[[ wOAH I haven't been around a lot lately and you deserve to know why so explanation under the cut, some cw for chronic pain and illness and stuff ]]
okay, hi. so, i'm justine, i'm the mun over here, and i'm a pretty normal looking highschool junior which actually sort of sucks because maybe if my issues were like, physical, i might get some slack around school and stuff. anyways. i'm a sufferer of severe TMJ disorder, anxiety and depression, and chronic migraines ( partially caused by the TMJ) . anxiety and depression basically explain themselves so i'm not even gonna go there but TMJ is fairly unknown so woop explanation. basically my jaw is really fucked up. there's a disk of cartilage in your jaw that protects the bone from grinding against itself in a roundabout way, and that disk has slipped out of place on my jaw due to very powerful teeth grinding in my sleep and all-over clenching over the years ( both of these caused by the duo of anxiety/depression ). this means i'm nearly always in pretty awful pain that isn't obvious when you see me. my jaw clicks and makes weird grinding sounds when i move it and i can only open it like an inch or two without severe pain. chewing hard and/or crunchy things is a no-go and i have to sleep with a mouthguard in order not to fuck up my jaw anymore as you might imagine, this constant pain can cause some really awful migraines for me. my migraines usually manifest in light/sound sensitivity which makes it really hard to be active sometimes. it's been getting better but i've suddenly taken a complete 180 and now it's sort of worse than it ever was. my jaw really hurts, my head is pounding, my jaw problems cause shoulder problems, and i'm constantly really anxious about everything. it's because of this that my activity has suddenly plummeted. trying to balance constant pain, school, and roleplaying is difficult, especially when the instant i get home from school i put heat pads on my jaw and sleep. this got really long and rambly but i just felt like i owed all my followers an explanation as to why i haven't really been around a lot. so. there's that.












