Ya know, I don't know which came first. I'm angry ABOUT by shy bowel, not that my anger caused my shy bowel. GOod thoughts there though baz.

The more I think about it I realize my shy bowel is because of WRONG thinking...and bad messages given to me as a child. The pattern then develops into bad physical habit and for me that is retaining myself because of anxiety feelings. The mere feeling of having to go to the toilet begins the anxiety pattern for me, the more I dwell on it the worse the anxiety.

So I am in the process of not trying to break the habit of anxiety but by REPLACING the feelings of anxiety, hoping then my body sensations won't automatically react to a mere thinking of "I can't do this now". Cause for me my shy bowel is often even at home when I'm alone. Its not a perceived threat, but more of a bad habit of thinking "what if I can't go" then will completely determine that I won't be able to go.

If I say to myself "I'll try to go and if I don't suceed, then so what". Better luck next time. I think I sometimes set myself up for failure by my thinking pattern.

Okay rambling here, but I realize this is very much physiological on my part.

The brain is harder to train then the body is.

The connection is there though baz. A mere thought can cause turmoil for me.