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I had this years before I knew it was OCD! I went to sooooo many doctors and no one could figure it out, it ruined my life for about a year because I legit had no idea what was going on an I felt the intense urge to pee 24/7. What I did to stop it was start delaying going to the bathroom— from once every 5 minutes to once every 20 minutes to once every hour and so on until I trained my body to resist the “urge” altogether. I had no idea it was OCD at the time, but it’s basically response prevention. Sit with the uncomfortable feeling and the thought that you may or may not pee yourself. My bladder went back to normal after a couple months of that and it only flares up in times of extreme stress now
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how is it ocd? not saying it isn't, i get this same feeling and never even thought about it being ocd. is it a compulsion for something or how does it relate?
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@dietcoke Obsession = the urge to pee Compulsion = going to the WC I don't surely know if it's OCD but it works like that for me.
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What did you do while on car or trip ?
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@Dimitris I still don’t know for certain that it 100% was OCD but it behaved the same exact way and there was no underlying health condition. It did feel like having a UTI that just never went away, but without actually ever having an infection. From what I’ve read it seems like a sensorimotor type obsession? Being in the car was very hard and so were things like going to class and work, but delaying trips to the restroom for gradually increasing amounts of time (like following a fear heirarchy in a way) helped me build up to that. If going to the restroom to relieve the discomfort is the compulsion, cutting that out will help you stop obsessing over whether you have to pee or not
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@Courtney Thank you for your advice! It really helps ?
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@Courtney i fucking hate ocd. like i have to have a pee schedule now?? this disorder is a bitch.
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@dietcoke Lmaooooo I know right? It makes you do the most bizarre ridiculous shit
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Does it happen to you when you’re at home too. I only feel this way if I have a UTI.
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I JUST had a conversation like this with myself this morning. I get anxious that I’ll need to go dump and won’t be able to and will get myself dirty. And then the anxiety makes my innards hurt and spasm. So, I told myself this morning, “It’s ok. I’ll take care of you. If I need to pull this car over and poop in the ditch, we can do that. If for some reason we go on ourself, I will clean you up and get you back on your day. It won’t be a fun experience, but we would be ok.” TMI, but maybe it helps lol
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So I’m 16 years old, currently going through my sophomore year of highschool. I’ve recently quit nicotine and weed after chronic use for about 4 years (has affected my development extremely). I quit because I wanted a better life for myself because I knew that I was using nicotine and weed for short term happiness and long term made me very depressed about this life. I was also experiencing trouble concentrating on simple tasks and what I wanted to do currently in my life. Which was learning about life and having more knowledge about life in general so i could feel more comfortable and happy in the future. So I quit nicotine I thought I was going to be able to overcome it and be more comfortable with myself knowing that I’m not in a constant loop of short term happiness, long term making me less happy overall. Although I have quit nicotine and haven’t touched it in about 3 weeks I expected to have some major withdrawals because I’m still in adolescence and used nicotine about everyday for 4 years. Sorry I’m rambling about this but through those years of always suppressing my anxiety with nicotine when anything came up that triggered it. I started noticing that on vacation in very stressful moments like at the airport and there were people around me when using the bathroom I felt as though it was nearly impossible to go but after sometime I eventually went and shrugged it off. Now that I’ve quit though I’m my 4th week it’s almost like my brain really latched onto that fear of not being able to go around people publicly (paruresis shy bladder syndrome) and that’s also what addiction does to you I’ve acknowledged. But when I started coming home from school I started thinking about not being able to pee more and more to the point i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since which now every time i feel a slight trigger of having to use the bathroom i start obsessing over it like everything I would try and do that i usually do my brain would draw me away from it and go back to the fear of not being able to go which created a lot of anxiety and thoughts like “would if im not able to stop going” which made me think about it more and more I would just wake up with that thought in my head each day to the point where i was really thinking about killing my self because I thought i would have such a better life without nicotine and weed but ultimately made me feel like i was going crazy and I really wanted to go back to vaping and weed but i knew that this was the cycle of addiction and that i may have a more underlying problem here i need to overcome somatic ocd. I haven’t been diagnosed with it yet and I know a lot of people go through a cycle of self diagnosing. But as I’ve slowly started to mentally figure out ways to get through this obsession over peeing and fight it, it’s like my brain is now trying to look for a new bodily sensation to obsess over. My breathing. I noticed this as well while using that sometimes I would think about my breathing a little bit to much for example saying to myself am I breathing right should I breath this certain way would if I can’t stop thinking about it. But as I was thinking about that I just hit my vape talked to my brother about it and just slept it off. Now that I don’t have a vape I’ve had to go through these expierences but with it feeling more real and not really having something to run to, to suppress like my vape. I’m writing this today as I feel better to myself talking about it and opening up about it as I’m trying to not respond to this fear with anxiety and go throughout my days ignoring these obsessive thoughts leading to extreme anxiety that I don’t have anything to suppress it with anymore besides my own mental. Maybe someone here will have some more knowledge about it than I do and can give me some advice to try to keep me more motivated to deal with this ocd I feel as though I’m having so I don’t end up in a dark place. Thank you.
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Hey. So I’ve been experiencing a lot of anxiety with my bladder. Every time I urinate I feel the need to completely empty my bladder and it has to feel “just right” so I’ll sit on the toilet for more than 10 min straining every last drop out. And then on the other hand I’ll hold in my pee for a long time because I dread going to the bathroom knowing I’ll take a long time. I’ve also noticed I’m getting bloated more often and this in turn makes it harder to get the rest of my pee out. I’m worried that I’m causing health issues with my bladder so I’m thinking of seeking medical advice. Has anyone else had similar issues?
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Hi I’m new to this group. I’ve had ocd and very bad anxiety disorder since I was a kid and only got progressively worse as I grew up. I’m 26 now. I had some somatic/sensorimotor ocd while growing up and feeling or worrying about health concerns that aren’t actually there… anyway about 5 weeks ago I randomly started feeling like I had to go pee all the time? I don’t have any pain or anything just the horrible constant feeling like I need to go pee. I’ve gotten checked for a uti multiple times. My pcp suspects it could be being exacerbated by the anxiety because it’s so distressing to me it’s almost all I think about. My ocd has convinced myself that I now have some chronic bladder problem. I notice it’s not as bad at night when I’m relaxed (thanks to medication) and about to fall asleep. I just am so scared that it’s never going to go away and I’m going to have to deal with this for the rest of my life and I can’t do that…. Was just wondering if anyone else ever dealt with this symptom? I know our brains are powerful but sometimes it just feels so real. 😣😣
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