I have a horrendous fear of cockroaches. My house doesn't have any cockroaches at all, but sometimes I travel to places that do, mostly outside the U.S. I'd rather fight a lion than being near a "harmless" cockroach.

Can anyone suggest ideas of getting over this fear? Serious suggestions please! For fear of height (which I also have), I could go do a few skydiving sessions and hope to get rid of it. Please help me get over this fear of cockroaches! I'd pay ANY amount of money.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...ach_closeup.jpg

 

be on fear factor and lie in a vat of them

seriously, i have the same fear and cant figure it out. some thing about the harry arms and wings makes me tense up. good luck.

 

Grab one and squish the crap out of it in you hand. Sure its gross but you will realize that you have total power over the little bastards and that they are insignificant bugs.


I lived in a ghetto apartment in college and once in a while you would feel one run across your arm when trying to fall asleep. Another time I got out of the shower, grabbed my hair dryer, turned it on and a roach shot out like a bullet and bounced off my forehead.

He got "Rave Megaholded" to death in short order.

 

Gradual Exposure. . . one trip to your HMO/PPO's help desk may give you a nice pamphlet on it.

I have a mild fear of open air heights. . . so I walk the Golden Gate Bridge from time-to-time.

 

DISGUSTING!!!!

i HATE cockroaches more than anything else in the whole wide world!!!! i get itchy and can't stop shuddering whenever i see them. i cannot even express how disgusting they are to me.

you'll never get over it... i know i wouldn't.

it makes me sad though, cause my grandma lives in this assisted living place. it's basically an apartment building for elderly people. there's cockroaches everywhere! whenever i stay in california she always wants me to spend the night... so i slept there one night and i went to the bathroom and turned on the light and all these roaches just scattered. i screamed bloody murder and me and my sister spent the rest of the night with the lights on, curled up in little balls on the bed. i didn't sleep AT ALL. now when she asks me, i have to make up excuses and i feel really bad because i'd like to spend time with her... but i can't deal with cockroaches. we've called the managers of the building telling them they need to exterminate them, and they always make empty promises... poor grandma.

 

hmm, i dunno if there is a "remedy" for your fear but you know how people carry mase in those little keychain things??? get one of those but put bug spray in it and you will have the power

 

so who's gonna be the first person to post a pic of cockroach in this thread.

 

Since I can't be in the same room. . . what's the point?

 

ah good ol' cockroaches. anything i have a fear of and i know is harmless, i just block out the fear. if it's there, just ignore it as best as possible.

cockroach story #1: taiwan has big, flying cockroaches. i had no idea they could fly. boy do the scuttle up the blinds fast, too.

cockroach story #2: when i was in college, we gathered up $42 for a guy on our floor to *eat* a cockroach he'd caught in his room. yeah, sick. a big one, but not a flyer, ha. so. about 20 of us are packed in his 3-person corner room, all waiting to watch him eat. as he tries to get it out of the container, it accidently falls to the ground -- next thing you know, every single one of us spectators (including big football players and a track star) all jump and cling to the sides of the walls, jump on desks, on the beds, basically try and get as far away as possible. not the guy though, he gets it to climb on a knapkin, holds it over his open mouth, and proceeds to chomp down on that sucker. that was nasty.

cockroach story #3: there are so many in taiwan, everyone has roach killer sprays at home. it's crazy, you spray a bunch of that crap on it, and it stops moving. come back a little later, and the thing is dead laying on its back with its legs in the air. they *all* die like that. strange.

 

Eat one. They are yummy.