an irrational and persistent fear, being something unjustified and very debilitating for those people who suffer from this disorder. I’ve always been scared to death of bugs for as long as I remember and even talking about bugs is enough to freak me out or make me paranoid. I have moderate Entomophobia and Arachnophobia. The only way to stop your fear is to learn about it and ask yourself why am i afraid of this, is it what i have been conditioned to feel, or did you have a traumatic experience that has stayed with you. Advice? > For help chaging these patterns of thinking, read this article How to Overcome Insect Phobia. I will get so disgusted to the point of not eating sleeping or going outside with friends or family and I often make people kill bugs for me. More specific cases included apiphobia (fear of bees), myrmecophobia (fear of ants), and lepidopterophobia (fear of moths and butterflies). I didn’t mind them, until I was in my teens. If someone reads this comment, would you recommend me to go to a doctor or not?? That sounds exactly like Entomophobia to me, at least. When I just looked at the picture with the bug on it scared me to the point of screaming! About six months in our neighbors moved in and then we started seeing roaches. This thread is archived. I can’t stand having this phobia, it’s already starting to affect my mannerisms and daily routine. Entomophobia is a specific phobia characterized by an excessive or unrealistic fear of one or more classes of insect, and classified as a phobia by the DSM-5. Once a week I wait until the neighbors are likely to be asleep so I won’t bother them with fumes and then spray in front of my door, down the steps, and around the exterior. So id say i have many reasons im freaked out over bugs of any kind. I am even scared of lady bugs, grasshoppers, moths, EVERYTHING. Do I need to see the doc? I have a sense of near religious awe of insects like mantises and hummingbird moths, tho.. it’s fine to see one in the wild I sure wouldn’t want one in my house. Some of the most common and prominent symptoms for this disorder are: 1. I’ll note that I also have major depression and general anxiety disorder, both of which are unrelated and are being treated via medication. Thanks. I haven’t scratched enough to cause serious infection or injury yet, though my skin is often raw and sore after I’m done. Yes, it’s excessive, but I don’t see bugs inside any more, and I sleep at night. Every case of insect phobia is a little different. I’ve always been scared of bugs but i feel like it’s getting worse. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. A child can pick up a fear of bugs by watching others, so how you react to insects has a strong influence on a child's reaction. My friend has a fear of bugs. Acarophobia is derived from Latin Acaro which means ‘mites’. As with other phobias, depending on how badly affected the sufferer is, the symptoms may be more or less severe. Whenever I see a bug I the shower or when they sneak up on me, I get really tingly and I usually run away in complete and utter fear. People are always reassuring me like: “oh it’s a big tick, don’t worry they don’t carry Lyme!” Thing is, the larger ones can carry rocky mountain spotted fever which, while rare, is usually extremely catastrophic – if you aren’t diagnosed in 5 days time you will likely have to have some or all your limbs amputated, if you live through the ordeal. My parents, especially my dad don’t really understand and point out that they can’t hurt me. Then, make learning about bugs more comfortable and interesting. But the worst for me.. even a photo or even an illustration of a tick makes me anxious and uneasy.. I’ve lived and worked in places that were infested with them in the Northeast where they often do carry Lyme disease.. I’ve had other traumatic insect experiences: nasty bites from spiders, fire ants, as well as stings from hornets and aggressive wasps. The origin of the word insect is Latin (meaning bug) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). Plus my parents are foreign so they will most definitely not understand! Nausea and dizziness 2. I felt my heart drop, I started shaking and got on the toilet, I tried spraying it and It wouldn’t die. Being 12 and really skinny, she was slipping down my back slowly, and she started screaming and kicking and crying which made her slip down my back more and I was really aching, and trying to get to where there were no holes, and I felt as if I was going to faint (omg leah), but I managed to get her to where there were no holes and put her down. They are hundreds of box elders covering our house and many stink bugs on my porch. Anyway my mother was not mentally well and our new home ended up infested with roaches and i remember waking up to droves and droves crawling all over me. I am in my 50’s and have always had a fear of bugs. 1: insect phobia: a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of insects or bugs, despite conscious understanding by the phobic individual and reassurance by others that there is no danger. Screw that.. I’m afraid of all. While some people simply jump a little when they hear a pigeon’s wings fluttering, others can barely cope with the anxiety this brings. Trypophobia is often described as “the fear of holes,” but it is important to note that it may also apply to bumps or other patterns that are closely clustered together. This has gotten to the point that I can’t go within a few feet of an insect larger than your average fly. Am I one of these people or not? I start crying, screaming and shaking. sometimes i can even hear them bumping into walls, chairs etc when I’m sleeping. I was just chilling in my room when I realized there was this bug. I hate them, they serve no real benefit to anything except the virus’s they carry around and they’re evil. I currently feel tingly and terrified like bugs are covering me. I’m not sure when this fear started, but I can’t get past it. Well, I also believe I have this because I hate going outside where I know there will be bugs and I can’t even look at grasshoppers. Thankfully, I noticed them before we moved fully. But I cannot handle bugs inside the house. You can test the severity of your problem with this 2-minute online insect phobia test. One night I woke up with a jumping spider in my eye. Last summer I had depression because of it. Some of the most common symptoms are: 1. nausea and dizziness 2. shivering 3. difficulty breathing 4. high heart rate 5. drowning or strangling sensation 6. chest pains 7. numbness 8. excessive sweating 9. difficulty thinking or speaking clearly 10. inability to distinguish between the real … To me, these are definitely hormonal changes, but at least I’m not alone. I can’t kill em unless I spray em and if not no contact whatsoever, not with a shoe, a tissue, nothing. Physical symptoms like nausea, shaking, trembling, headaches, crying, screaming at the sight of bugs. Good luck 🙂. I’m 13 and it started with ants last year. Some people worry about their homes or bodies becoming infested with bugs. It terrified me that that little bug had been crawling around in my eye for hours. Obesity. There were lots of holes on the beach, and I mean a lot. If your symptoms drastically affect your ability to live what you would consider a normal existence, your anxiety is no laughing matter. 100% Upvoted. I ended up finding another small beetle-like thing on it and so I went to our guest room and slept there. I’m sorry for giggling because I grabbed a wrinkle spray to kill a spider lol. I can’t live with bedbugs anymore, and i don’t know what to do if it came up again. I’m only 13 right now and my mom always says that the bugs won’t hurt me. He would tell me to grow up but I can’t I hate them. So I was already afraid of bugs at the time and no one helped me. Many phobics are known to visit numerous different doctors and specialists, often without any resolution of their condition. I used to live in the dominican so I was used to bugs and big creepy bugs like spiders and snakes but now that i live in the u.s.a so now i have the phobia and i dont know how i got it. I can’t stand even the tiniest thing. Ever since then at the site of any bug, especially roaches, I get anxiety attacks and freeze. I was slowly getting healed but now, the summer is about to come again and i started to panic again. So we ended up getting kicked out because we can only pay for our living expenses and not an entire other family’s cost too. Wow this is so me I hate bugs so much. I went to grab the thing and I got it’s leg, but the leg just came off and that made my sister cry even more. Others include apiphobia, fear of bees, and myrmecophobia, fear of ants. If they were outside then I have very little problem with them, but inside.. we live in a very old house, and it has cracks everywhere so winter and summer are often really bad. Even though I’m scared of those kinds of bugs, I’m not scared of mosquitos, gnats, flies, butterflies, or even stinging bugs like bees, wasps, hornets, and the like (or at least not abnormally scared of them). So as I got ready for bed, I left it open. Eventually we got kicked out of there because our neighbors blamed the bug problem on us and tried to say we needed to pay for their moving cost. There will be bugs, lots of them and in my treetop bungalow where i will be staying alone. This sounds like me, any time my hair moves, I jump. Love her mom. Also I’m 13 and have always hated bugs. Entomophobia (also known as insectophobia) is characterized by an excessive or unrealistic fear of one or more classes of insect. It is really rough because I work 12-14hr days and I’m exhausted but fear of any kind of bug just sends me into an internal panic. He started with worms, now ants, grasshoppers, flies, anything or any bug he sees and I find him in a frantic fit. I am so tired of being petrified. You should tell your parents about the severity and not let them shake it off. Me too I am really scared of them especially spiders and.. a lot of bugs even little ones too . Situations, such as airplanes, enclosed spaces or going to school 2. I can’t even hold my sisters bearded dragon. My dad especially growing up on a farm he expects me to be like my older brother. I put new weather stripping all around the door. I feel like I’m going to throw up. Why? This definitely isn’t the most extreme reaction to insects, but my family still thinks it’s unreasonable. I dont remember why but grandpa never got along well with one of my brothers so i assume that was atleast part of his reasoning. A combination of therapies including drug therapy, desensitization, psychotherapy etc is proven beneficial in treating the fear of bugs phobia. I was waiting at the bus stop when I noticed something crawling inside my jacket, I didn’t freaked out (just yet) because I was curious for what it is, and you guessed it is roaches. The worst part is I know they can’t hurt me and I’m fully aware it’s irrational but I can’t be around them. He says i gotta get over my phobia and that i shouldn’t be scared of bugs. In severe cases, the patient feels as if there is an insect pricking, stinging, or creeping on his body. They told me to kill it but instead of killing the wasp i just opened the door and ran. I stumbled on this website, but now i cant stop reading it. It often falls outside of most scientific categories and other phobias. I ran out of my college classroom during a lecture because a wasp was buzzing around… I couldn’t keep my eyes off it, then I got my friend’s attention, so she asked the professor to kill it. As soon as i noticed the bee was gone i closed the door. My parents have mentioned therapy to me before, but I’ve always been skeptical if that kind of stuff really works. I’m 15 and I’ve had this fear ever since I could remember, when I was little I used to have dreams of bugs being all over me and I would scream and tell my parents there are bugs all over me. Any leftover foodstuffs, such as bones, that can’t be put in the garbage disposal are sprayed with a bleach solution and sealed in plastic baggies before being put in the trash. moths - Mottephobia. The fear of bugs or insects is called as entomophobia. Sleeping.. thats a whole other ball game. A while ago I wanted to be a marine biologist but then I found out insects were involved and that was it, no more biology for me. It’ll take some time depending on how serious it is, but as long as you keep putting in effort, the result will seriously be a relief. Hi I have this too… I just had a mini panic attack with some stink bugs. I get goosebumps and high anxiety. I owe her an apology. I wasn’t afraid of bugs as a kid. I called my best friend mid panic attack and was like “what do I do help me, talk me through this.” Any bug, I freak out. When a wasp comes near me i panic and then i run inside. Im a young woman, im kind of a loner. I get so scared. I find it easier to run from the bug than to kill it because i don’t want to imagine the crunch sound they make when you kill it. Physical symptoms like nausea, shaking, trembling, headaches, crying, screaming at the sight of bugs. If the insect is gone and i feel confident, ex: kicking a moth out, I feel instant relief. I don’t know when it started but now for most of my life i’ve become horrified about anything relating to bugs. I can’t even clap a fruit fly to kill it. I am the same way and my husband gets mad at me instead of understanding my fear. Like I can’t even sleep because I’m worried that the bugs will do something to me. Instead of killing it i ran to my room and closed the door, didn’t come out of my room. Just a few minutes ago I was using the bathroom and lo and behold a roach shows up, a big one too. I was at my neighbors house playing with their kids in their backyard. There, I couldn’t breathe and take my eyes off. You have three different names you can choose from that fall under "a fear of insects": Acarophobia, Entomophobia, or Insectophobia. House was built in the 60’s or something. Now, at 31, I’m terrified of them and I’d burn my apartment down before I’d ever touch one. Hi. Difficulty breathing 4. I will not fear the unknown, instead i will learn about the most diverse ecosystem on the planet. I’m pretty sure I have Entomophobia but I’m not sure it’s worth going to a doctor for. save. Just like how I don’t know why I’m afraid of dogs I don’t understand why I’m afraid of bugs. My mom tells me I just need to get over it, but I literally can’t. I couldn’t sleep at all and had an insomnia. To understand how a person develops this phobia it is necessary to understand how a phobia develops in general. I went on a camping trip about three months ago, right next to the beach. I started spraying my room with febreze and diluted detergent! I’ve encountered small scorpions. Many -phobia lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Table 3.11, DSM-IV to DSM-5 Specific Phobia Comparison - Impact of the DSM-IV to DSM-5 Changes on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. I have always been like this and it all terrifies me. There was once when I was taking a shower and I noticed a cockroach and that caused me to scream at the top of my lungs and jump right onto the toilet. hide. The repulsion to this insect can be due to multiple factors: such as its anatomical structure, its ability to transmit diseases, the fact that they feed on putrefaction or that some are able to fly. And it even annoyed my family, always screaming when a tiny insect reaches my eyes, but what can I do? I am dominican and i went there this april and I was in the front and i saw a green bug i think it was a grasshopper or something it flew and i was scared of it. 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