Cystitis: emotional and spiritual meaning

What cystitis is

Cystitis is inflammation of the bladder, usually from a bacterial infection. It causes pain or burning when you pass urine, a constant urge to go, and sometimes only a small amount each time. It is more common in younger women, in pregnancy, and in people with diabetes. Most cases settle with fluids and, when bacteria are involved, an antibiotic. Fever, pain in the side, or blood in the urine need a same-day check, because the infection can climb toward the kidney.

The reading below does not replace that treatment. It listens to the anger the source hears in the burning.

The emotional meaning of cystitis

Urine, in this reading, is the old emotion you no longer need and can eliminate. Because cystitis is an infection, the source very often links it with accumulated anger. Bitterness, resentment and exasperation may be boiling or burning, and they touch a new part of you or of your personal relationships.

Frustration in intimacy

The urinary system and the reproductive system are close, and the source says one can affect the other. Frustration about sexual relations is one of the feelings it names, the same territory as a vaginal irritation. It also allows a less obvious case. Relations may be going very well, and the frustration is that you had to wait so many years before they were satisfying. Unexpressed frustration and anger can come from that wait.

A cystitis can also follow a separation. Negative emotions were not expressed, so fears surface, and inner conflict about what is coming. Great expectations were not met. You blame the people around you for the emptiness, and most often your partner pays for it. Frustration follows frustration, because other people have been left in charge of your wellbeing. Inner rage is usually turned toward people of the other sex, or toward the sexual partner.

The questions the source adds are plain. Do you feel imprisoned in a situation? Does someone have a hold on you? From that comes powerlessness, and the impression that your life is ruined.

A gentler way to hold it

The aim is not to blame yourself for an infection. Bacteria, anatomy and sexual activity are real factors. The emotional perspective invites you to let the anger be said, and to take your own life back.

• Name the burn. Anger, bitterness or exasperation is what this reading says is boiling.
• Look at the relationship. Including the anger of having waited years for it to be good.
• If it followed a separation, say what you could not say then. Fear about what comes next is part of the picture.
• Take the responsibility back. Blaming a partner for the emptiness is the loop the source describes.
• Treat the infection. Burning with fever or side pain is a medical problem the same day.