Feb 7, 2024 | Success Stories
Peeing in the Sin Bin There I was, standing there, staring down the abyss of a white porcelain bowl, watching, waiting, hoping, praying for something to happen, only to be confronted with the second hand of time marching inexorably forward. Defeated, I zip up and...
Feb 7, 2024 | Success Stories
Painting the Town Yellow in Las Vegas As paruretics we learn to accommodate so our day to day lives are less affected, until things change. Maybe it is a new job, moving to a new city, or having to travel that initiates the obsession of – where will I pee? how...
Feb 7, 2024 | Success Stories
Trekking with Paruresis Simple, Not Easy This isn’t a success story. I can’t go to the bathroom anywhere or anytime. I’ve been working on my shy bladder for years. Sometimes I am more committed than others, but I’m not cured of primary paruresis. ...
Dec 20, 2023 | Advocacy, Success Stories
Pee Shy Film Blog Hi everybody! Some of you may have heard about my film project from Tim, or maybe seen the rough (rough!) draft of my Kickstarter fundraising video that’s been making the rounds. Either way, I’ll start from the beginning: I’m Steven Jackson, I...
Oct 4, 2023 | Success Stories
Practicing Without Knowing It During this past Sunday’s meeting [of the San Francisco support group], I mentioned that in the past I had many misconceptions about public bathrooms (and peeing in them) and I thought I would share some of them with you in case...
Sep 18, 2023 | Success Stories
Vienna Workshop – One Year Later [From Workshop participant Kevin, translation courtesy C] Dear participants of the IPA Workshop 2022 in Vienna, dear all, In the following I will present my personal impressions of a workshop visit and then describe how I...
