Urethritis

A burning that feels like liquid fire. Every trip to the toilet becomes an act of will. The urethra — a channel that normally works so unobtrusively you never notice it — announces itself with an intensity that pushes everything else into the background. Medically, urethritis is an inflammation of the urethra, often bacterial, treatable, frequently recurrent.

But why does exactly this channel become inflamed? Why does it burn there, where your body releases what it no longer needs? The psychosomatic perspective poses an uncomfortable question: what are you holding on to that has long been free to go — and what pressure builds up because you won't let it?

Urethritis is no accident, but a burning that shows outward what has long been smouldering inside.