Parasympathetic nervous system
so i’ve been struggling with ear block, slight jaw numbness and eye pressure ever since i’ve gotten my braces off. It has since then escalated into anxiety, depression, exhaustion, and just not wanting to live anymore. I am currently seeing a therapist at my college but i don’t think even that can help. Here are just a few of my symptoms: cold hands and feet, tingling all over body (stuck on fight or flight), eye pressure, ear block, tingling on the head in particular when i try to sleep, shivering and crying randomly. Mind you i have not suffered any type of stress or trauma but my body is persistent on acting like i have some sort of concussion. and i know that my tmj has affected my nervous system in the past so it could be that as well.
either way, im a commuter in college, kind of alone, wasting all my youth fixating on this.
i dont know if i can live like this any longer.
i have tried physical therapy, TMJ specialist, and an ENT, all saying that it’s mainly stress. my orthodontist said a splint could possibly help but i don’t grind my teeth that much.
i’ve tried doing TMJ exercise but that alone can’t regulate my nervous system.
i was googling ways i could potentially just unalive myself because it is better to be dead then to ask every other doctor in the planet about what’s wrong with me. my muscles are tense, and my posture is broken as well.
i have not stopped crying since morning.
i don’t know what to do.
i feel so dramatic writing this shit out but i honestly can’t pretend that everything is okay anymore