Posted by John on 13/12/2008, 3:54 pm

I've just caught up with the latest episode of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on BBC iPlayer, and I was amazed to discover that not only do other people suffer from not being able to take a leak in public, but that it's actually quite common, has a medical term, and that there are even websites like this one! I've had it for about 15 years now, I remember being underage in a pub and not being able to urinate, and ever since then I've had to queue up for the cubicles, don't even dare to try and use the stalls for fear of embarrassment; the few times that I've tried I've been unsuccessful. Now it's reached the point where I hardly go out at weekends any more, because I know that I'll have to spend the whole night with an uncomfortably full bladder, or feeling awkward queueing up for the cubicles. Has anyone here successfully beaten it? I think I'm starting to make some progress, I can go at a urinal now if I walk in there with my mind focussed on something completely different, but only works when the toilets are empty, so when someone else walks in just after me it's like that scene with Mark and Jeff in Peep Show, I pretend I've just been and walk off!

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