Sufferers Unite

This blog was created mostly as a way to help me to cope with the disorder known as TMD, TMJD, or Temporomandibular Joint Disorder. I want to meet others who are coping with the disorder or are cured from TMJD and spread the word. Feel free to ask me anything relating to TMJ and I will do my best to answer knowledgeably based on my personal experience and if you have other health problems that are similar to it or just need to talk about your health problems, I'm here for you. ~ If we stand together, we CAN get better. ;)

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Petition: To create awareness and delvelop treatment on Temporomandibular Joint disorders

The symptoms of TMJD include facial pain, reduced mouth opening and headaches which can be very debilitating. PURPOSE: - patients need to know which treatments they can access - to create more TMJD centers on the NHS in all regions of the UK, not just London - more research into TMJD.

Sign this and share pls. 6 months to get 10,000 signatures in a chance for us sufferers to get some hope for our future with this awful condition. Also this good awareness on a common condition with 0 awareness so much so doctors have 0 knowledge on how to diagnose it lol. ✌🏼

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SIGNAL BOOST!!

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sorry for responding to your text a month later my mind was tired

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When I’m thinking “Well, at least I can’t feel any worse” my mental illness is like

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Me @ friend: are you mad at me??

Friend: no of course not!! Why would you even think that? Nothing but love for you <3

Me literally ten minutes later: sorry I hate to ask but just to be sure… are you mad at me?

Friend *is a little confused*: no, you don’t have to worry about anything we’re all good :)

Me: … so are you mad at me? plz be honest

Friend *starting to get annoyed*: … I said no already, why do you keep asking?

Me: oh god are you sure you’re not mad at me??

Friend *visibly upset now*: seriously why can’t you just trust me?! just stop asking already!! >:(

Me: I KNEW IT

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Life is a series of highs and lows and once you fully accept that, you can continue to choose life even when it's hard to get out of bed, because you know it'll get better if you stick around. Mental illness(es) isolate people and some people say they're fine but are actually dying inside. It's important to speak up and get help and not hide it just because you're worried of making others around you uncomfortable. You are allowed to scream about the horrible feelings of hopelessness and no future. You are allowed to say "I'M NOT OKAY". You are allowed to admit to people in your life that your illness is trying to convince you that the only way out is to die, when the reality is, the feelings won't last forever if you reach out for help. Back away from the ledge, no matter how tempting it may be in life's hard moments and situations. There is another path down the mountain behind you, and it's one full of hope, joy, happiness and reasons to live. It's gonna be a lot slower than walking off the ledge, but when you get to the bottom, you'll be happy you didn't take the permanent way out.

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If any of you ever have trouble getting out of bed in the morning/ wondering what the point is- try this.

I find it immensely helpful to look at lists of days past and see that there was always something that I gained from getting out of bed, even if it was just a cup of tea or experiencing a fortunately timed gust of a warm breeze.

Print off as many as you like or make your own. :)

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me: has a good day

me: whoo boy! I'm not Mentally Ill™ anymore!! I'm free, I'm cured, everything is right with the world!

brain: not so fast

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If you’re healthy you probably don’t realize how demoralizing it is to spend all day in a hospital gown

But now a new collaboration is designing fashionable hospital gowns to encourage sick teens that they’re not “just a hospital patient.” See how they react when they try their new robes on.

Gifs: Starlight Canada

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me: wow I feel happy

me:

me:

me: well that was nice while it lasted

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Jump Rope || Blue October It will get hard, remember life’s like a jump rope

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you mean there are people who,,,,don’t check their notifications obsessively? there are people who don’t need constant Validation™? sorry but im gonna need some written proof signed & sealed

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I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn’t last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I’ll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.

E. Lockhart, We Were Liars (via wordsnquotes)

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I think the hardest part about living with depression for me is that even though I know the medication will send it into remission and let me live again, I also know it is very likely it will come back and torment me more and that every time it will leave me feeling more exhausted than before. I hope I always find the strength to continue on, because my brain is a vast sea where the storms sometimes come and rain on me for what feels like eons. I hope I never forget to open my umbrella and hold on for dear life because I know it will all be okay, in time. Just please, I beg the universe to never let me get to a spot where I feel like allowing myself to die because of depression is okay.