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    The Last Symptom - How to Get Past It

    You know I stopped thinking of it as pain, and have since just thought of it as TMS...that's the closest thing to a name I want to give it because beyond that, I'm giving it too much thought. The only thing that has ever worked to really reduce symptoms for me is acknowledgement followed by a...
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    The Last Symptom - How to Get Past It

    Your theory is spot on! Back in May I began running for the first time in a very long time. There was some residual physical discomfort, but the fear was astronomical. But as the months went by, the fear grew less and less as excitement grew about my progress in both speed and duration. So...
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    The Last Symptom - How to Get Past It

    Alyssa, check out this response from Christie Uipi: http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/the-challenges-of-conditioned-responses.17350/#post-92421 (Christie U. - The Challenges of Conditioned Responses) Christie recovered from her own bout of in her legs and hands. She works at the Pain...
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    The Last Symptom - How to Get Past It

    So I can honestly say I have not overcome the fear. Not authentically overcome it, and the evidence of that is in my recurrence of pain. But my pain is far less in intensity and duration, so I'm obviously becoming less and less fearful. I have zero doubt it's TMS, because the evidence is just...
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    Ha!!!
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    The Last Symptom - How to Get Past It

    Hi Alyssa, You know, the one thing I've come to realize about conditioned responses is that there is no "silver bullet" as Steve Ozanich likes to call it. I'm still dealing with some conditioned responses, but I will say that the intensity of those responses are far less than they were just...
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    HA...I can’t say for sure, but Dr. Sarno was pretty confident that residual pain from relatively low impact activities was simply a conditioned response. It would be a great experiment (probably not logically possible for many reasons) to do your gardening every day for a month straight. I’m...
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    In one of Dr. Sarno's interviews (can be found on YouTube) the woman interviewing him asked him if the sore back she had the day after she worked in her garden was TMS, and he said yes it was. Just thought I'd share this anecdote as it seemed relevant to the discussion.
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