Restroom Anxiety Analysis

In this paragraph, Beck delineates that although bathroom anxiety is a condition that many people suffer through, it is also a common social insecurity that many others feel because they consider entering a public bathroom an unwilling relinquish of privacy. I personally related to the behaviors that Beck listed as I myself perform them when in a public restroom, such as “leaving space at urinals.” It is especially interesting to me that these behaviors have become ubiquitous throughout modern society because of our own personal prejudices for associating urination and excretion with filth and degradation. These behaviors cannot conceal the fact that urination and excretion are necessary to maintain good health and are imperative to survival.