Life can be a Pain

[Appleblossom]

@OwlunarGlad you are feeling better.

I echo @outlander's thoughts.

Having a job does often makes us feel better ... its getting that pesky balance right.

[Shaz51]

you are a tough cookie , strong woman @Owlunar 

[utopia]

You are definitely one tough cookie @Owlunar

[Owlunar]

Hi @utopia@Shaz51@Appleblossom@outlander@Faith-and-Hope

I can find nearly anything I need to express myself in clipart - yes!!!

I think I have nearly everything I need to be a tough cookie here - but I am keeping my current name and avatar - but yes - I need all of the tough cookie gear

Back to the dentist yesterday - I like my dentist - I would like to see him under different circumstances. Another tooth was having it's turn with the tooth-grinding - oh yes - not as bad as the wisdom tooth last week but I spent the weekend with another tooth aching and a headache. The dentist filed a bit off my denture and suggested I ring LIfe Line about the excessive tooth grinding - 

So that was unusual - I told the lady on the phone that my dentist suggested I ring - I had a brilliant conversation - so enlightening. If I had to put a word on my experiences atm it would be enlightening - and what I am doing is not something I would have done before all of these recent family events started - 

I don't know how to give up - someone asked me what I would do about giving up a long time ago and then I realised I wouldn't know how. Maybe I can't think of the next step - or maybe it's good to take time out for an afternoon - but I am working on my family - or some of them.

So I am selecting members of my family to be in this thing for supporting some rellies and discarding others and then there are some I don't know. This is really hard yards and I have an annoying and level 5 headache that probably comes from my grinding my teeth at night - 

I so appreciated everything everyone is saying - I am checking in - something I was not really good at but yes - this is not easy so I need a little help from my friends - and I will get around to other people - I am avoiding screens a bit because of the headaches but yes - I will get back to people

I am in learning mode right now -

Dec

[utopia]

@Owlunar. Your photos haven't come through yet. Think the mods must be super busy at the moment.
Did the lifeline lady give you some relaxation strategies to avoid the tooth grinding? At my sickest and most stressed period last year - I was grinding my teeth really badly, every night. I can see the permanent damage it has caused. But when I'm feeling more in control and less stressed - then the teeth grinding stops.
You are a tough cookie. You have never sounded like a person who gives up. You just keep finding a way. That's an amazing strength to have.
Think of all the things you ha e achieved in life so far.
Raising two children.
Suffering from the death of a child.
Struggles with family members.
Going to University.
Advocating within the youth detention and justice areas.
Being a published Author.
The travel you have done.
Learning more about yourself through therapy.
Being a big support on this Forum.
.... and still you keep going and doing more.
I picture you like the Ever Ready Bunny - you just keep going. That's probably why you are still so young. Young in mind and spirit (blast those knees of yours).
So keep doing what you've been doing. All these wonderful new adventures are just around the corner waiting to be discovered.

[utopia]

@Owlunar. Now the pictures are up. Think you are the wise owl.

[Shaz51]

I love the picture @Owlunar, you are a wise owl my friend '

Hello @utopia 

[Former-Member]

Hi @Owlunar, i'm scratchin my head wondering how the dentist thinks LifeLine can help the excessive tooth grinding? (obviously he puts it down to subconscious stress & worry). The bible talks about "weaping & nashing of teeth" (in hell), so not sure what to make of it. My dentist says i have worn teeth from grinding too. Do u use a quality high fluoride brand Dec? Some chemists keep it behind the counter.

Glad you "don't know how to give up" Dec, but can i have a piece of that pie (skill) please. You're a trooper!
Culling relatives / contacts - that must be hard but we cant love all ppl @ all times. I find they usually get in first with me, or was it the other way round? lol Just life!

Good idea - avoiding screens with headaches, any bright light or eye strain really.

We understand xox

[Owlunar]

Hi @Former-Member@Shaz51@utopia@Appleblossom@outlander@Faith-and-Hope@Zoe7

I love clipart - I can usually find the right pic for my state of mind so I am checking in - ah - I wonder if this one works

The first one didn't work but this one did and it's better - Lord - let me never lose my sense of humour

Sheesh - there is something I never told anyone for nearly half a century - no secret - just private - and I told my therapist yesterday - you know one of those moment of honesty that blows your mind

It's not a secret but I can't tell you - it's too personal but yes - I have had a lot of thoughts happening since then and it's not exactly comfortable - mmmm - you know when you have a scratch you can't itch - hang on - a itch you can't scratch - I am not in good shape this afternoon and took me all morning to get up and I am here

I so deeply appreciate all my friends here and I will answer the above posts as I can as I don't have the resident headache today and hope to check on other people - I think I have reactive depression right now but it's not bad if that's what it is - my teeth aren't hurting today and my back is and my knees are sore but I think the main thing is I have some on-going family issues that I am taking on and it's that time of year again - I don't want to fight that this year - I have done fighting with that stuff - about my son - enough is enough

But my back - and my other orthopaedic pain and the headaches and toothache - it feels to me as if this is enough - and yet I sat in a chair with the heat pack for hours this morning - but I am a survivor

I have my sense of humour - enough that I don't post any of the survivor pics I found - and I will be okay - I am really tired and I know why and my psychologist is puzzled about my scores on that mental health plan things being so low and that's because either those questions don't apply to me or I know WHY I am so darn tired

It's just finding my way through and at times the path is full of brambles

So - this is me checking in

Dec

[Owlunar]

Thanks @Faith-and-Hope

You are always there for all of us - I do appreciate this and not just for myself - 

Dec