What is Bedwetting
Bedwetting (or nocturnal enuresis or sleepwetting) is involuntary urination while asleep. It is the normal state of affairs in infancy, but can be a source of embarrassment when it...
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Bedwetting and sexual abuse
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I'm wondering if anybody here has ever seen any STATISTICS corelating bedwetting and sexual abuse. I've seen it mentioned in plenty of places that there IS sometimes a connection bewteen secondary bedwetting and abuse, but I just can't find any numbers - i.e., What percentage of secondary bedwetters were sexually abused and/or what percentage of abuse victims wet the bed?
Has anybody here ever seen ANY statistics anywhere on this ? MY STORY: I had sporadic bouts of bedwetting well into my 20's. In my mid 20s it gradually changed from actually wetting the bed to just dreaming of it - sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night absolutely convinced that I'd just wet the bed only to discover that I really hadn't I'd just dreamed about it. But I'm constantly concerned that it will return, that maybe next time it won't just be a dream but the real thing again. In my early '20, the diagnosis was that the bedwetting was caused by depression and/or PTSD relating to being sexually abused from the age of 8 until 15 when the state intervened and took me out of the house. It took many years of therapy to get some traction on the PTSD/Depression. Now I'm currently a moderator of a support site for other adult survivors of that type of abuse. Posted on 03/17/08, 05:03 pm |
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Portlande,
Indeed it is. Not all kids are identified, and not all kids are removed, but the scars still remain. When it does not tear families apart, it can nevertheless wreak havoc on survivors. Incontinence can be just the tip of a large iceberg. Paxton 
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Thanks for the support Paxton.
I try to keep a positiuve outlook - I figure that with all I went through as a kid, if this is the worst I have to show for it then I'm probably ahead of the curve. I'm just curious about the numbers - It's well documented that there IS sometimes a connection between bedwetting and sexual abuse. And it seems to fit my circumstance perfectly. But I'm curious about HOW OFTEN there's a connection between these two things- almost always? very rarely? maybe in half the cases? I've never been able to find any actual numbers. So if anybody else, while researching the topic, happens to run across any statistics or numbers correlating bedwetting and childhood sexual abuse, I'd REALLY like to hear about it. I know I'm not alone in this. I'm just curious about how much I'm not alone. Thanks.
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Portlande,
Have you checked with the CDC? (Centers for Disease Control)? I would think they ought to have statistics on just aboout every health concern, including abuse survivors. Good luck. Paxton
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