PROFESSOR HELPS SHY BLADDERS GO PUBLIC

PROFESSOR HELPS SHY BLADDERS GO PUBLIC

BALTIMORE, Md. (Wireless Flash) -- You're not alone if you find it difficult to "perform" in a public rest room. Statistics suggest 7 percent of adults suffer from "shy bladder" -- the inability to urinate in the presence of others. To the rescue comes University of Maryland professor Steven Soifer who offers workshops for shy bladder types. Soifer says many pee-shy people go to extremes to avoid using public rest rooms -- including some who hold their bladders for 16-hour plane flights. Workshop participants load up on water and then go through "graduated exposure" exercises which eventually requires them to go No. 1 in front of spectators standing next to them. Soifer's next workshop will take place December 1 in New York City.