Feeling anxious is a common thing. In fact, rarely does a day go by when a person does not feel anxious about something. Is the house clean enough? Did I lock the door on my way out? Did I reply to that email my boss sent me? These are just examples of anxious thoughts that keep on racing through people’s minds when anxiety strikes. Most people can handle this anxiety because it is not as exhausting or crippling as other forms. Their coping mechanisms are solid, keeping anxiety and nervousness at bay. And since they are much in control of their reactions, their day-to-day functioning is unhampered.
However, some people have intolerably high levels of anxiety. They are incapable of handling the anxiety that they feel. The cause of this anxiety is still being debated on. Some experts theorize that the body produces excessive amounts of blood to certain neural pathways, making the body physically unable to cope.
Taking the causes aside, the symptoms of intense anxiety are hard to deal with. They are: unrealistic views on problems, tension, irritability, headaches, sweating, nausea, tiredness, trembling, trouble sleeping, and frequent urination. Of all the symptoms, frequent urination is the most inconvenient. People sometimes feel the need to urinate every twenty minutes. And when the urge comes, the results could be that they cannot urinate at all or they urinate a lot. It differs with each person.
The urge to urinate comes with the tension of the muscles. The bladder is compressed a lot, and so the need to urinate comes more often. The reasons that the muscles tense are varied. Genetics may play a factor as well as brain chemistry. The tension in the body can also be triggered by environmental factors like a death in the family or divorce. These environmental factors cause anxiety in the body, and the muscles are in a state of tension.
There are many ways to handle this tension. Some prefer medications like anti-anxiety pills or even anti-depressants, while others prefer cognitive-behavioral therapy (which is promoted as the more natural solution). Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people change the way they think. It teaches them how to recognize patterns of thought that lead to anxiety, so they can control it before it becomes full blown.
Of course, frequent urination is one of the hardest things to control. When a person feels the urge to pee then it’s almost impossible to stop it. The key is to prevent the tension of muscles that leads to the urge to pee. Controlling the cause is much better than preventing the symptom.
