Bowel and Bladder Anxiety: An Obsession or a Variant of Agoraphobia?

It has long been debated whether bowel and bladder anxiety are a part of obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder or a variant of agoraphobia with no consensus view yet. Tricyclic antidepressants are reportedly efficacious in such cases and lead to complete resolution of symptoms. Here, we report a 36...

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Autores principales: Roy, Debjit, Sarkar, Amrita, Nongpiur, Arvind, Prithviraj, Manoj
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29875534
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_133_17
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description It has long been debated whether bowel and bladder anxiety are a part of obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder or a variant of agoraphobia with no consensus view yet. Tricyclic antidepressants are reportedly efficacious in such cases and lead to complete resolution of symptoms. Here, we report a 36-year-old male having urges to visit toilet when in public places or where toilets are not easily available and a resulting avoidance of such spaces fearing an episode of incontinence. Symptoms originated 16 years ago when he was in university which compelled him to drop out. We treated him with paroxetine and relaxation therapy to which he responded satisfactorily.
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spelling pubmed-59686482018-06-06 Bowel and Bladder Anxiety: An Obsession or a Variant of Agoraphobia? Roy, Debjit Sarkar, Amrita Nongpiur, Arvind Prithviraj, Manoj Indian J Psychol Med Case Report It has long been debated whether bowel and bladder anxiety are a part of obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder or a variant of agoraphobia with no consensus view yet. Tricyclic antidepressants are reportedly efficacious in such cases and lead to complete resolution of symptoms. Here, we report a 36-year-old male having urges to visit toilet when in public places or where toilets are not easily available and a resulting avoidance of such spaces fearing an episode of incontinence. Symptoms originated 16 years ago when he was in university which compelled him to drop out. We treated him with paroxetine and relaxation therapy to which he responded satisfactorily. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5968648/ /pubmed/29875534 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_133_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Psychiatric Society - South Zonal Branch http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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