Can stress cause frequent urination

Frequent Urination Anxiety Symptoms - AnxietyCentre.com

Frequent urination is a common anxiety disorder symptom. It occurs because of how chronic anxiety affects the body.

Many anxiety disorder sufferers experience frequent urination, or episodes of frequent urination, due to chronic anxiety.

Frequent urination, urgency to urinate, a sudden urge to go to the washroom symptom description:

There are many descriptions for this symptom. Common descriptions include:

You feel you have to urinate more frequently than usual.
You feel you need to urinate even though you just urinated.
It seems your bladder needs emptying even though you just emptied it.
You feel you need to urinate more than two times per hour.
You feel you need to urinate even though you haven’t been consuming more liquids than usual.
You feel you need to urinate, but when you do, you produce little or no results.
You frequently feel a need to go to the washroom.
You feel you need to urinate many times per hour.
You feel you need to urinate through the night at least once per hour.
Getting up every hour or so to urinate during the night prevents you from getting good sleep.
Every time you wake up you have a strong urge to go to the washroom.

The frequent urination anxiety symptom can occur rarely, frequently, or persistently. For example, one day you visit the washroom numerous times and the next day your urination frequency is normal.

Frequent urination can precede, accompany, or follow an escalation of other anxiety symptoms, or occur by itself.

Frequent urination can precede, accompany, or follow an episode of nervousness, anxiety, fear, and elevated stress, or occur "out of the blue" and for no apparent reason.

The frequent urination anxiety symptom can range in intensity from slight, to moderate, to severe. It can also come in waves where it’s strong one moment and eases off the next.

This symptom can change from day to day and moment to moment.

All of the above combinations and variations are common.

It’s also common to urinate more frequently during sleep hours or when resting. Others also might experience leaking, wetting, or dribbling before or after each washroom visit.

Can anxiety cause frequent urination?

Yes! But before we explain why.

Medical Advisory

How the bladder functions normally

The urinary system is comprised of organs, muscles, tubes, and nerves that work together to create, carry, store, and evacuate urine. This system includes the two kidneys, two ureters, bladder, two sphincter muscles, and the urethra.[1][2]

The body gets its nutrients from the foods we eat. After the body has taken what it needs, waste products remain in the blood and bowel. Regarding urination, the waste products in the blood called urea, produced from foods containing protein, are taken to the kidneys for filtration. The kidneys remove urea, and combined with water and other waste products, pass it through the urinary system to the bladder which results in the formation of urine.

The bladder is a small, balloon-like hollow muscular organ that receives urine. So that the urine doesn’t just pour out of the body, the bladder is closed by sphincter muscles that encircle the opening of the bladder and close tightly until we are ready to relax them to urinate.

When the bladder fills, nerve cells in the bladder message the brain, which creates a sense of urgency to urinate. The urge to urinate becomes stronger as the bladder fills up. When we are ready to urinate, the brain signals the bladder muscles to tighten, which forces the urine out, and the sphincter muscles to relax, which allows the urine to come out. Both actions cause the bladder to empty.

When the body is healthy and not overly stressed, this process works normally. Problems can occur, however, when the body becomes chronically stressed, such as from overly apprehensive behavior.

There are many reasons why anxiety and stress can cause urinary problems, including frequent urination. Here are some of the most common:

1. The effects of the stress response

Apprehensive behavior (worry, nervousness, fretting, fear) activates the stress response, which causes the body to secrete stress hormones into the bloodstream where they travel to targeted spots to bring about specific physiological, psychological, and emotional changes.

These changes enhance the body’s ability to deal with a threat—to either fight with or flee from it—which is the reason this response is often referred to as the fight or flight response, the emergency response, or the fight, flight, or freeze response (some people become so frightened that they become seemingly paralyzed with fear similar to a “deer caught in headlights”).[3][4]

The stress response affects the body in many ways. Specific to frequent urination, the response:

Immediately voids the bowels and bladder of waste and the body of water through perspiration and urination. The body does this so that we don’t have to stop in the middle of fighting or fleeing to go to the washroom. So as part of the emergency readiness process, the body causes a strong urge to void the bowels and bladder immediately after an emergency alarm has been triggered.

Relaxes the bladder and tightens sphincter muscles so that we don’t have to stop to urinate when fighting or fleeing.

Increases heart rate, which can cause the kidneys to filter urea more quickly. As the body’s stress increases, so can the amount of urine produced, which can increase the urge, urgency, and frequency to urinate.[5]

Increases metabolism, which also increases water filtration and urine production.

Increases autonomic nervous system (the nervous system under involuntary unconscious control) activity, which can cause the brain to sense an urgent need to urinate as well as cause sphincter muscles to release for some people.

NOTE: the emergency response causes some people to pee themselves when afraid whereas it prevents others from urinating when anxious, stressed, or afraid. The reasons for this difference are unknown at this time.

All of these emergency actions can interfere with normal urinary function and cause frequent urination symptoms.

This sudden urge to void is common and often experienced by stage performers and public speakers just before they are about to perform or present.

See our “Stress Response” section for the many ways anxiety and stress affect the body and nervous system.

2. Stress-response hyperstimulation

When stress responses occur infrequently, the body can recover relatively quickly from the physiological, psychological, and emotional changes the stress response brings about.

However, when stress responses occur too frequently, such as from overly apprehensive behavior, the body can’t completely recover.

Incomplete recovery can create a state of semi stress response readiness, which we call “stress-response hyperstimulation” since stress hormones are stimulants (also often referred to as "hyperarousal"). [6][7][8][9]

A body that becomes hyperstimulated can exhibit all of the changes of an active stress response, including the urge to urinate, even though a stress response hasn’t been activated.

Moreover, hyperstimulation stresses the body. Chronic stress can cause persistent symptoms, including a persistent urge to frequently urinate. As long as the body is hyperstimulated, it can present symptoms, including those affecting urinary function.

3. Hyperstimulation can cause the body to act erratically

Stress hormones have a dramatic effect on the body, especially the nervous system (which includes the brain).

The nervous system is responsible for sending and receiving sensory information to and from the brain.

A main component of the nervous system is specialized cells called neurons (nerve cells), which communicate with each other using an electrochemical process (the combination of electricity and chemistry).

This system of communication and reaction works normally when the body and nervous system are healthy. Problems can occur, however, when the body and nervous system become hyperstimulated (chronically stressed).[7][8][9]

For example, because of their electrochemical properties, neurons are particularly sensitive to hyperstimulation. When they become overly stimulated, they can act erratically and more involuntarily than normal, which can cause them to “misreport,” “over-report,” and send “false” nerve impulse information to and from the brain.[8][9]

These abnormalities can cause a wide range of sensory and physical anomalies, such as causing an urge to urinate when the bladder isn’t full.

This erratic and more involuntary nervous system behavior can affect any area of the body, including the bladder and the muscles associated with it.

The frequent urge to urinate; frequent urination; and ‘leaking,’ ‘spotting,’ incontinence, and ‘accidents’ are all examples of hyperstimulation’s adverse effects on the urinary system.

4. Hyperstimulation (chronic stress) can cause Over Active Bladder (OAB)

While not a disease, Over Active Bladder is the name of a group of symptoms that affect urinary function, such as the sudden urge to urinate that seems difficult to control, incontinence, and frequent urination. OAB affects approximately 30 – 40 percent of North Americans.[10]

Research has found that emotional problems, such as anxiety disorder, can cause and aggravate over active bladder. For instance:

“OAB patients reported higher anxiety symptoms compared to controls. OAB patients with anxiety reported more severe OAB/incontinence symptoms, worse quality of life, and more psychosocial difficulties compared to OAB patients without anxiety. There are positive correlations between the severity of anxiety symptoms and OAB/incontinence symptoms.”[11]

While the exact science isn’t settled about the reasons why emotional problems can contribute to OAB, two theories suggest:

Chronic stress can adversely affect the body’s muscles and muscle groups, including those that control the bladder and urinary tract.[12] The stress response causes muscles to tighten. Hyperstimulation can cause muscles and muscle groups to tighten, spasm, and act erratically and more involuntarily than normal. This abnormal muscle behavior can affect any muscle or group of muscles in the body, including those in the bladder and urinary tract, which includes the sphincter. It’s suggested that abnormal muscle behavior is the reason why some stressed and anxious people have ‘accidents’ or feel they’ve lost control of their bowels or bladder when overly stressed, such as when anxious or afraid.

The heightened autonomic nervous system activity can “override” normal nervous system communication between the bladder and brain causing the brain to generate a sense of urgency to urinate when the bladder isn’t full, as we mentioned previously.

Any of the above reasons can cause a wide range of bladder and urination problems, including frequent urination.

Frequent urination during sleep hours is also common. Contributing factors include:

Hyperstimulation can cause an increase in resting metabolism even when sleeping. An increase in resting metabolism will cause the body to produce more urine than normal.

Hyperstimulation can cause an increase in resting heart rate, which can also cause an increase in urine production.

Hyperstimulation can cause an increase in resting perspiration, which also can cause an increase in urine production.

Hyperstimulation can cause an increase in nervous system activity, which can also cause a heightened urge to urinate even if the bladder isn’t full.

This list isn’t exhaustive.

It’s common for those who are overly stressed and anxious to have nights where they are up every hour or so going to the washroom. The more stressed and stimulated the body becomes, the more of a problem frequent urination can become.

5. Inflammation

Chronic stress, such as that caused by overly apprehensive behavior, can cause issues with inflammation. Inflammation can affect many parts of the body, including the urinary tract (and prostate for men).

A urinary tract (and prostate) that become inflamed can cause all sorts of urinary function symptoms, such as the urge to frequently urinate.

Cystitis, an inflammation of the bladder, is often caused by a urinary tract infection (UTI) but can be aggravated by chronic stress and the inflammation issues chronic stress can create in the body, including in the bladder.

Interstitial Cystitis, a chronic bladder health issue that can cause chronic pain and pressure in the bladder, has also been associated with anxiety disorder.[13]

Moreover, overly anxious people tend to hold their urine longer than they should. This is because they are generally so busy and involved with what they are doing that they don’t want to take the time to urinate. Holding in urine can cause issues with UTIs. Then, the chronic stress their behaviors cause can aggravate and prolong UTI recovery.

6. Medications

Medications can also cause frequent urination problems, such as diuretics, muscle relaxants, psychotropic drugs (sedatives), narcotics, antihistamines, and alpha-adrenergic antagonists. [14]

Frequent urination anxiety symptom treatment

When frequent urination is a side effect of medication, talking with your doctor and pharmacist could prove helpful.

When frequent urination is caused by inflammation or infection, talking with your doctor could also prove helpful.

Ending an active stress response

When frequent urination is caused by inflammation, which in turn is caused or aggravated by not urinating regularly, urinating according to a schedule can prove helpful. Periodically clearing the bladder can help reduce and prevent UTIs and the inflammation associated with them.

When frequent urination is caused by anxiety and the accompanying stress response changes, calming yourself down will bring an end to the stress response and its changes. As your body recovers from the active stress response, this anxiety symptom should subside.

Keep in mind it can take up to 20 minutes or more for the body to recover from a major stress response. But this is normal and shouldn’t be a cause for concern.

Eliminating chronic stress (hyperstimulation)

When frequent urination is caused by chronic stress, it may take a lot longer for the body to calm down and recover, and to the point where this symptom is eliminated.

Nevertheless, when the body has fully recovered from the adverse effects of chronic stress, frequent urination completely subsides. Therefore, this symptom needn’t be a cause for concern.

You can speed up the recovery process by reducing your stress, practicing relaxed breathing, increasing your rest and relaxation, and not worrying about this feeling. Sure, it can be unsettling and even bothersome. But again, when your body has recovered from the stress response and/or chronic stress, this symptom disappears.

Short-term remedies for frequent urination

While eliminating hyperstimulation should be the overall goal of eliminating chronic, frequent urination, some short-term strategies could ease symptoms. For instance:

Reduce stress so that your body’s metabolism and heart rate are lower, which can reduce urine production.

Reduce your intake of fluids so that your body doesn’t produce as much urine. Be sure, however, you don’t reduce your fluids too much that your body becomes under-hydrated.

Regular light to moderate exercise can help reduce stress and keep muscles toned and fit, including those associated with the urinary system. Remember, however, rigorous exercise stresses the body so it’s best to avoid strenuous exercise until your body has recovered from hyperstimulation.

Moderately increase salt intake so that your body retains some fluids. However, be sure to keep your salt intake within a healthy limit.

Regular deep relaxation can help slow the body’s metabolism as well as reduce hyperstimulation, which can also help reduce urine production.

Get regular good sleep (between 6.5 to 8 hours per night). Regular good sleep can reduce stress hormone production during the day, which can reduce urine production.

Slow down your pace. Living a fast-paced lifestyle can increase stress hormone production, which will increase urine production. Deliberately slowing down your pace can reduce stress hormone production, reduce urine production, and calm the body overall.

Avoid stimulants. Stimulants stress the body, increase stress hormone production, and aggravate hyperstimulation, which in turn increases urine production. Avoiding stimulants can keep stress hormone levels in check and keep the body calmer overall.

Avoid diuretics. Diuretics increase the excretion of water from the body, which will increase urine production. Many medications have a diuretic effect, but so do some foods, particularly coffee and green and black teas. You can speak with your doctor, pharmacist, and a natural nutritionist for more information.

Therapy

The number one reason why anxiety disorder and its symptoms persist is because of unidentified and unaddressed underlying factors that cause issues with anxiety. This is why dealing with your anxiety issues is the most important overall.

Since the majority of stress comes from behavior (the ways we think and act), addressing the core reasons for anxiety disorder can reduce and eliminate the unhealthy stress that often leads to hyperstimulation and symptoms, including this one.

Keep in mind that eliminating anxiety symptoms doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve overcome issues with anxiety. Anxiety symptoms are symptoms of stress. Eliminating anxiety symptoms means you’ve eliminated the unhealthy stress that is causing your symptoms. But if the underlying factors that cause issues with anxiety aren’t addressed, it’s just a matter of time until the body is overly stressed and symptomatic again.

Rebounds of symptoms and a return to a struggle with anxiety are caused for this very reason: the core issues that cause problematic anxiety haven’t been successfully addressed.

To eliminate issues with anxiety and symptoms once and for all, we need to eliminate the cause of problematic anxiety – the underlying factors that cause issues with anxiety. When you eliminate the cause of the problem, you eliminate the problem and the problem's symptoms.

If you have been struggling with anxiety and symptoms, including frequent urination, we recommend connecting with an experienced anxiety disorder therapist to help you overcome your anxiety issues. Research has shown that working with an experienced therapist is an effective treatment for anxiety disorder.[15][16]

All of our recommended anxiety disorder therapists have personally experienced anxiety disorder and have overcome it. Their personal experience with anxiety disorder combined with their Masters Degree and above professional training makes them a good choice when desiring to overcome anxiety disorder and its symptoms.

Moreover, getting therapy via teletherapy, distanced therapy, or e-therapy (telephone or online therapy) is as effective, if not more so, than in-person therapy.[17][18]

All of our recommended therapists are experienced at working with clients via distanced therapy and new technologies. We’ve found distanced therapy to be especially effective when working with anxious clients.

Research has also shown that self-help information can also be beneficial.[19][20] For a more detailed explanation about anxiety symptoms including this one, why symptoms can persist long after the stress response has ended, common barriers to recovery and symptom elimination, and more recovery strategies and tips, we have many chapters that address this information in the Recovery Support area of our website.

Much more could be said about this anxiety symptom. For a more detailed explanation about anxiety symptoms including this one, why symptoms can persist long after the stress response has ended, common barriers to recovery and symptom elimination, and more recovery strategies and tips, we have many chapters that address this information in the Recovery Support area of our website.

If you are interested in accessing additional support information to assist you on your journey to anxiety wellness, consider joining our Recovery Support area for additional in-depth recovery support information and materials.

Anxiety Urination: An Inconvenient Symptom

Anxiety can be a self-sustaining mental health problem. Often the signs and symptoms of anxiety lead to feelings of stress or fear, which in turn leads to further anxiety. This loop is one of the main reasons treating anxiety requires such a commitment, otherwise it will keep cycling and possibly get much worse.

One sign of anxiety that causes a great deal of stress is urination. Frequent urination can be a sign of a more serious health issue, like diabetes, but it may also be caused by intense anxiety.

Fear and Urination

There are two types of anxiety urination. There is instant urination that genuinely occurs during moments of complete terror, and there is frequent urination, which is the sensation of needing to urinate often without necessarily drinking excess water/liquid.

Instant urination is a common symptom of severe phobias or fears. If someone points a gun at you, for example, it's not uncommon to urinate as a reaction to the fear.

This is essentially caused by an overloaded nervous system. Your body goes into fight or flight mode, and it needs to prepare so many different things at once that it can't handle them all, and the area of your brain that controls urination essentially shuts off.

Causes of Anxiety-Related Frequent Urination

There are several beliefs for what causes frequent urination from anxiety. It is likely that several, or even all, of these factors play a role. Some of the most common theories on anxiety-related frequent urination are:

Muscle Tension This is one of the most likely causes of frequent urination. When you have anxiety, your muscles get very tense. This tension puts pressure on your bladder, which in turn makes you feel like you need to urinate more than you would otherwise.
Evolutionary Adaptation Another theory is that there is an evolutionary reason that frequent urination would be advantageous. Remember, anxiety is the misfiring of your fight/flight system. In times of fear, urination may keep the body lighter by losing extra weight, making it easier to flee.
Light Overload It's also possible that, because anxiety is a misfiring of the fight/flight system, your body may simply be lightly overloaded. The fear is not intense enough to cause immediate urination, but it may make it harder for you to feel like you can hold it back.

Also, those with anxiety are more prone to focusing on different sensations unintentionally. There are often times when you may feel the need to urinate slightly but your body has no problem ignoring the feeling and holding it back. With anxiety, it's possible that your brain is focused on the sensation, potentially causing you to feel like you need to urinate more than you do.

Finally, anxiety can also change your body chemistry, altering your digestion and changing the way you process nutrients. That may cause more water to pass through your body.

Frequent Urination From Anxiety is Not Diabetes

If you haven't been to a doctor in years, it's always a good idea to have yourself checked out. If you suffer from frequent urination, this may be a sign of diabetes. However, if you have had your blood sugar levels checked and they are normal, you do not need to worry about this being the cause of your frequent urination.

Many people with anxiety fear the worst, which means they fear diabetes - a common and frightening cause of frequent urination. But diabetes urination is different. It doesn't usually develop overnight, and the frequent urination comes all throughout the day - even multiple times at night.

The chances of rapidly developing severe diabetes with urination problems after having healthy levels of blood sugar is very small. If you have healthy blood sugar levels, anxiety is much more likely the cause.

Thoughts on Anxiety and Urination

Urination from anxiety isn't something that you simply cure on its own. Drinking less water can only cause dehydration, which may lead to more anxiety.

Avoiding foods and drinks that may increase urination, like coffee and alcohol, can be helpful. It won't make a huge difference, but diuretics do increase urination which will make water pass through your body more quickly.

You should also try to relax your muscles, especially your abdominal muscles. Try an exercise known as "Progressive Muscle Relaxation." Progressive muscle relaxation is a stress reduction exercise that involves tiring the muscles to relax the body in a slow, orderly fashion. The idea is that by progressively eliminating muscle tension, a person will feel better both physically and mentally It involves the following:

Stand up straight and balanced against both legs.
Tense the muscle in your right foot as hard as you can for 10 seconds.
Release your muscle.
Tense the muscle in your left foot as hard as you can for 10 seconds.
Release your muscle.
Continue with each muscle in your body, one at a time, until you've tensed your face muscles.

This should help to reduce your overall muscle tension. However, ultimately the best option for reducing your anxiety-related frequent urination is to work on treating the cause—learning to manage your anxiety.

SUMMARY:
Anxiety, especially chronic anxiety, causes more than nervousness alone. The fight or flight system can overwhelm the brain and body, leading to excessive urination, frequent urination, and many other urinary challenges. Some relaxation techniques may be able to reduce these difficulties, but the only way to solve them is to address the anxiety itself.

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How stress affects the health of the bladder

Stress is a typical physiological reaction of the body to external influences, which is necessary to adapt to changing living conditions. In 1936, Hans Selye proposed a theory of stress and identified two of its varieties:

positive, or eustress, - it is needed for the body to adapt to constant changes in the environment;
negative, or distress, - such stress, when exposed over time, leads to the depletion of the body's defenses and the development of diseases, including chronic ones.

Long-term stress, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder, is associated with a risk of developing chronic, including inflammatory, diseases. In people with this disorder, scientists have found elevated levels of inflammatory markers: interleukins and C-reactive protein.

However, the mechanisms of disease development due to chronic stress are not fully understood - further research is needed.

Normally, the development of urological diseases is prevented by the anatomical features of the urinary tract:

mucous membrane - urothelium - provides reliable protection against the penetration of bacteria due to a thin mucopolysaccharide layer on the surface;
synchronous work of the muscles - the detrusor and sphincter of the bladder - is responsible for its emptying and retention of urine;
mucus-secreting paraurethral glands fight pathogenic bacteria and protect the bladder from them;
Type A immunoglobulins in urine prevent bacteria from attaching to the urinary tract mucosa.

Prolonged exposure to stress can disrupt these defense mechanisms, leading to inflammation of the lower urinary tract, most commonly bacterial cystitis. Sometimes there is an exacerbation of chronic cystitis.

Cystitis is an inflammation of the lining of the bladder. Due to anatomical features, women are more likely to suffer from them. Cystitis usually develops between the ages of 25 and 30, and also in women over 55 after menopause. In Russia, 26-36 million cases of cystitis are registered annually. Up to 60% of all visits to a urologist are related to him.

Studies show that interstitial (chronic non-infectious) cystitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome can develop even two years after exposure to stress has ended.

Due to stress, the production of certain hormones that affect the functioning of the protective mechanisms of the urinary tract is disrupted. We emphasize that there are no separate male and female hormones - both sexes have both, but in different proportions. Stress affects the work of the following ones.

Testosterone - Psychological stress can severely reduce testosterone production, causing the detrusor (the muscle that makes the bladder contract and empty) to malfunction. Subsequently, this can provoke the development of cystitis in both men and women.

Estradiol - Prolonged stress can reduce estradiol production in both women and men. This leads to the development of atrophy of the urinary tract mucosa and disruption of the main muscle of the bladder - the detrusor.

Progesterone is a neurosteroid, the most important hormone that ensures the functioning of the protective membrane on the surface of the mucous membranes, including the specific mucous membrane of the urinary tract - the urothelium. With prolonged stress, progesterone production decreases, which leads to damage to the function of the urothelium, as well as a decrease in the overall level of immunity. The hormone is also present in men and women.

Insulin is the only hormone in the human body that lowers blood sugar levels. It is produced by the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Stress leads to damage to the cells that produce insulin and impairs its release into the blood, because of this, blood sugar levels can rise, insulin resistance and diabetes can develop. This also affects the functioning of the bladder: the work of the detrusor is disrupted, sugar appears in the urine, which contributes to the reproduction of bacteria, and due to oxidative stress ¹ inflammation develops.

1. Oxidative, or oxidative, stress is the mechanism of tissue damage due to incompletely oxidized or intermediate forms of oxygen - free radicals, which are especially aggressive and toxic in relation to cellular structures. The number of such radicals increases significantly with an increase in blood sugar levels.

How to prevent the development of cystitis

The most important thing is not how much stress is strong, but how long it affects a person. To avoid chronic diseases, it is important to pay attention first of all to your mental health. Also, for the prevention of cystitis, it is recommended to follow a number of simple rules:

Drink plenty of fluids - a constant flow of fluid will not allow bacteria to gain a foothold on the wall of the urinary tract mucosa.
Regular emptying of the bladder throughout the day and before and after sexual intercourse.
Compliance with the rules of personal hygiene.
Cold prevention.
Attentive attitude to one's health, regular medical examinations, including examinations by a general practitioner, dentist, gynecologist. Prevention is always easier and more profitable than cure.

Neurosis - symptoms and manifestations of neurosis

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Neurosis - symptoms and manifestations of neurosis

Neurosis is a disease based on psychological problems and chronic stress. Symptoms and manifestations of neurosis.

Neurosis is a disease based on psychological problems and chronic stress, which are vital and cannot be resolved. Also at the heart of neurosis are somatic components, vital needs, a sense of self-worth, love, recognition, a sense of security, which are constantly or occasionally violated, not satisfied. For example, if a child is not given a feeling of love, protection, unconditional recognition, if conditions are created under which he will receive or not receive the love of his parents, then with a high degree of probability a neurosis may occur. Especially if the conditions for receiving encouragement from parents are difficult for the child to achieve or the expectations of the parents are too high, or if the child does not have a clear program of what it means to be good, neurosis also arises.

In fact, neurosis has a multifaceted clinical picture. Neurosis consists of somatic manifestations, emotional, behavioral and cognitive. Many eminent minds have devoted themselves to the study of this state. This problem is especially relevant in our time, since the insecurity of a modern person, the unpredictability of the life situation, a tough competitive environment, the existence of certain social norms and frameworks, a certain regulation of life and often the lack of freedom of choice do not give satisfaction from life, cause chronic stress, emotional tension and how the result is neurosis.

Irritable bowel syndrome.

Irritable bowel syndrome is sometimes called "bear's disease", as it is manifested by the fact that the patient, while preparing to go out, before or during some significant event for him, or a situation that causes him discomfort or excitement , there are urges "to the bottom." The intestines are emptied in small portions, so these repeated urges can cause significant discomfort - loss of time, constant dependence on the location of the toilet, inadequacy of the urge to go down is situational (for example: metro, transport, meeting, lecture, date, etc.). Such a state is in itself a manifestation of neurosis, but this additional discomfort further neuroticizes the patient and a vicious circle is obtained.

At the physiological level, irritable bowel syndrome is a manifestation of a violation of the autonomic regulation of the intestine, inadequate and uncoordinated intestinal motility. Similarly, neurotic hiccups, belching, flatulence, asthma attacks, palpitations, abdominal pain, frequent urination (neurogenic bladder) occur. This state of dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system has a scientific name: "Somatoform autonomic dysfunction in the form of ..." and then there is a decoding of which particular system of the body manifests itself to a greater extent in this dysfunction. If these are frequent urges to urinate, then this is a neurogenic bladder, if an attack of panic and suffocation, palpitations - a panic attack or neurogenic bronchial asthma, urges to defecate - irritable bowel syndrome (this is a more accurate translation from English), impaired muscle regulation - tics .

Impaired coordination. Dizziness.

Significant incoordination requires careful examination. First of all, it is necessary to determine what kind of a violation of coordination this is, whether it is really a manifestation of neurosis, i.e. functional disorders, or whether it is a violation of brain structures (stem, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, etc.) of an organic nature (they can be vascular, inflammatory, degenerative, etc. .). More often, neurotic disorders of coordination are manifested by dizziness, tinnitus, pulsation in the head, unsteadiness when walking. But any vestibular disorders require a thorough examination. Some diseases begin with vestibular dysfunction and may occur against the background of neurosis.

Treatment of these disorders is carried out as in any form of neurosis - psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, homeopathy, acupuncture, massage, etc.

Absentmindedness, poor memory of information, chronic stress.

Concentration of attention and memory can be trained quite successfully. It all depends on motivation. If there is a goal, then there is an algorithm of action. Another question is when there is an internal conflict, conscious or unconscious, an internal “mental chewing gum”, which diverts a lot of mental energy, strength and attention of the patient to itself. It must also be said that overwork, inadequate sleep, lack of proper rest, lack of physical activity, excessive demands on the patient, stressful workloads can also lead to a decrease in attention and memory over time.