Recent content by Oxalys

This has helped me realise that I have experienced a few extinction bursts and each time they have been powerful enough to raise fear in me and that had I been able to resist them, maybe I'd have got through them rather than have a relapse. Knowing this gives me so much renewed enthusiasm...

Thank you Plum, that's helpful insight. I have just been listening to a podcast with Nicole Sachs too where she talks about thinking how you'd react to things if you were a young child, in order to see areas in which you might have built up tension where you might on the surface feel in control...

Hi yes I have read all of Sarno's books and a few others too. I guess I just struggle to find anything that is significant enough that it might be causing my pains.

Does anyone know a website that provides a framework for examining your life in terms of mind body concepts? I'm getting some benefits from journaling but I'm struggling with knowing what to focus on. Some guidance on how to look at things would be useful.

I've taken more than a week to complete this, taking my time over the Christmas break and not setting myself deadlines for once! I feel completely different than I did back a month ago, and like a whole new person compared to this time last year. I still get physical symptoms but they don't...

I've just given a copy of the book to my friend who is training to be a GP. She was fascinated by it and said that it isn't really a subject they cover. My cousin, on the otherhand, is training to become a psychologist and has covered mind-body conditions in her first year. It seems so very...

That's absolutely true - the authority of a doctor definitely makes even obviously ridiculous advice linger in your mind. Unfortunately it never seems to work the other way - when I've been given very good advice, like the doctor who spent a good hour with me trying to explain how physical...

Maybe you feel more tense because you're thinking about your relationship with your mother? Can I ask, do you compare the relationship you have with your mother with that you have with your daughter? I only ask because since becoming a mother myself, I've found myself feeling really frustrated...

I found it really hard today to bring myself to make my list of fears. Actually writing them down, once I started, wasn't too bad, but the thought of doing it and of really acknowledging them, seemed horrible! I have a feeling I am going to need to make myself step out of a protective comfort...

Ugh I feel for you - some doctors have a really poor bedside manner, and don't seem at all aware that mentioning dreaded terms like arthritis can really play negatively in your thoughts. You'd think they'd be a little more careful!

As per day 4, I am sharing the most disheartening thing a doctor has said to me. The NHS is wonderful and I am forever grateful for it, but for long-term undiagnosed conditions it has its drawbacks. Following months of seeing a different doctor at every appointment, and spending 8 of the 10...