D McCarthy Dip.Hyp.GQHP.GHR.Reg.
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Bed Wetting - Enuresis
Hypnotherapy
for Children, Teenagers and Adults.
David J McCarthy Dip.Hyp.GQHP.GHR.Reg
As well as working with adult
enuresis David has also received training specifically in working with
teenagers and children. He is one of only five people in Essex who has clients
referred to him as an Approved National Phobics Society Therapist.
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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......
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' (nighttime 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 nighttime 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.
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:
Age 5: 20%
Age 6: 10 to 15%
Age 7: 7%
Age 10: 5%
Age 15: 1-2%
Age 18-64: 0.5%-1%
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.
Children usually achieve
nighttime dryness by developing one or both of two abilities. There appear to
be some hereditary factors in how and when these develop.
One is a hormone cycle in
which a minute burst of antidiuretic hormone happens daily at about sunset
reducing kidney output of urine well into the night so the bladder doesn't get
full until morning. This hormone cycle is not present at birth. Many children
develop it between the ages of two and six years old, others between six and
the end of puberty, and some not at all.
The other is the ability to
awaken before wetting. The body normally develops the ability to wake when the
bladder is full.
Primary Nocturnal Enuresis
(PNE) has two related most-common causes:
Neurological-developmental
delayThis is a
common cause of PNE bedwetting. Some bedwetting children are simply delayed in
developing the ability to stay dry and have no other developmental issues.
GeneticsBedwetting has a strong genetic
component. Children whose parents were not enuretic have only a 15% incidence
of bedwetting. When one or both parents were bedwetters, the rates jump to 44%
and 77% respectively.
There is no test to prove that
bedwetting is only a developmental delay and genetic testing offers little or
no benefit to a bedwetting patient.
Secondary Nocturnal
Enuresis
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.
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:
How much the bedwetting
limits social activities like sleep-overs or days out.
The degree of the social
ostracism by peers.
Anger, punishment, and
rejection by carers, guardians or parents.
The number of failed
treatment attempts.
The longer the child has
been wetting/older the child is.
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.
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!
I have been trained specially in Hypnotherapy with children aged 6-16.
I am screened by the Criminal Records Bureau.
I am one of only five Hypnotherapists in Essex who receive referrals from The
Phobic Society.
This page
is a very brief summary of Enuresis and Bed Wetting. Each individual will have
their own very different circumstances, please take advantage of my free
initial consultation to discuss how Hypnosis may help stop this debilitating
condition once and for all.
