Why am I afraid of cockroach?

Almost all people are disgusted or scared by bugs, myself included. I don't think it can be explained, it's probably a primal fear we humans always had. Don't be ashamed, it's normal.

Because we feel pain, it gets our attention and we try to relieve it or figure out what caused it. So in the same sense, having this fear is what gets us to try and get rid of them in the first place.

Even Wolverine is wise to fear cockroaches. They will one day rise and rule the world.

If you truly want to get over the fear.

1. Make one your pet.
2. Let it crawl over your body.
3. ??
4. WIN

Fortunately, it is a cold region, and "they" do not appear.

Put a newspaper in your shoes.
Cockroaches hate drying.
Dry and clean if you want to eradicate them.

I hate it when large insects fly, they look terrible but the real part of my fear is that they fly randomly and will crash into you. I don't want to touch them and I don't want them to touch me!

My only fear are spiders. This phobia is caused by my childhood period when we had small thin spiders in our corners, especially in the bathroom. When I was 8, I always stared at them while taking a shower, I was very scared. I never tried to tell my parents about my fear though. Didn’t want them to know that I’m afraid of something. I’m still afraid of spiders and I’m 23.

Exposing yourself to your fear is the only way to overcome it.

Have you heard them sing?
Funky Towel 🎵

Because cockroaches are evil, dangerous things. If you don't watch out they band together with the spiders and take your little puppies away for food.
I've seen it happen!

I had a roommate who would scream like a girl and run away when he saw cockroaches .. guy had a serious phobia of them..
I personally dont have any problem with bugs or cockroaches.. but spiders - hell, even if I see harmless little spider crawling in the other end of my room - panic starts to settle in. Once there was a huge spider (almost hand sized) near my head while sleeping on couch. I got up and didnt sit in the couch for a weeks.. (that was at friends house btw, I had around 100 km to drive home that night - the drive was rather uncomfortable - I thought that huge ass spider has come with me and is everywhere in the car and in my gloves)

I suppose everyone has some kind of phobia or irrational fear of a thing or two

PS - just remembered - either the same huge spider or to our horror another one came crawling out, someone took a slipper and hit the spider - the motherfucker took the hit and just walked it off. The fucker probably had enough protein to survive, probably ate a rat or two

Last week, I was driving with my family when my son said "Daddy, stop the car, there's a huge spider". And sure enough, it was there, on the ceiling.
My wife started screaming so I pulled over, removed my shoe and took the bugger out.
It was bigger than those I've seen here (France) and I suspect it was hiding in the Christmas tree I transported in the car two weeks ago.
And now, every time I get in the car, I do a quick inspection ...
I jump when I see spiders and I'm older than you but cockroaches are not scary to me.

I just find them disgusting, unless they're flying of course, that always manages to startle me.
Only bug that makes me climb on the closest chair/anything away from the floor and ask for help are scorpions, those things are scary.

I am so glad we don't have them here.

Not only are they bugs, but a specific pest that doesn't look humanoid at all and with your personal experience adding on top to the disgust. A dog, cat, birb, frog, green-man-alien, whatnot you come across those are humanoid looking - share many features humans have (some skin, eyes, limbs, mouths, etc.). Millions of years of ancestral experiences passed on as genetic information (dog = friend, birb flying-yum, cat = friend, etc.). The less human it look, the more disgusting/alienating it is are to humans in general. Conversely, this is why people like attributing humanoid features on almost anything. (related google: pareidolia, anthropomorphism, humanoid)

Its the antenas man.

I'm more "disgusted" than "scared" of them. The stuff I'm really scared of are spiders (phobia) and anything with a stinger (bees, wasps, also I occasionally see these weird little completely black fly-wasp-lookalike things which also have stingers, they hurt like hell).

Honestly, I find most insects disgusting but nothing is stopping me from just crushing the ones I'm not terrified of into bug paste if they are where they're not supposed to be. (Well, ok, there are those flying "stinker" bugs that leave an awful smell if you crush them- I just catch those with some paper and flush them down the toiler or throw them outside. They're surprisingly slow, so it's easy to do.)

Any creature which can survive a nuclear blast should be feared.

If it can't bite me, poison me, scratch me or otherwise kill me.
MEH

They sure are disgusting and can spread diseases on your food. The ultimate bio weapon, better than Metal Gear ^^.

There's this red wasp here on warm places. You better fear this mofo, It's sting is so painful and the venom can cause a bad reaction on some people:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Huachichila&client=ms-android-hms-tef-mx&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPrNbsr93mAhVLlKwKHfhoDawQ_AUoAXoECA8QAQ&biw=320&bih=488&dpr=1.5#imgrc=wGlBU1cjynUdbM%3A

Did you know that cockroaches are bred in China? They are used for medicine and waste disposal. No need to be afraid of them.

no, I generally don't care about them.. but I know many people scared of many animals, maybe because I grew up in a farmer's family here in the hills in Northern Italy, we don't have that much wild life of course but yeah there are wolves boars cows insects of any kind spiders snakes and such.. I'm not scared though for some reason luckily =P I know there are lots of psychological studies about humanity's ancestral fears and so on though!