bed bugs.

[reece]

so, i hate the news. i normall post on the hypochondria forum but along with my HA i have a little bug phobia. roaches, fleas, ticks, LICE and bedbugs. anything that can become an INFESTATION.
i have had the bedbug obsession before a few years ago when they said they were making a comeback.
but, now with all the news about them really being infesting places like hotels and movie theaters!

so, i just investigated my mattresses. cleaned under the beds. vacuumed the box springs, etc. i cleaned baseboards and basically inspected each bedroom.  i found some dead bugs while cleaning, ants, gnats, who knows what, and i inspected each one. very ocd-like. sigh. a couple of them looked similar to bedbugs but i'm not a bug expert and my reasonable side said they could be anything and they were long dead. AND i  don't see any signs of infestation at all(yes i googled)and none of us have any bites or anything...  so, now i'm startng that ocd spiral that i can't go to any hotel or let my husband go to one. AND, i'm scared to even go spend the weekend at my friends house labor day, which i really want to do. i'm really pissed that the news might have triggered this for me again.

how can i stop this? i keep telling myself that if it happens, it won't be the end of the world....but, i'm not convinced yet.

thanks for any advice.
reece

it's not like they would be harmful, right? just a nuisance. right? right?

[Cuchculan]

News is all about scare mongering. They pick up on a story and run with it. In a way that will make you sit up and listen and even be afriad. Think of all these flu epedemics. How many people did you know that actually caught swine flu or bird flu? The old and the sick are always just as vunerable to the normal flu. But the blew it up into something it wasn't. Now we sit and we wait for the next strain of flu to be announced. It is all about how we react. I just ignored it all. Turned the news off. Worried not about the flu one bit. That's the news for you. To make you worry. But don't. Worst case senario? Bed bugs and the likes? You won't die that's for sure. Bring your own blanket along to your friend's house. And feck the news. I have long since stopped listening to it.

[sixpack]

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