Hi - my son Mark suffered a severe TBI in August 2010. His is still recovering and still in outpatient rehab for pt/speech/ot.

Our biggest issue right now is that he is obsessed with feeling like he needs to have a bowel movement. He constantly wants to go to the bathroom even though he doesn't have to go. We put him on a schedule but hat just causes him to ask what time it is. As soon as he leaves the bathroom he asks when he can go back.

We have had him checked for a urinary tract infection and he does not hav e one. This is all about having a bowel movement though.

This interferes with school, therapy, and at home. He is getting more and more difficult when we tell him he can't go.

I have asked his doctors and no one can tell me how to deal with this. It is getting progressively worse to the point where he hit his teacher because she would not let him go. She did let him go and he stayed in there 20 minutes and did not have to go. He gets very frustrated and starts pounding on the wall when he does not have to go.

Please help. This is so hard to deal with along with all of the other issues we are working through.