Recent content by justmike

I've had seborrhea dermatitis since I was a kid. If you're asking if it's TMS and should be treated as such (as in not treated medically), that's a good question. I've been treating mine with Desonide (mild corticosteroid) lotion since I was in my 30s. I'm 48 now. I've tried not treating it and...

Focusing and becoming obsessed with any kind of physical sensation contributes to TMS. It's your brain's way of giving you something to think about as a distraction from your emotions. Mine started with a car accident after my father died. Then I had knee surgery to distract me from my marital...

I browsed your website and it reminded me of the approach that I took in the past with respect to my pain - trigger point and myofascial release. I spent a lot of time and money looking for someone who could get rid of my pain using those techniques. My chief complaint is pelvic pain, which...

Hi, I've been working with a TMS therapist for about a year now. She has been great. I went to four other therapists before I found her and she's the only one that has managed to help me really feel my emotions. There have been some instances where she has sensed that I'm feeling emotional...

I'm pretty sure I never said the TMS literature said to hold on to anger. I feel like in this thread people are not really reading what I've posted and keep putting words in my mouth. My point is that anger is a valid emotion, just like any other emotion. And it needs to be FELT before it can be...

Hi I was in a high-impact automobile accident in 2002 where I fractured my left ankle and had surgery to repair the fracture (screws). I had no PT for this injury. Then, in 2008 I tore my left ACL while snow skiing. I had ACL reconstruction and did 4 to 6 weeks of PT to rehab my knee. After...

Hi. Genital pain is a common symptom of what is more broadly known as pelvic pain. If you have not already, I suggest you pick up a copy of Headache in the Pelvis. It is a very good reference on pelvic pain and explains how most pelvic pain is the result of tension. I and others have suffered...

Not to belabor this too much more, but I feel like the Buddhist view is that you should train your mind so that you will not get angry - or get angry less often. This is what I took away from The Art of Happiness. The view seems to place the mind in a position of authority over the body, which...

Doctors gave me Cipro for my "prostatitis". This is infuriating to me now on so many levels. Number one: doctors often prescribe antibiotics for "prostatitis" even when there are no signs of infection, because that was the standard of care up until the last 5 to 10 years. Number two: It's come...

Boy, I could give you a laundry list of symptoms, but my chief complaints are pelvic pain, neck pain and back pain. Over the years, my symptoms have morphed, moved and changed. The neck pain can be scary because there's a choking feeling. I know it is all tension. I've had too many normal...

This was helpful. I've never really considered myself a people pleaser, because I knew my real motivation for saying yes, was to avoid feeling guilty for saying no. I hate feeling guilty. I'd add also that some of the compulsion to say yes may also have to do with that fear of abandonment that...

Thank you. I did get out of my apartment yesterday. I drove to the beach. It was 85 degrees here yesterday, so the weather was pleasant. It's so hard to not let the physical pain scare me into my "freeze" mode; to stand up to the pain and say "no, you're not going to ruin another day for me".

Here is something I found: Buddhism teaches us that anger, like all mind states, is created by mind. However, when you are dealing with your own anger, you should be more specific. Anger challenges us to look deeply into ourselves. Most of the time, anger is self-defensive. It arises from...