Recent content by Ghislaine

Timbercat - how about also seeking help re planning around your finances/paying bills? I believe you can get extensions on payment dates and a payment plan that reduces what you owe. That could provide some peace of mind as you work on getting better. Be kind to yourself.

Hi Tmbeercat - as Mary80 said, for immediate help, take pain meds, apply a cold pack (15 min on and 15 off for an hour and repeat every few hours) and as you do these things, tell yourself over and over you are OK and have nothing in your life to be frightened about, and then also work on...

While i still have pain in the most disruptive areas (back and coccyx-buttocks), there are times when it is less and very occasionally i have brief periods of no pain. I am working hard, with encouragement from spouse, sister, friends and therapist to be patient. They help remind me my...

Thanks much Ellen - as i mentioned to hecate105, i am better but still a bit timid in some of the ways i move.

Thanks so much. Looks like it resolved though i am still a bit timid in some movements I do.

Feel a bit frustrated as it seems like i have generalized anxiety so that just about everything triggers my TMS symptoms. Trying various things when symptoms occur - identify and feel the feelings, lean into the symptom, be present and experience what my 5 senses sense, soothe the inner...

On Day 8 too. I too struggled as i felt mostly anxiety was driving my symptoms yet what i read is that anger and sadness are mostly behind TMS and that anxiety often is a wrapping for such emotions. The more i drill down on my anxious feelings the more i realize there is sadness, anger, guilt...

Thanks Lynn. Fear level has improved but frustrated i am not all better yet so working on that.

Back/coccyx symptoms may have lessened but new one (dizziness) started several days ago when i make certain movements. Dr. Sarno's book Healing Back Pain says dizziness is among other illnesses like psorias, that he calls TMS Equivalents, meaning he believes the cause is the same. Per my...

Having read Dr. Sarno's Healing Back Pain and done Day 1 of SEP, i feel fear that I won't recover fully and will have to live with pain. How do I overcome this fear?