I avoid taking a dump?

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???!?!

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  • wtf, take a shit

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  • hornsby123

    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.

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    • arrowhead

      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.

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      • MaxwellSmart

        I never had that, but I've been suffering since I was a toddler. Don't go down my road... I'm bloating insanely. Get help :( ... I know it's been 4 years, but arrowhead's right.

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  • fuckallyalls

    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.

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  • YumInsanity

    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

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    • raafi

      lol

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  • 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

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  • THATSWHATURGFSED

    no not normal, dont do it, it can mess up your insides, thats fucked up, just take a shit and maybe you wont mess up your asscrack (seriously)

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  • raafi

    "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!

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  • crushedrose

    no, it's not normal, eventually your body will get poisoned.

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  • 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:)

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  • Tucknee32

    I do the same thing, but I dont hold it for a week god damn. I usually cross my legs standing up clenching my butt. Until almost a little rat pellet comes out. Your not alone

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  • fiendish

    i like holding in my poos for maybe thirty minutes up to a few hours. . . . sometimes it feels nice on the sfinkter hole to clinch in those little brown bad boys from time to time. . . . So I guess your not alone something tells me you might like it if you jam something up your poop shoot. . . You should expolore your butt more

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    • Collegerunner

      wtf? explore your butt?, just do the doo doo, no questions asked, stop watching t.v. maybe hold it till the commercial or turn up the volume lol, take a sh*t!!!

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  • gteen1

    I wouldn't say it's normal, but its something I do live with so I'll share my story.
    Ever since I was a kid, I remember having this terrible phobia of doing #2. I would hold it for a week till I gained the courage to confront the toilet. Every time I needed to take a dump, it was a nightmare. And it's no fun, it ins't like insect phobia, for example, because tecnically you can't avoid the bathroom forever. It's something you have to deal with 24/7, for the rest of your life.
    The funny thing is... I never really had a reason to be afraid. For me it never really hurted. I can't recall any trauma, also. But, it's a phobia, and most phobias aren't reasonable, we can't really explain.

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  • spidzeedoo

    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.

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  • Catinthehat

    Once you hit middle-age, you will really, really appreciate a good old-fashioned evacuation.

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  • enabled

    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

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  • TattooedBay

    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.

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  • roger49

    Not normal, if it were just when the only available options were public restrooms, then maybe. But for now, one hyphenated word, ex-lax.

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  • jsmith1700

    That's not normal. Everyone poops, right?

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  • boredomtookover

    Sounds like you have control issues. In psychology, I learnt that a possible explanation for some occurrences of anorexia was the feeling of control. The sufferers didn't feel like that had control of other parts of their life's so would take control of their food intake

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  • anon994

    hold it? hell no one time i couldnt hold it and went on somebodys backyard lmao. ah the power of being anonymous

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  • la_la_la_la

    Hiya,

    I heard about somebody who died because he didn't go for a month. I have to go at least once a day; once I went 6 times. Have a lot of fluid. & play Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man' really loud.

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  • Timmy183

    U Go BOOM if u don't take shit!

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  • DramDaem

    Go to a doctor. It sometimes comes back with a fatal outcomes.

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  • Drakonski

    There are few things that just somehow make you feel more refreshed than taking a good dump. You don't want to keep poop in, you'll completely f*** up your bowel. You want bowel cancer or a colostomy bag? Pooping is a fact of life, just deal with it and take a dump when you need to.

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  • germanstallion123

    You just made my day. But no, It's not normal. It's actually quite dangerous.

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  • BAMF257

    Wow, damaged4life huh? Sexually abused since the age of 3? Hmm. Now, why again are you notifying everyone about this? I'm not sure about everyone else, but I personally couldn't care less about your sexually abusive constipated problem.

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  • thesmiths

    Aint' nothin' like a home pushed poo.

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  • boykine3

    that is definitely not healthy

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  • SheepEater1

    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!!

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  • HairsprayQueen

    take a shit

    you feel better once you do

    believe me.

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  • 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!

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    • Glad you changed your mind about doing this.

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  • alloutballsout24

    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

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  • corkboardsarewicked

    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!

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  • Punk22

    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!

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  • Cunfuzzled

    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

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  • insertcreativeusername

    guilty :-D

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  • xXPunkxRockXx

    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

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  • DJBleach

    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.

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  • tornwithin

    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

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  • one time i went a month without shitting

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  • DoctorChen

    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.

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    • idon'tknow

      @DoctorChen - That's Freudian BS. I have anxiety and OCD, and it's not from potty-training issues.

      This isn't normal at all, and holding it in for two weeks will cause you pain and bleeding when you do go. And if you hold it in long enough to get a blockage, you'll have to go to the hospital. However, I don't like to use public toilets (and I would rather go outside than have to use an outhouse), so I hold it in if I can't find a bathroom that is private enough.

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