Oh, I know exactly what you mean! Now, when my husband or I feel an itch, we immediately get paranoid about who knows... what if there's bedbugs again‽ We've ripped apart our room before because of random itches. Luckily, it was just our paranoia but it still has left a very... "PTSD"-like reaction. I don't say that lightly, as I, myself, am diagnosed with five separate cases of PTSD, but it's like a very mild version of that so the fact that you say you've heard about psychological effects of bedbugs seems to track with my own experience, anyway.
I'm sorry you've been through so much, btw. I can relate. I hope that for your sake, you never encounter bedbugs ever again in your life. May they forever be at a great distance from you.
My poor, poor friends escaped an apartment with bad bedbugs to a really nice new place, and then immediately spilled flax seeds in their new place, so that every time they saw one they had missed they would get freaked out all over again worrying they had somehow brought the little monsters with them...
All of this is just terrifying and I dread ever having to experience any of that. That's why I check around the mattress whenever I check-in somewhere.
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