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I have had dizziness for many years. It flares up occasionally and i have accepted it due to my anxiety. However, i have a terrible TMJ flare up with tooth and jaw pain at the moment. I have been studyi ng my facial muscles which are extremely tense and all have trigger points. It feels quite...

Thank you Ellen for your success story. There is a lot of valuable information For us who are not there yet.

You are right abou the danger of becoming a Tms junkie. If you "have" to sign in every day it may be not so healthy. When I am doing ok i go to this forum occasionally. If i am in a bad state (like now) I go there all the time hoping for some kind of miracle cure. I know i should do the work and...

All I can say more and more symptoms showed up when I was around sixty. I did not know about TMS then. My theory is that all my issues, pain and life stresses were pushed in front of me for many years without really dealing with them (i still have not come to the bottom of them), when you get...

Thanks ash86 for the tip. I will get the book by Schubinger anyway, sooner or later.

Hi Walt I feel a bit like your brother did. I loved my mother as a mother but did not like her much as a person and she did not seem to like me. My husband says as I get older I ressemble my mother more and more...... He liked her very much but then she was different when she was older. We had a...

Thanks ash86 I have actually been trying to get hold of Dr. Schubingers book for a while but on amazon.uk it is only available in the Kindle version. Maybe I should get me a Kindle. I could probably get it in the USA but it can be challenge to pay with credit cards.

Thank you Andrew for your reply. I think I try to bandage my open wounds at the moment. I imagine these above mentioned episodes, feel the emotions, being powerless (you feel as a child), the fear, the insecurity, the sadness, the humility, the feeling of not being supported and loved. All...

Thank you Anaya for your reply. I keep reminding myself of my mothers upbringing and hard life but I feel very much she was doing things TO ME (maybe without wanting to be cruel). When you struggle all your life (starting when I was a teenager) with anxiety, depression, low self worth etc. it is...

Thank you for your thoughts. Your childhood must have been hard. My parents did not mess up completely. In fact they probably were what you would call "decent people". Life was hard for them. It cannot be used as an excuse for not loving your children though but sometimes people just don't know...

I agree with you. Believing that the pain is 100 per cent structural is very hard. The doubts keep kreeping up all the time.

Thank you Ellen. Your reply was very helpful. I think I will go for "journaling occasionally". As I wrote earlier I have put down on paper some episodes from my childhood which stand strongest in my mind and I don't think I can journal about them more than I have done. The main thing is that I...

I have halvheartedly been trying to commit to TMS for about 2 years without much success. After my symptoms moved around a lot the worst one I have (TMJ) finally seems to stay in my facial muscles. I have none of the other ones at the moment. It has never been worse and I realise that I have to...

I am very touched by your family stories (Birdie, njoy and Blake). Mine was not that dramatic. Only a mother who was overwhelmed with 7 kids and had depression and a lot of anger (about having to cope with all that) which we all suffered under. Everything "had" to be done and there was not much...