Today's news: "At least 4 million people have a toilet phobia." Is group therapy the best "way to go"?

Answer 1

Having a crap is better than sex you don't have to cuddle it afterwards

Answer 2

Yuk! I don't think so.

My son won't go to a public loo.

He even told them when he first went to senior school that the toilets were dirty.

But it's the flushing and the noise of the fans in some loos that he doesn't like as well as the thought of who else has been.

Answer 3

Let's see....If people are afraid of toilets, what are they doing when they have to defecate? Are they doing it in their pants? or in the backyard? or in shopping malls?

Are they afraid of the fixture, or of the existential loneliness of sitting on the crapper? Are they equally afraid, whether it is to urinate, or to defecate?

The usual phobic behavior would be to avoid the toilet altogether, so such persons might have a preference not to live in homes or apartments, and to just live in garages or tents, right?

But the treatments is the nub of the question. The usual treatment is to gradually expose the phobic to the source of the phobia. First, guided imagery could be used in which the sufferer merely imagines a toilet, several yards away. Gradually, it would be imagined as closer and closer, until the fellow could imagine placing his duff upon the seat.

Later, when the above phase has been gotten used to, the poor frightened person would then be led gradually toward an actual toilet, in a real environment, and encouraged to approach the plumbing fixture at his or her own pace, until he could reach out, touch it, and see that it means no harm.

The above is much better than group therapy. With phobias, the group is not reassuring, and as each sufferer described his feelings, there might be a "contagion of fear", even to panic. Also there is the dehumanizing effect of imagining the other participants as just a bunch of as*sho*les, which might result in a generalized phobia evidence toward the group itself.

Twelve--Step groups have been shown to be of no worth, as it has been shown to be countertherapeutic to admit that one is powerless over the bowl, and swearing to enounce it completely and stop using it.

BUT, there is this SELF-HELP SOLUTION, for those who cannot afford a therapist or a group, which is to arm yourself with cleaning rags, sponges, Mr. Clean, and Pine-Sol, as well as disinfectant sprays like Lysol, and go and CLEAN the toilet, so that it no long appears to be a junkyard artifact in some Mad Max movie, full of fungus and germs.

In summary: The best cure for this phobia is to alter the makeup of the toilet into a germ--free, clean--looking item that is harmless and attractive. And then, to be and do like the women, which is to keep the seat DOWN, so that no alligators or monstroids can erupt out of the sewers to chew your privates off while you are using it.

:-() LOL.!.

Answer 4

I know. My khazi is the most frightening thing I have ever seen. There is something about porcelain that gives me the shudders. I have to poop in my pants as I am so scared of putting my vulnerable chuff anywhere near the dunnee. There is a big 'orrible scabby bog monster that will grab hold of my meat when I sit on it and will never let go. Ooooer!

Answer 5

Group therapy has gone down the pan in recent years.

Answer 6

I like 17 the best.

Answer 7

Well, maybe we should all swing the other way....and for health's sake....just let it all hang out....in an "out house"!

Answer 8

Toilet phobia ? when you gotta go you gotta go, so how come there is a phobia, it would be one if you had to go and did not.

Answer 9

public toilets scare me. You just know there are germs there and the person could have touched tHe walls etc with their dirty fingers. EWWW!!!

Answer 10

ups, I'v got to go