General Incontinence Associated With PTSD?

[Mar.R]

My husband suffers from PTSD and what can only be described as 'age regression'. He's started wetting himself during the day when he has an anxiety attack or a flashback. He's too embarrassed to talk to his doctors about it, and when he has these accidents he won't look at me or talk to me about it - he literally runs off and hides. I have let him know that I'm not going to get angry and that he doesn't have to stress about it but nothing helps. Has anyone else had these problems?

..sorry if this isn't relevant, I didn't know where else to go.

 

[anthony]

Hi,

Actually its usually a sign of simply being scared so much, the body reacts without the brain. I had done this once at night from a terrible nightmare... I actually didn't remember the nightmare, but as a veteran, I used to have some pretty bad one's as I would kick, punch, strangle, etc, within my sleep. I was obviously that scared in one that I wet myself and didn't even know it. My then wife poked me from a distance to get me awake... its not uncommon even for a soldier to wet or shit themselves in combat, because whilst adrenaline and training carries you through, nothing can prepare you for the close calls many will encounter at some point during operations, regardless of job.

Its not the wetting his pants that he needs to concentrate on, as that will only create more anxiety, its his root trauma that he must attack, as this will then subside the symptoms which result from being in such a constant state off anxiety.