Recent content by Shanshu Vampyr

Thank you. I didn’t mean to hijack this thread from OP at all. I just mean, to OP: I don’t think anyone has this pandemic all figured out. I think all of us are making it up as we go along, and just trying to take it one moment at a time. it WILL get better. Some day.

Thanks so much for that.

I am in the same boat. Frontline worker here in NYC, seat of the worst COVID-19 the world has seen, at one time. I've lost friends and colleagues to the virus. I am just trying to hold on. It's not much but it is what it is. I feel like all I do is scrounge around online for PPE.

Hi everyone! You’re very welcome Kira and I extend to you all confidence that you will recover. Thanks for having me back all!

Hi Kira, Wow! It’s been a while since I checked in. My throat symptoms were transient. They went away soon after I posted. Occasionally do do get a psychogenic cough and I had an episode of unexplained laryngitis a few months ago that I ascribe to TMS. But in general, I’ve been recovered for a...

In my experience, identifying with TMS as a condition is almost as damaging as identifying with "my sciatica" or "my herniated discs." There is an issue of English semantics here as well. I prefer to operationally define TMS as a construct that acts as a beacon or a proximity alert system of...

I literally read this after a worry-filled night of insomnia, so this comes at a timely time. Do I do physical therapy for a potential shoulder injury from aggressive lifting, or do I chalk it up to TMS given that that's my diagnosis even though it seems to fly in the face of all that is...

Oh, the ironies of life! I don't exactly know where this fits in everything, so I decided to stick it in this thread. Not really a question and not really a success story, just an observation I suppose. Was just finding myself very amused about the turns my life has taken. At one point in my...

It's good to be back!

I try to look at each day with a genuine spirit of newness and hope. True "beginner's mind", in meditation parlance. I'm not always successful, but I do try. Sometimes the hardest part of TMS recovery is knowing when to try (to bring to the surface emotions you've buried? to process these...

It takes time and patience. I remember always getting caught up in the "calendar phenomenon" which always added an extra layer of frantic panic to my recovery. It's hard to change overnight.

Hi Elina! Definitely. I would say the key issues were learning how to take a reflective stance on myself and understand on a gut, visceral level how much my personality embodies the classic personality of a TMSer--that is, primarily stoicism, extreme goodism and people-pleasing, extreme...

Hi everyone! I just wanted to pop back in and re-introduce myself. I have been out of commission for a good while busy getting my life sorted and moving forward, but I have always kept this community close to my heart. I know some of you from way back a few years ago and I hope everyone is...

Hi Eric, First of all, welcome. I hope you'll find that the TMS/PPD Peer Network becomes your community as well as an online forum. It has for me. It's tough dealing with parents as a TMSer...and you have "TMSer" stamped all over your post. My little bit of medical and therapeutic background...