just to let u know there is at least one other person feeling like u..(many on this site of course). i am very glad to have discovered this site as up until now i just felt i was weird (well i still think i gotta be at least a little bit weird for having a hang-up about something u can't avoid in life, just like breathing - why don't we have a hang-up about that?) - but anyway i did feel utterly alone with my predicament, and now it seems at least more bearable. i personally don't believe drugs would do much good - how could they change one's attitude towards the need of privacy? unless they're erasing your personality.. anyway, good luck to you and all of us on our daily combat involving the biggest white bowl in our flats and houses.
i am exactly the same with not being able to go when feeling rushed.
despite having this condition i am usually fine and very regular, like once a day in the morning, but like u i can't go if i know i have to leave (eg. for work) in 20 mins or so.
when i had a job (unemployed at the moment) i used to get up at 5.15 also, even if i only had to leave at 7.45.
my boyfriend thinks i am mad and take so long just to put my make-up on (i still haven't told him yet), but really it is to allow that extra time and not feel rushed.
so i propose next time we want to go but can't because someone is too close to the bathroom - think of all the others feeling the same and maybe this way we can come to see it with some sense of 'toilet humour', like all of us uniting to fight the fight against the toilet :-)
i mean, if u were forced to live in a broom cupboard, would tablets make u feel less bothered about the constricted space?
i doubt it to be honest.
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