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Indian
media recently reported the bizarre case of a young couple who has
shifted 18 houses in just 3 years, due to the wife’s extreme cockroach
phobia.
Let’s be honest, few people genuinely like cockroaches, especially the
ones they find crawling through their kitchen, but how many people do
you know who have moved out of their home repeatedly because of
cockroaches? Well, that’s exactly what this couple in Bhopal, India’s
Madhya Pradesh state have been doing for the past 3 years, hoping to
finally find a cockroach-free house. However, after no less than 18
moves in 3 years, the wife’s extreme fear of cockroaches has taken a
toll on their marriage, and the exasperated husband is now preparing to
file for divorce.
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The husband, who works as a software engineer, became aware of his
wife’s phobia – which actually has a name, katsaridaphobia – son after
their wedding in 2017. She screamed from the top of her lungs one day
and ran out of the kitchen, scaring everyone in the house. She claimed
that she had seen a cockroach and refused to go back into the kitchen
ever again, insisting that they look for a new home.
The couple first changed houses in 2018, but it wasn’t long before the
wife’s cockroach phobia flared up again, so they relocated once again.
They’ve reportedly moved 18 times in total, and the husband has become
fed up with his spouse’s phobia. He took her to several psychiatrists,
including one at All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), but the
woman allegedly refuses to take the prescribed treatments.
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The woman’s extreme fear of cockroaches has taken a heavy toll on the
couple’s relationship, and their marriage is on the brink of collapse.
On one hand, the wife claims that her spouse doesn’t understand her
problem and is trying to have her declared mentally ill, and on the
other the husband has simply had enough of the constant moving, and is
preparing to file for divorce.
According to FearOf.net, like many other phobias, katsaridaphobia can
manifest itself in various ways, from people freezing up at the simple
mention of the word ‘cockroach’, to people simply feeling uncomfortable
in the presence of the insects.
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