Scared of having a bowel in public places other than my home - Anxiety Message Board

Sweetbleedingspike · 10-28-2003, 09:48 PM

Okay this is going to sound rather weird and I am really embaressed about it. I 16 and think I have a "phobia" (?) of have a bowel movement anywhere else but my own house. I think to myself that I need to go and I should and that its okay, but my body cant. I will hold it till I get home. Even if I am at my best friends house I still have trouble... Sometimes I will get constipated from not being able to go like when I am traveling. THe few times I do I have to be completly alone or in the middle of the nite when no one else is awake. I dont understand why? I just know this is a problem and I am goin to have trouble when I go off to school in two years. Any advice or comments would be apreciated. Thanks

Graciecat · 10-28-2003, 10:03 PM

I don't have any advice for you, but this isn't the first time I've heard of this.
I have a very close friend who's the same way.
She will not go anywhere other than her own house.
The summer we graduated High School we went to the beach with a bunch of our friends.
She didn't go until the fourth day we were there, and she only went then because she was the only one in the condo at the time.
She doesn't have panic attacks, OCD or depression..none of that.
She just won't go unless she's home.

zavey · 10-29-2003, 12:16 AM

i've also been one of those people who only take a crap at home. one time when i had to go REALLY bad, i actually went home during my lunch break at work so i could go. *laff* usually i try to hold it in. i actually do have major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, and possible OCD. i've always been this way.

as far as suggestions.... it takes awhile to get used to having to go in a bathroom with other people in college. my advice is to start out going in the middle of the night (if you're an insomniac like me), when there are few people up and in the bathroom you share. or when you first go off to school, just flush a couple of times when you go and try to pick a stall near the showers. i remember this one chick from college used to flush about ten times every time she went.

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hry33 · 10-29-2003, 10:34 AM

I heard of a person who couldnt go unless someone was with them in the room, probably related to when they were a small child

franjava22 · 10-29-2003, 08:58 PM

I used to not even be able to pee with someone in the room. I always hated taking a dump, though. When I was little, I'd hold it in and go maybe once or twice a week. By then, my poo was so big, it would hurt me and stop up the toilet. That made me hate pooping even more! I can go in a public place, but only if it's a private bathroom (no stalls.) I'm still afraid of stopping up the toilet, though!