Why do I get embarrassed by my body's biological needs?

Does anyone else feel this way? It seems like I easily get embarrassed by my body's biological needs. For example, if my stomach growls around others. I suppose that one's fairly common, but it seems strange to me. Why get embarrassed over something you have no control over? Why get embarrassed about being hungry? I know it's irrational, yet I get embarrassed anyway and try to hide it. This also goes for other biological needs, too. It's like I'm ashamed of being human. I get embarrassed about having to ask to go to the bathroom in the middle of class, and I also suffer from shy bladder syndrome meaning I have difficulty peeing around others if I think they might be able to hear me. (I'm a girl, so I at least don't have to worry about using a urinal and being seen peeing by others, thank goodness.) I sometimes worry and get embarrassed, too, about someone seeing me enter the bathroom and knowing that I'm going/went number two since I've been in there for longer than five minutes. Even with my own parents, I try to conceal the fact that I know I'm going to be in the bathroom for a little while and bring a book or my phone with me. This fear though I can kind of understand because when I was younger my brother sometimes made fun of me if I was in the bathroom for a long time or if he heard me using the plunger (which was pretty much every time anyone went poo because we had a crappy toilet, pun not intended.) He'd mockingly ask me how big a $#%^ I took and say stuff like "what were you giving birth to Attila the Hun in there?"

And, of course, I get embarrassed about burping or farting in public. Again though, this one is fairly common. Heck, I even get embarrassed about blushing! Which is ironic, since blushing is something one does when embarrassed. I don't know how easily or often I blush, since it's not like I'm constantly by a mirror or looking at one to check, but I know I'm a blusher because once in gym class back in high school I was in the girl's locker room getting changed and a classmate/sorta friend asked me if I was alright and said my face was red. Anyway, long story short, why do I get embarrassed by my body's own biological needs? It seems irrational because one can't help having needs. Everybody gets hungry, needs to use the bathroom, etc. Yet for some reason, despite knowing this, I get embarrassed anyway and try to hide it? Does anybody else feel this way? How can I stop being embarrassed?

Don't get embarrassed about how you feel re your body's biological needs. everybody has needs just like you. Don't take it seriously, rather than take it on a lighter side for instance if you are with your peers why not make a joke out of it or put humor on it. You can also confide how you feeling to someone very close to you and maybe she can give you good advice.

Medicination wrote:Don't get embarrassed about how you feel re your body's biological needs. everybody has needs just like you. Don't take it seriously, rather than take it on a lighter side for instance if you are with your peers why not make a joke out of it or put humor on it. You can also confide how you feeling to someone very close to you and maybe she can give you good advice.

Thanks, I appreciate the reassurance. Unfortunately that's easier said than done, but I guess most things are. Thanks anyhow!

Uh-oh. How familiar this is to me, I can't help but be embarrassed by my seemingly uncontrollable biological processes. It's hard for me to show that I want to go to the bathroom, or that I want to eat. It makes me feel ashamed, and it doesn't seem to interfere with my life too much, but still, it's not very pleasant.