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This was going to be a post in a thread but i didn’t think it would be helpful to derail with what is probably going to be seen as just negativity. I just feel like every time I visit this site, I see the same members, clearly still in the thick of things, giving advice to others as if they...

No worries! Felt like I had to pass it on given the title of the thread haha

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Great post, but on a similar note @Skylark7 - it might be worth giving this a read: https://anxietynomore.co.uk/anxiety-feeling-hyperaware-of-oneself/ It’s so easy to tie yourself into knots with the nature of our overthinking minds and the barrage of (often contradictory) advice surrounding...

It’s the root of all this. The inner stress/tension you’re generating from striving for a perfect pain-free state is keeping the pain cycle alive. You have to change your perspective to heal. Imperfection is FINE. It’s HEALTHY. Stop fighting with yourself and accept reality as imperfect by nature.

It is your constant and never-ending strive to overcome your symptoms that keeps your nervous system in a state of high alert, perpetuating the mindbody cycle you’re currently in. Any attempt to figure out or get rid of the symptoms keeps you firmly in this cycle and adds more stress to an...

Also, most importantly, please don’t obsessively look for techniques/tools/programs to get rid of the symptoms or try to follow exactly what someone else did to get better. I spent years doing that. Truly believe that your only issue is a mind and body in a temporary state of high alert and...

This is a must read for literally everyone on this site. imo, if your approach to TMS/Anxiety is any more complex than “my nervous system is in a state of high alert”, that is only ever going to lead to more obsession, more confusion and prolonged symptoms. There really isn’t enough emphasis on...

Don’t post here a lot but I stumbled across this exert from Alan Watts and had a bit of a lightbulb moment: As someone who’s been struggling with the concept of “not fighting” my anxiety/TMS for a long while now, something about the way he phrased things here really hit home for me. A major...

So glad to hear your making progress. I’m also at the stage where I feel I know exactly what to do (or stop doing to be more exact…) but keep falling back into the cycle of obsessing/overthinking etc. And then even obsessing about not obsessing When you’ve been running around in your head trying...

Seen all these posts at my lowest haha, but thanks for posting as they may help others on their road to recovery! I’m almost certain that being comfortable with being uncomfortable is the way out of this (as I’m sure you are by the sounds of it) but it’s much easier said than done. We’ll both...