Today, as part of the treatment for my bulimia, my doctor informed me that I will not be allowed to go to the bathroom unsupervised. Meaning there will have to be another person in the bathroom with me at all times. I have a nervous bladder. I couldn't go if I wanted to. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I'm banned from the only working bathroom in my house because my mother is cleansing for an upcoming colonoscopy. My options are either a bucket in the basement, or wetting myself. FML
Today, despite my fear of using public restrooms, I was forced to anyway to avoid my bladder exploding. I was finally getting over it when someone stuck their head under the stall to "see if someone's in there". I'm scared more now than I was before. FML
Today, I have to get an ultrasound at the hospital. In order to get a clear picture, I need to have a full bladder. I've been waiting my turn for 2 hours now, desperately needing to pee. There are still multiple patients ahead of me. FML
Today, I was admitted to the hospital for chronic constipation. I have to share a room with two other girls who are also having bowel problems. We're all on strong laxatives, and there's apparently only one bathroom in this place. FML
Today, my parents wouldn't stop making fun of my shy bladder by camping out in front of the bathroom door while I’m trying to pee. As a result, I haven’t peed in 10 hours and my bladder is going to explode. FML
Today, I was given a powerful laxative to clear me out. I can't go to the bathroom because the four guests of my sleeping roommate are all sitting in dead silence against the paper-thin bathroom wall. FML
Today, I have the stomach flu. If my belly growls, I have 30 seconds or less to get to the bathroom. I can't go to the doctor for fear of shitting my pants on the trip there. FML
Today, I found out that since no other procedures are working, I was required to stop eating, and drink a bunch of foul tasting "goo", which will in turn give me constant diarrhea. This will then prepare me nicely for the long tube with a camera on the end of which will be shoved up my rectum. FML
Today, I used the upstairs bathroom rather than the downstairs one, which was in close earshot of my parents. When I came out, my mom angrily asked why I used that bathroom. I explained to her that I have shy bladder, and she said, "That’s not a real thing. I can go even with someone watching." FML
Today, I realized I can never live with my fiancée. A childhood of systematic teasing, abuse, and humiliation has made me terrified to use a bathroom around a guy if there's the slightest chance I can be heard, seen, or even have anyone know what I'm up to. Therapy has yet to fix anything. FML
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Top comments
Angelice_fml 0
Awww! ): I'm so sorry. Maybe suggest a new treatment, since that won't work for you and benefit toward your health. The point is to get help with your eating disorder, not torment you.
RaquelW 7
anyone who said she deserves it or is stupid clearly doesn't realize that bulimia is a mental disorder. to those people, fyl for being ignorant.
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Comments (113)
mrbattleman 10
maybe this will help you get over your shy bladder. two birds one stone kinda thing
bobslawnservice 16
I'm guessing that you're going to cure both your bulemia and nervous bladder in one go. Also congrats on getting treatment I hope you get well.
annainsane 6
Hey, I'm the OP of this post. I wrote it before I had an account, so you'll just have to trust me on that. Thank you for your lovely comment. I'm much better now, but still struggling. I was actually at an outpatient hospital at the point I wrote this. (It sucked.) But thanks to everyone who left nice comments, it made me feel a lot better about the whole situation. =)
dreamering 16
Well, you got to go in your bed from now on.
quitecontrary 0
Have the person stand outside the bathroom while you continuously hum a tune (there can't be any pauses) or sing a song. You can't hum and puke at the same time, and it will drown out some of the intimate sound effects occurring in the toilet...
DrewsFML 8
Good idea!
krazy_glu3 0
What the used to do at the hospital's psych ward was let you go to the bathroom, but not shut the door completely, just a crack. They had someone stand outside and check the toilet before you flushed. Maybe suggesting that would help? Someone watching you piss is an invasion of privacy.
enonymous 9
Pray that it's Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia in there with you. Anytime I see their shows I usually have the urge to vomit and take a shit at the same time. Hopefully you get one way or the other..
Freeze_fml 17
I read a pamphlet about a teenage girl who died from bulimia. Oh, sorry. Being optimistic.
xearthmuffin 0
Then you shouldn't have been bulimic. Forgive me for being insensitive but I'm sure that you're beautiful outside and in, and you don't need to throw up those insides for everyone to see that you are.
chrono420 3
Its a mental debilitating condition. "you shouldn't have been" is the stupidest comment i have ever seen on the internet. Why not just tell a drug addict "just stop doing drugs" or a manic depressive to "just be happy". You think these people do it because they choose to? You have absolutely no idea what your talking about or how idiotic that statement is. I hope you never have to go through anything like that, because you would know very quickly how insane and misinformed you are.
nerdface89 2
drug addict was a bad example because they chose that lifestyle of their own free will to start with, knowing full well the consequences. No sympathy there
LinTurk 4
Totally agree with 57.
Heliol 8
I would say that drug addiction is a good example because bulimia can start similarly as well. The pressure to be thin that can cause someone to begin forcing him/herself to vomit may result from a number of sources. The instigator may be another psychological issue, the media, or possibly even pressure from someone they know and admire actually telling them that they should do it. Similarly, drug addicts begins taking drugs either due to another mental disorder, such as depression or anxiety or many other psychological issues, or due to pressure from an outside source. The addiction then grows as a result of that initial weakness, just as the bulimia did.
bananabean16 2
I had anorexia for over a year-- I didn't chose to be, and I never even thought I was fat. In fact, I was much happier with my body pre-eating disorder because I was strong and healthy. I got sick and couldn't eat, and then the situation was perpetuated by clinical depression, also caused by being sick. Don't judge people's circumstances when you don't understand what they're going through. OP, I don't know your story, but I hope you get the treatment you need.
Amethyst99 2
dumbass
llamalullabies 0
Umm "you don't need to throw up those insides for everyone to see that you are" Umm You obviously think this is for attention or for beauty or something. It's a mental disorder. OP can't help it. Eating disorders are RARELY about appearance, although it is a part of it (thinner=success) but more often people eat and throw it up because they feel like they have a black hole in their heart and they need to fill it with something, like food. Then the feeling of fullness/ desire to lose weight/ feeling greedy/ feeling guilty/ feeling sad/ feeling anything at all... They throw it up. They throw up to rid themselves of all their bad feelings. It's just like cutting. So um, yea. Before you post something that you yourself say that you KNOW is insensitive, just stop yourself and don't.
Jamicianprince 1
That happened to my sister
darenthomas 2
You can read minds?
I_Am_Melanie 15
I was waiting for this reference.