Therapy makes me have to pee.

Seriously. No matter how little I drink. Or that I went to the loo immediately beforehand. I still have to pee right afterward. And if I'm coming out of group therapy, there's a line for the bathroom. Does it make everyone have to pee?

:-D

Silly Sid

sidony, I am so glad I am not the only one. I pee right before I leave work to go to T's office and have to go again as soon as I arrive at his office a half hour later. Then after the session I have to go again. What is it? Today I had therapy, and decided rebelliously that I would not go after the session and would go when I got home, a 45 minute drive away. What a mistake that was.

Yeah, I have to pee both before and after, too. I think that part of it is about my nervousness... And part of it is about my drinking a lot of water... But that mostly it is about my nervousness, yeah. And intense physiological arousal (which nervousness can bring out) can bring on an urge to pee (even when there isn't much in there).

I really should do more pelvic floor exercises lol.

This is great -you all crack me up. I nearly spat out my tea just reading the header in the forum. *grin*

Well, I always have to go before, even if I went before I left home.

But it makes me want to eat afterwards, really bad stuff. Often I just give in and stop for a Dove ice cream bar on the way home

So, am i attempting to stuff back down what's come up? Am I wanting to continue the 'feeding' she provides? Celebratng "surviving"?

Or just looking for a way to have a Dove bar and not be resposbile!

Yep! Not only that but therapy gives me diarrhoea too!

I spent over 9 years with the problem that I can't pee in "public" and could never ask my T to use the rest room or where it was or if it was okay,etc. So, I had to leave work around 1:30 in the afternoon and didn't get home until close to 7:00 at night on therapy days.

But peeing goes way back to my mother and stepmother so I'm use to dealing with that but not the sometimes famished need to eat like you have, Echoes, and other times falling asleep (and it was a 2+ hour drive home in boring, dangerous, start and stop, rush hour traffic). Some days I would have both and didn't know if I was going to be able to get something to eat before I fell asleep or would just fall asleep in my food.

The anxiety thing is correct; there's an "invisible set of muscles" in charge! (What, you didn't think I'd Google for "psychotherapy and urination"? :-)

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/ate/mentalhealth/205220.html

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(What, you didn't think I'd Google for "psychotherapy and urination"? :-)

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omg Perna, you make me laugh!

Yeah I have to limit my fluid intake on Therapy days. I did once when I first started therapy have to ask T if I could use her toilet (she works from home) and I am very, very saddened to have witnessed, she doesn't keep her toilet clean, I was so shocked I felt i needed the whole session to talk about why she doesn't keep her toilet clean LOL! I still have flash backs but I think I'm getting over it now, she's proved herself in other areas of my life, just not my toiletory area LOL!

OMG YES!!!!!!

I don't drink for 4 days prior to therapy. Just kidding, lol.

I pee right beforehand and then I have to pee immediately after, no matter what.

There were a couple sessions in which I had to pee so badly during them, that I couldn't even concentrate on what was going on.

And of course... me being me.... I was embarrassed to excuse myself to the restroom.

Well one time it was SO BAD there was no way I could hold it and I just yelled out, "my kidneys are going to burst!" and he was like, "um, do you want to go to the bathroom?" So I did. Well not right there, but in the restroom. I was so embarrassed.

What freaked me a little was my T knows I have to pee immediately before session. He learned this by careful listening/observation. Whenever I arrive in his outer office/waiting room before my session, he is in his inner office with a client. I go in to the waiting room, grab the keys to the restroom and leave to do my thang down the hall. Then I go back to his waiting room and wait. So he hears me through his door, coming and going twice. He has told me before that he can hear the door to his outer office opening and he likes this as he knows if the next client is waiting. He must have put two and two together with my two audible door closures and knows I get the key and go pee. Because one time, I arrived at therapy and T was sitting in the outer office chatting with a client, waiting for me to arrive. (Turns out he had double booked and needed to talk to me and the other client to sort things out. ) So I arrived and he says, "good, you're here, I need to talk to you." I kind of slid into a chair and looked at him expectantly. Then he said, "do you want to use the bathroom first?" He knows my routine!!!

OMG on Saturday I entered the waiting room and I heard someone in the bathroom-- I heard the toilet flush and I knew it was T because there was no one else in the place at that time. I pretended to be intensely reading because I couldn't deal with the fact that T pees!!! HAAAAHAAAHAA T-PEES!!! Sorry. Anyway. So he came out of the bathroom and he's like, "Hello." and I look up as though I'm shocked that he's even standing there in the first place-- I couldn't deal with the fact that T was in the bathroom while I was sitting right there. HOW MATURE AM I??? roflmao

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OMG on Saturday I entered the waiting room and I heard someone in the bathroom-- I heard the toilet flush and I knew it was T because there was no one else in the place at that time. I pretended to be intensely reading because I couldn't deal with the fact that T pees!!! HAAAAHAAAHAA T-PEES!!! Sorry. Anyway. So he came out of the bathroom and he's like, "Hello." and I look up as though I'm shocked that he's even standing there in the first place-- I couldn't deal with the fact that T was in the bathroom while I was sitting right there. HOW MATURE AM I??? roflmao

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T-PEES!!! omg!!! hahaha!! anyway... i almost always had to go afterwards. but mostly i was just really thirsty during sessions.

These are great responses you guys. Even the too-much-information ones. I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't hold it afterward. It doesn't matter if it's been 4 hours since I had a cup of coffee I always have to pee. Even though I go immediately before therapy already. I guess I'll check out Perna's psychology & urination link...



Sidony

I think we have the opportunity to write up a pavlovian response to therapy waiting rooms - enter one and you have to pee! Sort of like sitting on a couch, with tissues and an attentive person - we are trained to blurt out our feelings.

I bet that is where the current Kleenax commercial came from - a therapy client!

Yeah with the traveling couch and kleenex?! totally.

This thread is all i can think about now. I had T last night, went to the bathroom before i left and after the 40 minute drive in traffic i REALLY had to go again! I was laughing at myself and this thread. Sure enough an hour later....
I'd never noticed that until this thread!!!

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Me too! Both before and after,

That link is about not being able to go not about not being able to not go lol.
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OH yeah,

Count me in too!!!

There is a little pink key for the ladies room on a hook outside T's office,in the waiting room. One day after therapy I went to the bathroom but when I got back T's office was locked, so I slid the key under the door!!!

Heh. After my first ever appointment with my new doctor in which I broke down and told him what was going on in my life, he kept asking if I needed the loo. Three times, and then a fourth with directions as to where it was! I thought it was deeply strange at the time, but maybe he was thinking of that "invisble set of muscles" as I was literally vibrating with nerves in there. :P

But no, therapy does not make me want to pee, it just gives me a killer headache and extreme sleepiness. Once I almost feel asleep in the session.

Ha ha!