These toilet anxiety statistics reveal what 100 anonymised clinical cases can teach us about this often hidden condition. Discover the behaviours, fears and recurring patterns that emerged from the SICH Toilet Anxiety Research Project, and why the findings challenge many common assumptions about toilet anxiety.
If you have ever wondered how common is toilet anxiety, recent data from our clinic offers some uncomfortable but reassuring answers.
This interim report presents findings from a randomly selected sample of 100 patients presenting with toilet-related anxiety disorders at The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy. All patients identified toilet anxiety as their primary presenting issue. The sample reflects a demographically representative subset of the wider clinical population and includes individuals presenting with anxiety related to urination, defaecation, or both.
How does hypnotherapy work? Research answers the question David Spiegel, from Stanford University, scanned the brains of volunteers who were told they were looking at coloured objects, when they were really black and white. A scan showing areas of the brain that are used to register colour showed an increased blood flow, indicating that they …
We analysed 100 previous hypnotherapy clients looking for some of the causes for anxiety with the presenting issues of presentation nerves, toilet anxiety, shy bladder and lack of confidence to establish if there is any commonality between them with regards to events or conditioning. The breakdown of subject numbers was as follows:- The subjects were …
In a recent study of 100 previous anxiety clients we found that overall 74% of clients noticed significant benefits from their course of hypnotherapy treatments. In our analysis of previous hypnotherapy clients, we looked at 100 clients that presented with either social anxiety or agoraphobic type anxiety. The clients were drawn at random over a …