Posted by alex on 10/5/2007, 8:05 am, in reply to "Successful treatment by Cognitive Behaviour Therapy"

a great story but I wondered if there were two components to your tale 1. a toilet phobia per se 2. paruresis the second is no longer regarded as a phobia but more as a social anxiety disorder CBT can help deal with both of these. but the evidence is that primary paruresis ( the shutdown) does not go away but is lurking around all the time (in recovery as some say) but the dealing with anxiety (secondary paruresis)is helped a great deal with CBT (and all the other ways of dealing with this). Simply by becoming friends with your anxiety you can help defeat this CBT can help you do this

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