Posted by The Therapist on 6/4/2012, 12:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Embarassing illnesses Paruresis on TV"

Hi Andrew Thanks for the reply. You are right about the ratio of female therapists to mail. Most of the training courses I have done, the men are normally outnumbered 10 to 1. I have raised paruresis on a number of courses and with fellow therapists and noone has heard of it.Just shows how few people actually seek therapy for it. What was particularly disappointing was that one female therapist actually laughed when I mentioned it. I think it is one of the few anxiety disorders that would need a male therapist.

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