Recent content by Jamo

Hi, I saw your post and although it is an old one I wanted to reply. I'm not sure I can give you much advice but wanted to let you know you are not alone. I also have intermittent problems with throat tightness and struggling to speak. For me it started about two years ago during a very...

Thank you Tulloch for your comments and advice. I have managed to find a good page about Claire Weeks on the TMS website: http://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/Overcome_Anxiety_with_Dr._Claire_Weekes (Overcome Anxiety with Dr. Claire Weekes) I've only started to read it but I like it so far. It is...

Fern, That sounds a fascinating book. All I have been doing really is just writing down the stuff that is in my head but it is always really just a rant about how awful things are (or at least how awful I perceive things to be when in that frame of mind). I have just bought the Kindle...

Plum, Thank you so much for the reply. And the wise words. It never occurred to me not to keep journaling about the symptoms but now that you say it it makes so much sense. I do have a tendency to frighten myself but I try really hard not to do it anymore. This morning when I started to...

I have been keeping diaries intermittantly since I was about 18 and up until last year if I was feeling particularly low I would get them out and have a read as it would make me feel better reading about all this misery and thinking at least I wasn't going through those times again. Pretty much...

It is comforting to know that there are other people out there going through the same thing which is one of the great things about this forum. I'm glad you pushed through your anxiety and enjoyed the rest of your hike. I started to panic yesterday during exertion and immediately started...

Hi, I have always been the sort of person to keep a lid on my emotions and keep a very cool, calm outward appearance but on occasion when the anger that I have shoved deep down inside me wants to come out I have started trying to let it out. So if no one is in the house I might shout and...

Hi Verity, It is so coincidental that you posted this today as I had been thinking earlier of posting a similar thing myself (which I will still do as it is slightly different). I too have panic attacks from getting breathless but I think a lot of it for me is the fear of being unable to...

Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. I think you were unlucky with your therapist. I was referred by my GP for counselling here in Stafford (UK) for swallowing problems (psychological as test showed nothing wrong) where I developed a phobia of choking which would make my throat tighter...

I really understand where you are coming from. I can't exercise (or maybe that should be 'I choose not to exercise') because when I get out of breath in the slightest I have a panic attack. It all started a few years back when I was under a huge amount of stress and I got out of breath helping...

I used to feel like that too when I first started deep breathing but I promise you that if you persevere the feeling goes away. I found I had to start with perhaps a minute and slowly build up so a year later I can do 20 minutes. I too found it unnatural but that was because I used to breathe...

Thank you Tom for the list of UK practitioners. I hadn't noticed the link on the TMS Wiki home page before.

Hi Walt, I really appreciate the reply and the link, thank you. I get the impression that here in the UK TMS isn't widely known and although we have a fantastic health service who will look after you they are still under pressure from budgets and time and so tablets and medicines are the...