Re: NTI failure continued

On Jun 11, 6:29 am, Dartos <tuthjoc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jerm wrote:

if the latter is the case i can save you some time and

just confess to being clinically depressed at this point, probably
with a side of generalized anxiety disorder-only because of this
freaking jaw and headache.

Seldom is a problem related to just one cause. Did clenching/pain
cause the depression? Did depression/drugs worsen the clenching
to cause the pain? My money is on the latter, but the important
thing is realize that the success of treatment is tied to dealing
with all of the issues related to your symptoms. Clenching is a
major one, and the NTI is the best thing going for that, but it
isn't going to eliminate depression, which may be the root cause for
the clenching getting out of hand.

You had been living with a clenching problem for years that was
below a clinical threshold of causing much pain. Some bumps in
the road showed up, and you crossed over to the painful side of
the problem.

The NTI helps control the clenching, but it will not smooth the road
for you to deal with the other issues. Sometimes when you are in the
middle of a complicated situation, it is difficult to see the whole
picture and develop an effective solution.

Webby's advice is excellent. Get out and do something. Sitting around
being obsessed with your pain is not going to do you any good.
Distracting, recreational, rewarding, and uplifting activities will
help you rebound from your present low. Heck, even joining an online
dating service would be better than your present computer use.

JMO,
D

I was probably clenching in my sleep for years, most likely it became
entrenched as a result of
alot of my recreational drug use during the 90's. I can remember many
many early mornings forcing myself
to sleep while my jaw was going nuts from the party substances. I
sobered up about 2 years ago(6 months prior to this problem) and my
sleep
and mental health definitely took a turn for the worse. I also self
medicated with lots of benzos for years until this time, so add that
to my other external struggles and im sure it explains alot. Its
weird, a few months before i had opened my mouth sideways and
dislocated one side, I had had another accident that i can remember
preceding the headaches i was waking up with not soon after. while out
surfing, another surfer ditched his board and it
struck me in the head, perfectly across my temple and ear. I remember
that in the next days i noticed i couldnt get comfortable on the
couch, and later started waking up with headaches. The depression
started to get bad right about this time. About a month later was
when i had stretched my jaw and it cracked loose, from that point on
everything went crazy with pain, and so did I with
depression!...........sorry to bore anybody with this
nonsense.......Oh I am on some dating sites!...................
.

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