Day 70
I had witnessed many a friends speeding home to use their
restroom at home. People tend to hold their bowel or urination until they
reached home because they don’t like the idea of using a public restroom. The
concept of public restroom is a big taboo for some of my friends because they
refuse to use a restroom that is publicly accessible. I always ask them this
question “how do you perform when you are traveling or at work?” Some of the
friends respond they would avoid public restroom as much as they can. The idea
of using a restroom utilized by strangers is an extreme hard cookie to digest.
So here is my question: What is your take on public
restrooms?
I have worked in the Airline industry for a period of
eight years, and I have observed hundreds of travelers passing by the airport
every day. With volume of travelers present one of the most use utility is the
restrooms. I have seen the airport housekeeping crew providing sanitation standards
every 45 minutes to an hour. How often do we sanitize our restroom at home, Is
it every hour, or every day, or every week? What could be the possible sanitation complain for a restroom getting sanitized every 45 minutes to
an hour?
Is the resistance of using a public restroom an actual
sanitation fear or a phobia created by our minds? Which gender has a higher statistics
of resistance of using a public restroom? What is the biggest fear that causes
the resistance in the use of public restroom? Can this phobia of the fear or
anxiety of public restroom be classified as Agoraphobia? Does the restroom
phobia only affect people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
People having resistance with public resistance create
patterns of avoidance behavior. Do the high number of avoidance behavior start
damaging human health and livelihood? Do people avoid eating or reducing liquid
intake to avoid the use of public restrooms?
“Our
phobias should not take control of our health and our livelihood”
~Lenji
Jacob
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