Published on 12, July, 2020
I need to find better ways of dealing with my anxiety. I'm anxious all the time and very little actually helps me with it. I've tried medication, I've tried talking therapy and it's like its all in vain. Nothing seems to work it's like my anxiety is immortal or something.
I get the stomach pain, tiredness, headaches and poor sleep. All that I can deal with but in the last year I've started getting jaw spasms, they start up randomly, ache and just spasm. This I struggle with. Part of me is worried my jaw will dislocate and another part just finds this so irritating and it's led to me becoming a mute so I don't have to talk as much.
Ugh why can't life just be simple?
I did call the doctors on Friday and need broached the subject of my anxiety and how it's affecting me and the receptionist was so unhelpful. "You can do a lot yourself for anxiety like colouring. The doctors are very busy at the moment..."
Translation, go away.
️ Always feel so lonely with my problems.
You do need to be really careful with this. I grind my teeth compulsively which only increases jaw tension. I went through a period many years ago where I would stretch my jaw to try to relieve it and did end up damaging myself. I had terrible pain and a clicking jaw for months after that.
Oh ouch! I'm sorry you had to go through that and I hope it's a lot better for you now. I do worry about my jaw and any problems it might have but it's one of those things if I think about it I start to feel faint.
At some point I might call the dentist but then I will pass out at appt so I'm not sure. I'm hoping it will resolve by itself.