NervousUSA
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Just looking to rant and vent and hoping for some support.
I have had to go to the dentist 9 times this year and will have to go 2-4 times before the year is over. Every time so anxiety inducing, stressful, and hard. I have tried to be positive, and to help myself, and feel like I improved my ability to deal with a lot of things, but I don't feel good today. I feel like it has wrecked my mental state for the whole year, between health anxiety, social anxiety, financial anxiety, triggering memories of traumas, extremely stressful dealing with insurance companies, fear of procedures, and just plain straight fear.
I feel like my dental problems should be stabilized by early next spring, but have orthodontic problems and the thought of getting orthodontics to fix them makes me feel like this will be a never ending road that I can't face.
I feel like my orthodontic problems were at least partly, maybe fully caused by unnecessary orthodontics in the past, and a lot of my dental problems were caused by hygienists skipping cleaning my wisdom teeth when I have gone in for cleanings. This makes me feel really angry and bitter.
My family is tired of hearing me talk about these things. If I mention it to my husband he becomes visibly angry, because he is so tired of it, if I mention it to my mom she tells me I should be able to control how I feel, and feel however I want. Everyone in the family is angry and frustrated if I talk about it. I have to stop talking about it but its hard for me to do so. Especially if asked what is wrong.
I don't feel this bad every day, but today I do.
I have had to go to the dentist 9 times this year and will have to go 2-4 times before the year is over. Every time so anxiety inducing, stressful, and hard. I have tried to be positive, and to help myself, and feel like I improved my ability to deal with a lot of things, but I don't feel good today. I feel like it has wrecked my mental state for the whole year, between health anxiety, social anxiety, financial anxiety, triggering memories of traumas, extremely stressful dealing with insurance companies, fear of procedures, and just plain straight fear.
I feel like my dental problems should be stabilized by early next spring, but have orthodontic problems and the thought of getting orthodontics to fix them makes me feel like this will be a never ending road that I can't face.
I feel like my orthodontic problems were at least partly, maybe fully caused by unnecessary orthodontics in the past, and a lot of my dental problems were caused by hygienists skipping cleaning my wisdom teeth when I have gone in for cleanings. This makes me feel really angry and bitter.
My family is tired of hearing me talk about these things. If I mention it to my husband he becomes visibly angry, because he is so tired of it, if I mention it to my mom she tells me I should be able to control how I feel, and feel however I want. Everyone in the family is angry and frustrated if I talk about it. I have to stop talking about it but its hard for me to do so. Especially if asked what is wrong.
I don't feel this bad every day, but today I do.
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