What seems most troubling about this phobia is that it is that the body shuts down out of fear thus I don't know how to do the exposure. My body can lock down for food poisoning!! My biggest frustration is that I have no bodily control. The fear is so over=powering that I have NO choice. I can't ever go to the bathroom in public or when I know I am not alone because my body shuts down. This is the main obstacle -- how could we be induced to defecate to desensitize. At any rate, gettting together and discussing this together is what counts at first -- to break the isolation and shame and start to figure out, as the original AA drunks did, the way out. Keep us posted
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