Bugged: Bed Bugs Infest Our Homes and Our Minds
June 9, 2015
Aeon
Bugged: Bed Bugs Infest Our Homes and Our Minds
May 28, 2015 -Those of us born in the post-war years were so naive to the bug’s xistence that its sudden resurgence felt like an unprecedented and orchestrated foreign attack. It was great fuel for angst. ‘If something catches you by surprise that you don’t know about, it’s scarier than something that you grew up knowing about – that’s just part of living,’ says Franklin Schneier, a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute who has treated patients with bed-bug anxieties.