Recent content by Ferndale37

Hi Branson. I realkythink I can make great progress with Paul David's new book. The only thing I'm struggling with is that all the success story's that he uses, are from people who haven't had anxiety from childhood like me. I really think if I could find something in his books, blog or app...

Hi Jane, I'm doing pretty well. Decided to just go with the TMS diagnosis and managed to speak to a Tms friendly podiatrist which really helped. She said similar things that are mentioned in this thread re severity of pain not correlating with how advanced the arthritis is. I relaxed and have...

Thanks Alan, I dont think I explained my point right. I completely believe that the way to deal with anxiety is to sit with it and accept it as part of me. If I accept the anxiety, then it wouldn't need to serve as a distraction, and wouldn't need to persist, but even if it did, I would have...

Any ideas how you can attend to and sit with anxiety if you're worried about the effect it has on your heart rate and blood pressure. Iv had some success with sitting with anxiety, but at times when it seems constant, the fear of it doing my body damage maintains it. If I could treat it as a...

I agree completely with Daniels answer and have personally habituated to tinnitus when I lost fear of the symptom. I rarely hear it now. The best website that helped me do this was http://tinnitus.org (Tinnitus.org | homepage) Amazing resource.

http://tinnitus.org (Tinnitus.org | homepage) Check this website out if you have tinnitus. I forked out loads on hypnosis, but finally healed by learning about the true mechanism of tinnitus, reading success stories and losing my fear of the noise. This was long before hearing about Tms, but...

I still hear the tinnitus in quiet places, But it is much less and doesn't cause me any problem or distress. It ramps up when I'm stressed but even this now doesn't bother me now the fear of the tinnitus has gone. The website link I attached in my previous post explains in much more detail, but...

Here's a screen shot of some info, if you want the link to page, let me know and I'll post later.

Hi Sarah, I too had to take a leap of faith with hallux limitus. I have it in both big toes, and a huge bone spur on my right. The condition was confirmed by x ray and I was wearing orthotics for a few years. I saw a tms doc who couldn't believe I'd been prescribed orthotics for this, I did some...

My understanding is that it's a natural response to danger that has been with us since primitive times, but can be triggered when it shouldn't in highly sensitive people or by things that shouldn't really bother us but that we wrongly learnt to respond to with anxiety (probably as children). It...

Thanks for taking the time to reply Plum I know it probably sounds like I'm stuck in a loop and being too rigid. Why it feels quite important for me to work out, is not so much having to know exactly what happened and when, but more so I can trust that the 2 main sources I'm using to overcome...

Iv read a few posts on here and I know it's a bit of a chicken and egg thing, and maybe I'm over thinking this, but I feel I need to get it straight in my own mind. I wondered if people thought this could be a possibility in my case. I believe anxiety is a learned behaviour (as per Claire...

That's a fascinating video Eric, thanks so much for sharing . How would you go about reframing your response to anxiety when you know you're being anxious for no reason, or a daft reason. Just say thanks to the anxiety for warning me that something deeper is happening within me that I'm not...

Iv made some remarkable progress since discovering Dr Sarno’s work and also the work of Dr Claire Weekes. Iv always feared my anxiety since I was younger, worried it was hurting me, causing me to have high blood pressure, and would ultimately make me very ill. After reading Dr Sarno’s work...