Bed Wetting – Enuresis Hypnotherapy
for Children, Teenagers and Adults.
D McCarthy Dip.Hyp.SQHP.GHR.Reg.
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The Hypnotherapy Association
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Bed Wetting – Enuresis Hypnotherapy for Children, Teenagers and Adults
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How do I know the desperation you are feeling?
Having had two boys myself who are now thankfully totally dry (well 99.9% anyway, apart from the odd, deep sleep, non routine, occasion.) I know what it’s like to be perched on the side of the bath at 3:30 am trying to hold your eyes open and not fall in.
You reach a point of deprived sleep where it really all just becomes a numb dream world. You are constantly worried and stressed about everything, is it all your fault, how will you manage to get them up and ready for school, how will you get to work on time and not drift off to neverland during the meeting this afternoon……
The pile of washing continues to grow even though the washing machine is running continuously, and your house looks more like a sail storage area for a large ship than somewhere you can hold stimulating dinner parties with all your friends….(Yeah, right, as long as they don’t mind talking to your eyelids) and you are convinced that there is a lingering smell that you just can’t get rid of…
It is easy to feel desperate because you are run down and tired all the time. You don’t feel you can discuss it with other parents or friends as you may get: ‘ well little Timmy was totally dry at 20 months, do you mean **** isn’t? at his/her age?’
The Doctors say there is nothing physically wrong, so you may wonder what is left….
This is where Hypnotherapy can help, but only if you see a therapist who understands children because he has ‘been there’ and ‘done that’ himself, has since become a Hypnotist and been trained specifically in working with children.
You may have found these are few and far between……
Information About Bedwetting or ‘Enuresis’
Enuresis is involuntary urination after the age at which bladder control would normally be anticipated. Doctors call this condition, either ‘Diurnal Enuresis’ (daytime wetting) or ‘Nocturnal Enuresis’ (night-time wetting).
Both of these conditions can occur at the same time, however, many children with nighttime bedwetting will not have wetting during the day. Children with daytime wetting may have frequent urination, have urgent urination or dribble after urinating.
Nocturnal Enuresis tends to be the main problem that Hypnotherapy is sought for, so we will focus on that here.
There are two types of night-time bed wetting:
Primary Nocturnal Enuresis (PNE) occurs when a child is beyond the age at which bladder control would normally be anticipated and either continues to average at least two wet nights a week with no long periods of dryness or would not sleep dry without being taken to the toilet by another person.
Secondary Nocturnal Enuresis occurs after a patient goes through an extended period of dryness at night (approx. 6 months or more) and then reverts to night-time wetting. Secondary enuresis can be caused by emotional stress or a medical condition, such as a bladder infection.
What Are The Statistics?
Most children (85-90%) will consistently stay dry by age 6. By age 10, 95% of children are dry at night. Studies place adult bedwetting rates at between 0.5% to 2.3%
A small percentage (5% to 10%) of bedwetting cases are caused by specific medical situations. Most cases, however, do not have a specific identifiable cause.
Males are more likely to wet the bed than females. Males make up 60% of bed-wetters overall and make up more than 90% of those who wet nightly.
Approximate Bedwetting Rates:
Children 5 to 9 years old have a spontaneous cure rate of 14% per year. Adolescents 10 to 18 years old have a spontaneous cure rate of 16% per year.
As can be seen from the numbers above, 5% to 10% of bed wetting children will not outgrow the problem, leaving 0.5% to 1% of adults still dealing with bedwetting. Individuals who are still enuretic at age 18 need a therapy that can help or face the prospect of dealing with bed wetting throughout their lives. Adult rates of bed wetting show little change due to spontaneous cure, Hypnotherapy is a very effective treatment for adults as well as children and teenagers.
Normal Processes of Staying Dry
Children usually achieve night-time dryness by developing one or both of two abilities. There appear to be some hereditary factors in how and when these develop.
Some Common Causes For Bed Wetting
Primary Nocturnal Enuresis (PNE) has two related most-common causes:
When Secondary Nocturnal Enuresis is the issue, and medical examinations show no physical reason for the condition, there is a good chance that a Psychological reason could be at the root of the problem.
Psychological issues (e.g., death in the family, abuse, extreme bullying, various traumatic events) are established as a cause of secondary nocturnal enuresis (a return to bedwetting) and sometimes a cause of ongoing PNE-type bedwetting. When Enuresis is caused by a psychological disorder, the bedwetting is considered a symptom of the disorder with unconscious control and comes into the area covered by Hypnotherapy.
The subconscious controls all of our natural functions that we don’t need to think about doing. Such as breathing, making your heart beat etc. It is our subconscious that will wake us if we need to go to the toilet in the night and in the case of wetting the bed at night, it is not doing so. Hypnotherapy may be able to solve this by the Hypnotherapist changing the way the subconscious reacts to the signals it is getting and identifying the underlying reason why it reacts as it does.
Impact Of Bedwetting On Self-esteem
Bedwetting children feel effects ranging from feeling cold on waking, being teased by siblings, being punished by parents, and being afraid that friends will find out.
Whether bed wetting causes low self-esteem remains a subject of debate, but several studies have found that self-esteem improved with management of the condition.
Children questioned in one study ranked bed wetting as the third most stressful life event, after parental divorce and parental fighting. Adolescents in the same study ranked bedwetting as tied for second with parental fighting.
Psychologists report that the amount of psychological harm depends on whether the bed wetting harms self-esteem or development of social skills.
Key factors are:
Impact And Cost On Families
Parents and family members are frequently stressed by a child’s bedwetting. Soiled linens and clothing cause additional laundry. Wetting episodes can invariably cause lost sleep when the child wakes and/or cries, waking the parents. A study estimated that a family with a child who wets nightly can easily pay up to £500 a year for additional laundry, extra sheets, disposable absorbent garments such as nappies or pull-ups and mattress replacement.
Despite these stressful effects, doctors emphasize that parents should react patiently and supportively.
When You Are At Your Wits End. Hypnotherapy Can Help…
If you are getting desperate and feel you’ve tried everything contact me today.
Hypnotherapy can be very effective when nothing else has worked.
If a child is having the problem, being the father of two sons I know what you are going through,
been there, done that!
If you are an adult who is suffering with this, I have successfully helped teenagers and older people overcome it, please have the courage to try, and change your world for the better.
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