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so glad you covered this!! i’ve struggled with this for nearly a decade and it did evolve into agoraphobia. it’s always nice to hear about other people experiencing the same thing, makes me feel less alone.
I’m sorry you have to deal with this. You are not alone and I wish it was discussed more because it is very common. I hope you are doing better as this condition is treatable.
I have had this for maybe 3-4 years now and its taking over my life! I'm a 33 year old man and finally had to see a doctor, I started anxiety medication only 2 days ago and I'm praying it helps even just a little bit! I just don't understand why its happening to me, every time someone suggests a day out even a 20 minute drive I start to panic and make excuses up, I rarely go out and my own family miss out. I started my new job only 2 weeks ago and really enjoy working there but I dread the drive to work (its only a 10 minute drive!) because this fear I'm basically going to crap any second even though I tried to go to the toilet before leaving the house. I get to work and it takes me around an hour to calm down sometimes much longer as I'm constantly trying to tell myself do not worry there is a toilet like 20 metres away! I question am I going mad here!? , if I'm into a project (my job is hands on) then it helps forget the fear, to the point i sometimes don't take rest breaks because I know I will over think it all and go back into work in that state of mind. I've had operations removing a tumour and a heart operation but would do it all again if it meant this fear would go away, eats away at me inside on a daily occurrence. And the strangest thing is that maybe 90%-95% of the time I don't actually need to use the bathroom. When I get home I get this sense of relief! even though I get this fear when someone has a bath for 45 minutes, I get panicky I need the toilet. It really is taking its toll on my mental health :(
I am so sorry you are having to deal with this. You are not alone. The fear here is often a fear of embarrassment. The fear that you may have an accident and be embarrassed. I often have clients work on exercises where they are tolerating feeling embarrassed while at the same time practicing going places without doing their avoidances or their safety behaviors. If you are checking if you have to go before you leave, and thinking about it, and checking yourself constantly at work, you are unintentionally training your brain to have a hyper vigilance on your urge to go, and this associates fear with that urge. It takes intentional practice of going places, not internally checking on your urge to recover. I cover this in my new program for people with agoraphobia coming out in a few months. You can go to paigepradko.com and sign up for my newsletter and I will update you there when the program becomes available.
I was doing so much better with bathroom anxiety until early this summer I was at a festival. I was already a little off that day and then I felt the need to go to the bathroom. I went into this multi stall portajohn and the stall was so tiny that the door touched my knees when it closed. There was no ventilation and I started getting hot and dizzy. I hurried to finish and ran outside, at this point now already in a full panic attack. I’ve been terrified ever since.
Peeing is no problem for me. My fear is that i need to poop and there won't be no place for me to go. Luckily i don't feel embarrassed about needing to go anymore. I would even go in a bush in worst case but i usually feel the urge and i jave to go pretty much immediately which makes it impossible for me to hold on to it. That really affects my life negatively. Oftentimes I'm somewhere were i won't be able to use the bathroom i start to panic.
I hatttteeee to use a bathroom that is not in my house. I had to use the bathroom at my job and when that happened, I had a panic attack! I was annoyed cause I felt like my body was just overreacting... it happened again and again and again... Awful :( Thank you so much for for this video :)
I dont have bathroom anxiety,just general anxiety in new ans unknown places or maybe I don't know if I identified this about me yet. But I frequently have these dreams especially in the past where I'd see bathrooms and they are always not ideal. Either I have to defecate and someone is present there, that's why I'm not able to do the job and I'm stressed out. Or maybe the bathroom is too small for me to fit,or the toilet is dirty and weird, or it's a public bathroom where I'm supposed to poop with many people and that's extremely shameful to me. Basically dreams about me having troubles in the bathroom, unable to do my job when I have to do my job. It's weird I kno
Thank you for this video Paige. I have the opposite problem - anxiety constipation. I would be grateful if you could do a video on GAD which presents chronic muscle tension (scalp, throat and upper back). This inherent muscle tension is causing the constipation (I’ve done all relevant tests for anything outside anxiety including colonoscopy and have been medically cleared).
Paige my phobia of Toilets is different and I have trouble walking up to the bowl or lifting the seat to look at the bowl. I have suffered from this since Childhood and it's never easy. I have had really bad nightmares about Toilets. Always in rooms 1-4 at a time and one room had over 100 of them in it. And these were not normal Toilets by a long shot. Not connected to a water main yet full of water or something keeping them alive, They attack in a group, highly intelligent and think like a person One min they were looking in different directions and the next they are looking right at me. 1 surprised appeared next to my leg so they move at FAST too FOR HEAVY POTS. They came across as Drones.
@@PaigePradkoTherapy Not really I still feel it approaching a toilet but only unknown ones. My one at home is fine. The weirdest thing happens. Every time Paige the room mutes and the air feels comparessed every time I approach a Toilet and I fear extreme fear seeing the bowl for a brief second
Ive been dealing with the same problem i love doing things riding my motorcycle all the things about 7yrs ago things changed i didnt know what was going on it started small like when i would go to the mall it was like i didnt want to be there buy i loved the mall if i was in line to long i would panic my nerves would get the best of me but once i get in my car heading home it would be like it never happen then it started lighting up to the point of it going away i tode my bike more did more things outside that was like year 2 into it the it started back i would go to a place for scared that the bathroom would be full then i would just not go or turn around and go back home but when i turned around or just stay home id feel normal but now its the worst i can only go to work if i go to a friends home i make sure i can use the bathroom but if i go out the first thing i would do is check to see how many bathroom they have if its alot im good but if theres only like 2 or 3 and there about 40 or more people i start up again and my stomach start hurting and i can go to the restroom sometimes dont even use it just go but once im like i have to go switch off and im like why....why me bout a jeep thinking i can ride with the doors off....no but i feel like people are watching and i get nerves for no reason and it starts again but traveling at night no problem what so ever that i dont understand but i rather travel at night because it helps buy if anyone full the same let me know what helped you
This is great for people who are afraid that they won't find a bathroom close by, but what about those of us (like me) who have a fear of the toilet itself? Mine started early in childhood as a result of CSA trauma, but I also have autism with associated OCD. While I have a generalized feeling being "threatened" whenever a toilet is nearby (and sometimes just being in a bathroom in general), I also have the obsession that toilets are disgusting and full of germs and I hate the thought of them touching my body, contaminating me in some way. What do you do about that? It makes going to the bathroom extremely anxiety-provoking and difficult.
I understand and I’m so sorry you have to deal with that. In your case, ERP is recommended for contamination and disgust OCD. The feeling of disgust is difficult to resolve and takes much longer to treat than contamination ocd. I discuss this and how to treat both variations in my ocd course. You can learn more about that course here: www.paigepradko.com/ocd
Does anyone else feel physically tense in their bladder because of it? This has been happening for a month now and I am scared it will make me damaged physically and make me stop having control over my bladder.
so the therapy relied on her being able to hold her urine. But what would’ve been the solution if she in fact couldn’t hold it? I suffer from IBS and if I get at all anxious or panic, I have to find a bathroom immediately. What am I supposed to do if I expose myself to situations where there are no bathrooms close by? Id just panic spiral until I inevitably poop myself
Having an urge to urinate due to anxiety is different than having IBS. IBS is certainly a difficult challenge. I imagine that when you become more comfortable in new situations and environments, the condition eases up compared to when you were most uncomfortable. That is an example of how exposures work in real life.
Lately, after a long bout of stress, my digestive system is all messed up. Every day at noon, I get cramps and have to use the bathroom. Then, my stomach feels off all day. My doctor thinks it's stress and anxiety. I hope that's all it is.
I feel chest tightness and sharp chest pain always before Going to restroom and after washroom my feeling become most worst for at least 20-30 then I became normal , I always feel that is this heart issue ? I am going through anxiety from last 4 years
I have fear of doing potty..so I am not going to potty all day ..im control it very much. And then feel very anzies.. taking lot of water to clean privat part. I'm not able to going outside. Always live my home. Because I have lot of tension to cleaning after doing potty. So will avoid it.plz help mi.
I am sorry that you are dealing with that fear. It sounds like it may be OCD involving fears of contamination and feelings of disgust. I do cover treatment for this in my ocd course if you are interested in more help: www.paigepradko.com/ocd
I really hurt because of this. In chemistry and chemical engineering we are expected to be grown up men who are disciplined to hold our poop and pee to work long hours.
I am suffering from constant urge to pee but when i am in home this urge doesnt happen it only happens when i am out of the home i stop socializing because of that
@@narutoshippudenyooo4569 Sorry you are having to deal with this. Try your best to challenge yourself to stretch out your bathroom visits and slowly begin to socialize again. Be patient as this is a recovery process and doesn’t happen overnight. I cover treatment in detail in my agoraphobia course at paigepradko.com
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so glad you covered this!! i’ve struggled with this for nearly a decade and it did evolve into agoraphobia. it’s always nice to hear about other people experiencing the same thing, makes me feel less alone.
I’m sorry you have to deal with this. You are not alone and I wish it was discussed more because it is very common. I hope you are doing better as this condition is treatable.
How are you coping with it now?
I have suffered this for more than 20 years.... it's hell on earth.
I am so sorry. 😢
I have had this for maybe 3-4 years now and its taking over my life! I'm a 33 year old man and finally had to see a doctor, I started anxiety medication only 2 days ago and I'm praying it helps even just a little bit! I just don't understand why its happening to me, every time someone suggests a day out even a 20 minute drive I start to panic and make excuses up, I rarely go out and my own family miss out. I started my new job only 2 weeks ago and really enjoy working there but I dread the drive to work (its only a 10 minute drive!) because this fear I'm basically going to crap any second even though I tried to go to the toilet before leaving the house. I get to work and it takes me around an hour to calm down sometimes much longer as I'm constantly trying to tell myself do not worry there is a toilet like 20 metres away! I question am I going mad here!? , if I'm into a project (my job is hands on) then it helps forget the fear, to the point i sometimes don't take rest breaks because I know I will over think it all and go back into work in that state of mind. I've had operations removing a tumour and a heart operation but would do it all again if it meant this fear would go away, eats away at me inside on a daily occurrence. And the strangest thing is that maybe 90%-95% of the time I don't actually need to use the bathroom. When I get home I get this sense of relief! even though I get this fear when someone has a bath for 45 minutes, I get panicky I need the toilet. It really is taking its toll on my mental health :(
I am so sorry you are having to deal with this. You are not alone. The fear here is often a fear of embarrassment. The fear that you may have an accident and be embarrassed. I often have clients work on exercises where they are tolerating feeling embarrassed while at the same time practicing going places without doing their avoidances or their safety behaviors. If you are checking if you have to go before you leave, and thinking about it, and checking yourself constantly at work, you are unintentionally training your brain to have a hyper vigilance on your urge to go, and this associates fear with that urge. It takes intentional practice of going places, not internally checking on your urge to recover. I cover this in my new program for people with agoraphobia coming out in a few months. You can go to paigepradko.com and sign up for my newsletter and I will update you there when the program becomes available.
I suffer from this and have done for decades. Everyday is a challenge and takes a lot of mental energy to just go out or anywhere.
For me as well 😭
I was doing so much better with bathroom anxiety until early this summer I was at a festival. I was already a little off that day and then I felt the need to go to the bathroom. I went into this multi stall portajohn and the stall was so tiny that the door touched my knees when it closed. There was no ventilation and I started getting hot and dizzy. I hurried to finish and ran outside, at this point now already in a full panic attack. I’ve been terrified ever since.
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Peeing is no problem for me. My fear is that i need to poop and there won't be no place for me to go. Luckily i don't feel embarrassed about needing to go anymore. I would even go in a bush in worst case but i usually feel the urge and i jave to go pretty much immediately which makes it impossible for me to hold on to it. That really affects my life negatively. Oftentimes I'm somewhere were i won't be able to use the bathroom i start to panic.
Bro I feel pretty much the same! I thought nobody else had this
Can I have your Instagram so we can discuss?
I hatttteeee to use a bathroom that is not in my house. I had to use the bathroom at my job and when that happened, I had a panic attack! I was annoyed cause I felt like my body was just overreacting... it happened again and again and again... Awful :( Thank you so much for for this video :)
I dont have bathroom anxiety,just general anxiety in new ans unknown places or maybe I don't know if I identified this about me yet. But I frequently have these dreams especially in the past where I'd see bathrooms and they are always not ideal. Either I have to defecate and someone is present there, that's why I'm not able to do the job and I'm stressed out. Or maybe the bathroom is too small for me to fit,or the toilet is dirty and weird, or it's a public bathroom where I'm supposed to poop with many people and that's extremely shameful to me. Basically dreams about me having troubles in the bathroom, unable to do my job when I have to do my job. It's weird I kno
Thank you for this video Paige. I have the opposite problem - anxiety constipation.
I would be grateful if you could do a video on GAD which presents chronic muscle tension (scalp, throat and upper back).
This inherent muscle tension is causing the constipation (I’ve done all relevant tests for anything outside anxiety including colonoscopy and have been medically cleared).
I’m sorry you are experiencing that. I’ve added your suggestion to my list. Thank you.
Paige my phobia of Toilets is different and I have trouble walking up to the bowl or lifting the seat to look at the bowl. I have suffered from this since Childhood and it's never easy. I have had really bad nightmares about Toilets. Always in rooms 1-4 at a time and one room had over 100 of them in it. And these were not normal Toilets by a long shot. Not connected to a water main yet full of water or something keeping them alive, They attack in a group, highly intelligent and think like a person One min they were looking in different directions and the next they are looking right at me. 1 surprised appeared next to my leg so they move at FAST too FOR HEAVY POTS. They came across as Drones.
Oh my, that sounds like a horror movie. I am wondering if exposures to toilets help you?
@@PaigePradkoTherapy Not really I still feel it approaching a toilet but only unknown ones. My one at home is fine. The weirdest thing happens. Every time Paige the room mutes and the air feels comparessed every time I approach a Toilet and I fear extreme fear seeing the bowl for a brief second
Ive been dealing with the same problem i love doing things riding my motorcycle all the things about 7yrs ago things changed i didnt know what was going on it started small like when i would go to the mall it was like i didnt want to be there buy i loved the mall if i was in line to long i would panic my nerves would get the best of me but once i get in my car heading home it would be like it never happen then it started lighting up to the point of it going away i tode my bike more did more things outside that was like year 2 into it the it started back i would go to a place for scared that the bathroom would be full then i would just not go or turn around and go back home but when i turned around or just stay home id feel normal but now its the worst i can only go to work if i go to a friends home i make sure i can use the bathroom but if i go out the first thing i would do is check to see how many bathroom they have if its alot im good but if theres only like 2 or 3 and there about 40 or more people i start up again and my stomach start hurting and i can go to the restroom sometimes dont even use it just go but once im like i have to go switch off and im like why....why me bout a jeep thinking i can ride with the doors off....no but i feel like people are watching and i get nerves for no reason and it starts again but traveling at night no problem what so ever that i dont understand but i rather travel at night because it helps buy if anyone full the same let me know what helped you
This is great for people who are afraid that they won't find a bathroom close by, but what about those of us (like me) who have a fear of the toilet itself? Mine started early in childhood as a result of CSA trauma, but I also have autism with associated OCD. While I have a generalized feeling being "threatened" whenever a toilet is nearby (and sometimes just being in a bathroom in general), I also have the obsession that toilets are disgusting and full of germs and I hate the thought of them touching my body, contaminating me in some way. What do you do about that? It makes going to the bathroom extremely anxiety-provoking and difficult.
I understand and I’m so sorry you have to deal with that. In your case, ERP is recommended for contamination and disgust OCD. The feeling of disgust is difficult to resolve and takes much longer to treat than contamination ocd. I discuss this and how to treat both variations in my ocd course. You can learn more about that course here: www.paigepradko.com/ocd
My issue is going number two even using my own bathroom 😢 I don’t understand why
same i am in class and i have to go every hour almost . It is really embarassing
Does anyone else feel physically tense in their bladder because of it? This has been happening for a month now and I am scared it will make me damaged physically and make me stop having control over my bladder.
I got stuck in a really busy city traffic jam about 10 years ago, i really needed to have a bowel movement. I have not been right since that day!
Can I have your Instagram so we can discuss?
Thank you so much doctor, u r like god
so the therapy relied on her being able to hold her urine. But what would’ve been the solution if she in fact couldn’t hold it? I suffer from IBS and if I get at all anxious or panic, I have to find a bathroom immediately. What am I supposed to do if I expose myself to situations where there are no bathrooms close by? Id just panic spiral until I inevitably poop myself
Having an urge to urinate due to anxiety is different than having IBS. IBS is certainly a difficult challenge. I imagine that when you become more comfortable in new situations and environments, the condition eases up compared to when you were most uncomfortable. That is an example of how exposures work in real life.
What about the urge to go but you cant you lock up ?
Lately, after a long bout of stress, my digestive system is all messed up. Every day at noon, I get cramps and have to use the bathroom. Then, my stomach feels off all day. My doctor thinks it's stress and anxiety. I hope that's all it is.
Unfortunately stress and anxiety can do that.
I developed ibs because of my mental conditions, my doc knows, still won't tell my parents to suggest a psychologist.
I feel chest tightness and sharp chest pain always before Going to restroom and after washroom my feeling become most worst for at least 20-30 then I became normal , I always feel that is this heart issue ? I am going through anxiety from last 4 years
I am sorry you have those symptoms. I do not know if that is anxiety related or not. But I am sure your doctor can rule out any medical problems.
I have fear of doing potty..so I am not going to potty all day ..im control it very much. And then feel very anzies.. taking lot of water to clean privat part. I'm not able to going outside. Always live my home. Because I have lot of tension to cleaning after doing potty. So will avoid it.plz help mi.
I am sorry that you are dealing with that fear. It sounds like it may be OCD involving fears of contamination and feelings of disgust. I do cover treatment for this in my ocd course if you are interested in more help:
www.paigepradko.com/ocd
Same problem.what can we do about it
I really hurt because of this. In chemistry and chemical engineering we are expected to be grown up men who are disciplined to hold our poop and pee to work long hours.
I am suffering from constant urge to pee but when i am in home this urge doesnt happen it only happens when i am out of the home i stop socializing because of that
@@narutoshippudenyooo4569 Sorry you are having to deal with this. Try your best to challenge yourself to stretch out your bathroom visits and slowly begin to socialize again. Be patient as this is a recovery process and doesn’t happen overnight. I cover treatment in detail in my agoraphobia course at paigepradko.com
Me myself have been so anxious to go toilet in my own home and its been weeks or longer you reckon i should seek help cause im in pain😢
I hope you’re feeling better. Yes, you should get help.
I love your videos and find your gentle way of speaking relaxing!
I'm so glad! Thank you, Mike 😊
Plz reply or upload video on this topic thanku very much
Please see my reply to your last comment. This sounds like contamination OCD and it is treatable. I include what to do to recover in my ocd course. 😊
What about 💩 it can't be controlled 😅
Each and every time i feel like i will poop in my pant and also while pee ..i waste my all days in thinking about poopa😢
Can I have your Instagram so we can discuss?
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