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Other than the obvious case of the (real or perceived) pressure of a full bladder eventually becoming unbearable, under what conditions do healthy people, i.e. those who do not ordinarily suffer from incontinence, lose bladder control?
I know of two - extreme fear and choking/strangling. In the latter, I'm not sure if there is a direct connection, or if it is simply the cause for a more general loss of muscle control due to the onset of unconsciousness. How and why is urination triggered, in those cases? Are they connected?
What other scenarios are there, if any?
I spent some time on wikipedia but couldn't find anything directly applicable. The article on urinary incontinence doesn't really address either case. For a while, I thought that cataplexy ("a sudden and transient episode of loss of muscle tone, often triggered by emotions [or stress]") might be what I was looking for, but the article talks about it only as a pathological condition, as far as I could tell.
TIA! :)
I know of two - extreme fear and choking/strangling. In the latter, I'm not sure if there is a direct connection, or if it is simply the cause for a more general loss of muscle control due to the onset of unconsciousness. How and why is urination triggered, in those cases? Are they connected?
What other scenarios are there, if any?
I spent some time on wikipedia but couldn't find anything directly applicable. The article on urinary incontinence doesn't really address either case. For a while, I thought that cataplexy ("a sudden and transient episode of loss of muscle tone, often triggered by emotions [or stress]") might be what I was looking for, but the article talks about it only as a pathological condition, as far as I could tell.
TIA! :)