For example, when I’m at work I don’t feel like it, or if I do I can hold it back without any problem, but when I get home the urge seems to be uncontrollable and impossible to hold back.
I remember there was actually a scientific article written about this. If I recall, it’s something about your brain/subconscious knowing that you are close to a toilet
It’s not just about being close to any toilet though, specifically the one at home is different. Coming home from a trip and I’ll need to go to the bathroom even though I’ve had plenty of good access the whole time.
Can we use that ability to track down hidden facilities that contain a toilet (say, in the desert)?
You go when (1) biologically needed, and (2) it is convenient.
Stress hormones suppress the desire at work but at home you feel relaxed 😎.
So do you have the opposite happen to you, where the urge increases as you get closer to work? :-P
Edit: pulls out marker, well looks like I need to make another edit here then, from home to work…
I suddenly want to make a line of parodies of these signs. Like have one that says in a really quirky font “Defecate” for the bathroom.
Trouble is I’m stressed when I’m rushing home because there’s trouble brewing in my colon.
Because you subconsciously recognise that you have entered your territory, therefore you must mark it.
Edit : I have no idea, this is a good question btw.
Latchkey Incontinence
https://www.incontinence.co.uk/are-you-silently-suffering-from-latchkey-incontinence
presumably you instinctively know that you’re in a wholly safe place and there is no excuse not to do it anymore. We’re really not made to suppress elimination for a long time like that, in nature the only reason not to get the business done is because you gotta walk away from camp or because you’re chased by a lion, and neither of those tend to take a long time…
we should really be glad we’re at all able to hold it in as long as we do
