Day 16 Disheartened....thoughts?

In the Day 16 reading Howard Schubiner writes, "What is the definition of a trigger? The way I use this term, a trigger only applies to people with Mind Body Syndrome, that is, to people who suffer from physical or psychological symptoms that are caused by mental and emotional processes.Therefore, in this situation the symptoms are not caused by a pathological condition (or a tissue breakdown condition in the body, such as cancer, a fracture, or inflammation)"

This post confuses me because I have been diagnosed with an inflammatory condition - endometriosis. Does this mean I cannot have TMS, or that TMS cannot be the cause of my chronic pain? The way I was seeing things...the cause of endometriosis is still unknown, so I was cultivating the belief as I went through the program that TMS could be the root cause of this as well - chronic stress in the body that produced this inflammatory disease and dis-ease.


The actual question today was: Since starting this program have you told anyone about your condition and TMS? Why or Why not? If you have how did they react?

I have told my partner, a good friend, and my GYN. I told them because I’m an oversharer, and because I wanted them to be happy for me... I think, and affirm that this is it, like I feel like this is it.

My partner was affirming and happy for me, while she cannot understand what I go through, she praises me for never giving up on myself and always trying to find a solution to the root cause.

My friend listed and affirmed that it made sense, and just that whatever works for me is a good thing.

The doctor had never heard of it, but she affirmed that conditioned responses made sense and that there was nothing she could see on my imaging that would prevent me from lying down.

When I write this out, I realize that everyone has been affirming and supportive, and it highlights that the doubt I’m projecting from them or expected to see written out here is actually mine - my doubt.

 

Don't get hung up on terminology. Focus on getting to know yourself and why you may unconsciously be creating your TMS symptoms. Connect the dots. This will lead to strengthening your belief that you have TMS and remove your doubts.

 

It's a fair question to me (more the first part) - in the TMS diagnostic guide (written by Dr Schubiner and other experts), on endometriosis it is said "At least one study has shown that women with pelvic pain have this condition no more than women with no pain. In that study the women with pain had a past history of sexual abuse in childhood three times as often as the women with no pain. Women with chronic pelvic pain should there be assessed routinely for PPD (TMS same thing) even if endometriosis is present."

All that to say that it can definitely be TMS despite endometriosis being present, depending on other factors It's one of those ones where if the doctors/specialists aren't worried or at least don't feel that anything urgently needs to be done, to me that points to TMS also.