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Links and Resources: Click here to download the PDF file.
Here
you will find links to many websites from my book. While I’ve done my best to
ensure accuracy, I am not responsible for the contents of any linked site or
any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites.
The following topics are
covered:
General Resources About Shy Bladder (paruresis)
Discussion Boards
Workshops and Support Groups
Professional Help
Books, articles, and Resources
Advocacy
Assistive devices for people who cannot easily urinate
Gender equity in bathrooms (aka "Potty parity")
Hygiene and sanitation issues
Humor
Medications
Restroom design
Self-catheterization (CISC) and urinary tract infections
Statistics
Stress management techniques
Travel
GENERAL
RESOURCES ABOUT SHY BLADDER (PARURESIS)
www.paruresis.org The International
Paruresis Association (IPA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission it is to help paruretics (those with
paruresis) overcome the stigma, embarrassment, and isolation associated with
the condition
www.paruresis.org/about_avoidant_paruresis.htm
Introductory information about paruresis
http://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/condition_toiletphobia.php
Toilet Phobia and
Anxiety United Kingdom
http://www.ukpt.org.uk/ UK Paruresis Trust
http://www.paruresis-europa.org/ European
Paruresis Association
www.paruresis.org/womens_resources.htm
Issues unique to female paruretics
DISCUSSION
BOARDS
http://www.paruresis.org/phpBB3/ IPA
“Talk About It” Forums (registration required)
http://www.paruretic.com A Place For
People With Shy Bladder
womensforum@paruresis.org IPA’s
Women-Only Discussion Forum, moderated by women, to find information that is
exclusively focused on female paruretic issues. To join, write to womensforum@paruresis.org In the subject field, include the words “new
member.”
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/uktoiletphobiagroup/
UK Toilet Phobia Group
WORKSHOPS
AND SUPPORT GROUPS
http://www.shybladder.org/workshops.php
The IPA sponsors workshops to help sufferers overcome their condition and
facilitates the establishment of support or self-help groups around the world
http://members.boardhost.com/paruresisUK/msg/1209374770.top
The United Kingdom
www.shybladder.org/support.php
Lists current IPA support groups
PROFESSIONAL HELP
To find a
certified cognitive therapist in your area, consult:
www.academyofct.org/Library/CertifiedMembers/Index.asp?FolderID=1137&SessionID={C8392E59-B4E4-4C9E-BC11-01F908EE3D41}&RLMsg=&SP
Academy of
Cognitive Therapy
http://community.adaa.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=adaa&WebKey=ce66a0ec-3e19-437d-836b-f180fcdf6814
The Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Ruth Lippin, LMSW ruthlippin@aol.com Therapist who
specializes in treatment of female paruretics
BOOKS,
ARTICLES, AND RESOURCES
Books
Shy Bladder Syndrome: Your Step-by-Step
Guide to Overcoming Paruresis by
Dr. Steven Soifer, co-founder and CEO of the IPA, and
colleagues. Available from the IPA Book Store at http://www.paruresis.org/acart/index.htm
or through Amazon.com (www.amazon.com).
Curing Phobias, Shyness & Obsessive
Compulsive Disorders
(also referred to as “Phobease”) by Dr. Howard Liebgold. Booklets and tapes offer practical
advice in treating social anxiety conditions such as paruresis. He also teaches
classes and is a member of the IPA Advisory Board. Go to www.angelnet.com/fear.html.
Free to Pee: A Self-Help Guide for Men
with Paruresis by
Dr. Christopher McCullough’s.While geared toward the male audience, this
book provides useful information on paruresis and how to deal with it.
Available from the IPA Store at http://www.paruresis.org/acart/index.htm.
In essence, you learn how to be comfortable being anxious. Visit www.paruresis.org/notes_on_AP.htm.
A more
complete list of books that are sold on the IPA website http://www.paruresis.org/acart/index.htm
or on the UK Paruresis Trust website http://www.ukpt.org.uk/news_info/news_info_Books.htm.
Literature
references can be found at www.paruresis.org/books.htm
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to
Thrive When the World Overwhelms You”
by Dr. Elaine N. Aron at http://www.hsperson.com/
or www.amazon.com.
Articles
The American
Urological Association has published an excellent article on
paruresis http://www.urologyhealth.org/search/index.cfm?search=men&searchtype=and&topic=410.
Bashful Bladders. Salon magazine article by Mary Roach.
http://www.salon.com/health/col/roac/1999/05/21/shy_bladder/
Looks easy enough... but
not for everyone http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/a-wee-problem/2007/04/17/1176696828604.html
For Some, Drug Tests Are Almost
Impossible http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E7D61E3DF937A25757C0A9649C8B63&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=all
“Pee-phobia (paruresis) and drug
testing” http://www.employmentblawg.com/2004/pee-phobia-paruresis-and-drug-testing/
Shy Bladder Syndrome: A Real Anxiety
with a Real Solution http://www.poise.com/Learn/LifeAndHealth/BladderHealth/ShyBladder.aspx
Resources
www.adaa.org Anxiety Disorders
Association of America
http://www.anxiety-disorder.net/ Anxiety Disorder-Resources & Information For Those with Anxiety
Disorders
www.aabt.org Association for
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
http://www.nafc.org/ National Association for
Continence
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse . Enter “urinary retention” as a search term.
http://www.healthywomen.org/ National Women’s Health Resource
Center
http://www.simonfoundation.org/ The Simon Foundation for Continence
http://www.socialphobia.org/ Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Association
ADVOCACY
To advocate
for improved restroom design in the US, contact the American Restroom
Association, an IPA subsidiary www.americanrestroom.org
To help
improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide, contact the World Toilet
Organization. http://www.worldtoilet.org/
To help clean up public school bathrooms in the U.S., contact Project CLEAN http://www.project-clean.com/
ASSISTIVE
DEVICES FOR PEOPLE WHO CANNOT EASILY URINATE
Urinary collection bags
www.biorelief.com/store/stadiumgal.html# The Stadium Gal™
www.athomemedical.com/Absorbent-Pouches/Hollister-Female-Urinary-Pouch.asp)
Hollister Corporation
Disposable urinal bags
http://www.traveljohn.com/ The
TravelJohn™
http://thepett.com/index.php?PageLayout=PRODUCTS&headerID2=33&pageID=95 The WAG BAG
Toilet in a Bag™ Disposable Urine Bags
Standing up to urinate (with and
without the use of a funnel)
http://ganimede_x.tripod.com/stp.html
How to urinate while standing up
Funnels to
help the process:
www.freshette.com
www.pmateusa.com
www.mysweetpee.com
www.urinelle.biz
www.whizaway.com
www.whizzy4you.com
Female and Portable Urinals
www.brucemedical.com/femfemur.html
The Feminal®
www.valuemedicalsupplies.com/millie.htm
The Millie®
http://www.cabelas.com/spod-1/0014250.shtml
The Lady J Adapter®
Portable Toilets
www.epcamps.com/portable_toilet.html Stansport® Portable Toilet
http://www.thepett.com/index.php?PageLayout=PRODUCTS&headerID2=36&pageID=98
The PETT® Toilet
http://www.chemisan.com/product.html
Corrugated portable toilet
http://potties.com/adult.htm Inflate-A-Potty®
Sanitary Toilet
Privacy tents
http://www.thepett.com/index.php?PageLayout=PRODUCTS&headerID2=37&pageID=99 The Pup® Privacy Shelter
http://www.restop.com/products/privacy-tent.html
Restop® Privacy Tent
http://www.pahaque.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=PQWO&Category_Code=tepee The Tepee
Shower & Outhouse®
http://www.traveljohn.com/1-1-7.php Travel John® Privacy Shelter
GENDER EQUITY IN BATHROOMS
(AKA “POTTY PARITY”)
“Is potty
parity a legal right?” by Professor John F. Banzhaf III. http://banzhaf.net/docs/pparticle.html
“Potty parity
may trim long restroom lines” by Matt Bradley (March 2006). Deseret
News http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20060312/ai_n16155061
www.safe2pee.com For a directory of both
gender-free bathrooms or traditionally gendered single stall or locking
bathrooms, go to.
HYGIENE AND SANITATION ISSUES
“Myth: Toilet
Seats Are the Dirtiest Thing in the Bathroom: You Can Find More Germs on a
Desktop Than a Toilet Seat” (10-14-05). ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Health/story?id=1213831&page=1
See Funnels under “Standing up to urinate”
www.flush-stopper.com/what.html
How to gain control over automatic flush
toilets
HUMOR
http://femalerestrooms.com For a comical
look at what goes on in women’s restrooms, watch “The Ladies Room Monologues”
www.urinal.net To view the top 10 urinals in
the world. For installation of female urinals, go to http://www.urinal.net/archive/Womens.html
MEDICATIONS
www.paruresis.org/drug_faq.htm
Drug information for paruretics
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/drug-information/DR601469
Medication
that blocks the urge to urinate (Desmopressin Acetate or DDAVP) – useful when traveling
http://www.uristat.com/shorthed.htm
Relief for the burning sensation of urinary tract
infections
RESTROOM DESIGN
“An Update on
Public Restrooms in the USA”
by Dr. Kathryn Anthony. Paper presented at the 2006 World Toilet Organization
Summit in Bangkok, Thailand http://www.worldtoiletexpo.com/uploads/images/337/An_Update_On_Public_Restrooms_in_the_USA_-_Prof_Kathryn_Anthony1.pdf
“Minding their
pees and queues” by Patrick Donovan (1-20-2005). The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Minding-their-pees-and-queues/2005/01/19/1106110810530.html&h=165&w=200&sz=8&hl=en&start=162&sig2=OqCeIID3X00nP7czY5_M1g&tbnid=yGAoybbJiWzcDM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=104&ei=WFSyRqfPMIXegQOQjqGYBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfemale%2Burinals%26start%3D160%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
“No place to
go” by Lezlie Lowe (11-10-2005). The
Coast. http://www.thecoast.ca/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2005-11-10&-token.story=101011.112113&-token.subpub=
“Authors
advocate more and better women’s restrooms in public facilities” by Melissa
Mitchell (8-30-2004). News Bureau University
of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0830restrooms.html
“Unisex
Bathrooms Are No Longer a Rarity at Work” (6-14-2007). Business
Wire. http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services/4352203-1.html
SELF-CATHETERIZATION (CISC) AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003972.htm
Discussions on Clean Intermittent Self-Catheterization (CISC) for women from
the National Institute of Health
http://www.paruresis.org/catheter.htm
The International Paruresis Association
www.cathforfree.com Sample free
catheters
http://lifecenter.ric.org/content/3509/index.html?topic=1&subtopic=273.
Video self-instruction for urinary self-catheterization
http://www.brucemedical.com/ab10001.html
How
to locate the opening of the urethra prior to self-catherization with an
alignment device
http://sammonspreston.com/app.aspx?cmd=get_product&id=76555
Hand mirrors to help find the urethral opening
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/utiadult#treatment
Urinary Tract Infections in Adults from the National Kidney and Urologic
Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC)
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/women/gen-health/190.html
The American Academy of Family Physicians
STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
www.healthy.net/asp/templates/article.asp?PageType=article&ID=1205.
Relaxation
Techniques for Relief of Anxiety & Stress by Dr. Susan M. Lark
Stress
management and emotional wellness http://www.optimalhealthconcepts.com/Stress
and
http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/stress/Stress_Management.htm
STATISTICS
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/155/5/613
Social phobia
subtypes in the national co-morbidity survey. R. Kessler, M.B. Stein, & P.
Berglund (May 1998). American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 613-619
http://bmo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/2/225
Avoidant
Paruresis: An Exploratory Study. J. Malouff & R. Lanyon, R. (April 1, 1985).
Behavior Modification, Vol. 9, No. 2, 225-234.
http://paruresis.org/research_results_RGibbs.htm
A Summary of
Results from the Australian-based Global Internet Paruresis (Shy Bladder)
Survey by Russell Gibbs (2004)
TRAVEL
www.thebathroomdiaries.com 9,000-plus
public bathrooms in 120 countries are rated; provides information to both
travelers and urban dwellers
www.americanrestroom.org/pr/support/reports.htm
http://www.biz2web.com/grant/Bathrooms.htm
www.cromwell-intl.com/toilet/
www.darkcreek.com/toilets
www.icbe.org/pages/international.shtml
(bathroom etiquette around the world)
www.mizpee.com (mostly US)
www.publictoilets.org/pt
www.restroomratings.com
www.ricksteves.com/graffiti/archives/toilets.htm
(Europe only)
www.theplumber.com/russiantoilets.html
(Russia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan
(Japan)
www.travelblog.org/Forum/Threads/2356-1.html
www.urinal.net
www.worldtoilet.info
