The long drive…

Back in high school, if I had to go to the bathroom for a #2, I used to drive home. I shit you not.

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Who can be affected by Toilet Phobia?

Toilet Phobia can affect anyone at any time and ranges from a mild disruption through to a significant disruption of daily life.

Causes of Toilet Phobia

Toilet Phobia can be caused by a variety of factors including anxiety, fear, specific experience or trauma and learnt behaviour from someone close. Causes of Toilet Phobia can often be a combination of these factors or none of the above.

Treatment of Toilet Phobia

It is generally accepted that CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) is the recommended treatment for Toilet Phobia due to the fact that it is an evidence based therapy, however, many individuals cited Clinical Hypnotherapy, Counselling, guided self help and other lifestyle changes as being helpful in providing benefit to managing the condition.

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5 Responses to “The long drive…”

  1. Fish
    January 16, 2008 at 10:40 pm #

    Pooping in public toilets is okay, as long as you DON’T SIT ON THE SEAT. Same goes for peeing. You don’t want someone’s old pube crawling up your bum.

  2. geoff
    January 17, 2008 at 10:01 am #

    I was a strictly home court player as well, until well into university when a stomach bug I picked up in Mexico forced me to reconsider my options, and incidentally resulted in a total paradigm shift. Now rather than being grossed out by public toilets, I am grossed out by the thought of inflicting olfactory violence on my own home – so now I’m all about the away game. I’m also a total weirdo.

  3. cDiddy
    January 17, 2008 at 12:09 pm #

    I was able to say that not ONCE, throughout elementary, junior high, high school OR university – nor any of my part time jobs – did I ever take a “smash” on the road – as Geoff put it so nicely. Then I got a blackberry, and the brickbreaker game has now allowed me to overcome my fears and take 45 minute breaks at work to get my score above 225,000.

    Thanks RIM for letting me out of my fecal fear prison!

  4. Adam
    January 17, 2008 at 12:15 pm #

    I now go in public. Well pseudo-public: at work. For the same reasons Diddy mentioned: to play brickbreaker, but also to catch up on my personal emails and texts on the blackberry.

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