Toilet Use: A Symptom of Anxiety?

[blackdove]

Hi there,

Bare with me here but one of my worst anxiety symptoms is having to go to the toilet alot - 40 or 50 times on a bad day which is often what my days are like. Actually, it's not necessarily that I have to go when I get there but that I need to get to the toilet stall in order to end the anxiety spell.

Does anyone else spend alot of time in toilets? :rolleyes:

Does anyone think this is related to agoraphobia symtoms as well?

It is actually quite a crippling thing. I can't go in taxis, buses, shopping malls are hard and small airplanes are the worst. I get so desperate that I would literally think of parachuting out of the bloody thing if I could.:eek:

Any ideas welcome. it's so frustrating and I am told and am aware that it is a manifestation of my anxiety.:wall:

 

[Noone.]

Hello Blackdove.

You know there was a thread similar to this one some time back that I responded to,
it is very enteresting.
I still us the restroom alot and I always go before I leave the house for sure because
if not I would be using the stores or where ever I found one while I'm out.
The hardest time for me is when I'm at work I go before every run and we make
alot of runs and It's not because I have to go I think it's part of the anxiety
and bye going I can tell myself, hey you just went so your good.
At night is the very worst, when we get a fire run and there is no time to take
a quick leak, I get that oh shit I have to go feeling and then the panic, so
if you see a fireman in someones back yard at a fire taking a leak it's just me
so no spot lights please LOL.

Take care.

FIRE.

 

[critters]

I believe having to urinate a lot is a symptom of several issues. A lot of children who are sexually abused wet the bed. Also, a constant trip to the restroom is a "release". Not the release one needs after being abused, but as a child it's one of the few things that makes sense.

So constant trips to the restroom to relieve anxiety and to get away from ones abuser seems to be a reasonable explanation.

critters

 

[blackdove]

Thanks Critters :-)