u/Accomplished-Safe815

I feel like this disease have given me the worst anxiety. I have never experienced anxiety like this before until I got this disease and started having accidents more frequently. Whenever I get in my car my mind starts going and im scared im going to have an accident. Automatically my stomach hurts and I like I have to go even if I was just at my house and felt perfectly fine. Or if I’m trapped somewhere even just for a few minutes and there is no bathroom, i automatically have to go worse and with my UC there is no holding it my urgency is so bad. Does anyone else have this feeling and if so how do you help it?
I have asked my doctor for anxiety medication and she told me to try therapy first. I want to trust my doctor but I just don’t think that therapy is going to help me thinking I have to go to the bathroom every time there isn’t one in sight.

Hi everyone,
I’m a 20 year old female and have had UC for three years now. I failed oral medication and some biologics. I am starting Skyrizi tomorrow via infusion and after three switching to the shots. I am praying this is going to help me. My main problem is urgency, when I have to go to the bathroom, I can’t hold it for more than a second. I am currently on summer break from college and I haven’t been able to start my summer job yet because of my UC. My job starts at 5:30 am and the mornings are the worst for me usually and it’s on a golf course so a bathroom isn’t right there. I haven’t tried to find other jobs during the evening but no where around me is hiring just for the summer. I am so annoyed because I am 400 dollars in debt and have no way of getting out right now other than doordashing, which I have been doing when my stomach feels okay.
Is anyone on Skyrizi and has it helped plus how long did it take for you to get better?? Also does anyone have any tips for urgency?