RJayne
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This isn't so much a journal as a list of anxieties I'm currently dealing with and want to air out here in the open in the hopes I'll feel less crazy than with them just in my head. I may not update anything after this, later I may just get too embarrassed and ask for this to be deleted ?
Here goes: 1) I'm afraid I have more serious issues than I'm being told and for some reason I'm not being told the truth. I've not got anything to support this but I can't shake the idea. I literally need to see x rays to feel at ease.
2) I'm afraid my front teeth are fragile and biting with them will damage them somehow, I avoid biting crunchy foods or using my teeth to pull food from cutlery.
3) (And this is super conter intuitive to the second thing) I'm obsessed with my front teeth, I'm hyper focused, I worry that they're mobile. This is my biggest fear. My dentist checked them for me and has told me they're not but I worry that they are, and here's the counter intuitive bit - I try testing them myself, I push them with my finger, my toothbrush head, my tongue, I bite things I really shouldn't just to make sure I can, and then feel bad about it because I'm trying to stop (I've gotten better, I've not bitten my moisturiser tube in a while lol ?) I feel like I'm going crazy ?
By writing this stuff down I'm kind of admitting it to myself, it's something to work on as I get back into regular check ups. I've seen bitewing xrays already and I'm going to ask for front ones this week - though that's more of a sticking plaster than a solution but it should help for now.
If this sounds familiar to anyone, or if anyone feels like talking about similar issues feel free to do so here, I don't feel like adding talking to myself to the list lol ?
Here goes: 1) I'm afraid I have more serious issues than I'm being told and for some reason I'm not being told the truth. I've not got anything to support this but I can't shake the idea. I literally need to see x rays to feel at ease.
2) I'm afraid my front teeth are fragile and biting with them will damage them somehow, I avoid biting crunchy foods or using my teeth to pull food from cutlery.
3) (And this is super conter intuitive to the second thing) I'm obsessed with my front teeth, I'm hyper focused, I worry that they're mobile. This is my biggest fear. My dentist checked them for me and has told me they're not but I worry that they are, and here's the counter intuitive bit - I try testing them myself, I push them with my finger, my toothbrush head, my tongue, I bite things I really shouldn't just to make sure I can, and then feel bad about it because I'm trying to stop (I've gotten better, I've not bitten my moisturiser tube in a while lol ?) I feel like I'm going crazy ?
By writing this stuff down I'm kind of admitting it to myself, it's something to work on as I get back into regular check ups. I've seen bitewing xrays already and I'm going to ask for front ones this week - though that's more of a sticking plaster than a solution but it should help for now.
If this sounds familiar to anyone, or if anyone feels like talking about similar issues feel free to do so here, I don't feel like adding talking to myself to the list lol ?