I am a 13 year old teenager. All these years, I had something that I have kept to myself and family members. People may think that I am a normal teenager but actually there is something that not many know. As I have said only my family members and I know my problem. I wet my bed at night. This is a really embarrassing thing for me. My mom had tried many things and ways to help me. Sometimes, it caused stress on both of us, but none of them worked for long. I had thought that my problem could not be solved and just wanted to give up trying to overcome it. My mom kept praying that one day I will stop bed-wetting.

One day my mom took me to see a counselor / therapist named Ms. Lily Kong. That night I was very surprised because after 12 years wetting the bed for the first time I had woken up in the morning on a dry bed without having to be woken up a few times by my mom during the night. At that moment I thought I was dreaming but when I heard my sister calling me I knew it was true. That whole week after I saw Ms Lily, I was dry for most nights. However, I had a relapse and after that I was "on and off" for about a couple of months. There were dry nights and there were not so dry ones too. I went again for another session with Ms.Lily. She taught me many things mostly about being positive and how to manage people around me so that I don't get too sensitive unnecessarily or get affected by comments from others. I felt better in control of myself.

Around the same time, my mother also bought a type of energized water that helped me further. I drank it everyday and kept doing the programming that Ms Lily taught me. Before we knew it, I realized that I had been dry for a week, and then two weeks straight, then three, four and now it has been about six weeks and I have been almost completely dry except for 2 nights!. That is definitely an improvement. However, I still have to make sure that I ease myself before going to bed and avoid taking too much liquid before bedtime.

A. Ashari
Tuesday, June 16, 2009