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I avoid taking a dump?
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I have had a habit, for as long as I can remember, of avoiding my number 2's. When I feel like I need to go, I'll sit on the floor, huddle up and clench my buttocks (lol this sounds so weird typing it) and like, quake my knees to make the feeling of needing to go go away. I'll do this even when there's a toilet down the hall. I've even done it in school a couple of times, if I know I'm alone.

Anyway, ineviatably I end up getting constipated by not going for maybe a week in some cases. And therefore, when I go it's painful and I suppose this makes me associate going with pain, so I keep avoiding it.

Does anyone else do this???!?!
Do you think it's normal?
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Comments (28)
Not normal, if it were just when the only available options were public restrooms, then maybe. But for now, one hyphenated word, ex-lax.
wtf, take a shit
You need to get used to going again and then it won't be painful and will get easier. Try going after a warm bath or something.
i like the feeling of needing to take a shit, so i hold it in 4 maybe an hour, then i take a shit and that feels good 2
Don't hold it for too long, it'll get so big it'll rip ur asshole open when u do eventually go. Then ur ass is bleeding & if you go again it rips again, if u wait for it to heal for ages before going the shit gets big again & tears it. Its a vicious cycle.
Ok, when I moved in with my NOW ex-husband, I would NOT poop in our apartment!!! LOL! Laughing now cause I can poop in front of anyone. Really, it's not healthy to hold it in. Our bodies need to expell this waste, so just relax and poop.

After my first baby, my hormones in my body made it to where I was really, REALLY constipated and I quit drinking & eating animal products. I was pooping again freely in 3 days.

Try and poop. You'll feel better:)
yep, and soon you developed rectal hemorrhage, undergo surgery, with excruciating pain. don't hold it, it will harden in your colon because the longer it sits there, the more water is absorbed out of it. if it becomes rock hard, you gonna get it out out manually. seriously, they scoop it out with hands. i've heard an old lady screaming on top of her lungs when she got it scoop out manually in the hospital. my classmate couldn't even stand looking at it. just poop it out, get help before it's too late.
i have IBS i gota go right when i get the feeling.. i love going its great and it hurts for me sometimes but its cuz im gettin it out its NOT supposed to be in your body its toxic thats why u get that feeling to get it out.. the more u hold it in the worse it gets and then ull end up with something serious.. my friend hates going to the bathroom no matter what it is and shes pisses herself many times and gets intense constapoo pains lol and now she has IBS so she has to go alot like me and its hard for her to do that so ya fukin get it out before u get cronhs disease or sumin
I used to do this when I was younger because I was afraid I would stop up the toilet when I moved into my new apartmen. Then I realized I was being stupid. Not that you're stupid.
But if you're doing it for so long that you're constipated, you should really stop.
What you describe sounds like the typical symptoms of what a psychologist would call being "anally retentive".
This term has become more a description for someone who is over-picky, cerebral and obsessive, but your symptoms describe its original definition.

It is thought to originate during early childhood at the time of "potty-training" and involves issues of control, punishment and reward.
There is no typical character profile for people who have this condition, but they can be over-controlling and severely self-disciplined at one extreme, or they may be "people-pleasers" at the other.

As other people have pointed out, this could have a detrimental affect on your health in the long term. so it may be desirable to seek professional medical advice.
no, it's not normal, eventually your body will get poisoned.
masturbate while going for a no. shite, then youll associate it with pleasure. its called a shank. or a woo. or a pank. or a wump. this is a real thing i didnt make it up
This use to happen to me.
But then I found how good it feels to just let it out!
I realized i sounded so funny to not want to poop, but you really have to. I got over it and you can to
guilty :-D
"clench my buttocks " i said something about a turtle dove flying away from a some guy's ass if he held it any loses. check one of my previous post.

and no buddy its not normal AT ALL. please do ur self a favour and try to get help, thsi sort of thing can cause you serious health problems!
It is physically dangerous and very unhealthy not to defecate regularly, if you feel a bowl movement occurring do not fight it, find a facility and use it

you probably have an impacted colon already, and need to talk to a doctor about taking a supplement to clean it out.

this is serious, don't wait
lol this is funny to me.. anyways, i don't think that's normal and in the long term it's gonna cause u serious health problems.. maybe there is things you can do to make the process easier.. maybe reading something or even bringing a tv with u :P anything that makes it easier thing i guess.. good luck!
If you don't eat you don't poo, if you don't poo you don't live! Someone told me that and i found it funny, hope that helps ahaha!
I'm a doctor at Mount Sinai. I had a patient who purposely did what you're doing and he died of an eroded colon. If you keep doing what you're doing, you will probably experience a lot of medical trauma. Please make a bowel movement.
Yeah, you sound like an anal retentive person. I know people that did this and have heard that it's horrible for your colon. let out what needs to come out. you took the first step by posting on here....

now go grab a magazine and take a shit! haha
i like the felling of needing to shit,so i hold it for a few seconds then i go,but don't hold i it for long soon, you will become poisined
Once you hit middle-age, you will really, really appreciate a good old-fashioned evacuation.
its been a while since you posted your question, have you decided to take a dump or are you still holding it? you could rip your large intestine and go into septic shock, or at the very least have to go to the ER to have someone scoop the shit out of your ass.
Anonymous (Story Author)
lol no I take dumps now. When I posted this, I was holding them in for like 2, 3 weeks tops? I dunno, it was probably around that.

Thanks to you guys, I go at least once a week now!

Could do with taking one now actually.

Thanks for all the comments and interesting facts, wasn't expecting medical advice, more sort of... torrent of abuse? Haha. Cheers and happy sh*tting to everyone!
take a shit

you feel better once you do

believe me.
i am the same way until it gave me craps and made me feel sick so your not alone but just got to the bathroom you'll feel so much better trust me!!
Glad you changed your mind about doing this.