Recent content by BruceMC

Oh yes, it can be TMS to be sure. Correlates with PTSD too.

I've heard that taking Vit D, magnesium and zinc are also good, along with, as you suggest, losing plenty of weight. Always hard on your system if you walk around lugging an extra 40 lds around your gut. Try it with a weight belt and you'll notice the difference right away. Can't be doing you...

If someone is always sitting on a mass of repressed anger, it only stands to reason that it would raise the BP consistently, especially if they didn't release it someway. What causes HBP typically if there isn't a blockage? Anger and fear, like before an operation or an execution. The behavior...

I'd like to know too! I'm sure Forest would know.

I like my old doctor's advice on how to treat teeth: drill them, fill them or yank them. Modern cosmetic dentistry introduces foreign elements and rare metals into your mouth that can cause autoimmune reactions that in turn can produce chronic pain. See if my old Dr Buckley was right (as he was...

I know Gabor Maté cites it extensively in his new book The Myth of Normal (2025). Seems Maté uses it to back up his own insights about the central role of trauma in the etiology of chronic conditions and diseases.

Please Join BruceMC as your host on the PPD/TMS Peer Network’s weekly free Peer Support Drop-in (text) chat room session this Saturday December 6th 2025 at 3 pm EST (New York) time. Bruce is a rock climber, technical writer and former English instructor. His own TMS journey began just after the...

Quite perceptive, Diana-M. It's almost like TMS exists in a syntactic or symbolic space like something out of a repressed Freudian dream.

No, Bealillie, when I offered to moderate a chat today I received word back NO. However, I didn't offer my services until yesterday Friday and the protocol is to announce on Wednesday. Perhaps next week? Think there hasn't been a chat now for a couple of weeks.

Great news, Forest! Is this software going to reside on a new more powerful DNS (Domain Name Server)? That would be very nice indeed!

Very odd, I've had sciatic pain on and off (with intermissions) since the early 2010s and before. Only now it seems to be disappearing when I hike and exercise. I just don't seem to notice it as intensely anymore and my muscular coordination is much much better and more flexible. I guess you...

Yes, before infantry do into combat, they often get up and urinate over and over again. Obviously connected with the mammalian fight, flight, freeze response. Therefore, very much connected with TMS.

This explains a lot about what I've been experiencing when I try to log onto the TMS Forum during the last couple of days. I keep getting the following prompt: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 34 bytes) in...

I do notice a connection between muscle tightness associated with TMS and tightness in the lungs associated with asthma. For example, if my legs and back are tight in the am and I inhale an asthma breathalyzer for tightness in the lungs, both the tension in my back and the tightness in my lungs...