Recent content by JEgol71

I'm not a therapist, but I've been able to help some people head in the right direction. Feel free to email me at JEgol71 at gmail dot com.

I'm the writer of the above. Thanks for your input, both critical and otherwise. This was originally an email to Howard that he responded positively to after I was explaining my own journey, which I never bothered to edit. It would help if that were a disclaimer, because it was a completely...

Hey Marion! My name's Jared, and I went to Chapman with Kent and spoke to him on the phone about my TMS story a few years back. We haven't been in touch since, but I'd love to be a part of the project still, having articulated and refined (read: matured) many of the concepts I'd excerpted to...

Donavan- I apologize for not responding sooner. I know this is a little late in reply, but I wanted to know how you're doing NOW. The reason for this is that TMS can be peripatetic and fleeting everywhere except one's existence at-large. The tools on this site are the equipage for the journey...

If you can take the time to notice the obsession independent of the twitching, then you can count that as a symptom shift.

Thank you so much for the awesome replies. Never did I think I'd find a place for these quotes in my day-to-day living!

I went a week of difficulty swallowing food, GERD-sensations and esophageal spasms. Very nearly scheduled an endoscopy at 29 years old. My father died of esophageal cancer at 60. I told myself I'm too young, this is TMS, you're far healthier than your father was, and tried to focus on...

Greetings- TMS, as Larry David remarked in ALL THE RAGE, was the closest I've had to a religious experience. It's been a simply-rehearsed concept, yet a rigorously complex succession of trials and reprieves through emotional space time that has had me sprinting up hills moments after limping to...

Lily Rose: You're right. Ignoring most signals, even attacks from the outside world, probably is not only harmful, but impossible. I couldn't ignore the pain, but associated it. With what? With all that I thought I had ignored, must ignore, don't know how to not ignore. As the years tack on...

My pleasure, Lily Rose. These concepts are all interchangeable when viewed from a high-enough elevation. I found that my pain became chronic -- injuries sticking to flypaper -- when my sense of coherence was inwardly rended at 22, yet I was soldiering ahead with a vim that explicitly defied...

"I may be a quote machine, but I wish I was a sex machine." -- S.R. Ozanich

From Edward Shorter (From Paralysis to Fatigue) to Antonovsky, I am starting to believe, as has been implied before, that the best engineers of a compelling psychosomatic corpus (pun intended) are the medical sociologists, who can string together the incidences of mind-body into relatively...