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End your health worries today! Everyone has felt the need to scratch when a friend reveals a rash, but for some people unfounded concerns about potential diseases are a daily struggle. If you are one of the millions of people plagued by obsessive thoughts about physical symptoms and remain certain there is something wrong despite a doctor's repeated assurances to the contrary, you know what it is to live with health anxiety.

Paruresis is a condition that prevents people from urinating in public, sometimes even in their own homes if others are in adjacent rooms. The good news is that this anxiety disorder is highly treatable. The Secret Social Phobia: Shy Bladder Syndrome (Paruresis) offers strategies and easy-to-follow exercises to help you desensitize yourself to fear-producing situations and feel comfortable in public restrooms. Graduated exposure will help get you to the point where you can tolerate the anxiety of relieving yourself in a public washroom or other shared space.

El Paruresis es una condicón que impide que las personas orinen en público, a veces incluso en sus propios hogares, si hay otras personas en habitaciones cercanas. La buena noticia es que este trastorno de ansiedad es altamente tratable. El libro Síndrome de Vejiga Tímida, ofrece estrategias y ejercicos fáciles de seguir para ayudarlo a desensibilzarse a situaciones que producen miedo y ayudan a sentirse cómodo en los baños públicos.