Why do anxious feelings create the need to go to toilet frequently?

The anxious feeling create that feeling because the adrenaline and blood is travelling to the necessary parts of your body your brain thinks it needs to either fight the problem or run from it. This is the flight or flight response. :)

As humans, there are certain responses that our bodies may have in response to stressful situations. The common ones that people think are "fight" and "flight," but there's also the response of "freeze," the kind of paralysis that keeps you frozen in place. Additionally, the way that we may feel psychologically can also have direct impacts on our physical bodies and biological functions. The anxiousness that people may experience can affect their digestive systems, causing pressure inside their intestines. This might be one of the reasons why anxiety can cause a person to have to use the restroom frequently.

Anxiety can cause an ongoing feeling of urgency, or needing to go to the bathroom. This is due to the fight or flight system being activated as a result of stress. Pressure builds up inside of the body, causing stool to feel like it needs to come out. There is a good chance that although you are feeling anxious, you are only feeling a portion of the anxiety that you hold unconsciously. The rest of it needs to express itself in some manner, and in your case it seems to result in more frequent trips to the toilet. The more you can express the less this should happen.

anxious feelings / thoughts have a significant impact on your body. there's this thing called "somatic symptoms". somatic symptoms come from psychological problems, which for sure occur in your mind. basically, your mind sends signals that something is wrong with your mental health and those signals occur in other body parts. most common symptoms are headache, digestion problems and even the need to go to toilet. your body feels like it is in an instant stress, and therefore it can even impact your urinary system. how to deal with this? first of all, try to understand why those anxious feelings occur. try to calm yourself in your favourite activities. and i'm sure everything will be solved out.

Anxiety can cause muscle contractions that may press on the bladder and bowels making one feel the need to expel waiste more frequently

Cause it increases heart rating, so does blood pressure, so our bladder is faster to react and make us go to the toilet more frequently

Hmm... Everyone is different. Those who suffer from "anxious" feelings may all experience different feelings and symptoms. If you feel that you are going more frequently than normal or usual, perhaps talking to your family healthcare provider might be a good idea and get you the answers that you seek. Good Luck!

Well, the latest science news point to part of your mental wellbeing being actually seated in your intestines, so if you are anxious enough, it can cause those intestines to empty themselves through the usual channels, among other symptoms (stomach pains for instance). It is also known that when animals need to run or fly away, emptying their colon fast makes that flight a lot easier. This reaction to anxiety is perfectly natural and practically built in. It is spontaneous when you are suddenly worried or facing a scary situation. It happens to most people, so you are not alone at all there.

I think it's because of the tension that your anxiety builds up in your body. Anxiety affects every part of the body, including the bowels and bladder. You feel the need to visit the toilet more frequently because it's releasing some of the tension. Body naturaly wants to get rid of the anxiety, since it doesn't feel natural, and it uses whatever it can to release this uncomfortable feeling. This happens a lot, but, like everything, it can be controlled. Solution for this is equal to the solution for the anxiety. It's nothing wrong or weird, it can be expected when anxiety arrives.

This is a very old reaction to stress. When an animal is being chased by a predator and basically running for it's life it is to it's advantage to poop to lesson it's weight and run a little faster. Of course, that doesn't serve us very well in modern times when we might feel the same sort of threat in a meeting let's say and we suddenly have to go to the bathroom. However, it's a basic instinct that hasn't gone away over the years. It's that fight or flight thing! I know because it's happened to me in nervous situations and my best solution is to be close to a bathroom!

Anxiety is the result of arousal of the nervous system, namely the sympathetic nervous system. This governs the fight-or-flight (or freeze) response where cortisol and adrenaline is released. In order for our ancestors to have an evolutionary advantage, it was beneficial to expel their bowels and bladder to have (presumably) less weight. Good for our ancestors, at least enough so that their offspring continued to experience this phenomenon. Fast forward to present day when it is no longer reasonable to walk around naked and there are no sabertooth tigers to fight off, we are left with a not-so-great impulse to pee or poop when we become excessively nervous. Fortunately with some effort, it is possible to mindfully pacify the sympathetic nervous system with meditation, deep breathing, or proper rest so that the body can activate the parasympathetic nervous system, where bodily processes slow down and the body can heal itself.

Often anxiety is caused because you are burdened about the things that you cannot control. The lack of control is difficult to handle or cope with. It creates stress and sometimes fear. Therefore, going to the bathroom is something that you can control and may offset some of the feelings and anxiety of not being in control.

it does that because your scared or desperate something and when that happens you would need to go a lot more frequently.

anxiety causes our adrenaline system to kick in and this causes your body to try and excrete unnecessary fluids so it can slow down non fight or flight systems

“During heightened anxiety, the amount of serotonin increases in your gut and can cause spasms to happen throughout your entire colon.” These spasms are enough to produce unexpected bowel movements. In addition to stress hormones, anxiety poop may also be linked to your nervous system.When you start to feel anxious, however, things don’t run as smoothly. This is largely due to the fact that our bladders are closely connected to our body’s fear system — aka our “fight-or-flight” response. When that response activates, our brain tends to override all those lovely signals telling us whether or not it’s actually time to pee. At the same time, our bladder muscles contract, which puts more pressure on the bladder and sends us running for the bathroom.

Scientifically, anxiety increases the amount of serotonin in your gut (I have no idea why), which may cause your colon to spasm. When your colon spasms, your bowels are likely to move. Bowel movement generally equals the need to poo. When it comes to urinating, anxiety causes some of our hormones to shift, thus resulting in our bladders’ not being relaxed. They tend to contract because of this hormonal shift. Hence, the need to pee. The human body has an interesting response to anxiety + anxious feelings, you should research into it a bit more, you'll find there's more to it than what I have said.

Behaving in an apprehensive manner activates the stress response. The stress response secretes stress hormones into the bloodstream where they travel to targeted spots in the body to bring about specific physiological, psychological, and emotional changes that enhance the body’s ability to deal with a threat - to either fight with or flee from it - which is the reason the stress response is often referred to as the fight or flight response. A part of the stress response changes include causing the body to eliminate waste as quickly as possible (so that you don’t have to stop and do that when either fighting or fleeing)

Anxiety creates a lot of pressure on your body and your hormones and affects your digestion system. It is very common for people with anxiety.

I researched it. Do you feel as though you have to urinate more frequently than usual? Do you feel you need to urinate even though you just urinated? Anxiety can cause frequent urination. Behaving in an apprehensive manner activates the stress response, which sends out stress hormones into the bloodstream and bring out physiological, psychological, and emotional changes to ensure the body can deal with a threat. Kinda like flight or fight. A part of the stress response changes includes causing the body to eliminate waste as quickly as possible (so you don’t bave to stop and do it while you’re either fighting or fleeing). Therefore, many people feel the urge to go to the toilet when they wr stressed or anxious.

I actually have Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, in part because of anxiety. Most people don't realize how tense their body is, and all muscles in the body are connected. When people get very anxious their whole body is often subconsciously tense. Bladder and bowel muscles can involuntarily contract. Of course, nausea doesn't help. Progression muscle relaxation is one of the best methods for relaxing your entire body. Keeping your physical body relaxed will help keep you from going to the bathroom all day long. Often just taking some deep breaths and relaxing your muscles when you get the urge to go to the bathroom helps.

Sometimes you may become frightened and this will result in the need to use the bathroom. This is common when experiencing anxiety.

Scientists say that our emotions are able to affect the way by which our bodies function. We are referring to psychosomatic problems, in other words. Of course, every person's reaction differs, as we all have different experiences and ways to overcome problems. If you notice that your toilet habits have recently changed, it would be helpful to discuss this with a professional who will explain to you what you can do to take care of yourself. Furthermore, you can try to eat a bit more healthy and add some walking to your daily routine. Finally, you can ask some people that you trust to tell if if they ever had a similar problem and what they did to overcome it.

Anxiety involves the activation of the fight-or-flight response. This is an ancient mechanism that brains have developed to get us out of dodge as quickly and efficiently as possible. If something makes us afraid, we better get out of there or be prepared to fight that thing. Part of fight-or-flight is that we can't be "wasting" any energy on digesting food, or holding urine in the body. Our has to be dedicated to our muscles and limbs. So, for the same reason fear causes people to soil themselves or throw up, anxiety creates the urge to go to the toilet.

It has to do with the fact that our body is preparing for a dangerous situation, and it wants to make sure we have all the attention necessary to deal with it without distractions. If you notice, it generally happens up until the point you have to deal with the "dangerous thing." For example, if you are nervous about an exam, you'll go to the bathroom for a few hours before and then once the time comes, you can sit through the exam quite normally. Basically, it's the body emptying itself out so that you can give your all to the upsetting situation. Imagine having to fight a tiger and all of a sudden you have to pee ;)

Anxiety can cause discomfort in your stomache and other physical discomfort. This can cause gastrointestinal issues and make an anxious person go to the restroom more frequently.

Is it something you ate? I get like that when something I eat doesn't go well with my body and it rejects it.

So when one has IBS on occasion, how bad can things turn out? Can it get to the point of creating an ulcer in the colon? I do have a terrible pain in the abdominal area, is that a hint? I’m supposed to have an endoscopy soon, because there’s that pain, but I’m also worried it can be worse.

When your body is stressed, it goes into a flight or fight response. The flight response can cause your body to have the shakes, cause you to feel nauseous, dizzy, accelerated heart rate, faint, etc. When your body is in it's flight response your body is working twice as hard because it thinks its in trouble and is trying to protect you. In this case, frequent trips to the bathroom is a just a normal response to your body's stress levels.

There is actually something I learned recently. When people are in the sympathetic nervous system mode (fight or flight), their blood flow leaves the digestive/GI system (to go to your limbs as if you'll run away), which causes stomach issues.

Anxiety often causes discomfort in the mind and the body. Therefore, the anxious feelings affect your body, and alot of the time that can be your stomach, which often causes more toilet use. However this does help as it is a sense of letting go.