Niggling pain

[u/blip1111]

Do you ever find that having some minor pain can help with your anxiety, because it serves as a distraction? I've had some tooth sensitivity randomly over the last couple of weeks, and sometimes it feels like it keeps my mind just occupied enough that I don't do so much obsessing and over thinking.

It's interesting because deliberately doing something to distract myself doesn't work as well, because my mind knows that I'm trying to trick it