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    One of my hardest issues

    So much here I can relate, wow I feel for ya. It's like they've always said, "you can pick your friends, you can pick your neighbors, but you...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM in forum: Support Subforum
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    One of my hardest issues

    FWIW - My wife and I have told our 2 children many times that when they move out and seek their lives, we want them to spread their wings and go...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM in forum: Support Subforum
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    One of my hardest issues

    I read every word of this and I feel for you. I hope it helped to write out that catharsis. I can relate but from different perspective as I am...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM in forum: Support Subforum
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    TMS running wild, new job lined up, scared

    It really is awful how we talk to ourselves. Truly, everyone does this, but TMSers are particularly bad. Be careful of this inner voice,...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM in forum: Support Subforum
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    Interesting things I noticed today - all the symptoms but all minor

    Ha ha ha, it is!
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 23, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    Interesting things I noticed today - all the symptoms but all minor

    Well truly what dystonic is writing about above is the Symptom Imperative, I mis-spoke and mis-attributed to Extinction Bursts. But since we're...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 22, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    Help with diagnosis

    I am a runner and have quite the history with hip impingement (i.e. FAI) and had surgery to repair a labral tear in 2018. It was all TMS. Feel...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 22, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    TMS Running Rampant After Wedding

    Vacation is a major trigger for symptoms, and a honeymoon is a vacation on steroids! Makes sense you're flaring up. Remember the basics (recite...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 22, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    Increased Sighing/Deep breaths

    Okay so sighing is a very natural form of stress-release. Your body does this unconsciously. Do you have a dog by chance? Notice when they...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 22, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    Practical question: computer work

    Interesting that you posted this because one of the revelations I've made about myself since discovering TMS is that I carry a lot of tension in...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 22, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    Interesting things I noticed today - all the symptoms but all minor

    Symptom Imperative is part of the bedrock foundation of the Sarno principles. I might have mispoke above about Extinction Bursts, which could be...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 21, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    Practical question: computer work

    Compliments on making this connection, that's very insightful. You might want to doubledown on this and see if you can go further down that...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 21, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    I'm thinking that my achilles pain is TMS.

    That's exactly how it often works.
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 21, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    Interesting things I noticed today - all the symptoms but all minor

    I think you should do some reading on Sarno's Extinction Bursts and Symptom Imperative.
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 21, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum
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    The power of suggestion (Nocebo)

    Sounds familiar and yep, insane. The sad thing is the victims are delighted to do this stuff because they feel like they're taking action. I...
    Post by: Mr Hip Guy, Jul 16, 2025 in forum: Support Subforum