Anyone else get that sore throat feeling when your TMJ is flared up? At first I thought it was just symptoms from a lingering cold but now I think it happens when my jaw is especially sore after using my jaw all day ☹️ it’s a new symptom for me. How do you manage it?
Anyone else like watching really sad shows and having a good cry as a way to cope and kind of disassociate from the pain you experience? I like watching sad movies, sad shows or read sad true stories because I’m crying over a plot, a character, another person’s struggles and something else rather than just sitting in my pain,or thinking about it, or feeling worried about the future or just focussing on something else and still releasing all these sad, anxious feelings and not having to think too much about being totally over my chronic pain life and my own self-pity and self-loathing over my body.
My friend who also has chronic conditions and pain said that she does the same thing. She just needs to let the tears out and she does it by watching shorts or clips on YouTube about really emotional stuff like families being reunited after a period of separation, lost love, or inspirational stories about personal struggles that has nothing to do with pain.
Anyway, it’s cathartic!
Is that weird? If it is I don’t care, it works for me and it helps me check out from my own life once in a while!