Very much applies to me . Though the dental phobia was there long before overt signs of mental illness .
I don’t have phobia but I have severe negative symptoms, I am unhealthly lazy. I stay in bed all day everyday. I try to bath and brush my teeth once every week.
My teeth are a wreck!
Years of lithium use destroyed my teeth.
Had to get veneers.
My dental phobia mainly stems from not freezing properly. They can just pour that crap into me and I burn it off like crazy. Every dental procedure is a torture session. My vasectomy was so painful I refer to it as the visit to Guantanimo Bay. Proud of myself for only screaming once there. My wife said I made all of the men in the waiting room turn grey and then white. One got up and left.
I use to brush my teeth twice a day but once I became sz I only brush once a day now its hard…
I’m totally with you on that one !!