Shower Anxiety?!?!?

What I might say sounds like rubbish,

but when you force yourself to get in there it actually does work , I started showering again and looking after myself I am in love with it now and I feel so good when I exit the shower and go and sit on my laptop i feel fresh and also I know that I have battled the anxiety and I can feel reassured that I can do it again.

However before it was very hard and i am not disputing the fact that people get this but for me I challenged it and just got in there and nothing bad happened as I thought that I would randomly pass out in there but never did so I was worrying for nothing and working myself up. Anxiety is a b***h and it can ruin lives, family, friendships, relationships if it not controlled.

good luck and I hope that things do work out for you and your be fine .

yes! I have terrible anxiety over getting in the shower. It is because i can't hear over the water running. i was in an abusive relationship that took me two and a half years to safely get out of. i had finally told someone what was going on, and i slowly started acting more distant with him over a 6 months period. The day before i left my ex-fiance attacked me in a particularly brutal manner. i planned on calling into work in the morning, so that i could get my stuff out. i think he suspected, because he got up, and called in to work, and got back into bed. he then began berating me. i told him, i hadn't gotten much sleep, and asked if i could have a little peace before i had to get up for work. "You want peace! You want peace" he said right before he started choking me. He had choked me before, but this time he wasn't stopping. i thought this is it, this is how i die... and suddenly he stopped, pushed me of the bed, and told me to go take a shower and go to work. as i stood in the shower, i was absolutely terrified. all i could hear was the water pounding down on my body and the shower floor. the water sounded deafening to me. i was scared he was in the bathroom on the other side of the curtain... waiting for me to open it. i wanted to peak out and see if he was there, but thought what if he is, and gets mad that i was checking to see if he was there... it was the longest shower of my life. when i got out of the shower... there was a large kitchen knife sitting on the sink... i walked into our room to dress, and he was laying in bed... his arms folded behind his head... he was smirking. i left. i went to work, and never returned to the town home that i owned. he lived rent free in my home for a year. i paid the mortgage and all of the bills, because i was too frightened to ask him to leave. i eventually was forced to filed for bankruptcy, because i could not afford to continue to pay two households. the bank foreclosed on my home. he left, and moved on. i am still alive... but the trauma has effected me in many ways, including a horrible fear of being inside a shower.

I love showers, I spend an hour or two in there when I catch a little time for myself, then I get out dry off, dry the bathroom walls and floors, and carry on with my day feeling fresh and rejuvinated. but now an then instead of my.lovely shower, I end up sitting here in a towel, trail of water from the shower to here on my bed. didnt even finish the simple tasks of hygene, cause suddenly I felt spooked, so I turned off the water, hopped out an barely managed to grab the towel on my way out of the bathroom aka I got tf outa there lol. I too would love to know why this happens to me. its been that way for years, suddenly feel spooked, then I gtfo of the water, it happens in pools too. so awkward lol help.