Shy Bladder 'parureses' treatment in Huntingdon

Toilet phobia: fear of peeing in front of others

Shy Bladder or 'Parureses' is the inability to urinate in front of others. As with all other phobias, the severity of the symptoms change from person to person, and will also fluctuate depending on the person's anxiety levels. Huntingdon hypnotherapist Lee Joseph uses analytical therapy to help overcome your toilet phobia once and for all.

Shy bladder causes difficulties as the sufferer will not use the urinals instead they will hang around waiting for a cubical to be free when using public toilets. This in itself creates additional anxiety. Once in a cubical some sufferers will have to wait until everone has left the toilets as they still feel themselves under pressure knowing that people are still in the vacinity. In the severist cases the sufferer can only use the toilet in their own home.

Shy bladder is a Social Anxiety Disorder and is also known by a number of other names including avoidant paruresis, shy bladder syndrome and pee shyness. It is also sometimes grouped along with other conditions under the term toilet phobia. It is important to embrace the fact that this disorder has physical symptoms but they are psychological in origin and out of the control of the conscious mind. Although most sufferers report that they developed the condition in their teenage years, it can strike at any age.

	The need for complete privacy when using the toilet
	Fear of people hearing you use the toilet
	Inability to urinate in public toilets
	Feeling anxious about needing to use the toilet
	Reducing your intake of fluids to minimise the times you need to urinate
	Inhability to urinate at a social event if someone is waiting outside the toilet
	Urinating while being observed

Social anxiety or social phobia

Anxiety about urinating overstimulates the person’s nervous system and the effect is a failure to urinate. This then heightens the person’s anxiety even further, particularly if the bladder is uncomfortably full. For some people, an embarrassing incident starts the social phobia for example the inability to urinate into a cup in front of a doctor or nurse or being bullied in the school toilets.

Treating the fear or urinating in front of others using hypnosis

Hypno-Analysis can help you to resolve emotional anxiety conflicts that are causing this problem. Think of these anxieties as bottled up emotions. Once you identify and release them, you will have a greater emotional insight and you will be able to let go of the symptom and stress they have caused.