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...
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...
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...
It really is awful how we talk to ourselves. Truly, everyone does this, but TMSers are particularly bad. Be careful of this inner voice,...
Ha ha ha, it is!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Symptom Imperative is part of the bedrock foundation of the Sarno principles. I might have mispoke above about Extinction Bursts, which could be...
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...
That's exactly how it often works.
I think you should do some reading on Sarno's Extinction Bursts and Symptom Imperative.
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...
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