Hey guys, I need some really help on this one. When I am out of the house I constantly feel like I want to pee even though I had already peed. This gives me great anxiety and I can't think of anything else. If someone has experienced something like that or has some advice, please let me know.

Courtney

Date posted: 5y

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

dietcoke

Date posted: 5y

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?

Dimitris

Date posted: 5y

@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.

Dimitris

Date posted: 5y

What did you do while on car or trip ?

Courtney

Date posted: 5y

@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

Dimitris

Date posted: 5y

@Courtney Thank you for your advice! It really helps ?

dietcoke

Date posted: 5y

@Courtney i fucking hate ocd. like i have to have a pee schedule now?? this disorder is a bitch.

Courtney

Date posted: 5y

@dietcoke Lmaooooo I know right? It makes you do the most bizarre ridiculous shit

person1

Date posted: 5y

Does it happen to you when you’re at home too. I only feel this way if I have a UTI.

Alyosha

Date posted: 5y

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

ynnej

Date posted: 25w

Any advice please??

This is a repost, only because the last post had no responses lol. Please if you have any advice share. I’ve been trying hard to sit with the feeling of anxiety. Actually that’s the problem, recently I’ve been trying to sit with the thought (and I’m able to for a few hours or until the next morning) and then my anxiety comes back so strong and it’s like I need to clean everything off. I see images of gross laundry getting on everything or my hand and then I need to clean everything off to un contaminate it. Sometimes the thought happens later at night so I just sleep through and the next morning I will wake up with intense anxiety about contamination. That happened yesterday and I had to clean everything off and since then I’ve been traumatized so I’ve been doing compulsions like avoiding the bathroom and being around people so I know I couldn’t have done anything wrong. Actually recently my biggest compulsion has been recording every time I get up to go eat, etc so that I know I couldn’t have done anything. Any advice or help???

erinp05

Date posted: 23w

Somatic OCD relapse- peeing/bladder

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. 😣😣

joshneedshelp

Date posted: 23w

i (a male) had a uti a year ago- ever since i got over it i’ve gained a problem with having a fear of not being able to pee when leaving the house- so i overthink when out thinking i meed to pee and i have a bottle in my waistline in case of emergencies-

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