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MumOfBoys1985
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After my dental appt a couple of weeks ago where she fixed my broken filling, I have had a good couple of weeks. A few weeks where I don't obsess about my teeth, where I dont spend hours checking and photographing my teeth every day, comparing photos from days or weeks earlier.
However, the last 24h have been horrendous. I had convinced myself part of a tooth had snapped. I dont think it has. But I am obsessing horrendously I just can't stop.
My other half could see I was distracted and not myself and he thinks I need to phone my doctor on Monday and talk about options for medications or something as he thinks I am getting mentally unwell from all the obsessing and that I am fixating it on my teeth which the dentist says are OK at the moment.
Do you think its possible to make yourself mentally ill from stress and anxiety about your teeth? Have I caused myself some sort of ocd? I am so embarrassed to phone my doctor but its getting worse. Do I just need to get a grip and stop being so ridiculous?
Not really alot of point to this post, just a bit of a vent, its probably not even the right place to speak like this but I'm really lost as to what to do.
I feel sad, anxious and sad I think is the only way to describe it.
However, the last 24h have been horrendous. I had convinced myself part of a tooth had snapped. I dont think it has. But I am obsessing horrendously I just can't stop.
My other half could see I was distracted and not myself and he thinks I need to phone my doctor on Monday and talk about options for medications or something as he thinks I am getting mentally unwell from all the obsessing and that I am fixating it on my teeth which the dentist says are OK at the moment.
Do you think its possible to make yourself mentally ill from stress and anxiety about your teeth? Have I caused myself some sort of ocd? I am so embarrassed to phone my doctor but its getting worse. Do I just need to get a grip and stop being so ridiculous?
Not really alot of point to this post, just a bit of a vent, its probably not even the right place to speak like this but I'm really lost as to what to do.
I feel sad, anxious and sad I think is the only way to describe it.