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NERVOUS DIARRHEA AS BODILY SYMPTOM OF STRESS
«It seems silly. It just comes on me when I have to do something important. At a time when I want it least of all. An exam or something like that. Just before the event. I have to excuse myself, and rush off to the toilet with nervous diarrhea. »
We have just discussed the way in which longstanding stress may cause chronic constipation. At first it may seem strange that stress is also the cause of nervous diarrhea. It comes about like this. Stress activates the sympathetic nervous system which inhibits movement of the bowel so that we will be free for action. But all these reactions are governed by self-regulating mechanisms. The self-regulating mechanism may overreact. This is what happens in nervous diarrhea. The parasympathetic nervous system has the opposite effect of the sympathetic. It increases movement of the bowel. In order to neutralize too great sympathetic activity, the self-regulating mechanism may activate the antagonistic, parasympathetic system. The result is an increase in the contractions of the bowel which results in diarrhea.
Nervous diarrhea of this nature can be relieved by reducing the level of stress by simple meditation. The object is to reduce the severity of stress in life as a whole, and not wait for the advent of some demanding situation.
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