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CC:
I don't know if you all were around almost a year ago, but several of us posted that we grinded our teeth at night or clenched during the day, sometimes consciously, sometimes not.  

This started for me about three years ago, and comes and goes.  It releases when I have stayed away from Ns, particularly Nmom, for a period of time - when I have worked hard on childhood issues in therapy, or when I'm drinking  :)   (relaxed).  

we had the epiphany here before that this tooth-related/jaw clenching stuff was very symbolic of VOICELESSNESS, as if our teeth in the clenched position are preventing us from expressing our voice.  It is suppressed childhood rage that we are attempting to hold back - for fear if we release it - the spewing anger will come forth with a vengeance.

I have often told my therapist that I dont' think I will completely be able to stop the clenching until the day my Nmother parts this world - I will feel free to release the rage, guilt free and my jaws will feel a lifetime of relief.

R, I think your cracked tooth is very symbolic indeed.  Get it fixed, make it beautiful and perfect and whole, like you are.

God Bless,
CC

Discounted Girl:
I don't think I have ever have the teeth grinding thing going on, but I have sure had the clinched jaw and tight shoulders/back muscles. I am quite certain that is the cause of my terrible headaches (since I was 10 yr old) -- tension -- stressed out muscles from constant vigilance for abuse -- always trying to be ready, on guard. phooey ... a massage and a nice Bailey's Irish Crème will do wonders  :wink:

P.S. I don't have it anymore, but whenever the NQueenmother would begin one of her tirades my mouth would go dry. I can remember being so little my feet would not even touch the floor off the chair and trying to swallow, but I couldn't because of my dry mouth.

Discounted Girl:
I used to have dreams quite often in which I would be looking down on myself asleep and as I turned my head from side-to-side my hair would fall out and be laying there on my pillows -- I would wake up and scream and all my teeth would fall out. Whenever those dreams happened on the same night as the flying and the man in the black coat chasing me, needless to say, I was exhausted the next morning.

Write:
I don't know if you all were around almost a year ago, but several of us posted that we grinded our teeth at night or clenched during the day, sometimes consciously, sometimes not.


I tried to take Prozac last year and bruxism meant I had to stop. It got much worse taking the ad and stopped as soon as I stopped taking them. It did me a favour though- I didn't really need ads or other coping mechanism, I needed to make a decision about the future and my marriage.

I too have a cracked front tooth where I bit it real hard in frustration whilst caring for my younger brother who was being very bad, I couldn't cope with him. My parents seemed to think he was our responsibility and would leave him with us from a very young age eg. me the eldest age 7, he a baby!

I'm sure British people will have worse dreams re. teeth dreams- the dentistry is so awful there its bound to affect the subconscious!

Anonymous:
Let's not super-spiritualise everything here.

There are many reasons why people grind their teeth in their sleep. I've got kids and learnt from a doctor years ago, when they were grinding away in their sleep that it can be a sign of a parasitic infection. In other words. WORMS!  If you're grinding your teeth in your sleep you may have worms. Don' take offence and get all agro, it's true. A good dose of 'Combantrin' can save your teeth.

Or as the ad says, "Hit the herd with RALGRO."

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