Recent content by Andy Bayliss

Thank you Forest and everyone who helped. I love your priorities! Basic functioning and the ability to interact. Thank you thank you for your tireless work for our community.

Hi Bowen I used a sort of a mantra with each step I took. Something like: "You can stop the foot pain; I am willing to feel my emotions." Did this for thousands of slow steps increasing very gradually over a few weeks. With self-talk for TMS, being firm, but also understanding and supportive...

As Cactusflower discusses and I'm sure this is your contemplation, "How can I be of service in a natural way which isn't a compulsion of my personality patterns?" I think this is a life-long contemplation for me. Passion, what we're drawn to do is probably a different inner "flavor" than my...

About the "likes." I never use them and I don't look to see if anyone likes my posts. I can feel the addictive threads that you describe Jan, so I've tried to take this off my plate at least! Diana-M If you get nothing else from this question except the honest question for yourself about how...

Wonderful responses. To make it very simple I would say that you're aware of the connection between inner anger and TMS. And there is no perfect way to discharge it so that you don't have TMS symptoms. In my experience it can be pretty individual despite my beliefs about what might help another...

Ankle pain checkin for me, to share a practice. I have occasional ankle pain and began to worry and monitor. This is not my experience, by the way, with more persistent pain, but: When I notice the pain, I ask myself in the moment "How many times today did I notice it?" "Is this my first" I...

Congrats! What might be helpful is after each session take some time to journal how what you felt or learned in the session emotionally about yourself applies to Dr. Sarno's understanding. "How does my experience today help me understand my TMS?" Many people have success with therapists who...

Joseph_535 Yes you have found hope, and I'm very happy for you. I had blood platelet injections, diagnoses of plantar fasciitis, tarsal tunnel, idiopathic neurapathy. 8 different recommendations for surgery including nerve release, fascia release, Achilles release. Shock wave recommended. Did...

Hi Jan and All, Re Name change, cut and pasted from email. Our New Name: We’re replacing the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association (PPDA) with the Association for Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms (ATNS). New Term: Symptomatic We’re introducing “Symptomatic” as our brand’s key...

In essence what you're saying, and seeing is that the way you hold the need to find the perfect diagnosis or cure is part of the problem. It is participating in the TMS syndrome on its terms. I think your aim to break this habit is an understanding that, at its core, this habit is simply a "fear...

Wonderful Diana! I'm not surprised since this method works and you didn't give up!!! Two things I notice in your report. Huge breakthrough, and then some return of TMS symptom baseline. Very normal as you know. When we really experience a distinct lack of chronic symptoms, this is huge. It goes...

Hi All, I wanted to post this with an invitation to send to others who might benefit from a quick introduction to the "TMS" work of this Forum. The guests on the video don't use the phrase TMS, but they're talking about the same thing with different names. We're trying to get the word out. Good...

Diana, It is well known that a characteristic of the TMS-prone personality is its tendency to please others. Or to put it bluntly:" we give up ourselves to stay in loving relationship to our parents." All children do this as part of personality formation. Then we lose ourselves in...

You're welcome Rinkey. Question regarding your experience, if you're willing to share. Do you think the thesis that return of symptoms or new symptoms is a call to "go deeper" bears with your experience? Is this what the journaling is about? To go deeper? Or is is more of a return to...