Anyone have tips for dealing with a hyperawareness of the fullness of one’s bladder? Particularly as it relates to a fear of incontinence? It would be especially helpful to know how anyone else is dealing with phantom sensation of urine leakage.
I got rid of this issue by putting my foot down and saying to my brain: “I will do a countdown from 5 to 1. If I don’t pee by then, I’ll get up and we’ll piss ourselves. Stop playing these games with me.” My brain really didn’t think I’d get up at 1 and go to bed because the obsession was peeing before bed or else I’d wet the bed. That issue stopped within a month, because every single time I got to 1 and o hadn’t peed yet, I got up and went to bed. I didn’t get up from that bed either. I did not give in even though it was screaming at me.
@Nica Thank you. I’ve had quite few different subtypes over the years, but this one about needing to trust my own continence has been my far the most challenging.