Recent content by oetam_dude

The one person that I feel that I need to hide some of my true emotions from is my wife, and it is perverse in a way, since I really do share SO MUCH with her! But some of my emotions/thoughts would REALLY hurt her, and I don't see any benefit for us when I consider telling her. In fact, I...

Hi Jan! What do you mean by this? By the way thank you for that link... I will check it out!

Congrats on getting as far as you have, Kickflip! If you were physically restricted and couldn't play guitar or skateboarding close to every day before and now you can, then I think that is HUGE progress... albeit the process seems slow! I'm on day 10 as well as you. The past two days I've...

You're absolutely right, Diana. If I recognize that stress is related to my symtoms, than emotions MUST be related to my symptoms too... you can't have one without the other! I will continue to dig and try to figure it out. Thank you for helping me with my doubt and setting me on track.

Thank you so much for your response, Cactusflower. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it! I didn't have time to respond previously because I was at work, but reading your message motivated me to get through the day! The first thing that you wrote is that "... but this is one of the most...

I haven't really had success connecting my emotions with my symptoms... On a day like today, when I wake up with my neurological symptoms, I tend to think that maybe I didn't sleep perfectly or adequately. In general, I can 1000% associate my initial "outbreak" of my syndrome two years ago as...

Hi. I've been doing the exercises as indicated, and I have actually enjoyed (re) learning this all. At times I feel very motivated and secure in my TMS diagnosis, but my symptoms vary so much day to day that on a day like today I have the old thoughts that never go away coming back: maybe it's...

I'm laughing at this but at the same time thinking that I regularly spend my bathroom times reading (depressing/negative) news articles on Reddit! Which has the opposite effect of meditation. I'm actually going to make it my goal to implement toilet meditation! I just did my first eight...

Absolutely! I did get tired of the "work" previously (I was so tired in general; it was my major symptom), but now I have more energy and am back bc I realize that there is work to be done! I'm writing down the "3 things"... great tip! Thank you so much for your reply!

Hi Jan! Diana was right: you're REALLY good at "laying things out"! I really appreciate your thoughtful response. I never thought about the methods of the knowledge cure / reducing stress vs "doing the hard work", which is the psychological digging. This perspective is useful for me; I...

Another major doubt that I have is that in the various PPD things I have seen or read, there seems to be disagreement over whether the main causes are deep psychological/emotional issues (eg. feeling insecure due to something in childhood, or RAGE) or just simple "stress".

Hi again. I'm "redoing" this Day One post over one year later. I've lost track of time, but shortly after discovering this website (and at the same time reading other books, doing an audio program, and other things), I got "tired" of doing all the "work" that is therapy and I stopped. As I...