Recent content by Penny2007

@zclesa I feel for what you went through. Sounds very rough. I'm glad you are finding your way. Many thanks for the book and other recommendations.

I don't know your whole story but sounds like you suffered at the hands of doctors like I did. I also harbor rage against the doctor that put me through this trauma. Psychiatrists are so cavalier about the drugs they give without any thought to the havoc they can wreck on a person's life and so...

BTW - I think one of the reasons that exposure therapy for my complex PTSD is not helpful is because I have repressed a lot of the emotions around my childhood traumas. I can talk about things that happened very matter of factly without feeling much. I also react inappropriately by laughing when...

@zclesa - I only did 2 sessions of SE so don't know enough to explain it. It focused on how you feel in your body as you speak about past events and then somehow releasing the stuck physical feeling of the trauma. How you do that eluded me and it felt a bit "out there" to me so I didn't connect...

I just continued the therapy I had been doing with a TMS therapist. I think he practiced Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy. Self care was/is just taking care of myself better then I did previously and engaging in things like yoga, exercise and mindfulness meditation. I'm not sure you...

@zclesa - thank you for your kind words. I did a couple of sessions of SE and also read some of the book, Waking The Tiger plus another book by Peter Levine but it really didn't speak to me. Is "The Body Keeps the Score" different? I do yoga twice a week. I like it but can't say it is...

Thank you

The essence of Dr. Sarno's work is getting in touch with your repressed rage. But has anyone here been retraumautized by a trigger event that just blew the top off of their repressed rage? This is what happened to me. Two years ago my mother came to visit. The back pain started before she...

Good advice here but I think you also have to be kind to yourself. Besides your pain you presumably suffer from anxiety since you take an anti-depressant. Anxiety is fear. You wouldn't tell a fearful child to suck it up and not give in to the symptoms. You would comfort and soothe them. This is...

@AC45 did you ever consider HRT (or BHRT)? Did you have TMS before the anxiety hit? If anxiety is a type of TMS and we are meant to repudiate any physical causes then that would include menopause. However, I'm not entirely convinced menopause has nothing to do with it, even though a well known...

I'd like to hear feedback about whether anxiety during menopause is TMS. I've been menopausal for a couple of years and had what used to be called a "nervous breakdown" 18 months ago after my mother came to visit. It started with severe back pain and then spiraled into the most horrible anxiety...

@starseed - thanks for sharing. As you imagine I can relate. Why do we do this to ourselves? What is it about TMS suffers that makes us all the same :(

Thank you so much for this. I think you hit the nail on the head with the "trying to fix it" reference. That is a huge problem for me and one that I always forget is at the root of my TMS. I'm a huge problem solver. I need to fix everything. I feel responsible for everything and it gives me...