perhaps
I'm playing the devils' advocate here, but
please hear me out. I believe that a lot
of physical conditions come about due to
our emotional and mental components also
--- I do believe life is very literal and
brings us things such as illness, pain etc
that we need to become aware of. For fear
of sounding like an ass, I am reluctant to
say that we're all in fact responsible for
our own problems and that we bring them
about through our way of thinking. Don't
get me wrong, I myself am suffering
terribly from jaw-grinding and all the
pain that comes with it, as far as loss of
balance, eye-floaters, neck and back pain
is concerned. It drives my up the wall! !!
-- it's gotten really bad in the last few
years, and I've been chewing my jaw for
ten years now. So I know it's easier said
than done to 'just change your way of
thinking'. However, I do believe that the
underlying causes are emotional/mental and
when I look back on the last ten years
that makes even more sense. I've been
thinking about my condition for a long
time, and because I believe life to be
very literal I can't help but think that
perhaps I 'lack bite' in my life, in my
decisions in life. Or that I 'chew things
over and over' and never get anywhere with
it, i.e. can't find the right thing for
me, always denying myself rather than go
with what I love -- and that through this
jaw-grinding condition life simply wants
to try and make me aware of all of this! I
can't make decisions. I lack bite. I chew
things over without making any headway. I
grind on and on in such a way that I even
lose my balance in life etc. What I have
realised as I was reading through a lot of
posts regarding TMJ, one thing that
struck me was the following: a lot of
times people posting things mention things
like 'there's the right cure for everyone,
you just have to find it' and 'trial and
error' being the way forward for TMJ
sufferers. Perhaps one underlying 'theme'
for all of us jaw-grinders is that we are
all still looking for something to do with
our lives but we just can't make decisions
on what or how to get there. Perhaps this
sounds all too weird for some, but perhaps
there's a connection here and we can make
each other aware of it and get to the damn
bottom of this. Because if all this stress
is causing us to eat away at ourselves, at
the very things that make us have BITE in
the first place (all our pretty little
pearly whites and all the pretty little
things in life that we love) I think it's
worth looking into and discussing. What do
you think?
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grassy
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 116 Location: northeast
Hey Howdy There. Posted: 10-05-07 10:16am
hey Hi, i am cindy. i think you make very
GOOD points.... I think mental Does effect
us more than we know.!!! I became sick
when a dentist dislocated my face, so i
have a bad neck and a very mechanical
problem...BUT i know for a fact, that
STRESS does make it worse... Alot and
maybe even underlying psycological
facters.... I can NOT make a decision!!!
NEVER, i have alot of problems with that,
I can not decide what to do, so like you
said i chew on it.....it festers inside.
So i think you brought up some very good
points... I do! you are very insightful!!!
love cindy..Ps so maybe we have to work on
changing ourselves!!!??????
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jawjen
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 9
Hi Cindy Posted: 10-05-07 10:49am
cool, Cindy, thanks for your reply. Phew,
so I'm not the only one with decision
problems, LOL. That's why I wrote this of
course, but it's always good to actually
have somebody else validate that point,
somebody that agrees with it.
Yes, I do think we need to change
ourselves ... just don't really know how
to exactly, that's why I brought this
whole thing up so perhaps more people can
discuss and get to share their
experiences. I know it's tough to come to
grips with one's own faults, and in
general people don't find it easy to
change their view-points. And it is really
hard when somebody says to you : oh, that
dis-ease you have is of your OWN doing. I
mean, that sounds really harsh and I don't
think a lot of people would take kindly to
that. But what if it's really true??? If
it is, then we can definately do something
about it. If no therapies really seem to
help at all, then what else is left? Then
there must be another way. And if that way
is through introspection and getting to
grips with one's self then I'm all for it.
I'm just pretty much scared to do it by
myself, LOL. But in doing it by myself
there's power in that. But it always helps
if there are others doing it also. One
thing that's been gnawing away at me is
this fear that I haven't done enough in my
life, that I haven't had enough fun even,
that I just got stuck in relationships for
too long and that through that I stopped
myself from being myself. Which is true to
an extent, and it's very dangerous in the
sense that you get kinda hung up on it and
tend to blame other people in your life --
which isn't fair. That's just passing the
buck. And responsibility. Perhaps I'm just
lazy and don't really want to do anything,
so I'd rather let somebody else make the
decisions for me. Which of course takes
away all my power, and all my bite there's gotta be a
way to fix this, surely. One thing that
comes out of this is that we all have very
strong jaw-muscles that will be able to
chew through anything, even really bad
experiences. But do we really need to do
that? Why can't we just leave the bad
experiences be? We don't HAVE to chew
through them. we can choose better ones
for ourselves, can't we?
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Tmddyan
Moderator
Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 4349 Location: post falls, id usa
Thanks: 93
Thanked:63
Posted: 10-05-07 12:54pm
yes --stress, indeciciveness(my spelling
stinks) the way we handle it effects our
jaws. heck it even effects our life styles
at times. but it not always is the cause.
I was fine till i got hit by the car.
untill that point i didnt know how much
damage my chewing things over and letting
things bother me really did to me. i try
to limit my stress as much as possible. we
do have to change some things and changing
it isnt always easy.
perhaps
I'm playing the devils' advocate here, but
please hear me out. I believe that a lot
of physical conditions come about due to
our emotional and mental components also
--- I do believe life is very literal and
brings us things such as illness, pain etc
that we need to become aware of. For fear
of sounding like an ass, I am reluctant to
say that we're all in fact responsible for
our own problems and that we bring them
about through our way of thinking. Don't
get me wrong, I myself am suffering
terribly from jaw-grinding and all the
pain that comes with it, as far as loss of
balance, eye-floaters, neck and back pain
is concerned. It drives my up the wall! !!
-- it's gotten really bad in the last few
years, and I've been chewing my jaw for
ten years now. So I know it's easier said
than done to 'just change your way of
thinking'. However, I do believe that the
underlying causes are emotional/mental and
when I look back on the last ten years
that makes even more sense. I've been
thinking about my condition for a long
time, and because I believe life to be
very literal I can't help but think that
perhaps I 'lack bite' in my life, in my
decisions in life. Or that I 'chew things
over and over' and never get anywhere with
it, i.e. can't find the right thing for
me, always denying myself rather than go
with what I love -- and that through this
jaw-grinding condition life simply wants
to try and make me aware of all of this! I
can't make decisions. I lack bite. I chew
things over without making any headway. I
grind on and on in such a way that I even
lose my balance in life etc. What I have
realised as I was reading through a lot of
posts regarding TMJ, one thing that
struck me was the following: a lot of
times people posting things mention things
like 'there's the right cure for everyone,
you just have to find it' and 'trial and
error' being the way forward for TMJ
sufferers. Perhaps one underlying 'theme'
for all of us jaw-grinders is that we are
all still looking for something to do with
our lives but we just can't make decisions
on what or how to get there. Perhaps this
sounds all too weird for some, but perhaps
there's a connection here and we can make
each other aware of it and get to the damn
bottom of this. Because if all this stress
is causing us to eat away at ourselves, at
the very things that make us have BITE in
the first place (all our pretty little
pearly whites and all the pretty little
things in life that we love) I think it's
worth looking into and discussing. What do
you think?
there's gotta be a
way to fix this, surely. One thing that
comes out of this is that we all have very
strong jaw-muscles that will be able to
chew through anything, even really bad
experiences. But do we really need to do
that? Why can't we just leave the bad
experiences be? We don't HAVE to chew
through them. we can choose better ones
for ourselves, can't we?
