Recent content by Bitzalel Brown

Yes this post really hits a home run in showing the difficulty while struggling with TMS

Camm You have come a long way in your TMS journey and like many of us in this forum becoming the family preacher is part of the healing process. The other common frustrating issue that most TMS 's suffer from is lingering or some percentage of residual pain that our subconscious has us still...

Lolittaa, wow you are an inspiration ,what a story. Well lets start at the begining. It usually starts when we are little, we quickly are trained to ignore our emotions and turn to our futile cognitive side in an atempt to assuage our uncomfortable feelings. We are taught early on to supress our...

Learningmore , Great choice of name, we all have so much more to learn and you are already teaching US with your excellent question ! Our super intelligent brain will do what ever it takes for us to be convinced that our pain is real and it can't be psychosomatic. It will create pain that make...

Friday, keep at it. TMS is like a dance partner who keeps changing up her moves, go where she goes. If journaling is not working practice mindfulness and feel SAFE with your symptoms. The better we get at feeling ,the better we will feel. We have to unlink our symptoms from the fear and...

Hedger that is amazing. Keep it up and the addiction will dissapear. Addictions like coffee are another trick in TMS's distraction arnsenal. Overeating is another big one. That is a smart tactic to do TMS work while cutting out an addiction. Thank you for sharing

MBO It may be hard for some of us to remember the scorn we had the first time we heard of Dr. Sarno's ideas. I remember it clearly, being a medic and growing up indoctrinated with the mainstream medical paradigm, I believed that pain and all illnesses can be explained by very "real" causes. I...

Great read ! thank you for posting. Thank you again Dr. Sarno may your soul be blessed for your unwavering desire to serve humanity with humbleness and dedication.

Ann thank you so much for sharing. Number four is a killer for me. I imagine for many of the coachers in the crowd, this one is especially tough if you are looked up to by many.

Ann , what a great insight ,setting a boundary really gives us the ability to love unconditionally. We have eight grown children and that transition to parenting young adults is the ultimate proving grounds for unconditional love. Thank you

Buf, I am on the page with you, this one is a tough one. I also got past ,what I would call "pain" symptoms. But then my tricky brain started with tremors, blurry vision, any form of distraction that is hard for us to be covinced that there isnt something "really" wrong with us. The root of this...

Yes, it is really hard when it"s a symptom that doesn"t come and go. It seems so "real" because it doesnt go away. I have someone with ringing in his ears for over five years but due to his persistance and changing up different tactics he made a chink in the TMS armor and it lessened for a...

I can really identify with your feelings of fear of having something "real". As Alan Gordon points out in his pain recovery program http://go.tmswiki.org/newprogram (Pain Recovery Program) fear is at the root of our TMS symptoms. The mix of sibling relationships, belief in "real" medical...

For now just list your general emotional issues. When you start journaling you will meet many more. Don't feel pressured, that part of the TMS cause. Go easy on yourself and just be open to what even comes up in your journaling. I have had many people who could find no more that one or two...

Ashley, You can't give up. You Have hit the wall and it seems impenetrable . many people here have experienced this. But please keep at what ever works for you.