One of the more common effects of anxiety is urination, especially in times of extreme nervousness. One common example is when someone is about to give a speech in front of a crowd, suddenly he needs to rush to the bathroom. It’s been a running joke in movies and television that anxiety over things like pubic speaking or asking a girl out leads to peeing. Actually, this isn’t exaggeration. Anxiety truly does lead to peeing because the stimulation that the body receives from the feelings anxiety produces physical reactions that lead to the compression of the bladder.
It starts from the feeling of anxiety, which somehow escalates enough so that the muscles tense and contract. Chemicals from the brain, released because of the nervous emotion, lead to a tensing of the muscles. Why do the muscles tense? It is preparation for activity or movement. Anxiety means danger, and the body responds to that by stimulating the muscles in preparation for action to deal with the danger. This leads to contraction of all the muscles in the body. As the muscles contract then the urge to urinate grows. The more anxious you are, the more urgent the need to urinate becomes.
Peeing is one of the hardest things to control because it is a natural bodily reaction. Once the urge hits you, then it’s nearly impossible to control. You just have to pee. This makes it inconvenient and sometimes embarrassing. Some feel the need to urinate at least 20 times a day. It wreaks havoc on their personal life as well as their work lives. People try to battle this symptom with anti-anxiety medication or anti-depressant.
Others use the natural method, which is behavior therapy. Both work to varying degrees; it all depends on the individual. Trying to find the right cure is really a trial and error method. You have to look hard for the treatment that works for you because there is no one solution for everybody.
