Hi I’ve been reading the threads here with interest and would like to introduce myself as Kevin.

I’ve suffered with these problems since a small child and have always believed I was the only one. I’m curious to know where these issues started, can people here remember being toilet trained as a small child and how they dealt with it.

Can you remember ever using the toilet without any issues, or were there signs of problems always there, or did something happen at some time to trigger these negative thoughts.

As a small child I can remember refusing to use a pot, then at the age of 5 my mother pestered me to sit on the toilet, I kept refusing until one day I did it for a bribe, I sat on it for about 20 seconds with her standing in front of me and got off. It was the sense of embarrassment of sitting on a toilet, whether anyone was present or not, it was a case of anyone seeing or having a mental picture of me on the toilet, the feeling was so strong I couldn’t even imagine it in my head.

Regards
Kevin