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.
Do y’all ever forget basic needs sometimes? I have been going through a phase where I don’t drink water all day until night time and I drink so much that I hold my pee throughout the night until morning. I notice sometimes I even hold my breathe and get light headed or a headache and think something is medically wrong with me 😭or is this my ocd?
I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!
I’ve been feeling the urge to avoid intimacy or purposefully engage (for reassurance that I won’t give into a compulsion) because of intrusive thoughts and fear that I’ll “check/test” my reactions. My OCD is making me so scared that I’ll purposefully think of a child and try to see if I like it. It’s so complicated but I guess I’m mentally checking if I would mentally check during intimacy. I’ve even envisioned myself checking and it’s making me so nauseous. I know it’s a compulsion like any other but the sound of “touching yourself to the thought of a child” sounds atrocious and vile. I’m terrified I’ll automatically start checking next time I am being intimate. I truly feel so worried. If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d appreciate hearing your experience. Or if anyone has any advice?
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