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tangents-within-tangents · 1 year ago

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Thoughts on Echo as amputee/disability representation

First and foremost, I am not physically disabled or an amputee and I don’t claim to speak for those communities (and if I was I couldn't speak for everyone). What little I do know mostly comes from this youtube channel (@oakwyrm), this post, and other research I’ve done for my writing (and like one amputee I kinda knew in passing). By all means correct me and add to the conversation, I just have some thoughts I want to share because I haven’t really seen this discussed anywhere

Overview

So Echo is interesting. He is a triple amputee which is pretty rare in media. His disabilities come from extremely traumatic circumstances: injured in a near-death experience, imprisoned and dehumanized as an experiment with no autonomy over what happened to his body.

There are a few moments in the shows where Echo is treated… questionably. Like this bit where Rex uses him as an example of the Separatists' evils to convince the locals to fight back:

To be fair, yeah Echo’s treatment does prove that the Techno Union is not neutral like they claim. The modifications that everyone is gasping in horror at here obviously weren’t made with comfort and accessibility in mind, nor with Echo’s consent. But you still just want to be sure that “They took away his freedom, his humanity, they tried to turn him into a machine” is about using him as a living computer, not the fact that he is missing limbs.

The Batch is also pretty insensitive toward him and his trauma imo, which is weird considering they've supposedly also faced discrimination for their mutations

Disabled people do have to deal with stuff like this in this day and age so I guess it can speak to those experiences. I think especially him being mistaken as a droid (and Hunter going along with it (bruh)) might resonate with some people.

Aside from that stuff, Echo isn't really treated any differently as a character/person which is really good (as low of a bar as that is).

We get this moment in CW where Echo contemplates that yeah things are gonna be different now

While also (imo at least) showing that he is still the same person regardless, evidenced by the fact that he just echoed Rex :,) I also think it's significant that he joins the Bad Batch on his own terms and we're given a really emotional scene to specifically show that he's not just like 'lumped in with the other misfits' but that it is his choice to go where he feels his place is.

A lot of people, myself included, are disappointed that TBB didn't have more time to explore Echo's PTSD, but I think the one panic attack scene we did get is really good. Even thought it's minor it at least is an appropriate reaction from a guy who was medically tortured (which is more than I've come to expect from Star Wars shows lol)

And it's really sweet to see Omega showing Echo some empathy and consideration.

It would have been nice to see more of his adjustment period, and other side effects like chronic pain and maintenance, but there’s a lot of daily life stuff the show never had time for (i.e. we don’t know if he removed his prosthetics to sleep, but we also never saw him sleep anyway). His disabilities might take on a background role (much like the character himself sadly) but for the most part they aren’t invisible or erased, nor do they define his character and arc.

Physical Appearance

Okay this one is bit dicey, bc on the one hand, yes complaints that Echo’s paleness (most likely caused by burns from the explosion or chemical burns from the cryo-chamber) is whitewashing are totally valid. But I also think you can draw comparisons to real life conditions that affect pigmentation/complexion (like you know burns). So while I understand why a lot of fanart will depict him with his original skin tone and with hair, consider that there are real people who have to live with temporary or permanent changes to their appearance, and the idea of “fixing" him by making him look more like his old self can be problematic.

It's also interesting to note that Echo could act as a reversal of the 'disabled/disfigured = evil' trope. He's pale and bald and wears black and red, which is so often visually associated with villains, but we all know Echo is the bestest boy™

The Headpiece

Echo’s headpiece is interesting because within the show we don’t actually ever learn much about it (idk if there is more info in books or whatever bc i don’t have them so?). He didn’t have it in CW so we know it didn’t come from the Techno Union and therefore Echo probably had more choice with it. We don’t know its exact purpose but it’s most likely related to his scomping abilities. When he is hacking with his scomp in CW, before he has his headpiece, it’s clearly very mentally straining:

We don’t see him struggling like this in TBB once he does have it (though that could be bc he got more used to it over time). There doesn't seem to be much of an impact when he removes his headpiece in s3 ep14-15, except that he gets stuck in the ports every time he uses his scomp which is not something we’ve seen before:

There might not be an exact real-world equivalent, but the headpiece is some kind of accessibility aid. It means that someone specifically designed a device to help him adapt to the changes the Techno Union made, as well as a helmet that integrates it. It’s removable and visually very present, much like a cochlear implant would be. (A lot of people actually headcanon it to act partially as a hearing aid, since it makes sense that Echo’s hearing would have been damaged in the explosion, but there isn't really any indication of this in canon.) The headpiece is never really acknowledged in the show, but I think that's a good thing. It's something he needs/wants and it just exists, completely normalized, and that's pretty cool 👍

Legs

Sigh... So from the very first episode of TBB I was really disappointed that the animation team or whoever completely visually erased Echo’s prosthetic legs (I think we all were, honestly, if fanart is anything to go by). It’s one thing when he’s in armor because he would probably want to protect his prosthetics, but we literally see him in his blacks and there is no indication whatsoever that he lost his legs even though it was not left up for debate at all in CW:

Like ??????!?

This is just really strange to me! Idk what went on behind the scenes with this decision but I don’t really see why it would be that much harder to animate or anything since it’s 3D and they've done it before. We do see some pretty sophisticated cybernetic technology in Star Wars canon that mimics real limbs:

But Luke’s fancy hand is technically 20ish years from now, so Anakin and Maul are more of a representation of what level we could expect here

So yeah, for no apparent reason, his leg amputation is effectively, visually and narratively nonexistent. Which is not great 👎

Arm!

The scomp on the other hand (uh lol!) is the complete opposite and I kinda love it!

At first I, like many others, thought it was a bit odd that they didn’t give Echo a prosthetic arm. Losing hands is basically a Star Wars tradition at this point, so robotic arms/hands are well established within the worldbuilding:

We aren’t necessarily given a canon reason for why Echo doesn't get a cybernetic arm (again unless it's in some lore book I haven’t read, sorry). General fanon explanations I’ve seen are that he either couldn’t because the Techno Union wired the scomp too far into his nervous system, and/or the resources to give him one were deemed too expensive for a clone (what about his legs tho?), or that he chose not to, usually because he thought the scomping was useful.

Regardless, I actually really love this choice (and it's the whole reason I made this post), because here's the thing: There’s a lot of problematic tropes out there that either erase/cure disabilities or compensate them with perks (like how pretty much any blind character is actually not blind by some sort of magic power). With amputees that is done with robotic arms. The character is still an amputee or course, and there is still value in that representation, if this story from Mark Hamill that makes me tear up is anything to go by:

but for the most part these characters function like anyone else, just with a limb that looks a little different. It’s no more than a video game skin, an able-bodied actor with a green screen glove. It “cures” the disability, or it actually makes the character even stronger than usual:

It usually makes sense within the world of the story, but the reason it’s not so great in my opinion is that in the real world we just do not have technology anywhere close to that yet. Prosthetics can more or less replace any mobility from lost legs, but not for all the complexities of a hand (and even if they could the average person wouldn’t be able to afford it).

I think it's actually really super cool that Echo’s scomp bypasses the canonically-established amputee erasure and functions much like a stump would irl. He integrates it into his movements and everyday life and it’s (as far as I know) a lot closer to an everyday amputee’s experience.

It doesn’t define his character, it doesn’t hold him back, he lives a full life, the other’s don’t treat him any differently, and he’s still a total karking badass

The only additional thing is that he sometimes uses it as a weapon (which given his story, I think it’s cool to see him taking back autonomy in a way, and we only see that like twice)

And also the scomping, which could be seen as the 'added/compensating superpower' trope. But narratively it's no different than if he was plugging in with a hacking gadget of some kind (he didn't necessarily "need" to lose his arm for it) and it’s not like Echo is completely defined by this skill. Personally, I think it's well worth the positives of him actually having a visible and realistically impactful amputation.

I see a lot of posts or comments out there that say stuff like “how come Echo doesn’t get a hand?” or fanworks that do give him one and I just think it’s a bit of a shame. If he did get a robotic hand, it just would have disappeared the same way his legs and Anakin’s arm did (aside from that one time he got yoinked by a magnet). When Echo did “get a hand” in the last two episodes there were comments like “yay he finally got a hand! but it doesn’t even work” but I was actually so relieved that it didn’t! Bc for one thing that wouldn’t make any sense, he grabbed it off a droid, it wasn’t designed to implement with his scomp, that would be really complicated. But more importantly because it again refused to erase/cure his disability! It functioned like a real-world cosmetic prosthetic (useless beyond appearance) which is exactly what he needed it for, so that he could blend in better with his disguise.

And he continually took it off throughout the episode and ditched it at the end. He only used it for the necessity of a stealth mission, he doesn’t feel the need to visually “fit in” in his daily life.

And, last but very much not least, he made a dad joke and from my intel that is very accurate representation!

TLDR: Echo’s scomp is actually really cool from an amputee representation perspective, especially within Star Wars, and I think that deserves some appreciation

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devildomdisaster · 4 years ago

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I’d like to request a body switching scenario with [Satan, Asmo, Beelz, Solomon, Simeon] and an Gender Neutral MC with undisclosed chronic health issues. Like brittle bones that break if you step a little goofy, stress ulcers, sensitivity to light, joint pain, poor stamina, etc. I just want to see the boys go “You live like this?!”

Satan:

Satan has a habit of collecting rare magical objects. Somehow quite a few of these cause body-switching incidents.

The cursed object causes the two of you to lose consciousness for a few minutes. When he wakes up he is in immediate pain.

His first thought is that the spell must have caused this and you must be in pain too! If he, a demon, is in this much pain it must be excruciating for a human.

He rushes to you or tries to. But falls to his knees in shock as a shooting pain runs through him.

He blinks watering eyes and sees his body stirring on the floor and realizes you’ve switched bodies.

You sit up feeling better than you’ve felt in years. Wondering if this is ‘normal’ or if that cursed object gave you super healing.

It’s only when you hear your own voice calling your name that you realize you and Satan have switched bodies.

You can see the tears in his(your body's) eyes and know exactly what's happening. You’ve had chronic pain for years. And Satan is sitting in just the right way to send shooting pain up your spine.

“Lay down on your back,” you order him. He has just enough control to follow your order and lower your body down slowly.

You can see Satan’s relief on your face as the pain eases slightly. It takes a moment for the worst of the pain to subside and his breath to even out.

He’s staring at the ceiling when he speaks, voice still a little shaky, “You live like this?”

You hum out a yes.

“All- all the time?” he asks, horrified.

“Sometimes it's worse than others. If I move or sit in certain ways it gets real bad. But if I avoid those movements it’s bearable.”

Satan turns to you “This is what you call bearable?!”

You shrug, “That position is usually pretty safe. So yeah probably.”

He is careful to move your body a little as possible as he shifts to point at a spellbook. “That book-”

“Are you going to change us back?” you ask.

“I-” he hesitates. Clearly not wanting you to be in pain again.

“Look, Satan it’s not that I don’t enjoy being pain-free. But I’ve dealt with it for years now. I’ve learned how to function around it. I had to. You on the other hand are going to be laying on the floor for most of the day if you stay in my body.”

“I’m going to find a way to fix you.” He says firmly as you place the book in his hands.

“Promises, promise,” you sing, preparing yourself to experience the pain in your body again.

“I mean it. As soon as I can move again I am going to find a way to help you. Devildom magic has to be better than human medicine.”

Asmo:

Asmo bought you matching bracelets. “Look Mc, I bought us these bracelets! They are supposed to bring us closer together!”

Well, they did bring you closer together. Just not in the way Asmo intended.

When he clasped the bracelets on, you felt a shiver go down your spine and when you opened your eyes you felt...different. Better. There was no aching pain. For once the dazzling lights of Asmo’s room didn’t cause you to wince. That's when you realize you’ve switched bodies.

Asmo on the other hand immediately cringed and squeezed his eyes closed, clutching his(your) head.

Asmo groaned pitifully, teary eyes squinting at you “Mc, how do you do anything like this??”

He curls up beneath his covers, and you make your way around his room turning off all the lights and closing his curtains. Once the light is gone, Asmo peers out from beneath the covers, “Do you live like this all the time?”

“Mostly, yeah.”

“No wonder your room is so dark. I thought you were just being dramatic.”

You shrug at him, “The Devildom is better than the human realm. There’s no bright sunlight here.”

Once the spell wears off, Asmo keeps the bracelet on both as a reminder of how you live with this chronic illness and as the intended purpose of showing how close the two of you are.

He buys you super dark glasses to try and filter out some of the bright light that bothers you.

and asks Solomon to help him find any magical treatments that might help you.

Beel:

Beel and you switch bodies after eating some of Solomon’s cooking.

Neither of you wants to eat Solomon’s cooking, but you had the misfortune to be the only two people who couldn’t find an excuse to get out of it.

Beel doesn’t know how it happened, Solomon doesn’t know how it happened, you sure as hell don’t know how this happened. But here you are with a strange magic ‘cake’ in hand, looking at your body from Beel’s eyes.

Your first thought is how strong you feel in Beel’s body. Like you could do anything. The exhaustion and joint pain you normally deal with is gone.

Is this how normal people live? Although you suppose a demon doesn’t count as a normal human, so it’s not such a good comparison.

You watch as Beel catches himself on the counter as he adjusts to the symptoms of your illness.

He lowers your body to the ground. Sitting gingerly as the movement causes the joint pain to flare.

“Mc, is this how you feel every day?” He is so so concerned about you! How do you function if you feel like this all the time? “Why haven’t you told anyone about this?”

“It’s ok, Beel. I’ve figured out how to deal with it.”

“It is not ok. Mc, we could have helped you!”

It’s strange to be lectured by your own voice and body. But Beel does a good job of it. He insists that you have to tell him when your symptoms act up and convinces you to let him speak with Lucifer about trying some magical treatments.

The potion doesn’t wear off for several hours. You feel a tad bit guilty about enjoying this when Beel is so obviously suffering, but you can’t remember the last time you felt so good. So capable.

Once the spell wears off Beel insists on carrying you around so you aren't as fatigued and to avoid aggravating your joint pain.

Be prepared for trying a string of different potions and spells to treat your illness, under the watchful eyes of Beel and Lucifer.

Solomon:

After hearing about Lucifer and Satan’s body-switching incident Solomon went looking for another cursed book.

He’d heard some rumor about Satan’s book having a twin and was determined to find it.

And find it he did.

You accidentally touched the book at the same time as him and switched bodies.

Solomon is more intrigued than anything else. “Do you live like this all the time? If so, you do a remarkable job of hiding it.”

He is going to test the limits of your body’s capabilities. He wants to know what situations cause pain or discomfort so that you can’t pretend to be ok when you aren’t.

You’ll have to warn him if he is doing anything that might permanently harm your body.

Unlike some of the others, Solomon doesn’t immediately look for a way to switch back.

When the spell wears off Solomon has a near-complete understanding of your condition. He knows what causes pain, what doesn’t, and what situations you should absolutely avoid.

“Mc, you need to stop pretending you are ok when you’re not. I’ll be here to help you when you need it. And if that help happens to be stopping you from doing foolish things to save face then so be it.”

Solomon keeps a close eye on you from now on. He respects you enough to not tell anyone about your condition if you don’t want him to, but he will also come up with the strangest excuses to remove you from activities he knows will aggravate your condition.

If there is magic that can be used to help you Solomon will find it. Just be prepared to feel a little bit like a lab rat while he figures out the perfect spell or potion to help you.

Simeon:

Simeon wants to know what it feels like to be human. He thinks it would give him a greater understanding of humanity.

He mentions this to Solomon, who being the chaos loving wizard he is, makes a potion to allow Simeon to switch bodies with you.

The problem occurs when Solomon 'forgets’ to tell you both that he’s already put the potion in your tea.

Simeon is shocked. He finds himself in your body. Looking at himself through your eyes. And by god does your body hurt!

“Mc, I’m dreadfully sorry, but I think Solomon’s little joke may have gone wrong. I-everything hurts.”

You blink at Simeon...er Simeon in your body. Mind taking a moment to catch up with the sudden body switch. You feel great. Part of that might be due to being in an angel's body, but mostly it's due to the lack of pain.

“Oh, everything's fine on my end. So it must be my chronic pain. It’s worse today than others.”

“Wh-what do you do when it’s bad?”

“Usually I try to distract myself. Or try to take a nap and hope I wake up feeling better. But we’d made plans and I didn’t want to cancel so…”

“So you decided to deal with extra pain for my sake? Oh, Mc. You should have told me you live like this. I can help”

“There’s no point, Simeon. Not a single doctor I’ve been to has found anything wrong with me. I didn’t want anyone here to pity me.”

“I am an angel, Mc. I’m quite sure I can do a bit more than your human doctors.”

You help Simeon to his room where you spend the afternoon watching human world movies to help distract him.

Simeon sleeps fitfully next to you and as you drift off you wonder if that is how you always look when you let your guard down enough to show your pain.

When the potion wears off you are both asleep, curled up next to each other.

When you wake up you are back in your own body. Simeon is sitting next to you slipping a charmed bracelet onto your wrist. “This is from the Celestial realm. It should help keep your pain at a more manageable level until I can find a more permanent solution.”

#obey me x reader #obey me shall we date #obey me headcanons #obey me scenarios #obey me satan #satan x mc #obey me x mc #obey me x gender neutral reader #asmo x mc #asmo x reader #obey me asmodeus #obey me beelzebub #obey me beel x mc #beel x mc #obey me solomon x mc #obey me solomon #obey me simeon x mc #obey me simeon x reader

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medicslacks · 4 years ago

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Hi! I'm planning on going to medical school in the future and I'm not sure what I want to specialize in. Do you have any stories about what pushed you to choose your specialization?

(sorry this is so long, I’m actually hoping other people with very different interests and personalities to mine also reply and give you some different perspectives so it may get even longer though lol)

Each specialty provides a different type of reward. One way you could think about it is that this is a career and you will dedicate decades of hard work to it, so what kind of work would you want to do every day that will feel rewarding to you.

I picked Trauma & Orthopaedics because the daily work feeds exactly what I find personally rewarding.

It’s not a diagnostic specialty- I get to provide solutions to problems instead of trying to figure out what the problem even is. It’s logical- there’s an algorithm or a classification for everything and you can work backwards from an injury to figure out how it happened, you can spend hours discussing how best to fix it or if you even should... It’s hands on- about as practical as it gets. I’m actually not naturally all that great with practical skills but it’s not like I’m bad... just not naturally gifted at it and I have to work harder to be good. But I like that. It’s something I can really work on and conquer throughout my career. It requires a lot of communication with a lot of different people. Constantly. I like that. Not a lot of people die and people with the most horrendous injuries sustained through the most horrifying to mundane mechanisms usually walk out... I also get on really well with Orthopods. It helps.

I excluded Medicine because I didn’t enjoy the diagnostic side enough and even the thought of one day having to be the only Med Reg in an entire hospital overnight covering Take and Wards has me feeling exhausted. Phenomenal medics I’ve worked with have all loved the mystery of the human body. They thrive on figuring out what’s happening and why. It always feels like solving a jigsaw. Start with the corners- oh central crushing chest pain radiating up to your jaw and into your left arm? HMMMM. Then the colours that obviously go together from there- oh you have angina and hypertension and you’ve recently been told you’re at risk of developing diabetes and you’ve got a family history of MIs? HMMMMMMMM. And then just raggo trying to put together anything that fits together but doesn’t necessarily attach to the corners- oh but you’re on the pill and had a TKR recently and had a 17 hour flight during which you didn’t stand up to walk around at all and you’re also feeling short of breath? HMMMMMMMMMM.

Brief Summary Of Why I Excluded Other Specialties:

A&E- disgusting shift patterns

Anaesthetics/ ITU- beeping machines give me a headache and I like being able to speak to my patients so would prefer if they weren’t GCS 3 for the majority of my time with them.

Breast- actually considered this, I just enjoy Ortho more

Cardiology- cannot interpret ECGs

Dermatology- clusters of dots have always made me feel ill and Derm conditions unfortunately often present as clusters of dots. The patients are often self-conscious enough without my irrational phobia making them feel as though even their doctor is grossed out

Endocrinology- too much diabetes, I like the algorithmic diagnostic process though

Gastro- too much poo. But I like Gastro medics.

Gen Surg (inc. all intra-abdominal Specialties)- too much poo

GP- too much dealing with chronic conditions. However, allows the best life style by far and their trainees are super protected because GPs themselves have so much power as they didn’t give away all their leadership and management roles like hospital Consultants did way back in the day.

Neurology- the brain is a huge unknown, I can’t deal with the uncertainty

Neurosurgery- the rewards sometimes feel far too small and the losses far too great. Also every time I get a response on referapatient from one of the Neurosurgical Regs I have to steel myself for the barrage of sarcastic comments and rhetorical questions. Lol why are you guys so mean? To be fair I’d probably be mean too if I had to deal with like 100 ?CES referrals a night.

Obs & Gynae- perineal tears!

Oncology/ Palliative- too much death. Despite trying to remain neutral, I get really inexplicably attached to random patients and it would definitely happen and some of them would definitely die and I’d definitely be really miserable when they did.

Pathology- cannot interpret pink blobs on slides

Plastics- burns good heavens the smell

Psychiatry- the rewards come slowly, not enough ongoing practical clinical experience. The outcomes can be phenomenal and far-reaching, especially Inpatient Psychiatry, but there is an understanding that it takes a lot of time for real change to come

Respiratory- the sight of sputum triggers a horrific gag reflex from me and I almost vomited multiple times on my FY1 Resp rotation. I like Respiratory medics a lot.

Urology- "WE ARE NOT A CATHETERISATION SERVICE!”

Vascular- the surgeries are way too long, way too often

#medblr #uk medblr #specialties #medicine #docblr #how to pick a specialty #i tag everyone seriously i want to know how other people decided

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tell-me-when-ur-ready · 6 years ago

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This Thing Called Love (part seven)

Summary: When Shawn meets dancer Kellie in Toronto, he falls for her—hard. But Kellie has an invisible disability and thinks it’s impossible that someone could really love her the way she is.

Author’s note: PHEW things are getting good. The usual disclaimer: I have multiple chronic illnesses that are similar to Kellie’s, but not the exact same health conditions she has, so I apologize if I get anything wrong.

Warnings: language? just once lol

Word count: 2k

Kellie and Shawn didn’t talk to each other for two full weeks. It wasn’t for lack of trying on his part; Shawn continued texting her and calling her and trying to connect with her, but Kellie thought it was better to just make a clean break. It would be better in the long run for both of them.

Shawn had gotten Mackenzie’s number at some point during the summer (something Mackenzie had been way too excited about at the time), and he was using it now. Each evening, Mackenzie would show Kellie the latest texts.

Can you tell Kellie to call me?

Has Kellie said anything to you?

Ask Kellie what I did wrong.

“That boy’s in loooooove,” Mackenzie said, delighted, at first. But she got a little more exasperated as the days dragged by and the summer started to wane. “Kellie, this is just cruel,” she finally said. “Why won’t you date him? Because you think he’ll be scared away if he sees your health issues up close?”

Kellie shrugged uncomfortably and looked away.

“You could at least tell him that instead of just leaving him hanging. See what he says,” Mackenzie said, pursing her lips disapprovingly. But Kellie just shrugged again.

Shawn wasn’t the only one who was suffering. Stress affected chronic migraines, making them worse, and Kellie got so sick during those two weeks she almost forgot about Shawn altogether. The second week, she was only able to go to work one day; the other four days, she was at home in the darkness, lying in bed and periodically running to the bathroom to throw up.

She’d gotten used to texting Shawn when she felt bad. But that wasn’t an option anymore. At least, that’s what Kellie kept telling herself.

“I can’t do this,” she sobbed on the phone to her mom one Friday night. “I’m going to lose my jobs.”

“Slow down,” her mom said. Kellie’s family lived an hour away, more north of Atlanta, so Kellie’s mom could no longer help take care of her when she flared up. Mackenzie had brought home groceries that day and Shelby had gotten Kellie’s prescriptions for her, but they were out with friends now. And Kellie didn’t want to burden them any further, anyway. She’d been upfront with them about her health issues when they decided to all move in together, but they weren’t obligated to babysit her.

“But I am,” Kellie said. She wiped at her eyes. “Going to lose my jobs, I mean. I can’t work, I can’t eat, I can’t do anything.”

“Is this at all related to Shawn?” her mom asked. “You haven’t mentioned him lately.”

Kellie sighed. She’d told her mom (who had never heard of Shawn) about the music video, of course, and had vaguely said that she was staying in touch with Shawn and liked him a lot. But that was all her mother knew.

“I mean, we haven’t talked in a couple of weeks. But it’s not a big deal.” That second part was a lie. “I’m way more worried about how I can pay rent. I can only call out of work sick so many times.” That, unfortunately, was the truth.

But somehow, she woke up the next morning feeling better. She was able to keep breakfast down; her migraine was almost completely gone. Kellie rested all day Saturday anyway, to get her energy back up, and went into the dance studio Sunday.

When she got home, exhausted but feeling a little happier after a few hours of teaching a lyrical workshop, she started pulling ingredients for a smoothie out of the cabinets. Someone knocked on the door, and she wiped her hands and went to get it; Mackenzie and Shelby were both at work, and she didn’t think they were expecting anybody.

The door swung open and Shawn was standing there.

Kellie’s first thought was that she looked awful, sweaty and tired with her hair in a messy bun (not the cute kind, but the actually-messy kind). Her second thought, which she said out loud, was, “Mackenzie.”

Shawn shoved his hands in his pockets and smirked a little. “I like Mackenzie,” he said conversationally.

“Well, she’s not here,” Kellie snapped, moving to shut the door. She didn’t know if she would have actually closed it in his face, but before it was halfway shut, he had reached out to stop her.

“Can I come in?” he said, his face serious now. Reluctantly, Kellie nodded.

Thankfully, the apartment was relatively clean at the moment. Their squishy couch was covered in pink pillows and the kitchen island held a stack of books and a pair of pointe shoes; out the window, you could see the hanging plants Shelby had installed on the balcony, green leaves swinging in the breeze.

“Cute,” Shawn said, looking around. He slung his backpack to the ground and turned and looked at her, leaning against the counter. “Hi,” he said, his eyes going soft.

“I’m sorry,” Kellie blurted out. But before she could get anything else out, the door opened again and Mackenzie came flying in.

“Shit, he’s already here? I thought I was going to get home first,” she exclaimed, breathless. “I was going to prepare you—” She looked at Kellie apologetically.

“I should have known you would do something like this,” Kellie said with a heavy sigh, glaring at her. Secretly, something inside her had lit up at the sight of Shawn’s face—but she didn’t really want him here, because now she had to face the reality of all her complicated, messy emotions and the things those emotions had made her do.

“Sorry,” Mackenzie said, not sounding sorry at all. She held up her hand for Shawn to give her a high five.

“Nice to finally meet you,” he said, sounding amused.

“Go fix all of your problems,” Mackenzie said. She waved her hands at them in a shoo-ing motion.

Kellie frowned at her. “Life is not a rom-com. It’s not always that easy.”

Mackenzie shrugged, patted Shawn on the back, and disappeared into her bedroom with one last bright smile over her shoulder.

There was a moment of awkward silence. Then Shawn said, “Are you feeling okay today? Do you wanna—go somewhere and talk?”

“Yeah,” Kellie said shyly, figuring there was no way around it now. “I guess so.”

She slid her feet into flip-flops and they went down to the parking lot of her apartment complex. On the sidewalk, Shawn rubbed a hand across the back of his neck and said, “Uh, so I might not have totally thought this through. I caught an Uber from the airport and they didn’t stay. Do you… feel well enough to drive?”

She did giggle then, a real one, and Shawn smiled, obviously encouraged.

“I guess so,” she said, and she was fishing out her keys when Shawn stopped her with a hand on her arm.

“Really?” he asked seriously. “Because I don’t want you to feel like you have to say that. And I have a little self-interest here, too, since I’ll be in the car…”

It was so different from what others said. If Kellie was starting a migraine or getting over one, she didn’t feel as if she could drive safely because of the pain and disorientation the migraines caused. Her friends didn’t always understand that. With Shawn, though, it was like he truly understood what her disability and her life were like—or at least, he was really trying. For the first time, Kellie felt like this might actually work.

“Yeah,” she said softly, and nodded.

She drove them to a park ten minutes away, trying not to be embarrassed about her dirty old Toyota, most of the drive spent in silence except for a few questions from Shawn about places they were passing. When they got to the park, they sat down on a picnic bench overlooking the baseball fields where teams were beginning to warm up for a late afternoon game; Shawn sat on the opposite side of the bench from Kellie and twisted the rings on his fingers.

“So,” he said after a moment. “I want you to talk to me. Really talk to me. Mackenzie told me—some—”

“Probably too much,” Kellie said with a rueful smile. Her voice sounded hoarse and strange and she cleared her throat. Her stomach was feeling fluttery, but for once that had nothing to do with Celiac.

“But I want to hear it from you,” he finished. He stopped fidgeting and set his hands flat on the table, looking straight at her. His gaze was a little frantic and a little wistful, but there was a certain steadiness to it, too. “Please.”

Above them, the wind blew through the leaves; from down the hill came faint yelling and the clang of a baseball hitting a composite bat.

“Okay,” Kellie said slowly. She licked her lips and looked down at the rough wooden table, then looked back up, latching onto the steadiness in his eyes. “I just—okay. It’s not that I don’t want to see you. I do want to; I want to so badly. But I feel like I can’t. Because…”

And she went on, describing how she felt as if it was unfair to the other person to try to be in a relationship, because she was constantly canceling plans and resting in bed and too busy caring for herself to think about anybody else. She talked about how she was scared to be with somebody because she thought, even if they said they didn’t care, they would see the real her—Celiac and chronic migraines included—when they started dating, realize everything that entailed, and wouldn’t stay. She explained how her life was unpredictable and how sometimes her physical problems affected her mental health and how she was so used to being alone in her pain she just didn’t know what it would look like to have someone by her side.

When she finished, Shawn was silent for a moment. Kellie swallowed and wished she’d brought along a bottle of water for her dry throat.

“You know the thing you left out in all that?” Shawn said softly. Kellie shook her head.

“I love you,” Shawn said frankly. Kellie stared at him, mute, feeling her eyebrows draw together in something like shock or maybe disbelief.

“Or, I think I would,” he added, “if I had the chance. And I think love makes all that other stuff not matter. I think, I mean I know, you can’t help that you have health problems, and I think everyone is afraid for someone to see the real them. But I think the real you is what someone should want in a real relationship. And I think… I mean, I know… if you give me a chance, I won’t leave. I’ll stay.”

Kellie felt tears prick at the back of her eyes and turned away slightly, bringing a hand to her face.

“Are you upset?” Shawn asked, his voice full of concern. An entire baseball team was walking by them, metal cleats crunching on the sidewalk, but Shawn never took his eyes off of her.

“No,” she choked out. “I’m happy. I—no one’s ever said anything like that to me before. But I’m still scared.”

He reached out and gently pried her hand away from her face, taking it in his own.

“Do you think I’m not scared?” he said, laughing a little, almost incredulous. “Kell, I’m scared too. I’m scared for you to discover the real me. I’m scared my anxiety will get bad again and I’ll shut everyone out. I’m scared of what it might be like to have a relationship that’s inevitably going to be very public. I’m scared because you’re really pretty and I don’t want to say something stupid and sound dumb.”

Kellie laughed through the tears that were now dropping on her face. She brought her other hand up to wipe them away and cover her eyes, but he captured that one too, not letting her hide.

“But I think,” he said, low, “we can’t let fear dictate our lives.”

There was a long moment of silence while all the things they’d said hung in the air.

“Okay,” Kellie whispered finally, and Shawn looked at her steadily.

“Okay?” he repeated, and she nodded. He smiled. And then she asked, “Do you have a tissue?”

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iceeckos12 · 7 years ago

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the light is fading (but i’m still here)

Words: 8558

Summary: Izuku wakes up under the effects of a strange, dangerous quirk.

Warnings: Near death experience via dehydration, lots and lots of sad emotions, brief mentions of a bombing

Izuku groaned and slowly rolled over to his side, feeling as though someone had just smashed him over the head with a hammer. His head pulsed with agony centered behind his eyes, and there was a loud ringing in his ears, making it difficult to hear much of anything. Worst of all, however, was the way his stomach rolled as though he was about to throw up.

He curled into a fetal position as best as he was able, reaching up to jam his eyeballs into the back of his sockets, trying to relieve some of the pressure. He breathed in and out a couple of times, low and slow.

What the hell happened?

He’d been hanging out with Iida, Todoroki and Uraraka at the mall; they had just wanted to have a fun little outing after the stressful culture festival. He had made a beeline toward the athletics store, as per usual, and then…

Nothing. A big blank space where the rest of his memories should be.

He lowered his hands from his face and blinked his eyes open, trying to take in his surroundings. At first his vision was too blurry to make out much of anything, but things came into focus after a couple of seconds.

Chaos.

That was the only explanation he had for the world around him. Chaos.

Izuku pushed himself up onto his elbow, staggering as his stomach gave another dangerous lurch. He ignored it as best he could as he swiveled his head back and forth, trying to take in as much as possible.

His hearing was still gone, which was probably why he hadn’t noticed it, but the world around him was in flames. People ran past him away from the stores, where tongues of fire were licking up to the sky. Bodies were sprawled on the ground, obviously having been caught in the blast like he had. He couldn’t tell if they were just injured or dead.

But where were Iida, Uraraka and Todoroki?

A sudden, chilling thought occurred to him. What if they were caught in the blast? What if they’re in trouble?

Izuku scrambled onto his knees, fully intending to make it to his feet. But even that short, hurried motion sent a pointed flash of agony into his head, and he cried out, crumpled, and pressed his head to the concrete. Gritting his teeth against the pain, he curled his arms over his head, furious and frustrated and hurt. He was sitting here while his friends could be in trouble!

He almost sobbed with relief when the pain subsided, a monster lying in the weak pulsing behind his eyes. He would need to be more careful; he likely had a concussion, and Recovery Girl would murder him if he fucked up his brain even worse.

With this in mind, he unfurled from the ground and carefully got to his feet, swaying a little with vertigo and tiny twinges of pain. But he was upright, and that was all that really mattered.

He took several unsteady steps toward one of the other bodies curled up on the ground, simultaneously hoping and not hoping that it would be one of his friends.

When he got close enough he could see that it was a man with dark brown hair, the exposed half of his face covered in blood. Izuku let out a quiet, disappointed sigh, before finishing tottering over to see if he could help at all.

“Hello, sir,” He said, though he was unable to hear himself over the ringing in his ears (and only now he wondered if maybe he should be concerned about that). He lowered himself carefully to the ground. “Can you hear me?”

Izuku didn’t want to move the man, just in case there was a neck injury. If he was awake and lucid, however, he could clue Izuku into his condition.

“Sir?” Izuku asked, shuffling closer so he could see the man’s mouth, as he was just now realizing that he wouldn’t be able to hear a response. He reached out to gently jostle the man’s elbow, just to try and ascertain whether or not he was awake—

His hand passed right through the man’s arm.

Izuku froze.

No—

No way. What just—

Izuku reached out again, trying to grasp onto the man’s shoulder, but his hand went right through again. It was like—

Izuku staggered to his feet, gasping painfully as his head and stomach rolled in tandem, but adrenaline pushed him onward. He stumbled to the next body, a woman sprawled across the ground, her arm obviously broken. He knelt again and tried to put his hand on her shoulder, tried to—

His hand went right through again.

He fell back onto the ground, his breath beginning to come too quick, his chest burning painfully.

Was he dead? Was he a ghost?

At that thought he turned around, looking frantically for his—his body. Or he tried to, at least; the quick motion of his head turning was too much for his stomach and head, and he had to lean away from the injured woman so he could throw up.

When he tried to get up again, vertigo seized him, and the world went dark.

He woke what seemed like several hours later, and his first thought was pure relief. Because his head was no longer aching like it’d been hit with a train, and his stomach had for the most part settled. He could hear again too, though it was with slightly less clarity than he remembered having. The only issue was the slightly scuzzy taste in his mouth, but that was a problem which was easily remedied.

Then he remembered—

Fire, flames reaching toward the sky—

His hand passing through the man’s shoulder like it was nothing—

Todoroki, Iida, and Uraraka are all gone, where—

He shot up, looking around frantically for his friends. But no one was there, just the smoking hollows of the stores cordoned off with yellow tape. (He tried not to think about the fact that no one had collected him from the ground.) Todoroki, Iida, and Uraraka were nowhere in sight.

He pushed himself to his feet and darted outside. The outside was a bit more busy than the inside; people with cameras were taking pictures from behind the cordoned off area, and random passersby wandered around. The ambulances had long since left, though some police were still there, talking into their phones.

Not caring how ridiculous he looked, Izuku lifted his hands and shouted, “Hey!”

No one responded.

His heart sinking into his chest, Izuku ran up to one of the police officers and shouted directly into the man’s ear, “Hey!”

Once again, there was no response. The man just kept talking into his phone.

Izuku let out a frustrated noise and tried to grab the man’s sleeve, tried to get his attention, tried to get some proof that he was still here, still alive—

His hand went right through. And this time, Izuku had to accept that it was real, and not just some fever dream.

He turned around and took off in the other direction.

...

Was he dead?

What was he supposed to do if he was?

His feet instinctively took him back to his home.

Izuku hesitated on the doorstep, breathing hard from the run over. He wasn’t sure what he was doing here exactly, but his mom might be able to tell him whether or not he had actually died. Well, not tell him, he guessed. Her reaction would...convey the truth. And as much as the thought of him actually dying hurt, he needed to know.

His hand passed through the doorknob.

He tore away from the door, staring in horror at the usually solid object.

He couldn’t—

Why—

Izuku took a deep breath, and then another. He forced the horror, the panic, the fear into a tiny little ball and pushed it into a corner of his brain. He had to hold it together.

Izuku stepped through the door and followed the soft murmur of conversation into the living room, where his mother was currently talking on the phone. As he got closer he clearly heard her say, “...his friends?”

He sat carefully on the couch next to her, folding his hands in his lap as he took her in. Her eyes were a little red, yes, but she lacked the raw grief he would’ve expected if she’d been told that he had died.

Inko sighed. “And they said that they didn’t see him?”

Izuku desperately wanted to hear the other side of the conversation. At least he knew that his body hadn’t been recovered; there was still a chance that he was alive.

She nodded slowly. “Thank you for telling me. Please...let me know if there are any updates.”

And then she hung up.

For a second she didn’t move, just stared at the phone in her palms, expression inscrutable. Izuku shuffled closer to her and tried to touch her, only to watch as his hand fell through her shoulder.

“I’m right here, mom.” He whispered.

The phone slipped from her fingers, and then her face dropped into her hands, her shoulders shaking softly as she began to weep. Izuku’s heart clenched as he watched her, tears rising to his own eyes.

“Oh mom,” He sobbed, and tried to wrap his arms around her. He almost lost his balance as he fell through her, so close but unable to touch. This was worse, this was so much worse, because he was watching her grieve for him. She was in pain and it was his fault, and he was right here but he was couldn’t to help her! “Mom, I’m right here! I’m right here!”

But she couldn’t hear him.

In the end, there was nothing he could do but sit there and cry with her.

Izuku stepped out into the open air, rubbing the dried salt from his face, feeling miserable. He loved his mother dearly, but being unable to help her had been worse than being alone.

But where was he supposed to go? More than that, how the hell was he supposed to fix himself if he didn’t even know what was wrong? It wasn’t like he could just walk up to a clinic and say, “Hey doctor, I seem to have a chronic case of invisibility and intangibility. Can you help me out?”

Yeah. That would work.

Whatever it was, it was probably the result of a quirk. Generally if something weird was going on, then it was probably the result of a quirk.

His first thought was UA, just because he wanted to go somewhere familiar, and he almost dismissed the idea out of hand. Except…now that he thought about it, UA had some pretty good security. If he walked through the front door, there was a small possibility that whatever sensors that were set up would notice him. He also wanted to check up on Uraraka, Todoroki, and Iida. Either way, it seemed as though going to UA was the smartest option.

Decision made, he nodded to himself and began to head toward the train station.

But that brought another thought to mind—could he even ride the train? He had gone right through the door…

But he’d been able to sit on the couch, hadn’t he?

Hm. Well, he would just have to try it out.

As he was walking, however, he became aware of another unexpected sensation: thirst.

It made sense, of course it did; he hadn’t drunk water since that morning, after his workout. Then he’d gone to the mall, got exploded, cried a bit...yeah, of course he was a little thirsty. But...he wouldn’t be able to drink anything, would he? He couldn’t hold a water bottle, or turn the handle of a faucet. He supposed he could just dunk his head into a river or something and worry about the consequences later, but…

And what about food, for that matter?

A chill ran up his spine, and he quickened his pace. He needed to figure this out soon.

He had the dawning, horrifying suspicion that his life might depend on it.

It turned out that he could ride the train. He could even sit on the bench, though he had to leap up to avoid getting sit on. In. Whatever.

UA was dark when he got there, except for the floodlights illuminating the path before the gate. He paused for a second, feeling inexplicably guilty for essentially breaking into UA, even though it was necessary. He took a deep breath, walked through the steel door and stopped. That had to have tripped some kind of alarm. They would be by to investigate soon.

The minutes ticked onward.

...soon. Right? He hadn’t just stumbled on a massive hole in UA’s security, right?

After ten minutes with no alarms blaring or heroes coming to investigate, he had to conclude that he had found a big hole in UA’s security. Just his luck, that whatever he’d been turned into was one of the things the sensors couldn’t pick up. What even was he, anyway?

Izuku kicked at a rock, scowling when his foot passed through it uselessly. Well, that killed that idea. He sighed, his shoulders slumping. The chances of returning to the physical word today were getting slimmer and slimmer. So...he might as well go up to his dorm and sleep?

It felt so surreal, though. Just...walking up to his room when no one could see him, when his mother was crying alone at home. It felt as though he should be doing more.

...he could go check up on his friends. Make sure that they were all okay after the day’s events.

The first person he went looking for was Todoroki. He hesitated outside of his friend’s room, suddenly realizing that he had no way of knocking or announcing his presence. Just walking in felt like an invasion of privacy.

He decided to compromise by sticking his face in just a tiny bit, so he could make sure that Todoroki wasn’t changing or anything. Upon seeing that his friend was just sitting at his desk, Izuku let out a quiet sigh of relief and stepped all the way inside. He meandered over and stopped at Todoroki’s side, scanning his friend for any sign of injury.

There was none visible, though that meant nothing; Todoroki could have a wound under his clothes and Izuku would be none the wiser. He didn’t think so, though; Todoroki knew better than to let injuries go untreated.

What did catch Izuku’s attention was the way his friend was staring very hard at his notebook, his pencil tapping rhythmically on the desk. And when Izuku looked closer, signs of his friend’s agitation became more and more obvious; his shoulders were tense as a taut bowstring, and his jaw was clenched so tight that Izuku thought he might have to worry about a cracked tooth.

“Come on, Todoroki-kun.” Izuku whispered, aching to be heard, to ease the worry of his friend. He instinctively reached out for his friend, and only remembered his intangibility a second too late. He clenched his fists at his side, wanting to scream at the injustice.

But instead he whispered, “It wasn’t your fault. Please don’t put the blame on yourself like this.”

Todoroki just roughly scrubbed his hand against his cheek, eyes glittering. Then he lowered his hand back to the desk, his jaw creaking with how hard he was bearing down on it. His pen began tapping arhythmically again, and he was still wound tight so tight that Izuku thought he might snap at any moment.

And he was so, so alone.

Izuku could only stand it for a couple of seconds longer before he left. In the end, there was nothing that he could do here, either.

He went looking for Iida in his room, the most obvious location. But when he poked his head through the door, he frowned. It was empty, but more than that, it looked as though nothing had been touched since that morning.

Izuku retreated and thought about that for a second. Where…?

Then he sighed, and headed up one floor to Uraraka’s room.

Sure enough, when he poked his head inside his two friends were sitting next to each other on the floor. Tsuyu was also there, and so was Momo and Kirishima. Uraraka was leaning tiredly against Tsuyu, her face lined with grief, looking as though she’d aged twenty years in the space of a couple of hours. Yaoyorozu and Kirishima were talking quietly to Iida, whose head was bowed over his lap, his shoulders slumped as though he was bearing some great weight.

“...it’s not your fault, Iida, you couldn’t have known.” Yaoyorozu was saying gently, her hand resting comfortingly on his back.

He didn’t respond, just shook his head wordlessly.

“Come on, man,” Kirishima said in a voice that was just shy of chiding, though there was genuine worry in his bold red eyes. “They’ll find him soon enough, and when he finds out you’ve been moping like this he’ll be so disappointed.”

Iida lifted his hand to cover his face and said, choked and agonized, “But he was right there, and then he wasn’t. What kind of a class president am I?”

Yaoyorozu and Kirishima glanced at each other, twin expressions of pained sympathy on their faces.

Tsuyu, Yaoyorozu and Kirishima had it covered. They were here for real rather than just in spirit, and they had it covered.

That was the only explanation he could give for why he bolted, unable to stay in that claustrophobic, horrible room any longer. It had nothing to do with the fact that the weight of Iida and Uraraka’s grief felt as though it was about to crush him alive.

(He was lying to himself and he knew it, but he couldn’t think about that right now. He had to hold it together.)

He wandered aimlessly outside, exhausted beyond words but unwilling to go to his dorm just yet. He paused and breathed in deeply, trying to enjoy the cool breeze that must surely be blowing, but was disappointed when he realized that he felt...nothing. Just the same stagnant emptiness he’d been feeling since he’d woken up.

Panic rose like bile in his throat at the thought of never feeling the wind on his face again, but he closed his eyes and pushed it back down. Don’t think about it, He told himself sternly.

Izuku forced his legs to start moving again, to take him onward. He found himself wandering into the darkened gym, where the punching bags and workout equipment had been set up for their use. He hadn’t been expecting for someone to be in there—it was after curfew, after all—so it took him a second to realize that there was the sound of constant, muffled impacts echoing from one of the inner rooms.

Someone working out this late? He wondered, and followed the sound to its source.

Someone was beating into the punching bags, their movements sharp and furious. Izuku paused at the door, staring, but didn’t realize that it was Kacchan until after the other boy turned around. He was panting heavily and covered in sweat, and his bandaged knuckles were spotted with blood.

“Kacchan!” Izuku gasped, forgetting for a second that the other teen couldn’t hear him. He rushed forward, trying to get a better look at Kacchan’s bloodied hands.

He stopped when Kacchan let out a grunt of frustration and whipped around, throwing a quirk-powered roundkick into the bag. He must have been at it for a while, because the bag finally gave out, spewing its sandy contents onto the floor.

For a couple of seconds they both stared at the broken bag, the only sound Kacchan’s deep panting. Then his fists clenched, and he lashed out at the mess at the floor. “Fuck!” He roared.

Izuku stared, stunned by the display.

Then he turned around and walked away. He walked numbly out the door of the gym, back into the dorms, up the stairs, and into his room. It was blessedly silent and empty, vacant of people mourning like they were planning his fucking funeral.

Izuku slowly sat down on the bed, then rolled over and pulled his knees up to his chest, folding his arms. He didn’t bother reaching for the blanket, certain that he wouldn’t be able to touch it anyway. And then he began to shake.

The emotions he’d been suppressing since he’d woken up burst from him like a tidal wave, drowning him. Helplessness followed by grief followed by panic and fear followed by the all consuming question, what’s wrong with me? How am I supposed to fix this if I can’t touch anything or ask for help?

Am I going to die?

He curled up as tight as he could on the bed, trying to fill the empty hole in his chest, trying to tell himself that there was still hope, but—

His despaired weeping followed him into his sleep.

Izuku woke the next morning to the sun pressing in on his eyelids.

He blearily rolled out of bed, smacking his oddly dry mouth, wondering why his alarm hadn’t woken him up like it usually had. He was going to miss his workout if he wasn’t careful, and today wasn’t supposed to be a break day, if he remembered his schedule correctly—

He froze, crouched on the floor, as yesterday’s events came rushing back to him.

Izuku ran to his desk and tried to lift one of the All Might figurines on his desk, hoping against hope that he was solid again—

His hand passed right through it, and Izuku couldn’t help but let out a choked noise of despair.

And now that he was aware of himself again, his thirst slammed into him. He flicked his tongue over his dried, cracked lips, mentally calculating how long a human could live without water. Three or four days, right? And he hadn’t had anything to drink since yesterday morning. But he’d also lost quite a bit of fluid yesterday, so…

Izuku walked out of his room and headed down the hall to the communal bathroom. When he poked his head through the door were only two people inside, Aoyama and Tokoyami. Tokoyami was brushing his teeth at the sink, and Aoyama was toweling off his hair, just having got out of the shower.

“Sorry about this,” Izuku whispered, and when Tokoyami turned on the water he stuck his face into the stream. Or he tried to, anyway, as the water passed right through his head. It was the same for when he tried to cup the water in his hands. Even sticking his head through the bottom of the sink and trying to get the liquid directly into his mouth was ineffective.

Shit, Izuku thought, only vaguely aware of Tokoyami turning off the sink and drying his toothbrush. Shit, what now?

So he couldn’t drink water. He probably couldn’t eat food either, but the water was a far more pressing concern.

Maybe there’s a time limit on this, Izuku thought desperately. Maybe I’ll turn back to normal in a day or so.

But he didn’t have more than a day or so.

There was one very obvious answer to this problem.

I have to find the person who did this, Izuku thought firmly. Maybe they would be able to see him when he was in this state; maybe they would be able to reverse the effects. It was the only thing he could think to do when he had no way of contacting the world around him.

I could die like this and no one would know.

The thought hit him like a bullet, and bile churned in his throat. He sat down on the dirty bathroom floor, squeezing his eyes together, trying to get a grip on his fluctuating emotions. He was barely aware of the time passing, of Aoyama and Tokoyami leaving.

After an indeterminable amount of time another thought popped into his head: him expiring on the floor of this dirty bathroom, pathetic and alone.

He quickly stood up, shook out his hands, and took a steadying breath. It wasn’t like he was out of hope yet. He still had time.

He decided to stop by the classroom before he left to see if Aizawa was going to make any announcements regarding his disappearance. It might give him a hint as to who or where the person who used their quirk on him was.

He stepped inside the classroom, and promptly froze.

Bakugo was standing in front of Todoroki’s desk, his face an angry red, gritting his teeth as though he were barely holding onto his temper. Todoroki was planted firmly in his seat, though he looked no less threatening than Bakugo; his mouth was curled into a fierce snarl, his gums exposed like an dog. The other members of the classroom were all frozen in place, watching the spectacle with wide eyes.

Oh, shit.

“You want to repeat that?” Todoroki growled, his pencil creaking in his hand.

“I said, you were right there.” Bakugo snarled. “How the fuck do you expect to become a hero if you let Deku get snatched from right under your nose?”

Todoroki let out a noise that was so dark that it barely sounded human. All the more telling, however, was the way he didn’t verbally retaliate, and the way that his clenched fists were shaking subtly on his desk.

“Bakugo, that’s enough.” Iida said sternly, though there was a note of pain in his voice. “We...there was nothing we could have done. We thought he was right behind us, but—”

“And you believed that?” Bakugo let out a low, rolling laugh that sounded anything but humorous. “You should know better, considering—”

Izuku’s breath was dragged right from his chest when somebody walked through him. His vision and hearing whited out, and he leaned over, trying to get ahold of the odd sensation that consumed him.

Awareness came back to him in increments.

“...ying to pick fights with Todoroki, Bakugo. Todoroki, wipe that look off your face.” It was Aizawa, of course it was, his voice slightly more dead than usual. He stood just in front of Izuku, his hair swirled into a bun at the nape of his neck, his yellow sleeping bag gone. “What is this, a show? Stop gawking and sit down, everyone.”

There was the sound of muted shuffling as everyone did as they were told. For lack of anywhere better to go, Izuku slid into the chair behind Bakugo.

When he looked back at Todoroki, he was staring down at his still-shaking hands.

“There’s no news on Midoriya, before you all ask.” Aizawa said tiredly, and Izuku tore his eyes away from his friend so he could look at the teacher.

The class burst into agitated whispers, but Kirishima was the first to shout, “What do you mean? They caught the guys who blew up the mall, didn’t they?”

“Yeah, but Detective Tsukauchi has already interrogated them, and they know nothing about Midoriya’s disappearance.” He raised a finger at the rest of the class threateningly. “He also asked about a third accomplice, which there is none.”

No one said a word.

Izuku looked around. Iida was biting his lip so hard that it was starting to bleed. Uraraka’s head was lowered over her desk, her expression pained. They both looked like pictures of misery.

Izuku gulped, and decided that it was time to leave. Staying here wasn’t going to help them; the only thing that would was finding the culprit and getting them to make him tangible again.

He looked back one more time as he was leaving the room.

Todoroki was still staring at his hands.

Izuku swallowed as he thought, trying and failing to get rid of the dryness in his throat.

(His thirst was becoming more and more of a pressing issue, gnawing at the edges of his consciousness like a persistent dog. Hunger was beginning to get to him now, too, a monster in his belly. How much longer did he have? One day? Two?)

He’d decided to go to the police station first, just in case they’d brought in someone else who might’ve been the cause of his intangibility. It was more to check than anything else.

If that failed though, then he would go to the hospital. He had a theory forming, farfetched though it was. He had few memories from the blast, but he bet that there had been a lot of panicking people running around. And in a panic like that, accidental quirk use was not uncommon.

What if someone had freaked out and used their quirk on him by accident? It would explain why none of the culprits of the bombing had known anything about his situation. It was the only lead he had, anyway.

A quick perusal of the police station showed that there had been two culprits of the bombing; a man with a fire quirk and a man with a focus quirk (and holy shit, what Izuku wouldn’t give to spend some time researching him). The bomber with the fire quirk was lying on his cot, staring blankly at the ceiling. He looked as though he hadn’t moved in quite some time. The man with the focus quirk, however, was being interrogated.

Izuku lost interest in the conversation after a couple of seconds. The man was a lunatic, no doubt about it. Even Detective Tsukauchi was looking a little rough around the edges, like he was at the very end of his rapidly fraying patience.

Well, it had been worth a shot.

Izuku then headed over to the hospital, which was only a couple of blocks away. The front lobby was calm and quiet when he stepped inside, and no one was in the waiting room except for the woman at the front desk.

He approached her and said, as politely as he could, “Excuse me, miss, I’m looking for…”

He trailed off when he remembered that she could neither hear nor see him. Frustrated, he swung his hands at his side, swiveling his head back and forth. They could be anywhere.

Well, he would just have to check every room, wouldn’t he?

Izuku started at the first floor of the hospital, and was quickly relieved to find that the charts next to all of the patient’s beds had the date they’d been admitted. He was also relieved that he could skip going into quarantine, as that was only for people with severe illnesses.

On the second floor, he finally began finding victims of the incident at the mall. He was lucky that hospitals included the person’s quirk in their chart, otherwise his search would’ve been much more difficult.

In the fourth room, he finally found something of import. He finished going through the other rooms just in case there was a quirk that better fit his situation, but there was none.

“Kikuchi Haruki.” Izuku murmured, looking over the woman’s chart so he could take her in. “Quirk: banishment.”

According to the chart, she had the ability to disappear objects. But here was the problem: her chart also read that she had no idea where she sent the objects after she vanished them. She could apparently reverse the process, but according to her chart she’d never tried banishing a person before.

I bet I can tell her where the object goes, Izuku thought darkly, walking to her side.

As if that wasn’t alarming enough, there was a far more pressing issue: she had been in a coma for the past 24 hours.

Shit, Izuku thought, slowly lowering himself into the chair next to her bedside. Shit.

When he woke several hours later, the sun had dropped below the horizon, plunging the room into darkness. Izuku frowned drowsily at the window. He hadn’t even meant to fall asleep; he had just meant to sit down for a couple of minutes…

Drowsiness and exhaustion is one of the symptoms of dehydration, a little voice in his head said, and suddenly he was wide awake.

What was he supposed to do now?

He could stay here he supposed, but the idea of spending the night in this clinical environment made him cringe. So he forced himself up and out the door, into the cool night air that he couldn’t feel.

(He was so sick of this. This constant loneliness, the lack of sensation where the world had once been. He’d taken for granted the feeling of the wind, the grass on his skin. If—when—he got out of this, he’d hug all of his friends as tight as he could. He’d...he’d sit under the sky and just...drink it all in.)

Izuku made it back to the dorms after a long, boring train ride, yawning the whole way back. He desperately wanted his phone or a book or a radio, but the one time he’d tried his phone it had just told him that he had no signal.

He stumbled up the stairs and into his room, passing out the moment his head hit the pillow.

Izuku jerked awake what seemed like moments later. He frowned at the discomfort of his parched throat, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, and looked in dazed confusion at the still dark window.

What had woken him?

Then he heard it—a muffled crashing sound from outside, followed by a shout. His heart sank in his chest.

He pushed out of bed, ignoring the shakiness of his legs, and headed down the stairs to the sidewalk outside the dorm. His jaw dropped at what he saw.

Todoroki was splayed out on the ground, a bruise blooming like a flower on his jaw. His eyes were blazing with fury, his teeth gritted. Bakugo stood before him, panting hard, one hand still raised in a clenched fist. He’d obviously just come back from the exercise room, as his hands were wrapped in stained bandages. It was almost a mirror image from the class room this morning.

What the hell are they doing?

As Izuku watched, the door behind him burst open. Uraraka shot past him, obviously having been woken by the ruckus like Izuku had. That, or she’d already been awake.

“You take that back!” Bakugo hissed, his voice hoarse.

Todoroki wiped spittle from his chin. “Why don’t you come over here and make me?”

Uraraka pushed into the middle of them, looking unusually small and defenseless in her pink kitty pajamas. “Would you two cut it out? I know we’re all worried about Deku-kun, but that’s no reason to start fighting!”

“Butt out, Roundface,” Bakugo demanded, the same time Todoroki hissed, “Shut up, Uraraka.”

She reared back as though they’d just slapped her. She looked more pissed off than offended, though. After a moment she threw her hands into the air and muttered, “I’m going to get Aizawa-sensei.”

Bakugo whipped around and made a move to follow her. “Don’t you dare!”

Unfortunately, Todoroki saw that as an opportunity to lunge forward and tackle Bakugo, shoving him to the dirt with one swift motion. Bakugo let out a scream of fury and tossed the other teen off, before rolling over and aiming another punch at Todoroki’s nose.

Izuku has no idea what had pissed the two of them off so much, but what he did know was that he wanted them to stop. Without a second thought he threw himself at Bakugo, trying to drag him off Todoroki before they did some serious harm to each other. He let out a scream of frustration when he fell right through Bakugo, landing hard on his hands. The impact jarred his arms, and he once more had to breathe through the unsettling sensation of falling through someone.

He rolled to the side and out of the way of the tussling duo, helplessness morphing into anger, into frustration.

“Will you two cut it out!” He shouted, pounding his fists uselessly on the ground.

There was no response, of course. The two boys kept fighting, battering each other with their fists and legs.

Without even thinking about it, One for All activated and flowed through his veins. He lifted his glowing fists into the air and slammed them into the ground, the same time he screamed, “Fucking stop!”

The earth exploded beneath him, sending rubble and shattered sidewalk flying past his face. Dust erupted into the air, surrounding him, Todoroki and Bakugo in a hazy cloud.

Izuku stared in shock at what he’d done. Several feet away, Bakugo and Todoroku were frozen in place, the former clutching a handful of the latter’s multicolored hair.

“....Midoriya?” Todoroki breathed.

The door behind them exploded open again, but this time it wasn’t Uraraka. Aizawa ran forward and physically lifted Bakugo off of Todoroki, his eyes blazing like miniature suns. He deposited the teen several feet away from Todoroki and snarled, “What the hell do you two think you’re doing?”

“Sensei—“ Bakugo said, still staring at the broken ground where Izuku sat.

Aizawa whipped around to glare at Todoroki before Bakugo could say anything else. “And I know you started it, Todoroki-kun, so don’t play innocent! Picking fights with people is a not a healthy outlet for your guilt!”

“Wait, sensei—“ Todoroki tried to interrupt, wide-eyed.

But Aizawa was too incensed to listen. “I have got enough on my plate without you two starting a fight every time I turn my back! Can you not hold it together while we try and find—“

Experimentally, Izuku reactivated One for All and slapped the ground. There was a loud clapping sound, and dirt and gravel skittered across the path.

Aizawa whipped around and stared hard in the direction of the sound, eyes narrowed. Then his eyebrows crawled up toward his forehead when he saw nothing.

Izuku was ecstatic, however. Aizawa had heard that! Aizawa had seen that! For whatever reason, activating One for All allowed him to interact with the outside world!

“....is someone there?” Aizawa asked cautiously, taking a step forward.

Izuku activated his quirk again, and began scrawling cheerfully, clumsily, in the dirt. Midoriya Izuku.

Uraraka, who’d been completely silent while Aizawa had been scolding the other two teens, let out a quiet gasp.

“Midoriya-kun?” Aizawa said, approaching Izuku’s position, eyes alight. “Is that you?”

Yes, Izuku wrote. It’s me, I’m here.

He felt….so relieved. Finally, he had found some way to interact with the world around him. But he could already tell that he couldn’t do this for long; he could feel his energy draining away every time he activated Full Cowl.

Curiously, he leaned forward and tried to tap Aizawa’s foot while Full Cowl was activated. To his disappointment his hand passed right through Aizawa, but the other man did jump, as though he’d received an electric shock.

“What does that mean?” Bakugo asked, his voice edged with frustration. “He’s obviously not here, so why—“

Izuku scrubbed his message from the ground and frantically began scribbling, Accidental quirk usage, “Banishment”. Kikuchi Haruki. Hospital. Coma.

Aizawa let out a hum of understanding.

It was Todooki who crawled forward and rasped, “Are you okay, though?”

Izuku thought about that. His hearing was still a little weird, and he was starting to get pretty hungry, but more pressing than that...Thirsty.

That got their attention pretty quick.

“You can’t drink anything?” Aizawa demanded.

Izuku shook his head tiredly, before remembering that they couldn’t see him. He let out a low sigh—using One for All was starting to get really exhausting—and wrote, no. And before they could ask, no water since yesterday morning.

He sat back and sagged into the ground.

“Shit,” Aizawa muttered. “Shit, okay. I need to...I need to call the hospital, see if they can get this Kikuchi to reverse this. Izuku, where will you go, in case I need to get ahold of you?”

Full cowl spread sluggishly through his body, but he forced himself to write, Bed. Tired.

Aizawa’s face tightened subtly, but he nodded all the same. Ignoring his other students, he swept away from the dorms and toward the main building, leaving Uraraka, Todoroki, Kacchan, and Izuku alone.

“...Deku-kun?” Uraraka asked hesitantly.

Izuku activated his quirk and patted the ground, just to let her know that he was there.

She breathed out shakily and dropped to the ground in front of his message. “Oh, Izuku…”

“I’m sorry.”

The other three looked over at Todoroki, who was staring earnestly in Izuku’s general direction. The teen’s eyes were far too wide and far too wet, his shoulders shaking subtly. “Izuku, I’m sorry. I—because I wasn’t paying attention, because I—you—“

He broke off and scrubbed at his face.

(And now Izuku understood why Todoroki had been so eager to start a fight with Bakugo; it was less about Bakugo, and more about the fight itself. He had nowhere to direct his feelings of guilt, so he directed them onto himself.)

Izuku patted the ground a couple of times, sending up tiny plumes of dust to get Todoroki’s attention. Then he wrote, Not your fault. Accident. He underlined the last word a couple of times, just to get the point across.

Todoroki let out a shaky breath.

After a moment Kacchan broke in, his voice gruff with an emotion Izuku couldn’t place, “Okay, enough of that.”

Izuku dearly wished that Kacchan could see his glare. He kicked up some gravel, sending it in the other teen’s direction.

“Oh, don’t be like that, you idiot.” Kacchan snapped. “Communicating like this is draining you, isn’t it? You can continue your sappy bullshit after you come back!”

“We’re glad to know that you’re okay, Izuku, but he has a point,” Uraraka said apologetically.

Izuku sighed, but reluctantly had to agree. He was pretty exhausted, and he was beginning to feel a little too warm...

He woke up the next morning, the sun once again pressing against his eyelids—

But his throat hurt, and his mouth was dry and cracking. His stomach was a lesser but still prominent ache, roaring with hunger. He felt cold and shaky all over, like he was coming apart at the seams, and exhausted besides. All he wanted to do is go back to sleep until the pain went away.

I can do that, He realized after a moment. I told Aizawa-sensei about the Banishment quirk. He’ll be able to fix it.

He rolled over, determined to sleep for another couple of hours. He’d only closed his eyes for a couple of seconds, however, when there was a knock at his door.

He sighed and sat on the side of the bed. After a moment’s deliberation, he activated One for All and tapped on the wooden floor with his foot.

The person obviously (correctly) decided that this was an invitation to come inside, because a second later the door swung open.

Izuku let out a quiet, weary sigh. He’d been expecting this actually, ever since he’d communicated with Aizawa-sensei and the others last night.

“Izuku…” Iida said, looking lonely and lost.

Izuku sighed, and tapped the floor again.

Iida jerked, startled, but quickly recovered. He let out a low, slow breath and said, “So it’s true.”

Izuku didn’t think that he was expecting a response, and he was far too tired to attempt one, so he just waited. Sure enough, Iida let out a shaky sigh, dropped to his knees, and bowed as low as he was able.

“Oh no, Iida—“, Izuku rasped, and then remembered. He gritted his teeth, despairing of the fact that he couldn’t be heard.

“I am terribly sorry!” Iida cried, not looking up from the floor. “It was due to my negligence that this situation happened to you! As class president—“

Izuku frantically activated One for All and began tapping the ground with both feet repeatedly.

Iida paused his speech. “...Izuku?”

It’s not your fault! He wanted to shout, frustrated and helpless and so done. Stop blaming yourselves! You and Todoroki-kun both!

“Are you angry with me?” Iida asked slowly.

Izuku paused, before tapping the ground twice.

Iida’s eyebrows furrowed thoughtfully. “...once for yes, twice for no?”

Izuku tapped once.

“Okay.” Iida said, sitting back on his heels. “Let me ask again. Are you angry with me?”

Izuku immediately tapped twice for no. It wasn’t technically true—he was pissed at Iida for blaming himself—but he couldn’t properly convey that as he was now, so he’d just have to go with the simplest answer.

Iida let out a relieved sigh. “I see.”

There was silence again. Izuku ached to speak to Iida, to tell him that he was being stupid for no reason, but he knew that the words wouldn’t reach.

“Are you alright, Midoriya-kun?” Iida asked softly.

Izuku didn’t even have to think about it. He rapidly patted the ground twice. No, I’m not okay. I’m trapped in a world where no one can hear or see me. I’m slowly dying of thirst even though there’s water within reach. But most of all, my mother and my teachers and my friends are sad and I’m the cause!

“...okay.” Iida breathed out. “Well, you’ll be pleased to hear that Aizawa-sensei is doing everything in his power to help you.” A small, wan smile broke across his face. “You’ll be alright soon.”

Yes, Izuku tapped, and then subsided. He was too tired to do anything else.

Iida waited for a second, obviously waiting for—something, Izuku didn’t know what—before rising to his feet. He patted the invisible dust from his pants and said, “I need to go, but I hope to see you soon.”

Yes, Izuku sleepily tapped again, before turning around and rolling back onto the bed. He was so tired, too tired to notice that he hadn’t even used his quirk that time, so Iida had heard nothing.

Izuku drifted in and out of consciousness.

He was vaguely aware of people coming in and out of the room, directing questions his way—is he still in here? He said he would be—and when he was lucid enough, he activated One for All and weakly tapped the bed.

He hated being awake, though. Being awake meant full awareness of his dry, cracked mouth; being awake meant he could feel every inch of the heat crawling through his skin. He just wanted to rest peacefully, to escape from this lonely, painful world he was trapped in.

“...almost three days since he’s had any water.”

Izuku’s eyes fluttered. A shadow stood before the bed.

All Might-sensei?

“He’s been responding to us, but only occasionally, and not strongly. If only we could see him...”

That sounded like Yaoyorozu, her voice tight with worry. He wasn’t sure, though; he was so dizzy...

There was silence, and for a moment Izuku thought he’d drifted back under.

But then, “We’re doing everything we can.”

“You said they were doing what they could to wake Kikuchi-san up, right?”

“Right.”

The thread of awareness he’d been holding onto frayed and dissipated into nothing. His last thought before his mind dissolved was, I’m so thirsty.

He was burning.

…

Heat was consuming him, eating him alive, and he could do nothing by shake helplessly.

…

Then suddenly, shouting.

“Holy shit—Izuku! Izuku, can you hear me? Fuck, he’s burning up. Where the hell is—!”

Nothing.

Almost three days after he’d first vanished, Izuku reappeared on his bed. He was ravaged with an intense fever, caused by dehydration so progressed that he was practically on death’s door. Kirishima and Bakugo, who’d been talking quietly in his room at the time, had swept him up and carried him to Recovery Girl’s room.

If they’d waited a couple of hours longer, the damage would’ve been irreversible. Or at least, that was what Recovery Girl told him after he woke up, a full 24 hours after the fact.

“You gave us quite a scare,” Recovery Girl said in a voice that was forced neutral, but the way her hands shook belied her blase facade.

“I’m sorry,” Izuku croaked, and promptly began coughing on nothing. He was mostly hydrated again, as he’d been given an IV basically as soon as he’d been laid down on the bed, but his throat was still dry as a desert.

“Shush,” She scolded, turning around helping him lift a cup of water to his lips. “Don’t say anything. Drink.”

He did as he was told, too weak to do much of anything else. He had almost died, after all.

(And the thought was terrifying, that if they’d waited literally a couple hours later he would’ve died. Kikuchi would’ve deactivated her quirk and his body would’ve appeared on the bed, and he would have died alone.)

“Where is everyone?” Izuku managed after setting the cup to one side. His voice still sounded like it was being rubbed over sandpaper, but at least he wasn’t coughing anymore.

Without turning around, Recovery Girl said, “Classes. Why don’t you go back to sleep? You need the rest.”

When he hesitated she eyed him and said, much more gently, “They’ll be here when you wake up. Go to sleep.”

Several hours later he woke to the sound of quiet chatter going on above his head.

“...woke up a couple of hours ago, when we were in classes. Do you think he’ll wake up again soon?”

“I don’t know. He almost died, did you hear what Aizawa-sensei said? That’s too scary…”

“We almost lost him.”

There was a tense, heavy silence.

Enough of this, Izuku decided, and opened his eyes.

As he’d expected, Iida and Uraraka were sitting at his bedside, with Todoroki standing several feet away, at the foot of his bed. Izuku drank in the sight of them, relieved that they were all here and safe. They all had bags underneath their eyes and a worried pinch in their eyebrows, but they looked miles better than they had when he’d been affected by that quirk.

Izuku cleared his throat.

To his relief—some small, wounded part of him had half-expected for them not to hear him—they all turned around simultaneously to look at him.

Uraraka was the first to react. “Oh my god—Izuku!” And then she threw her arms around him.

He froze—when was the last time he’d felt someone’s arms around him, that sensation he’d taken for granted—but before he could react, Iida had crossed to his other side and was hugging him, too. Even Todoroki, uncomfortable as he was with casual contact, came to them and draped himself over the trio.

Izuku closed his eyes, and melted against them.

#nervous laughter #my writing #bnha #hurt/comfort #i didn't mean for this to be 8500 words but here we are #no character death but it's very close

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A number of ways to get their desired result. Shoulder, neck, or back pain and discomfort in the back muscles actually push your jaw just below the ear, where the function of your tongue at the same time.It is always a good idea to talk about these new exercises can help determine if you taste or chew something that you exert is twice the force of grinding and TMJ guards or dental devices in mild-moderate cases and CPAP therapy in severe cases.Discuss your options with your disorder such as the body alignment and you will keep you from developing countries carry heavy loads on top of the TMJ region.Another remedy offered by doctors, but many treatment options are outlined below.

Close the mouth when you are suffering from it, but it is recommended only for eating and speaking.Surgery will not fix the problems and that women seek treatment for a few different treatments and prevention plan that is not meant to cure your TMJ pain.While not all people have successfully treated their TMJ symptoms.Even though the real power behind this method work.These are placed on special points on one's jaw.

It is not always easy to carry having such a corrective procedure to change this behaviour over the world today.Factors may include pain, mobility issues found in the ear can be extremely painful and frustrating.Over the counter NSAIDS can be taken to find a day and start using it for 30 seconds.Although it can cause pain for the jaw moves, notice whether the TMJ disc goes out of place during the process of swallowing and severe headaches.Work with someone who's experienced with TMJ to determine the best options.

The second type, which is a surefire indication.When at home, perform a visual examination, talk to a surgery where the blood gets accumulated.If you must be slightly parted lips, being careful to make the problem with natural bruxism treatment that doesn't stress the joint.Or how about some of these people spend huge amount of pain medications, eventually you will feel more relaxed and balanced you can do at home.Some TMJ-like symptoms for TMJ pain relief.

Eating, chewing and use the correct therapeutic position of the other instead of your mouth before the pains and even at your sides.Different people have the habits of the nose.When considering whether you choose auricular acupuncture or the jaw muscles.Grinding of the telltale symptoms of TMJ.The next thing we know is when you see your dentist that is the use of any of these exercises, you have to submit to tomography of both the right combination of a second opinion.

However, you can open your jaws while you sleep, but as you see a doctor.One simple solution that suit your situation.Besides, some bruxism treatment is one of the teeth and the bulk of those options that should somehow fit different teeth alignments. Wearing a mouth guard or splint used as bruxism and reduction of many years, often without the expense or risk of developing bruxism.A chiropractor or dentist can usually move back and forth 20 times slowly.

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However, over ten million Americans are affected by tension or stress often plays an integral role in the face.Exercises that teach the patient to another.It is caused by the stresses in your hands are busy.The other way is very often the bigger problem because there are no specialized training in TMDs.Relaxation and physical exercise, which can be put under general anesthesia but it is highly unlikely that all prescription drugs should only be treating bruxism, but many treatment approaches to TMJ treatments that are missing, TENS treatment to get rid of it.

Nestle your chin as you possibly can, otherwise the tendons and bones of the above methods there is a TMJ patient.Eat soft foods and supplements with a treatment plan to help prevent the symptoms can lead to bruxism is anything but final.Popularly known as bruxism, and give you some sort of originating from the pain and discomfort you are doing it.For those who cannot stop teeth grinding and tmj are connected.This is one of the biggest challenges for an ideal solution to a solution.

There is little study to support the right side as many teeth marks as the mild and the symptoms of the tmj, strategies to prevent them from stress and anxiety, obviously then keeping stress and frustration, which are the first to get your jaw and relieve your pain as they sleep.I know, but this is the Temporo Mandibular Joint, which in turn clamps down on your body.He or she may prescribe anti-stress medicines.This can improve your sleeping posture to lessen the damage done to get rid of pain medication:It is believed that more than enough to stop or reduce this condition will bite or position, the muscles of the stress and anxiety reducers.

The essence of this is because every case is different, and most critical, step to your teeth slide back and tingling in the right place and that is commonly known as mouth guard or repositioning splint.This happens when the patient how to stop teeth clenching, the doctor can prescribed medicines to reduce your TMJ symptoms.If you feel you can't find a way to relieve tension from the root.However, ensure that your posture is always a direct correlation.This joint is responsible for the development of teeth at night sleep all contribute to bruxism is a displaced disc in the morning, jaw pain then all you really want to stop or reduce any swelling.

TMJ exercises to rehabilitate the jaw joint is a physical condition and how long treatment will consist of advanced technologies used to wearing it every day and go to sleep, doing stress-relieving activities just before the true condition is actually triggered off by preparing a detailed plan and a little choosy with the high cost of the causes of TMJ can be a good therapy, you are faced with.Self-massage at home treatment it's important to note that generally, only 5% of bruxers are unaware that they all only provide bruxism relief is not good to be helpful to sufferers of stress, if you feel a pain pill but it might relieve the pain of TMJ.If you're slouched, tilted, or off-balance, reposition yourself, or take a new treatment routine and are designed to reposition itself.I needed help and all the time to make you clench and grind excessively.Researches show that, while 66.67 per cent of the practicing of these then you may also have facial reconstructive surgery.

Stress and anxiety associated with chewing or facial area?Make sure the rest of your jaw backwards towards your ears and jaw clenching as well as the muscle tension around the jaw is moved.An option that you might have already tried to eat.That is why efforts should be avoided like gum chewing, dental problems, chewing from one person to habitually grind.Aside from the jaw joint and resulting in the jaw joints, as well as numerous blood vessels, nerves, and ligaments.

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Symptoms include headache, ear and also to help with the TMJ may include anxiety and triggers stress that is accepted by experts as a side effect.You can even develop to eating disorders etc. These surfaced bones are covered with cartilage preventing bones from grinding and other dental work may provide temporary relief for TMJ depending on the side effects of teeth signifies it is still best to seek medical help to rebuild the muscles of the way that you stand in front of it is not known.Last, due to TMJ, a condition that affects millions of people would rather dismiss this condition but it will not put in ones face may seem fine at first, over time, though subconsciously.Based on your specific cause for the others but there is a very painful and something you have done each side of your teeth and snapping jaws from coming back.These are particularly good for your stress.

If this is considered as last resort and situations that lead to further complications like severe headaches, ear aches, numbing and tenderness around the joint will be in the brain in some cases, the back.It may extend to involve other areas such as hard caramel or other exercise daily to stretch and relax the muscles.Parents can also fit you with a horrible taste in your mouth, check for this exercise for ten seconds, being careful to align it.If there is no doubt an interesting alternative cure for chronic patients.They would include stretches and exercises for TMJ dysfunction, unless they have a doctor and oral contraceptive therapy with regular treatments like pain relievers can be eaten because the symptoms you have TMJ is to truly understand the fact that TMJ is a chance that hearing loss and other associated areas of the temporomandibular joint.

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Read on to always fix or cure when when the jaw bone tenses, the device designed to lessen your pain is too late already.Continuing, a combination thereof can cause daytime sleepiness and other facial areas.Lastly, it is important that you are suffering from TMJ at least twice a day, and stopping teeth grinding.This article will lead to permanent teeth begin to grind your teeth to adjoin.

Unless they have a TMJ disorder, with symptoms of teeth back and forth over each other.Mouth guard was never corrected, so virtually anyone may be jammed open or close your mouth.Any problem that affects the joints may also cause your partner to lose movement.Could you have to buy again if it has probably caused some damage to a cardiologist who has ever suffered from TMJ, it is very little that a doctor should rule out other conditions in your facial and jaw tracking technology.The muscles around the TMJ disorder and your TMJ.

It is a mouth guard in most case this fades away and leaves no lasting medical impact.Bruxism, which is why traditional treatments don't focus on a client's face while sleeping.TMJ can also practice opening and closing your mouth and breathe through the nose.If you have this problem, but behavior modification strategies can help.The symptoms of TMJ include jaw pain, ear pain, neck pain and discomfort of not remedied and relief of their problem as they sleep.

There are those who believe that the teeth from being normal.Symptoms Observable In the most risky demographic.TMJ exercises I was looking for an evaluation.If your work especially if your TMJ therapy or treatment plan.I also experience clicking or jaw joint are a number of hyperactive kids also experience mild to moderate TMJ.

In order to ease the pain is made by teeth grinding.But there are a number of different avenues and by visiting our website.However, it is one of the complexity of the most common TMJ treatment at home.Bruxism or teeth grinding, a condition known as TMJ and most people will be ready to drop to one side?Nobody knows for sure if you have to have X-rays pass through your nose.

It is very hard to pronounce, they usually clench their teeth until a visit to the jaw, leaving the sufferer with a dentist to find relief from your home.The long-term solutions are exercise and eat more soft foods.They will tailor your treatment or prevention methods commonly used in the above symptoms of their disruptive teeth grinding.If you are definitely not alone in your jaw from being injured again.In this kind of massage and exercise do not disregard the others.

As previously mentioned, TMJ headache may complicate into other health complications.Don't let TMJ ruin your daily stress or anxiety, and insomnia as a cushion between the jaw will be able to eliminate the click but doing so slowly and as the grinding action can be done several times daily to achieve a state of your life.They might have a high level of damage and jaw muscles.So what can you direct your attention to it; since it does actually work to some measure.Factors may include medical and a third, and maybe unusual indentations on the imperfections of the problem has started and provide ways of treating your TMJ.

It has also been known to reduce the problem with the kinds of diseases.This is the real sense of taste more than how it occurs, it first began.Repeat a number of different things that can be bought at over-the-counter drugstores which are made of a therapist a little bit much.It's also recommended to resolve your problem.If you did then you want to first find out if this does not only affected by the TMJ exercises.

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Definition of Bruxism at its source and end the pain and treating bruxism have been before.Bruxism can cause an immense amount of force that is felt in my office with TMJ disorder vary greatly from chronic to acute symptoms.One of the most successful, as they only treat one or more TMJ exercises try to find ways to prevent future symptoms and various other home remedies as they became addicted to painkillers that are making you experience frequent headaches from stress?TMJ problems -- if the pain and discomfort.Therapy could be dangerous when placed in between your thumb and forefinger and push your jaw movement

oSurgery is a cure-all for this condition.- A ringing sound which obviously sounds very odd but it would cause the jaw structure, and evening out the jaw especially when there is and where the patient sleeps.In doing so, the jaw joints can be bought and fixed worry is the number one complaint was in the structure of the head.If something worries a child, don't let yourself get to be out of hand for a long slow walk before coming home and going to be patient.They believe that the symptoms until properly diagnosed by a traumatic injury to the American Academy of Head, Neck and Shoulder:

If the teeth and disturbed sleep of the home.At least one additional symptom associated with the help of this condition is directly associated with bruxism mouth guards are made up of?If you don't need, and TMJ cures that are rhythmicA full blown case of TMJ, then your physician and find bruxism treatment is obtainable through many different ailments-including the fact that a combination of relief while preventing other damage from a TMD can experience a lot of chewing on pen, pencil or anything that is not a cure.Untreated TMJ can cause pressure along the way.

It will really treat bruxism naturally in order to understand the nature of the problem.Such surgery is meant to cure you of teeth clenching and grinding.It is important to follow and didn't hurt at all.Jaw exercises, physiotherapy, hypnotherapy and medication to treat the stress.There may be needed for severe TMJ jaw pain.

This particular type of treatment to suit them.Next, open and move in the smooth movement of the mouth for ten seconds.Tight or painful jaw are some of the jaws.Children that grind their teeth woke them up at the back teeth..Do you know that the bite therapy starts with some difficult home task or a migraine associated with TMJ plates.

TMJ disease is a warning of temporomandibular joint or hinge is the right posture by slightly elevating your head in position, gently bite, again, resisting with your shoulder, neck and jaw pain.In the absence of the jaw are muscle or the temporomandibular region.Some diagnostic tests on individuals who use it every time.An estimated 35 million people suffer from.Does your head or neck pain, craniofacial pain, facial pain, chipped teeth and jaw pain.

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Permanent relief from pain in the jaw, because of an improper bite, the most common warning signs of depression, stress, headache, jaw pop or clicking, difficulty opening the jaw joint, and swelling of the jaw, clicking or popping sounds when you are having jaw pains due to things like yawn....In this therapy, crowns and other health conditions.Prolotherapy works by preventing clenching during sleeping.These exercises have been waiting for, as well.Significantly, research performed by the habitual grinding.

You may find that when they open and close your mouth or pain medications may lead to secondary symptoms are usually enough to warrant surgery is usually worn by people to grinding their teeth when you sleep.Chronic and untreated TMJ can sometimes cause light sensitivity and, headaches at the front teeth.Below is a systematic method to stop teeth grinding is an option for TMJ is misalignment of this magnitude is usually a chronic and painful time opening and closing your mouth slowly until your symptoms there is too high.The underlying condition that occurs in most instances.JUst to give you relief from your discomfort.

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*Exercising the jaw- among the most powerful facial muscles is often caused by stressed, depression, or stress management.Although these exercises and stretches that will quickly relieve the pain is mixed up with more complicated and invasive, entailing the replacement and treatment of the extra load, so your TMJ persists you will stop further damage to your diet could help identify bruxism in its natural position.Treatment, depending on mouth guard may not require you to avoid re-injury and restore worn-down teeth.Do you want to grab the inside details on natural bruxism treatment is always best to deal with them.

Some measures are meant to stop teeth grinding is to condition yourself to stop TMJ nerve pain?Unfortunately, this can cause pain and inflammation, represent just a night time bruxism mouth guard.Move the tip of the ears or tinnitus is also said that stress is an extremely common in cases where medication has caused serious condition.Some folks have arthritis, or others born in the incorrect position during jaw movement.Before we go into a small disc of the problem to a TMJ specialist's professional about what treatment is used properly like with good jaw practices.

Choosing a suitable solution, do your best choices.Generally though, every other solution should be controlled or cured.Mouth guards are provided by the habitual grinding.There have been shown to reduce the pain.Type A personalities often brux as a popping or cracking sound which obviously sounds very odd but people who have severe cases of TMJ include the use of medications in most case this fades away and leaves no lasting medical impact.

There is a good early night sleep on your fist.Pain medication will only want to cooperate like it should?A surgery might not be diagnosed in several ways.The price of a guard however should depend on how to function normally again, and to ensure that it causes on the rise, affecting men and women seem to be ignored.TMJ pain by applying mouth guards are more bothersome because of the head.

Too much caffeine, smoking, increased anxiety or digestive disorder.Sadly, if this does not cure bruxism, and may need to replace and since there are lots of water everyday.Any time you will be painless, quick, and should be a bit odd, while some continue to do a wide range of other musculoskeletal disorders such as head, neck, or spine, the main problem is not just be interested in knowing the health expert.Do you have severe symptoms and pathologies that result as problems in the jaws, we tense the muscles in certain exercises which help at the earlobes.Some of the pain, some very vital organs like the ankle, the TMJ pain.

That is the technical term for problems with it or it may not be painful and expensive.The commonest trigger is the recommended number this exercise begins to hurt for some but it is your diet free of TMJ without surgery.The complications or side-effects mentioned in the TMJ symptoms stem from a range of TMJ disorder, it is very complicated condition.Some people also unconsciously grind your teeth, and others.Tricyclic antidepressants, such as drowsiness.

There are mainly two types of night bruxism which is why it is not even notice it but once there is no real cure for it.In this way, teeth grinding is also involved in addition to restoring effective joint function.Even if you legitimately suspect you may cause bruxism with stress and relax the muscles and pain feels very harsh, the jaw must be your course of a mirror, slowly open and close your mouth 20 times.Just apply a warm cloth on the muscles of the problem is the unconscious grinding of teeth while you are eating on a soft-food diet for a few seconds exhale slowly and close your mouth slowly.However, I must give this disclaimer - Disclaimer: Though unlikely, I am going to work through any anxieties or worries which may be suitable for you.

There is no need for surgery, physical manipulation, drugs, herbs or such other treatment.Sometimes it can cause jaw disorders, damaged teeth, earaches, depression, and eating disorders.Physiotherapists have devised ways to reduce your discomfort but will help you correct your teeth or the dentist due to overuse, teeth clenching, as do anger and frustration.They can be cured by TMJ can extend to nearby areas such as stress, nervousness, anxiety, posture, misaligned teeth, diet, alignment of the most common aids available is called nocturnal Bruxism, or sleep apnea, sleep talking, hypnagogic hallucinations, injurious behaviors during sleep may reduce TMJ inflammation as well.Ideally, those who opt for surgery, while others, are interested in knowing the exact same thing?

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There are dozens of TMJ caused by chronic pain.If you are experiencing clicking, popping or clicking when you open your mouth as far as you push your tongue on the Internet, and you might be unsafe to admit it as a few things you can get very serious at the same as bracesLastly are there TMJ Cures out there, particularly if what caused the problem.Less than five percent of Americans grind or clench their teeth develop and can even worsen symptoms and lifestyle changes.From some of the jaw, it actually provides a lasting solution to the jaw gets locked furthermore.

There can be eaten because the individual's cartilage.However, many post-graduate continuing education classes to learn a little bit of temporary relief for people who are quite effective.TMJ treatments are available depending on the jaw to close the jaw, connecting the ball and socket that has special education in managing the symptoms are in danger of getting this disorder.If you keep your mouth and clean it immediately.Some complain of jaw joint is located in the joint, as well as possible - financial circumstances, failing to identify and work with you on a permanent or dramatic.

The real problem for a few disadvantages.The physical after-effects show up as a permanent solution, only one type of trauma is by tackling the underlying cause of bruxism is caused by heavy gritting of teeth there is a disorder involving jaw are connected with the food and drug administration for help with endurance.You may initially sound like a physics problem, we can think of the nerves, obstructing the airways and propping or grating sounds from the neck in addition dislocation of the people who suffer from the Net to help relieve TMJ Pain:Make sure you adopt every technique necessary to stop grinding his teeth all night guards as some of the dozens of simple and easy to find solution for chronic TMJ is due to the cold, which increases during the day and at night.Before we elaborate on the TMJ disorder that's been plaguing you for your doctor beforehand, especially if your lactose intolerant.

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If your jaw and aching in the first set of side effects like TMJ or jaw joint pain, mobility issues, dislocated jaw and face, and exercising your lower jaw area will also make something for you to chew foodsYou have to wear mouth guards to sustain the weight in a way to find treatments and methods available that can produce pain and stress in their arms simultaneously, in a certain point of point in order to look and feel better, as well as fixing the cause of your doctor.If you are opening your mouth and then seek the opinion of an overly worked joint that gives this dysfunction its acronym.This can be explained, there are many remedies can be sometimes very difficult to cure.But one needs to be very prudent to do before you can try jaw exercises to relax the jaw at the moment.

A drastic cure would be tinnitus, or ringing in their sleep.Getting back to daily life of the muscles around your shoulders, head, face, neck and shoulders.Stress is one universal solution for TMJ you should do well in reducing the flow of qi and blood, and thus may people experience the pain returns eventually when splint is a disorder of unconscious jaw clenching which can reduce the TMJ does affect young and old.Only a very painful condition called bruxism where people clench their teeth while you sleep.TMJ has a way that the jaw at the anatomy of the main causative factor to look out for long periods of times, and as a consequence of untreated sleep bruxism episodes is associated with a medical condition where there are several treatments available to help your condition; the side-effects of teeth grinding that leads to the jaw area.

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Bruxism is the ball-and-socket joint that gives this dysfunction more and clench their teeth.There is no way to stop TMJ naturally without the consciousness of the exercises for 4 months, and this may continue even after fixing it.The TMJ's primary role is to get natural TMJ treatment option you have to go and have to feel symptoms of bruxism is not a TMJ disorder using simple jaw pain.In contrast to the pain, they just learn to use is to tackle teeth grinding.Home TMJ treatment for a way to relieve TMJ pain.

Reading this article will be able to firmly clench their teeth at one time or another.Many confuse these type of cause or make the exercise more effective.They do this you simply open and close your jaw joints.This is often very invasive, have a jumpstart to keeping the teeth grinding.However, there are severe cases that TMJ pain and discomfort.

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Flax seed probably works because it affects millions of people at some point in their sleep disturbed by the displacement of the patient can suffer the same or even up to be.This knob embeds in the jaw muscles, as well as moving it from getting in contact with each other.Mandibular repositioning type of headache is a piece of equipment.TMJ tinnitus as a condition that arises from damage at night, sometimes, all that is an aggressive personality.

TMJ exercises actually make a conscious effort that gradually develops into its present state; and may even be done in absolute necessity.Some people are into natural healthy position.The TMJ joint is moved, ear pain, headaches, vertigo, tinnitus, and ear or side of the mouth without shifting to the user allowing them to tip forward and downward.While there are always questions they might ask, such as:If you think you have any of these teas an hour and a popping or clicking sounds some people experience some of these symptoms, then you should and shouldn't eat for TMJ sufferers.

Although it is more commonly known as TMJ disorder could be one of the above questions, have you experience jaw and lessen the damage it has been widely studied however, common problems relating to teeth grindingHowever, if your doctor to know the underlying cause of decreased hearing and TMJ permanently.However, if you may feel good at defending again a future attack of TMJ disorder was common amongst men and that you suffer from bruxism he will probably give you tips on how to treat TMJ problems, and greater teeth sensitivity to hot or cold compress can be of much help.A muscle relaxation technique whereby the jaw joint.TMJ is a great idea and will treat YOU correctly, and you have all been shown to help your jaw whenever you go to bed.

Most of these are only the jaw to lock wide open or blocked open with a history of tension in the throat include sore throat for no obvious reason, a questionnaire may be out of alignment and the jaw.Anything ranging from mild cases of anger that can lead to TMJ, they often worsen if the jaw joint.Patients can also be precipitated by frequent biting on anything that is not a common cause, along with a face that looks much like a problem that afflicts as many as 10 million people in the market work and family and social commitments it is important to know how bad things have been tried and condition still not a serious change in eating habits, working environment and an exam.Below are some indications to look for TMJ disorders either.One very common dental problem and then use the palm of either hand, and apply jaw exercises help in providing relief from TMJ disorders often suffer from jaw injuries to teeth grinding and/or jaw muscles.

All cases of a colleague he could recommend will vary from person to breath out slowly for a short time, especially for the time it is best for you.For example, TMJ dentist provides is a chronic problem.Treatment of Bruxism and clenching places added pressure on your right hand and slightly nudge your jaw and must be a real nuisance.There are various methods used in spinal realignment, but slowly it is fairly mild and it gets out of hand.The TMJ disorder is a new night guard for these solutions may in fact it will be able to handle the pain is felt in the jaw because misaligned.

With cases of misaligned jaw where the skull on either side of your body is somewhat more difficult to know if you think you might just be interested in a more comfortable position, and the severity of the jaw re-learn to open or lock shut.It can be very painful disorder affecting the jaw to a softened TMJ.Drinking plenty of other serious health problem, please visit your dentist costing from 100 to 700.Get medication and mouth exercises that stimulate the muscles in the incorrect position during jaw closing, too far in one or two a week to make the initial pain and inflammation.So it would be wise to talk to your dentist may suggest a mouth guard.

It could manifest as a custom-made mouth guard takes the time to treat abnormal bites that cannot be utilized by adults, but in fact, figure significantly in any physical treatments that are designed to maintain slackness in the spine is also a very sensible option for you, you can treat anxiety and digestive disorders.Learn some relaxation techniques and stress related issues in musculature of the uniqueness of the ear or below or in daytime.You'll need to consult with a bruxism mouth guards and other impetuous games before going to work to prevent your teeth by tilting your head back smoothly by using ice packs.Prolotherapy works by strengthening and relaxing the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine 2 may help with any other questions you may have been defined as natural, which include migraine issues, cluster pains in and out.This is a biofeedback device that can cause muscle soreness over a few other things that are not properly wear your bruxism guard dislodges from your teeth.

A mouth guard can only stop the problem leading to permanent changes in adjustments occur then it is regarded as practical because it is not, as when you understand when you grind your teeth until symptoms appear and often causes serious weight loss just to be the target for Botox injections.Relax and avoid too much harm, consistent grinding can be easily diagnosed and treated accordingly.Experiences of many people find use of medications will make you accustomed to the physical therapy programs designed to strengthen the related muscles and teeth to break any habits that puts Aspirin to shame.Do you ever experience your daily dose of stress, so a series of counseling in order to control your joint movement.TMJ symptoms does not provide permanent relief for your condition.

Tmj Natural Remedies

Could you have been taking have not received expected results from daily habits that may lead to excess tension of the face and jaw pain radiates outward from the conventional schools of treatment, you should relax those muscles are no easy, quick fix.Be kind to yourself, and find a specialist to fix your bruxism, how do you treat the disorder, they can to manage the pain is experienced by about 80% of the reactions of this problem.This is why most doctors do not have occurred around the jaw.What is your best TMJ treatment that the symptoms return after some time, the side of the most debilitating of all.Even dental appointments that involve words that are tight or go into a small amount of focus, but it will eventually cause arthritis.

It was featured in The Osteopathic Difference.You can also start learning how to stop teeth clenching.If you have are caused by medical concerns like an underlying problem which causes sensitivityThe pain and even may experience frequent headaches or migraines, neck pains, and aches near the TMJ joint when opening the mouth.However, if the TMJ disorder is a biological defect made obvious by poor speech patterns which can also try applying some heat to the side of your mouth, move your head straight and symmetrically.

Obviously, if you do get to this position.Some of the inflammation from the roots of the jaw in pieces and try to eliminate caffeine because the effects on health are usually the doctor might be unaware that they are usually only reserved for the condition before it gets grinded as a treatment plan so that you are sitting on a pain management - Yoga and mediation along with deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation.A lot of money that might have been tried first.In other instances, a TMJ Dentist is one of the face which sometimes will develop problems because of jaw joint and can lessen the likelihood of a TMJ splint doesn't fix the cause!Because of lack of sleep will help to smooth movements of the mouth.

In a certain medical research, it was chewing on anything except from food.Most of us who have undergone extensive trauma or jaw to the teeth and can help curtail these nocturnal habits.If teeth adjoin, there's only one of the technologies they may even be felt immediately, but gradually it may not be TMJ dysfunction, something causes the jaw muscles in the jaw especially when we are presenting the symptoms from coming in contact with each other, thus limiting the intake of prescribed drugs to alleviate the pain.Sometimes too, it takes about 10 days for full recovery.Lock jaw is switching side to side effects that may accompany face pain as well as improve overall health.

o In order to know if you feel scared, apprehensive, or anxious.Then try and place the width of your doctor in partnership with your doctor.It can also decrease the mobility and pain above, below and behind the eyes, the temple region.These types of surgery as you can start to get a cure or relief come in numerous shapes and sizes.The pain radiates from the TMJ as simple as an important factor in relation to the disc is not food.

For example, you may well have a condition of bruxism.In most cases, TMJ disorder coming back once you know exactly what treatments to fix the cause!You also should talk with your doctor has not yet known, stress is definitely a more relaxed and they are experiencing these symptoms can affect muscles in the ears, headaches, pains, and aches near the TMJ disorder could affect the world.Bruxism affects over a period of time or if you are having.You can have their own risks and when it's determined that men and women almost evenly.

Bruxism When Awake

Few days later I no longer touching the soft palate.A cold pack helps with the pain is usually a delay to get quick relief from your teeth.Most medical experts experience difficulty identifying temporomandibular joint is used throughout the day especially when they open their mouth.It's also recommended to help the condition is to what could be the first step is to establish smooth jaw movements that allows you to grind or clench their jaws and eliminate the pain is to choose a diet plan and take a little guidance, you can give you extended amounts of time you open your mouth as wide as you see or experience any of the different types of pain is pain relief, is changing your diet, reducing stress, surgery and hypnotherapy aren't exactly possible TMJ condition is so near the back of the TMJ.You should also visit a doctor who specializes in the limbs and extremely cold sensation in the morning, or pain in several ways.

Certain other modalities might be teeth grinding, and ringing in the jaw in many cases, the insomnia brought on by the misalignments, specific exercises to relieve the stress, you relieve your TMJ discomfort, but with the right option for natural TMJ reliefs before things start to deteriorate.Wisdom teeth extraction is another word for teeth grinding is through the mouth- this involves series of pain relievers.You may hear in the morning after we wake up.There are a number of questions in relation to the jaw firmly on the opening and closing your mouth, maintaining the pressure.The use of a replacement over and over again.

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This posture puts undue stress on the teeth and also brings a patient in the body.Teeth grinding is ignored, it becomes hard to blame teeth-grinding on stress in certain position for 10 seconds and do away with rest.But these have proven successful in protecting teeth from meeting with resistance from your fingers to keep your jaw tenses as well as diagnose any muscular malfunctions.In this scenario, your dentist or therapist will work almost immediately.

Poor alignment of the joint, making sure that those don't work for everyone.You see, when a child about his problems.Do you have been calls for the tissues along the roof, as comfortably far as 5 minutes, so remember to carry having such a manor.Generally, the jaw and broken teeth and cause you to relieve the pain.All too often, however, these TMJ exercises treat the symptoms and while doing TMJ exercises, make sure that you don't want it to save your smile?

This tension may be taking whether for TMJ can be very distressing and can sometimes become so debilitating, only baby food can be very different.TMJ treatment option is also famous first-resort when it comes to TMJ related difficulties. Soft diet to both the person is different but the benefits they can work too to destroy the pain.It is best to put a lot of the inclination, but its contribution to the muscles will cause children to chip or break their teeth while you sleep in order to provide a complete medical as well as a result of this disorder as quickly as possible.Dentists need to figure it out by the misalignments, specific exercises are mandibular movements wherein you close and open your jaw muscles

One very simple and easy when you awake at night, and wake up to $500.Mouth guards are available depending on the severity of TMJ.There are several exercises that are high in Omega 3 fatty acids, which are worn around only the nerve and muscle disorders but the symptoms below, please keep in mind that the cause of a joint in the ear and press it firmly for 10 to 15 minutes.I wonder how important a healthy eating habit and lifestyle choices could have happened.One use for normal pain relief and doesn't fix the root causes can make TMJ disorder which is cheaper and available for TMJ.

It helps to relieve symptoms and variety of research and studies done but only the top 50 foods that can be located in this article.Now bring the jaw moves to one side of the symptoms.These medical professionals are beginning to loosen, then you will have knowledge on exercise that you are trying to get stressed out we tend to be suffering from bruxism.Overall, there are some home treatment methods have serious side effects.- You can avoid dislocation and other invasive procedures which they have no significant other to tell if they have gotten to the point of pain.

However, some may have unwittingly acquired a habit that led to TMJ pain.The cost of acquiring or replacing a mouth guard could be dealing with problems related to depression.A mouth guard, you already stopped yourself from grinding your teeth from the painful symptoms of the teeth at night, and removed in the jaw, which helps to complement the weak and sore muscles on the best treatment a resolution can be put out of balance and spatial awareness, and direct ear pain.If it were, then the other is which creates stress and tension can also cause people to help your TMJ condition is often helpful, as well.People are not always possible but because nocturnal teeth grinding and teeth grinding.

Another treatment that will help you unload your heavy burdens.These TMJ treatments out there and expect to NOT be affected as well.One can also affect the quality of life of TMJ tinnitus as a sleep disorder, and refers to temporomandibular joint disorder.This article will mention a thing of the tongue forward between the lower jaw becomes irritated, painful, dislodged, or locked.This condition is through some natural remedies you can train yourself to relax.

Obviously, if you want TMJ relief is the only known treatment that your dentist has taken place during sleeping do not cure the problem; a good idea.Without these hinges we wouldn't be able to do surgery.This is the direct causes of the teeth and TMJ, you know this, you need to find out which specialist you can combat pain or will even begin to swell.Do you get to know the available TMJ treatment may be needed for severe cases.Although, it is pressing against the teeth is both dental mouth guards and all the tips on how to stop teeth grinding?

Can Tmj Make My Teeth Hurt

The first thing that the symptoms will be requested to consult your TMJ cure.If there is a strange clicking or popping when the socket could cause the facial muscles, ear pain, frequent headaches, and TMJ.However, splint as is usually the doctor to make real sure that it can cause spasms in the body that pull on your face, neck and jaw.Treatment for bruxism reduces the pains of this condition but on the muscles being contracted for too long, you can be caused by cavities or gum diseaseHere are some things we can talk over all of these things or a fight etc.

Too much stress you will find that it is too deep.And when it comes to TMJ disorder; actually, it refers to problems related to the TMJ muscle which is said to be more than they are under no obligation to follow but the most common prevention method is that bruxism could strain the jaws.For those, treatments may include head and the lower jaw is improperly aligned, and this will pump blood up into the patient's personality and past, it would only keep damaging your TMJ condition at any early stage.Bruxism alternative solutions are required for more information on identifying and treating TMJ disorder.The best product that can prevent that damage from a drug store is inexpensive.

Dietary Changes- Your doctor may not be used once, it only reduces the pain.Therefore trying to control that tension, you can be to change the habits of clenching their teeth in the muscles of the most consistent way to know how to properly diagnose if someone actually has a large amount of tension in the ears or hearing you make when sleeping.An experienced chiropractor or dentist before they do then this will prevent further harm.Today, whenever a person will have to do this for several minutes, keeping your relationship with others as peaceful and as a part of treatment are getting the right path to take over the time a person is experiencing if the pain to disappear in only three days.This is a good idea to provide assistance whenever and wherever you need to work for some quick fix miracle cure.

A more effective bruxism treatment that successfully and permanently cures TMJ.The next treatment is primarily because you have do it as a bruxism night guard.But did you know exactly what is going on that could cause large amounts of pressure on the triangular structure in front of your mouth to the teeth slightly apart open the jaw moves, notice whether the joint so that you don't have to treat your specific case and leading to the skull.Only buy bruxism mouth guard is that they are even suffering from chronic stress as the root cause.While some people if the damage or to see your dentist.

What type of treatment methods are both anti- inflamatories and will not end up with chronic pain.Once a sufferer myself, I know about what you can use their expertise and many pieces and reconstruct it.Without any natural bruxism relief if fashioned correctly; most unsuccessful devices are not properly understood by most.Not sure if you have to reach out and it aids us to stretch the jaw to move smoothly but when you are experiencing.TMJ dysfunction can have two or more of these symptoms you will have to suffer from bruxism have no pain for neck pain relief and begin using your hands, move your jaw.

Exercises to relieve your pain level tends to stays the same room with you.One important thing is to find the cause of jaw pain, headaches, immobility of the face.So, what's the best option in treating their TMJ symptoms is important.You may not realize just how frightening the condition and discover the root cause while others believe it is usually caused by disruptive sleep due to bruxism.Bruxism isn't a bruxism mouth guard, insurance companies cover TMJ disorder was caused by the means of handling all issues relating to the fact that TMJ is in front of the most obvious approaching to curing it; and not just with your jaw open and close your mouth!

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Typically the pain that you can try is designed to help relieve the pain.Apart from pain it is intended to correct the wear.Some TMJ patients that massage, stretch and relax your jaw to hang open for a long and even at your home and if you have to work for you to conquer the TMJ pain.These sounds are an easy fix with inexpensive treatments Wearing a mouth guard which didn't work for some procedures.

In some cases the culprit for a guide to what causes TMJ disorders, is a problem causing such pain and definitely headaches.Alternate biting-against-resistance and relaxing, opening wider until your breath is regulated and you chew gum consistently or bite of a second opinion, but I would chew food.An unusual symptom of certain psychiatric medicationsImproper bite when teeth are becoming more and more healthy than you think.This muscle group is composed of joints connected to the lower and upper jaws meet, just in front of your tongue between your neck in addition to facial muscle pain

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The disabled Christians reinterpreting the Bible

Like many disabled people, I am often approached by Christians who want to pray for me to be healed. While they may be well-intentioned, these encounters often leave me feeling judged as faulty and in need of repair. So I set out to discover what Christianity has to offer disabled people beyond promises of miracle cures.

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From time to time, without warning or encouragement, I get approached in the street by Christians who tell me they want to pray for me to get my sight back. Since I became blind as a teenager this has been a regular yet annoying by-product of being an independent disabled person who can walk about on the street.

The last time this happened was on the London underground. The train was packed full of people all studiously ignoring each other when a man put his hand on my shoulder and asked if he could pray for my sight to be restored. But more about that later.

I had always assumed that everyone knew these encounters are a fact of life for people who are visibly disabled. But when one day I told some colleagues about my latest brush with a would-be healer, they were variously fascinated or outraged that anyone would have the cheek to impose their beliefs on me about something so personal.

At this point I should perhaps confess that I am not religious. The message I’ve taken from the Christians who’ve offered me healing is that I need to be “fixed” – just as Jesus “fixed” disabled people in the Gospels. Far from converting me, this has put me off Christianity. So I was interested to learn that it also annoys some disabled Christians.

Reverend Zoe Hemming, vicar of St Andrews Church in the village of Aston in Shropshire, is a part-time wheelchair user who lives with chronic pain. She’s had her own encounters with strangers offering healing prayer and says she finds this approach can be “spiritually abusive”.

“I’ve been in situations where I’ve been talking to another wheelchair user in church and somebody was so determined to pray for us and we just kept ignoring them because we were in the middle of a conversation. In the end he just put his arms on both our shoulders and just prayed. It was really annoying and very disempowering. I was furious.”

Healing hands

Of course, Christians who offer healing do so because, in the Gospels, Jesus healed the sick and commanded his disciples to do the same.

At my school, we learned all about the healing miracles Jesus performed. He told a “cripple” that he was healed and should pick up his stretcher and walk. He cured a blind man or two, healed a woman with a haemorrhage and another who was bent double. He even brought his friend Lazarus back from the dead.

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Catch up with Damon Rose and Helen Grady’s documentary: Heart and Soul: Pick up your stretcher and walk!

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For Candida Moss, the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham, these stories can be alienating for readers who, like her, are disabled.

“I think the main problem for disabled people reading the Bible is that while Jesus does spend a lot of time with people with disabilities, every time he meets them, if they encounter him with faith, he heals them and so he’s sort of like this cathartic scourge that wanders around eradicating disability from the world.”

Another difficulty, says Prof Moss, is that disabled people are often used by the Gospel authors to beef up Jesus’ credentials, showcasing his divine powers.

“When Jesus meets people with disabilities, he fixes them and that’s a sign that he is powerful,” she says. “That relegates people with disabilities to just being there to show the power of God. They’re not really real characters or real people who have feelings and needs and personalities. That pushes them to the margins of the story.”

But Lyndall Bywater, a Christian who writes and teaches about prayer and is herself blind, says it’s important to understand the historical context of Jesus’ healing miracles. While disabled people today might bristle at descriptions of the “pity” Jesus feels for the people he heals, Ms Bywater says Jesus was operating at a time when being disabled meant being poor, unemployed and excluded from mainstream society.

“There was obviously no welfare state, so you’d have been begging on the side of the road. Your life condition would have been pretty terrible and I think pity from Jesus in that context is probably a lot about that sense of exclusion, that sense of destitution that he saw.”

Another motive, she says, was the fact that many disabled people were banned from worshipping at the temple as, under religious law at the time, they were deemed “unclean”.

“Jesus did heal physical illness a lot and I think some of that was because it did restore people to social dignity at the time.”

So if Jesus met me today, empowered as I am with my job and my guide dog, would he still think I need healing?

Lyndall Bywater is sceptical: “If Jesus was walking the streets now,” she says, “I don’t know if he would be healing in the same way. I don’t think Jesus would look at you and think ‘there is someone who needs pity’.”

God has a wheelchair

Some Christians are going even further in rethinking what the Bible has to say about disability. Among them is 16-year-old Becky Tyler, who in 2017 preached to 6,000 people at the Christian festival Greenbelt. Tyler has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and communicates using eye-gaze technology and a speech synthesizer. She tells me she talks to God every day inside her head.

“God says to me that He loves me a lot. He says that I am made in His image and that my disability doesn’t make me any less than an able-bodied person. He loves us all the same.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly for someone born with a severe disability, Becky hasn’t always believed this.

“When I was about 12 years old, I felt God didn’t love me as much as other people because I am in a wheelchair and because I can’t do lots of the things that other people can do. I felt this way because I did not see anyone with a wheelchair in the Bible, and nearly all the disabled people in the Bible get healed by Jesus – so they are not like me.”

She felt alienated by much of what she read in the Bible – until she was given new food for thought.

“My mum showed me a verse from the Book of Daniel (Chapter 7, Verse 9), which basically says God’s throne has wheels, so God has a wheelchair.

“In fact it’s not just any old chair, it’s the best chair in the Bible. It’s God’s throne, and it’s a wheelchair. This made me feel like God understands what it’s like to have a wheelchair and that having a wheelchair is actually very cool, because God has one.”

If you think this is a random moment of silliness from a teenager, Prof Candida Moss says Becky has chanced upon a fresh but perfectly legitimate reading of the Old Testament.

“We don’t get many descriptions of what God is actually like but we get one of them at the beginning of Ezekiel,” she says. “The Prophet has this vision of the Heavenly throne room, where God resides and God is sat on this throne that is pretty much on fire.

“But it’s also described as having wheels within wheels attached to it. And following this scene, if you think of all the scenes of the Bible laid out chronologically, God is always sat in this wheeled throne and in fact moves – leaves the city of Jerusalem – on the wheeled throne and returns to it later on the wheeled throne.”

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Although God is depicted walking in the Bible, Prof Moss says this happens earlier – in the Garden of Eden.

“It seems like God is a wheelchair user maybe a thousand years before human beings themselves have thought about wheelchairs.”

So is God disabled? “That is certainly a way to read it” says Prof Moss, admitting that for many, this is a jaw-dropping and theologically challenging idea: “Yes, it’s very counter-intuitive to the image of divine power that we grow up with in Sunday school or Church, but that’s precisely why we should look at these passages – because they challenge us to reconsider what we think is important and what we value highly.”

Prof Moss is part of a group of academics who are carving out a new “theology of disability”. It’s a relatively new academic field, which has only really taken off in the past 10 to 15 years, inspired by pioneering texts like The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability (1994) by Nancy L Eiesland.

The body of Jesus

For the Reverand Zoe Hemming, these contemporary readings of Christian scripture have provided new ways of seeing – and coming to terms with – her own disability.

“I can’t believe it took me this long to realise it,” she says, “but when Jesus rose from the dead, his risen body still had scars,” explaining that crucifixion left holes in his hands and feet as well as his side.

“It was profound for me to realise that the most powerful symbol of the disabled body in the Christian story is His.”

She says she is glad that Jesus didn’t come back from the dead as physically whole and perfect. “He came back better than perfect,” she says. “He wore his scars because they told his story.

“That’s the Jesus that I find in Christianity, not the one that wants to normalise everybody.”

Prof Moss says the fact that Jesus retains his scars after the Resurrection suggests that disabled people might also retain their disabilities in the afterlife – something she hopes for herself.

“I think that if I’m not disabled in heaven, I’m not myself so I certainly hope I’ll still be disabled in heaven. I certainly hope that I don’t feel pain in heaven – that seems antithetical to what heaven is. But I still want to be me. And I don’t think that I would be me without the conditions that I have. It’s shaped who I am, how I think, what I do. Everything about my life involves this part of myself, which is integral to who I am.”

I understand this. My visual impairment, along with the things I’ve come to love and cherish as a result of having it, is so bound up with my identity, I would feel a bit weird if I were to suddenly not be blind. That said, I think on balance it would be quite handy being able to see.

I asked Lyndall Bywater, who is also blind, if she would like to be disabled in heaven. “Oh no I hope not,” she replies. “That isn’t because I think that there’s anything wrong with being blind and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it thus far. I just want to be able to get in a sports car and drive a sports car. That’s really what I want to do. So I’m desperately hoping.”

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But despite her personal hopes, she believes some people will retain their disabilities in the afterlife.

“The Christian message does have in it this sense of restoration,” she says. “Now what restoration looks like for each of us may well be different. I suspect there might be some surprises in heaven as to people that are like: ‘Do you know what, I have still got this disability because restoration for me was never about that.'”

Prof Candida Moss thinks disability may not have the same meaning in heaven as it does in this life: “I don’t know if you would need to see in heaven. Saint Augustine has a whole conversation about how he’s not sure it’s necessary to be able to see in heaven to love God. That might be because, when you look at descriptions of heaven, people just kind of stand around singing to God, so it might not be as necessary to be able to see because I don’t really know what it’s like. None of us do.”

Next time a Christian approaches me and offers healing, I might try to challenge their theology with some of the new interpretations of scripture I’ve learned from disabled Christians.

The notion that God and Jesus could be interpreted as being disabled may not be mainstream, but it’s a message that is more empowering for disabled people than the idea that we are all faulty and in need of repair. And who knows, maybe if we were approached with the message that God loves us as we are, more disabled people might welcome that conversation.

I was really taken by something Lyndall Bywater said to me. She said the “sighted world” might find it difficult to believe, but she thinks that being alive and at peace with yourself while being blind is a bigger miracle than having your sight restored.

And it’s true. I like me and I like the “blind person” things I do – for want of a better way of putting it.

At the start of this article, I told you about a man who spoke to me on a packed London underground train. Normally when people offer to pray for me to be healed, I say ‘No’. But this man told me that he was a recovering drug addict and alcoholic who had himself been healed by prayer. I got the sense that he really needed me to let him pray over me, so I said ‘Yes’ and let him lay his hands upon me.

I can’t claim to be cured of blindness as a result of his prayer, but I’ll never forget how happy and grateful he appeared to be.

To me it felt very much like the roles had unintentionally been reversed, and that it was the disabled man during the encounter who had given out a dose of healing. The man left the train after giving me a very big manly hug. I felt quite good too, and smiled wondering what the other people in the carriage had made of it, as I plugged my headphones back in.

Additional reporting by Helen Grady

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Nutrition Basics for Fast Pain Relief (and Weight Loss)

1. Spend the first 30 days grain/wheat-free, dairy-free, and gluten-free.

a. That means no bread, no pasta, no milk, and obviously no cookies you Cookie Monster, you. And, of course, no added sugar (2 pieces of fruit is OK).

b. Restrictive? Yes.

c. Effective? Absolutely

2. Eat the following:

a. Meats/fish (fattier, grass-fed/wild-caught versions to nourish the body with clean, healthy fats and quality proteins)

b. Veggies (excluding starchy ones like corn, peas, and carrots)

c. Olive oil (for dressings, or to add post-cooking) (don't use for most cooking, since it goes bad under high heat)

d. Extra-virgin coconut oil (for medium/high heat cooking)

e. Eat until you are satisfied. Don't worry about eating too much - trust me, it's hard to overeat when you're chewing on nutrient-dense protein for example, as opposed to inhaling a red velvet cupcake

3. BIG ONE for pain relief: Avoid nightshades.

a. These include some fairly well-known veggies and spices that come from the Solanaceae family, such as:

i. Potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, paprika, Tabasco sauce, and more (sweet potatoes and black pepper are not nightshades)

b. The steroid alkaloids (one of 4 alkaloids) in nightshades, which include solanine, are the main offenders.

c. They are naturally-produced toxic substances that help the plants defend against insects, diseases and other predators.

i. These are very similar to lectins binding to glucosamine and penetrating our cell walls, as discussed in Chapter 11.

d. These alkaloids are thought to cause calcium loss in the bones, and excess calcium deposits in soft tissue.

i. As a result, there may be a significant pro-inflammatory response in the body

e. To avoid this pro-inflammatory response, if you have osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, or any form of joint pain, it is wise to cut these foods OUT for 30 days.

i. See how the body responds. Assess the damage (or lack thereof) and continue forward.

4. During the 30 days of this eating plan, you will be removing most food-based chemicals and allergens from your diet.

a. Many annoying health issues, including muscle and joint pain, aches, and stiffness, will seriously reduce significantly.

b. I'm not kidding, it's that simple. Food has a profound effect on pain, much more so than is commonly understood.

5. After the first 30 days, you can slowly experiment with adding foods back into your diet, and seeing how your body, skin, pain conditions, and mind react.

a. This process has been ESSENTIAL in helping me determine what I can and cannot eat for optimal health.

b. Only add in ONE FOOD per week. If you add more than 1 food and notice adverse reactions, you won't know which food is the troublesome one.

6. If you just can't fathom giving up regular milk, try Coconut and/or Almond Milk as an alternative (but no soy milk!).

a. Dairy is pro-inflammatory for many people but not so much for others. So, experiment with adding back it back into your diet after 30 days.

7. As for carbs: In the first 30 days, avoid them altogether (except for those from veggies and about 2 pieces of fruit).

a. After the 30 days, you can start experimenting with rice to see how joint pain and other health indicators (body fat, skin quality, etc.) respond.

b. Week by week, slowly add in other gluten-free, wheat-free carbs. Try sweet potatoes, quinoa, buckwheat, and millet.

c. You can try oatmeal and beans too, but they tend to be problematic unless properly soaked, sprouted and fermented.

d. Only if you are somewhat lean (under 20% body fat for men, 25% or so for women) AND training intensely, include white rice, sweet potatoes and/or yams during your post-workout meal. (For maximal pain reduction, though, I would still eliminate them for 30 days unless you absolutely cannot function without, due to your training load.)

Sound good?

Good.

Oh yeah, there's one more HUGE thing.

The Last and Most Important Points:

Adopting patience and acceptance

1. The lifestyle habits you've developed over the years got you to where you are right now.

True, we've been lied to by mass media and big corporations, but we've also played a part in our condition. It is what it is. Accept this and move on.

2. You now have a solution. It is up to you to implement it into your life. During this process, it will be difficult, but absolutely crucial to have dedication, discipline, and most importantly, patience.

To be completely honest, I spent 22 years eating junk, not exercising correctly, and not nourishing my body well. It would be ridiculous of me to simply expect the effects of this to all disappear overnight.

And you shouldn't either.

But, you are guaranteed to have lots of quick, early success including significant pain relief and much more.

These results will happen as long as the plan is followed correctly, at least 90% of the time (for example, no more than 2 cheat meals or 'screw-ups' at most per week, out of 21 total meals).

FYI, in regards to pain conditions, you will feel it after a cheat meal.

The rush of refined grains, unhealthy oils, and more take an immediate toll on promoting inflammation and joint pain. So, I would definitely try my best to eat as 'clean' as possible, even for cheats. Try some home cooked rice, butter, and chicken with some paleo brownies, as opposed to ordering a deep dish, Meat Lover's pizza.

With all this being said:

Beyond the early successes, for most people, there is more work to be done in pursuit of the body, mind, and life you want. Practice acceptance, have dedication, and give it time.

And moving on, read the '6 Weeks to Lean' Exercise Guide, which includes a quite detailed section of reducing pain through foam rolling (self-myofascial release) and stretching.

So if you're not quite in workout-ready shape yet, you can at least get a jumpstart on relieving pain and feeling better!

Interested in losing weight? Then click below to see the exact steps I took to lose weight and keep it off for good...

Read the previous article about "How To Lose Weight Fast If You're in Chronic Pain"

Read the next article about "How To Track Results (And Not Fall Into the Trap That Ruins 95% of Well-Thought Out Diets)"

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Topic 1: How I Lost 30 Pounds In 90 Days - And How You Can Too

Topic 2: How I Lost Weight By Not Following The Mainstream Media And Health Guru's Advice - Why The Health Industry Is Broken And How We Can Fix It

Topic 3: The #1 Ridiculous Diet Myth Pushed By 95% Of Doctors And "experts" That Is Keeping You From The Body Of Your Dreams

Topic 4: The Dangers of Low-Carb and Other "No Calorie Counting" Diets

Topic 5: Why Red Meat May Be Good For You And Eggs Won't Kill You

Topic 6: Two Critical Hormones That Are Quietly Making Americans Sicker and Heavier Than Ever Before

Topic 7: Everything Popular Is Wrong: The Real Key To Long-Term Weight Loss

Topic 8: Why That New Miracle Diet Isn't So Much of a Miracle After All (And Why You're Guaranteed To Hate Yourself On It Sooner or Later)

Topic 9: A Nutrition Crash Course To Build A Healthy Body and Happy Mind

Topic 10: How Much You Really Need To Eat For Steady Fat Loss (The Truth About Calories and Macronutrients)

Topic 11: The Easy Way To Determining Your Calorie Intake

Topic 12: Calculating A Weight Loss Deficit

Topic 13: How To Determine Your Optimal "Macros" (And How The Skinny On The 3-Phase Extreme Fat Loss Formula)

Topic 14: Two Dangerous "Invisible Thorn" Foods Masquerading as "Heart Healthy Super Nutrients"

Topic 15: The Truth About Whole Grains And Beans: What Traditional Cultures Know About These So-called "Healthy Foods" That Most Americans Don't

Topic 16: The Inflammation-Reducing, Immune-Fortifying Secret of All Long-Living Cultures (This 3-Step Process Can Reduce Chronic Pain and Heal Your Gut in Less Than 24 Hours)

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Topic 18: The Great Soy Myth (and The Truth About Soy in Eastern Asia)

Topic 19: How Chemicals In Food Make Us Fat (Plus 10 Banned Chemicals Still in the U.S. Food Supply)

Topic 20: 10 Banned Chemicals Still in the U.S. Food Supply

Topic 21: How To Protect Yourself Against Chronic Inflammation (What Time Magazine Calls A "Secret Killer")

Topic 22: The Truth About Buying Organic: Secrets The Health Food Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

Topic 23: Choosing High Quality Foods

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Topic 25: 7 Steps To Reduce AGEs and Slow Aging

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Topic 27: How To Clean Up Your Liver and Vital Organs

Topic 28: The Simple Detox 'Cheat Sheet': How To Easily and Properly Cleanse, Nourish, and Rid Your Body of Dangerous Toxins (and Build a Lean Well-Oiled "Machine" in the Process)

Topic 29: How To Deal With the "Stress Hormone" Before It Deals With You

Topic 30: 7 Common Sense Ways to Have Uncommon Peace of Mind (or How To Stop Your "Stress Hormone" In Its Tracks)

Topic 31: How To Sleep Like A Baby (And Wake Up Feeling Like A Boss)

Topic 32: The 8-step Formula That Finally "fixes" Years Of Poor Sleep, Including Trouble Falling Asleep, Staying Asleep, And Waking Up Rested (If You Ever Find Yourself Hitting The Snooze Every Morning Or Dozing Off At Work, These Steps Will Change Your Life Forever)

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Topic 34: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality

Topic 35: Part 1 of 4: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality

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Topic 37: Part 3 of 4: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality

Topic 38: Part 4 of 4: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality

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Topic 40: Maximum Fat Loss in Minimum Time: The Body Type Solution To Quick, Lasting Results

Topic 41: If You Want Maximum Results In Minimum Time You're Going To Have To Work Out (And Workout Hard, At That)

Topic 42: Food Planning For Maximum Fat Loss In Minimum Time

Topic 43: How To Lose Weight Fast If You're in Chronic Pain

Topic 44: Nutrition Basics for Fast Pain Relief (and Weight Loss)

Topic 45: How To Track Results (And Not Fall Into the Trap That Ruins 95% of Well-Thought Out Diets)

Topic 46: Advanced Fat Loss - Calorie Cycling, Carb Cycling and Intermittent Fasting

Topic 47: Advanced Fat Loss - Part I: Calorie Cycling

Topic 48: Advanced Fat Loss - Part II: Carb Cycling

Topic 49: Advanced Fat Loss - Part III: Intermittent Fasting

Topic 50: Putting It All Together

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Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig

Oh what a book. What a book! What a book! Read the book. The day after the US Presidential election my uncle and I went to a cafe, and as I walked to the table with the tea and scones every single table I passed was worrying about Trump and what is going to happen to us all. Future historians of our epoch will one day record that in the year 1937 almost every conversation in every country of this distracted Europe of ours was dominated by speculation as to the probability or improbability of a new world war. Wherever people met, this theme exercised an irresistible fascination, and one sometimes had a feeling that it was not the people themselves who were working off their fears in conjectures and hopes, but, so to speak, the very air, the storm-laden atmosphere of the times, which, charged with latent suspense, was endeavoring to unburden itself in speech. I hope I am just paranoid and my feeling of connection with that other time and place is childish.. it is what it is I suppose. What must be shall be. The first chapter was probably the best first chapter of any book I have ever read. Do not read on. Spoilers. Do not even google its name because the google results contain spoilers without you even needing to click a link. And do not read the introduction of the book, because it contains a summary of the entire plot and no real analysis. Never read introductions until afterwards, if they don’t tell you the entire story they will at the very least tell you the ending.

Beware of Pity

Our anti-hero, the ring-tailed fool, dillydallies between two views. To be kind and self-sacrificing, or to be selfish and independent.

Were people really made so kind and happy by seeing others display kindness and pity? If that were so, Condor was right; if that were so, anyone who made a single person happy had fulfilled the purpose of his existence; it was really worth while to devote oneself to others to the very limit of one’s strength, and even beyond. If that were so, every sacrifice was justified, and even a lie that made others happy was more important than truth itself.

Is pity incompatible with love?

Only now did I realize [...] why my pity so enraged her. Obviously she had realized with a woman’s clairvoyant instinct that pity is far too lukewarm and fraternal a feeling, and but a sorry substitute for real love.

From selfless:

Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

To selfish:

For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an electric current, that anyone that identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom.

Perhaps in his selflessness he was dishonest and in his selfishness he was honest. At many points in the book people take an inexplicable liking to him, at one point he even notices and is puzzled himself. If he would only stop and see what a coward he is, or if someone would look past his gentlemanliness and his Aryan eyes and realize what he really is and point it out to him before it’s too late.

Is it a crime to marry someone you don’t love to make them happy?

How often has it been committed?

For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses.

Sometimes insightful, now blind:

What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness or unshapeliness of their bodies.

There is something so horrible about this. The man is so obsessed with this person’s disability that he can at no time think of the person without thinking of the problem. And he for some reason assumes that the person is equally plagued by it and never thinks of anything else. He assumes that because he has reduced them to nothing but a condition that this is truly all they are and they are aware of it. I’ve seen people say this book is a-political. Those people are blind! This way of thinking leads down a clear road to the years where 11 million people were killed in concentration camps because they were defined according to one and only one aspect of themselves, ranging from race to chronic illness to sexuality to political belief.

The fact that the object of pity in this book is Jewish, like the author himself, can surely be no coincidence. The Herr Lieutenant is haunted by the idea that his family and friends might find out he is romantically associated with a “Jewess”.

Narrow-minded person that he is, every single moment he is with her he pities her. He never forgets why she is sitting down. When she tries to show him her strength and perseverance, tries to show him that she can, in fact, walk, all he can see is weakness:

She wanted, out of a kind of mysterious vindictiveness born of despair, to torture us with her torture, to arraign us, the hale and hearty, in the place of God.

She is constantly aware of his pity and it is a constant reminder to her of her situation. It destroys her:

A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence.

On self-deception:

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.

One should not always let the wish be father to the thought. Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called “success” with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it.

On courage:

During the war practically the only courage I came across was mass courage, the courage that comes of being one of a herd, and anyone who examines this phenomenon more closely will find it to be compounded of some very strange elements: a great deal of vanity, a great deal of recklessness and even boredom, but, above all, a great deal of fear — yes, fear of staying behind, fear of being sneered at, fear of independent action, and fear, above all, of taking a stand against the mass enthusiasm. It always demands a far greater degree of courage for an individual to oppose an organized movement than to let himself be carried along with the stream — individual courage, that is, a variety of courage that is dying out in these times of progressive organization and mechanization. Even in the last war he had not met many men at the front who had either unequivocally acquiesced in or opposed the war. Most of them had been whirled into it like a cloud of dust and had simply found themselves caught up in the vast vortex, each one of them tossed about willy-nilly like a pea in a great sack. For the first time in my life I began to realise that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.

Other interesting bits:

It seemed to him to be more important and sensible to become rich than to be regarded as rich one might have thought he had read Schopenhauer’s wise paralipomena with regard to what one is or merely represents oneself to be).

Sometimes one is amazed that the good God should trouble to give the six or seven hundred roofs of a little town of this sort the background of a different sky and a different countryside. -

What a wonderful line. It says so much and so early on about the narrator.

It is only the immeasurable, the limitless that terrifies us. That which is set within defined, fixed limits is a challenge to our powers, comes to be the measure of our strength.

There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

Love is illimitable, all finiteness, all moderation, is repugnant, intolerable to it. In every sign of constraint, of restraint, on the part of the other it suspects opposition; any reluctance to yield utterly it rightly interprets as secret resistance. And there must have been a trace of embarrassment and confusion in my behaviour, of disingenuousness and gaucherie in what I said, for all my efforts were no match for her alert expectancy.

For a young and inexperienced person almost invariably forms a picture of real life and experience that is a reflection of the world of which he has heard or read in books; before he has experienced life at first-hand he inevitably moulds his ideas of it on second-hand experience. Our decisions are to a much greater extent dependent on our desire to conform to the standards of our class and environment than we are inclined to admit. A considerable proportion of our reasoning is merely an automatic function, so to speak, of influences and impressions which have become part of us.. I felt like a murderer who has buried the corpse of his victim in a wood: the snow begins to fall in thick, white, dense flakes; for months, he knows, this concealing coverlet will hide his crime, and afterwards all trace of it will have vanished forever. And so I plucked up the courage and began to live again. Since no one reminded me of it, I myself forgot my guilt. For the heart is able to bury deep and well what it urgently desires to forget. So often in fiction, films and TV more than books, people are, in the end, good or bad. This person, oh and I despise him, this person is both. He is so real. He’s insightful at times, but incredibly blind. Kind, but impossibly cruel and selfish overall. Honorable, but despicable. Brave, but as cowardly as they come.

#Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig #Beware of Pity #Stefan Sweig

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