Sorry you had such a rough night. I never knew there were scorpions in Colorado.
Most of us have our phobias and panic attacks, I think. My wife can't handle heights. I have intense anxiety around authority figures. I once blacked out in the middle of the post office when I got a letter from the IRS. It turned out to be nothing but I still wound up lying on that tile floor. And for some reason I still feel intense anxiety any time I have to enter a post office.
Oh man, I'm sorry! That sucks.
Yeah we're at the northern tip of the SW desert so I think we don't get many (thank the Gods), but a few.