The authors followed 29 young adults who had been treated for enuresis
with imipramine hydrochloride 10 years earlier. To test beliefs that
enuresis is symptomatic of severe psychopathology or of urological
conditions, they studied whether the treatment had been followed by
psychological decompensation; an inhibition of learning; a predisposition
to drug abuse; negative effects on health, growth, weight, and development;
or continued urinary symptoms. None of these negative effects was present;
in general the subjects were active, well- motivated, and sociable and
showed no significant psychiatric symptoms. One patient still wetted but
only occasionally.Abstract Teaser