Fear or Phobia Realize and confront phobia with these three tips Unless you’re an entomology enthusiast, let’s be real—cockroaches are pretty gross. But for people with Katsaridaphobia, an irrational fear of roaches, they’re petrifying. When the weather warms and roaches tend to venture indoors, someone with a roach phobia might scan ceilings before entering a room, avoid dark corners, or be on high alert for dark spots scuttling across floors.
Logically, we know roaches are harmless. But phobias don’t need to make sense for the fear to be real. Spotting one of these unwanted critters could trigger debilitating symptoms and escalate to a panic attack for someone with Katsaridaphobia.