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    TMS pain on good news?

    Uh, yeah! My pain increases with a mix of anticipation and expectation. Anticipation is an excitable state which illicits the same nervous system...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM in forum: Support Subforum
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    Day 1 Im starting over with this - 30 day plan - Hip pain

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    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 1

    @ZGG712 Welcome! You have been through a lot, but you have some wonderful insights. I must say, that at first glance, all that has happened to...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    My Latest TMS Episode

    The first time I did the SEP I felt the same way. My anxiety and nervous system were so stuck in overdrive it took me awhile to recognize that it...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Acid Reflux and physical damage (Day 5)

    @lizardann I too have had LPR which isn't that disimilar to GERD. Another of my TMS symptoms has been tooth pain. As discussing tooth pain and...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    Next steps: literally

    @Diana-M I read (and listen) to fantasy books too. The books I loved the most in the last few years were by Lois Pryce:...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    Next steps: literally

    "by telling my goals ahead of time" I don't think it's telling the goals ahead of time, I think it's the desperation to succeed and succeed now -...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    Myofascial Pain or TMS?

    I also don’t tell people they “have” TMS because someone else telling me never helped me. It took myself understanding and knowing, making the...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM in forum: Support Subforum
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    Next steps: literally

    You know, you don’t owe a single soul any explanation to what is “wrong” with you it isn’t anyone else's business. Dr. Hanscom suggests we don’t...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    a new resource and an interview with Forest!

    I really like her style. She doesn't beat around the bush. I haven't watched her channel for awhile because she wasn't focusing on it very much...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    Ideas for visualization

    Hey @feduccini I was using insight timer last night and found tons of guided visualizations after stumbling across one called visualizing a...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM in forum: Support Subforum
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    question about facing fears

    Hello @okaoka How have you been doing? Did you finish the SEP? It will help answer this question for you. You mention before that you have OCD....
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    Myofascial Pain or TMS?

    “But the pain wasn’t so bad, then my dog of 12 years passed away in march and I’m not sure if that sent me off the edge but since then, I have...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM in forum: Support Subforum
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    At the end of my rope with sciatica / piriformis syndrome

    One component to your story could simply be nervous system disregulation, When you had your cold, did you fear not getting well ( or getting...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    Pavlov's Time Table. 3 strikes and your done

    Ah, totally get you @Baseball65 that’s pretty much the entire premise I’ve been running on. The EMDR therapist noted this starts (of course) way...
    Post by: Cactusflower, Apr 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM in forum: General Discussion Subforum