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Definitely ocd. Are you looking and being hyper aware about feeling if you have to pee?
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basically. like i’ll just be laying in bed and the thought simply the bathroom would pop into my head and then it turns into “i might have to go pee right now, i should go to make sure i empty out my bladder and not go to sleep with anything in my system” but the second i go to the bathroom and go pee there’s literally little to no pee coming out of me!!!
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You have to stop! You are feeding it.
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i know !! but it’s just so difficult for me
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Hi Kinoko! I also have struggled with an overactive blatter which I do believe to be OCD/mentally caused, but there can also be physical attributions caused by stress and anxiety (hai OCD 👋🏻). This can cause your pelvic floor to become really tight and that can cause your bladder to be overactive. Mentally, you have to train your brain to accept the physical discomfort and maybe even mentally throw up your ends and be like "you know what I'm just gonna pee my pants." You can also look into getting an evaluation from a pelvic floor physical therapist and they can help determine if you're tight/clenching a lot.
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thank you
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I have a similar issue whenever my ocd is acting up more than usual and I'm super stressed. I normally notice it when I'm resisting compulsions for my main theme. So basically it'll be night time and I won't even have to pee, but my ocd voice will think "well what if you DO end up having to pee? What if you end up wetting the bed, that'd be embarrassing wouldn't it?" And then I'll forget myself to pee even if I dont have to
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Force not forgive*
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i see what you mean. except with me i get this physical sensation that i have to pee, but the moment i go pee little to nothing comes out of me. so i feel like my brain is tricking me and making me become super self aware of my blatter
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I do this too but after learning that you can mess up your bladder and then really end up having to pee all the time I’ve cut it back. There is actually something called double voiding. You pee. Stand up maybe wiggle or walk around a min and then pee again. Completely relaxed no forcing. Then all pee is out. I know you may still feel like it’s not but it is. Then you just have to ignore going back.
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update: i was right, i gave in :<
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Why do you want to pee so much? Is it like somatic ocd?
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yeah pretty much :<
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I have done this my whole life which tells me I’ve had ocd my whole life. I’ll go to the bathroom 3 times in a row just to make sure I got it all out right before bed and it drives me crazy
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Any update to this? I'm dealing with the same exact issue... and have been for over 2 years.
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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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English is my second language,so please bear with me if there are any shortcomings. My OCD is manifested in the need to go to the bathroom before going to bed every time, but after each urination, I worry that I will have to go to the bathroom again because I feel that I seem haven't finished. This will affect my sleep by repeatedly entering and exiting the bathroom. It takes me more than half an hour to go to the bathroom before going to bed every time, and I have to fight with myself to tell myself that I have finished and don't have any more urine, so I can sleep peacefully. However, it takes countless times to comfort myself.I tried to quickly finish urinating and then immediately step out of the bathroom, but every time I had the thought of "I still feel like I have a little more urine, should I squat again?" I felt like I was nailed to the toilet and couldn't get out. (Our toilets here are squat toilets), which greatly shortened my daily sleep time. Moreover, after using the toilet, I would continue to use my phone to relieve anxiety and develop a habit of staying up late, which undoubtedly exacerbated my symptoms.It's like a process of constantly pursuing certainty, making sure that I have completely emptied my bladder, but this pursuit is morbid, and I can't accept its uncertainty.I don't know what to do. Do you have any solutions?
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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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