10-Year-Old Defeats Bedwetting

Jason’s bedwetting due to sleep disorder

“It wasn’t his fault.”

Jason was only ten and already had a label. He was a bedwetter. He had “accidents” throughout the day, too. It just didn’t seem fair. His 7-year old brother and 5-year-old sister didn’t suffer from bedwetting. “Why me?” Jason thought.

His parents agonized, too. They had met with the family doctor and placed Jason in “bedwetting treatment.” But the bed-wetting didn’t stop and in the morning, the sheets were still wet. Jason was loved. There was no family pattern of enuresis (bed-wetting). Was Jason lazy? Defiant? Didn’t he take the time to go the restroom? Why did he let this bedwetting happen?

With a sense of shame, lack of sleep and his family’s unintentional criticism, Jason was moody and ill-tempered much of the time. His bad moods added to family tension. Jason’s psychologist attributed his bedwetting “accidents” to self-defeating behavior that kept his self-esteem low and his anxiety high. But which came first? The low self-esteem or the bedwetting? His parents were supportive but, as the bedwetting treatment went on, they found it hard not to think of Jason as irresponsible. And sometimes anger bubbled to the surface in spite of their best intentions.

Jason’s life was deeply affected. He rarely went on sleepovers, and if he ever did accept an invitation, he stayed up all night for fear of his secret getting out. He was tired and cranky and the family was weary of his “accidents.” There had to be a way to combat enuresis.

Jason’s mom had searched the Internet and just found more questions and “unknown causes” of enuresis. But one day, she stumbled onto the Enuresis Treatment Center (www.nobedwetting.com). Here she learned that Jason’s nightly bedwetting and daytime leaks were due to an inherited sleep disorder. His accidents were actually exacerbated by the very act of emptying the bladder so often during the night. Counseling could be in person, by phone or on the web. Distance was no factor. Within a week, Jason began his sessions at the Enuresis Treatment Center with Mike. The two shared a love of baseball, and Jason looked up to Mike like a big brother. Mike tackled Jason’s moodiness even as he treated him for bedwetting. Jason was soon a typical 10 year-old who went on sleepovers and felt at ease with friends. His self-confidence soared. In his final session, he admitted, “Until I stopped wetting the bed, I never felt like I ‘belonged’ in my family.” Today, Jason feels he “fits in” at school, with friends and especially his family. His parents are grateful to the Enuresis Treatment Center. And the younger kids now look up to their brother instead of being afraid to talk to him. For more information, contact www.nobedwetting.com. Or call 1-800-379-2331 in the US or 1-248-785-1199 International (including Canada).

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