Recent content by Lauren.R89

jokes on them bc CBD makes me feel MORE DEPERSONALIZED. lol. Thanks for catching that.

Hi! I don't really experience depersonalization anymore. It comes up time to time when I'm feeling sleepy or as a side effect of some medicine. But it's not scary and don't struggle with it. What helped me a lot is that my therapist at the time told me to track where I feel depersonalization...

I had made great progress in 2019, not pain free but more pain free periods of time and probably would have considered myself “recovered” from acute TMS. And then in Nov of 2019 an old pain came back and it has just been kicking my butt for a year now. I used to have pains move about - now it’s...

Thanks. These are all good insights. I think sometimes I am actually in pain when I become afraid. Ive been working with a TMS therapist and gone through the pain recovery program. I have some other mental health things going on that have made pain linger a bit. But ya, I do a lot of predicting...

Question that I'm really struggling with. And this is probably a little negative.... I just need some help How do I feel safe in the body that is causing me pain? It feels like, at any moment, it could create a symptom. With other fears I feel like people can escape at least for a while then...

This is so helpful. Thank you! I knew some of this but I can't tell you how helpful it is to have someone say it to you when your mind is in that anxious spiral. I truly appreciate it.

Reading your response now but thanks for responding to so much of my anxious posting this week!:) Lol

I FIGURED THIS ONE OUT, everyone. Turns out I was in an obsessive, anxious spiral. As I'm sure it is difficult to tell from the everything about this post.

I've seen a lot of people be scared of pain because of fear that it's causing some sort of structural issue or worsening a condition. Has anyone dealt with fear of the pain just because it feels bad and throws you into a mental spiral? That's the space I'm in. I know it's TMS. I understand that...

Thank you for these reminders. Outcome Independence is still a really tough one for me - as I've heard it is for a lot of people. The sensations ability to feel dangerous - just because of their threat to like "ruin my day, week, etc" is enough to keep me in that anxiety loop. ANYWAY, there I go...

TMS'ing about TMS is very funny! I hadn't even thought about that. I think I'm having this really annoying intersection of pain sensations, anxiety/depression and its making this murky mental soup of sorts. Working on the fear. It's VERY high at the moment as I'm sure you can tell.

At the beginning of this journey I had a big decrease in pain because I understood that two things were at play : either I have something structural and it will heal or I have neural pathway pain and i can influence it calming down. now, two years into my journey with psychogenic pain, I feel...