Diabetes Insipidus

Your body cannot hold water. It expels it — in litres, uncontrolled, as though someone has pulled the plug. You drink and drink, but nothing stays. The thirst does not stop. Your bladder demands attention constantly. At night you are woken; during the day you are exhausted. Your body runs through like a sieve.

Medically, diabetes insipidus involves a disruption in the hormonal system — the antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which instructs the kidneys to retain water, is either not produced in sufficient quantities or the kidneys do not respond to its signal. The result: the body loses fluid that it urgently needs. Without treatment, dehydration threatens.

Psychosomatically, a different question arises: Why can your system hold onto nothing? Why does everything flow through — as though there is nothing inside you that can receive and preserve? As though you are a vessel without a bottom.