Physical effects of watching or reading about bugs/insects

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Jade

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This may only apply to someone that suffers with a fear of bugs but I was wondering if anyone else has the same experience as me. If I watch a programme about bugs or read something about them I start itching! It almost feels like bugs are crawling all over me when obviously they are not. It’s a physical itch and feeling of crawling on the skin. Is this a case of the mind being a powerful thing again with an over active imagination willing your body into itching or tingling?Or could it be the hairs on your body standing up when your scared? ( this could be plausible because my head is the part of me that itches the most after I’ve been exposed to bugs/insects) but that doesn’t quite explain the itching or ' crawling' on other parts of my body that don’t have hair.

If anybody else gets this please comment on the thread and share if you have another theory why this happens.
 
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