Recent content by birdsetfree

Hi Nancy :) I am sorry to hear about all of your distress and suffering over such a long time. The previous replies you have received on this thread are amazing. Here's mine. I relate to it on some levels as I had tms pain for over 20 years. I have recently had another short bout of it...

The brain remembers the pain and uses this pathway over and over until you interrupt it consciously. This is where the practice is and it is a new skill to learn that will give you back control of your body. In your case there has been many years of this conditioning but don't worry it can...

Here are a few questions to ponder on that may shed some light. Are there any residual behaviours/attitudes from you that still focus on/acknowledge any physically based ideas around your symptoms? Have you looked at/changed areas in your life that are dysfunctional or emotionally disturbing...

I'm so sorry for your loss dear Plum. I hope you find comfort from our little community whom have appreciated you for many years.

This trigger is subconscious so you may have a negative feeling about vacuuming or the pressure around it that your subconscious is interpreting as danger because our brains cannot differentiate between emotional and physical danger. Therefore your subconscious brain is triggering the pain...

Lots of us in the early stages of recovery got increased back pain when vacuuming lol!!! It’s all the same thing, your brain triggering a well known pain pathway to distract you from some subconscious perceived danger. Perhaps you could take the pressure off somehow with routine tasks by...

Did you do anything that might have pulled something? This can be very painful. Either way keep calm. If you do and it keeps getting worse over the next week or so then you can go along to your general practitioner. If it is tms and you stay calm along with acknowledging any emotional work...

I agree with miffybunny, most people need regular support for a while or at least until the new pathways of tms type thinking regarding symptoms are firing. This can be achieved in various ways; psychotherapy (gold standard but $$$,) tms coach (usually not a psychologist, cheaper but passionate...

I'm so sad to hear this news. Walt was such a caring presence on this community. We will never forget his help and wisdom.

The covid long haul syndrome captures peoples attention easily because it's a pandemic, scary and unknown. This is the purpose of the mind body syndrome and hence the effective severity of the symptoms and the corresponding distraction from 'more dangerous' repressed emotions.

Your conscious brain (thinking brain as opposed to automated brain) is where you can turn to to pull you out of these psychological symptom imperatives. Remember it will not be easy so you have to be more determined than the fear, anxiety, depression etc. Your thinking brain can set up healthy...

You are definitely on to something, very insightful! It reminds me of an audio counselling from Alan Gordon's original pain programme of a young father of three, Brandon, and how he was pressuring himself like a drill sergeant would, relentlessly and without patience, understanding or...

This is just a remembered pain pathway as you have correctly suspected. Your brain has employed it once again to distract from more 'dangerous' emotions probably being generated by your anxiety. The fact that you were pain-free for a couple of months after reading the success stories is great...

Your emotional wellbeing is your responsibility and so setting boundaries to protect it is healthy and appropriate. I had to do this as part of my recovery too and it worked really well! It was hard to do at first, and the responses were dramatic but overtime it was the best thing I could have...

I had health anxiety for two years. It ruled my life and hijacked my brain and I thought I was going to lose my mind and my life. It ended when I decided to let go of my control over my life. I decided to be prepared to die if that's what it took to live life normally again. To live life to...