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This topic has come up numerous times on this forum, but I want to share this post based on medical fact. First, what exactly is incontinence? Incontinence is an inability to control bladder or bowel function. Millions of people experience some form of incontinence, if only a few times, throughout their lives. What's important to note is incontinence is a symptom of a disease, injury, congenital defect or external stimulus (e.g. drug). If you are incontinent you may also suffer from other not so pleasant symptoms of whatever ails you.
While I understand the fantasy of wanting to wet uncontrollably, if you are thinking about this, you must understand the reality. There are essentially four types of incontinence 1) functional - you are aware of the need to urinate, but cannot get to the bathroom because of some physical or mental barrier, 2) urge - you feel a sudden and frequent need to urinate that occurs too quickly for you to make it to the bathroom, 3) stress - you feel the need to urinate, but you cannot hold it when you cough, laugh, bend over or otherwise put stress on you body, and 4) mixed - a mixture of the above.
I have been urge incontinent for my entire life and severely so in the last 14 years. Previously I have said on this forum that one cannot become incontinent by wearing diapers, but I think it is possible. How so? Well, let's focus on the bladder to see how it works.
There are three main areas that regulate a normally functioning urinary response in people: 1) the nervous system, 2) the badder, and 3) the sphincters. Faults in any of these three can lead to incontinence. The sphincters are muscles that you tighten and loosen over your urethra (the tube that leads from you bladder to the outside world). A weak sphincter leads to stress incontinence and there are exercises called Kegels aimed at strengthening your pelvic floor muscles to keep you from involuntarily losing urine.
Now an analogy. What would happen if I decided I didn't want to walk anymore and decided I wanted to use a wheelchair all the time? Over time (months and years) my legs would atrophy and my ability to walk would be diminished. My life would change dramatically and my health would probably deteriorate too. That's crazy you say! It may be an extreme example, but it's analogous to what would happen if you were to wear diapers everyday releasing your urine as soon as you felt any pressure. In essence, you would have voluntarily atrophied your sphincter muscles and become stress incontinent. This is why most urologists don't want their patients wearing diapers. They are a double edge sword. Could you get your continence back? Probably. Stress incontinence is one of the easiest to cure medically speaking (see Kegel exercises referenced above).
The reality is this. If you were to tell your doctor, loved one or even person on the street you want to purposely harm your body, they wouldn't understand. In fact, any doctor would call that pathological. That's because it is. A cynical and selfish person might even say why not just jump off a four story building and get it over with? See where I'm going here. Just because you might be able to give yourself stress incontinence does not mean you should do it. Please consider this very carefully. Being incontinent is no game and no fantasy.
While I understand the fantasy of wanting to wet uncontrollably, if you are thinking about this, you must understand the reality. There are essentially four types of incontinence 1) functional - you are aware of the need to urinate, but cannot get to the bathroom because of some physical or mental barrier, 2) urge - you feel a sudden and frequent need to urinate that occurs too quickly for you to make it to the bathroom, 3) stress - you feel the need to urinate, but you cannot hold it when you cough, laugh, bend over or otherwise put stress on you body, and 4) mixed - a mixture of the above.
I have been urge incontinent for my entire life and severely so in the last 14 years. Previously I have said on this forum that one cannot become incontinent by wearing diapers, but I think it is possible. How so? Well, let's focus on the bladder to see how it works.
There are three main areas that regulate a normally functioning urinary response in people: 1) the nervous system, 2) the badder, and 3) the sphincters. Faults in any of these three can lead to incontinence. The sphincters are muscles that you tighten and loosen over your urethra (the tube that leads from you bladder to the outside world). A weak sphincter leads to stress incontinence and there are exercises called Kegels aimed at strengthening your pelvic floor muscles to keep you from involuntarily losing urine.
Now an analogy. What would happen if I decided I didn't want to walk anymore and decided I wanted to use a wheelchair all the time? Over time (months and years) my legs would atrophy and my ability to walk would be diminished. My life would change dramatically and my health would probably deteriorate too. That's crazy you say! It may be an extreme example, but it's analogous to what would happen if you were to wear diapers everyday releasing your urine as soon as you felt any pressure. In essence, you would have voluntarily atrophied your sphincter muscles and become stress incontinent. This is why most urologists don't want their patients wearing diapers. They are a double edge sword. Could you get your continence back? Probably. Stress incontinence is one of the easiest to cure medically speaking (see Kegel exercises referenced above).
The reality is this. If you were to tell your doctor, loved one or even person on the street you want to purposely harm your body, they wouldn't understand. In fact, any doctor would call that pathological. That's because it is. A cynical and selfish person might even say why not just jump off a four story building and get it over with? See where I'm going here. Just because you might be able to give yourself stress incontinence does not mean you should do it. Please consider this very carefully. Being incontinent is no game and no fantasy.
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