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Shy Bladder & Paruresis Videos
If you live with shy bladder syndrome (paruresis), these videos are here to help you better understand what you may be experiencing and to share what I’ve learned from my own journey with paruresis.
I lived with shy bladder for more than 50 years. In these videos, I talk about the everyday experiences people with paruresis know so well: public restrooms, urinals and stalls, travel, people waiting, the pressure to pee, the thoughts that can race through our minds, and the tendency to judge ourselves when things don’t go the way we’d hoped.
If you’re new here, start with the first video below and then explore whichever topics resonate with your own experience.
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If you’re new to my videos, this is a great place to begin. I share my personal story with shy bladder, how much it affected my life, and why I believe greater freedom from paruresis is possible.
Latest Shy Bladder Videos
Knowing someone is waiting can create enormous pressure when you have shy bladder. In this video, I talk about our distorted sense of time in a restroom, the feeling that we need to hurry, and why I remind people: nobody is timing you. Own the toilet.
People with shy bladder can become incredibly aware of everything happening around them in a public restroom. In this video, I talk about that hypervigilance, why being so aware of others can make it feel like they’re equally aware of us, and what I came to understand from my own experience.