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7. Relax Your Brain, Body and Bladder
Working to reduce the unwanted facets of your life through positive coping skills is wonderful but not always enough. You will have to find other ways to melt away the stress and anxiety from your life to stop embarrassment. Relaxations are an efficient use of your time and resources.
The benefit of relaxation is two-fold, as you get the direct result of less stress and tension in your life. The indirect result is that relaxations techniques like guided imagery, muscle relaxation and autogenic training have been associated with better OAB symptom management. Control is not the goal, but better management leads to fewer opportunities for incidents.
If you have overactive baldder syndrome, taking antidepressants can help. Antidepressants for OAB have been proven to lessen symptoms. Find out more here.
