Anxiety Acting Up

Might be a trigger due to dental topic.

So, 2-3 weeks ago, I went to the dentist to have a tooth checked out and he said it may need a root canal, but gave me sensitive tooth paste to see if it would work.

I've been fine for a week, because my aunt and my mom's friend's young daughter had one and they said it's fine, and my tooth's been fine, I've just been avoiding sweets like crazy. I realize I may need one, but I'm alright with it.

I don't know what happened. Last night, I began analyzing my back teeth and they felt... strange. The last time I thought something in my mouth felt/looked strange (my gums), I was wrong and I was fine; I just over-analyzed it. I was able to calm myself down enough to sleep last night.

I was able to eat a red velvet muffin today with no problem, chewing on the other side so I didn't have a panic attack if my tooth was still sensitive.

The past few days, I've been focusing on said tooth and it feels strange, but I have a dentist appointment for a cleaning in three weeks and a doctor's appointment to get me back on medication for anxiety and depression, and to question my mother's concerns for me having OCD, in less than two weeks.

It goes away, but I can't stop focusing on it because I feel like it'll end up doing something and I'll be in a lot of pain.

I'm terrified, needless to say. My last dentist, while doing my filling, said I might need a root canal, after laughing at my concerns for possibly needing one, and it didn't leave me with a good experience.

I have a long history of looking up things on the internet, almost like a hypochrondriac, but for my oral health...

I can't talk to my parents about this because they just ridicule me, saying my fear is stupid and I need to stop looking up stuff on the internet, even though I'm not. I honestly don't want to go back to the dentist until that appointment...

Although I'm getting better with my anxiety, certain things (like this) are still able to set me into a panic.