So I have this habit of sleeping naked, with nothing but a blanket to cover myself. Today as I was about to sleep and was just reading forums on my laptop on the side, I noticed something dark creeping up on the blanket. It was a cockroach. I freak the crap out and throw the whole blanket away, grabbed a can of bug spray and hides in a corner of my room, all while naked. Eventually the cockroach crawled out of my bed, and I spray it, but it dashed away to some corner and I lost sight of it. I think it will die eventually since it was direct hit...but still, I can't sleep now. I nuked every corner of my room with the pesticide and every possible hiding space, but I still have not found my peace of mind. How do you deal with these monsters? No matter how much I try to rationalize that they are harmless and good for environment and all that, the moment I see one of them, a fear so primal, so raw and powerful that it gripped my mind with terror and stripped me of my sensibilities. I simply act on instinct and try to kill it with all I have. Is this a phobia?
Nah, it's not a phobia, those little critters are disgusting. If you rent, you should tell your landlord, getting rid of them requires an exterminator...
As cruel as it is, I recoil in disguist at all creepy-crawlies. So when I see a cockroach in my room, I can't be peaceful until I wack it with a book, flipflop or newspaper. When it's squished/incapacitated, I scoop it up and throw it out the window into the plants. They can have it for all I care.
Spray the walls of your room near your bed with pyrethrin and give same treatment to the legs of the bed. This way they cannot climb to your bed. Redo every few weeks. Pyrethrin not only kills those f*ckers but it also acts as a repellent.
As disgusting as this will sound, i squish them. or grab and throw them out if am not in the mood to clean them up after i squish them. though to be fair iv seen bugs that are way more disgusting than roaches, plus living here means i have to deal with geckos, and the ones in here have a tendency to spit, and their spit causes the skin to get messed up. at least in here. so i guess you can....squish them? but since you're afraid which is understandable, you can just use a bug spray or use a book or something to do it. because when i do it, i usually or most of time punch or stomp squish them, then i clean my self and the place they got squished on.
I would flip the f**k out if I saw a cockroach on my bed. I live in an old house and we use to get these bugs called "silverfish" and one morning I woke up with on my face and I didn't sleep in my bed for like a week after. I hate bugs
Oh yeah, the geckos on the kitchen window! *brings back menories* ---------- Post added 20th Jan 2016 at 05:59 PM ---------- My family used to have a serious cockroach problem. One summer my mom went for vacation and me and my dad were home a lone at the house. When we forgot to take out the trash, in the morning, there would literally be like roughly 400-600 tiny cockroaches there! It was so gross and disturbing!
I see silverfish in my bathroom. They don't bother me. I don't think cockroaches would bother me either - there is nothing sinister looking about them, unlike spiders. Most creepy crawlies are pretty unremarkable to me unless they might seriously hurt me, or worse.
Oh I hate those pesky bastards! I've never found one in my bed but I have in my room before and after that I normally just keep my room clean now.
I crush them with extreme prejudice, with any nearby object that will do the job. They're tough to get, though, as fast as they are. I try to approach carefully, so not to scare it back into cover if it's in the open, then pounce before it gets away. Cockroaches are creepy and gross X.X I don't tolerate them for a second.
The east coast of the US sure has some roaches, and the more south you go, the bigger those things get. Have not seen one here, and I'm happy. But Baltimore has some bad-ass roaches, to be sure. I recall stomping on one at a restaurant I worked at, and it was so big, that when it squished, I nearly slipped and fell. It made a great song in Hairspray! [YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_oeiaZOfsw[/YOUTUBE] Huh, I can't seem to do that you-tube posting thing right!
A few months ago I once saw a rat on the living room of my last apartment. It freaked me out, really did... Specially since I became aware of it by the shadow on the wall... You first go 'Damn, I seriously need to stop drinking so much coffee', then you turn your head and it is looking at you with the 'Oh, you are not interested anymore on that book' eyes... Call your landlord... Or move out like I did : The city I was living in got a rat plague, it could be the same in your area. ... By the way, it's not a phobia : It's a natural reaction that has been on our genes since we are on earth. We are animals after all, and need to be aware of other animals attacking us, or trying to poison us. That is the reason why a shadow can make you jump : It's your brain firing up the signal 'danger! fight or fly!'
