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hello all! Saw this on the BBC today: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-44910438 ('How I meditated away chronic pelvic pain') Prostatitis: 'How I meditated away chronic pelvic pain' Last December, I had my first pain-free days in 18 months. Soon they became the norm. Admittedly, there is...

I'm currently watching it now on the link shared by the kickstarter campaign. Looks great! Great job with the thankyou book Forest - your continued passion and work on the TMS forum is an inspiration. I'm still teaching in Thailand - RSI free for nearly 6 years now. It's great to see to...

Nice article in the guardian about stress-related physical symptoms...long piece written by a neurologist for their book (seems quite Dr Sachs-esque!....) A small part posted below: When we met in the outpatient department one month later, her arm was in a sling and all four fingers were...

great to hear :)

thanks for sharing! I think it's just come past 5 years for me since first hearing about TMS. I do wonder what I'd be doing if I'd never heard about it. Not sure it bears thinking about :)

yes, definitely ditch the stretch methods - I might have even ordered the same book! It made things worse as it got me focusing on structural problems even more so than before.... It sounds like you are already a big leap on the way to recovery. Taking off my hand splints, logging out of...

hiya John, great post. It sounds like you are very similar to me - and in a very similar position to where I was about 5 years ago. Three years of steadily increasing RSI pain - culminating in pain which seemed to be shutting every possible door both career-wise and socially. A litany of GPs...

yes - the pain is a way for your body to distract you from emotions, and so if you start to undermine your body's strategy then it will fight back! The most powerful weapon that our unconscious mind has is our learned response. We very quickly learn from a young age that when something causes...

hiya Conor Thanks for taking the time to post your story. Lots of things that you mention in your post suggest that this could actually be TMS - and the fact that you can self-recognise these things seems very positive. I think that TMS usually starts after a "real" injury - that's what makes...

fantastic news! Looking forward to seeing this when it comes out :)

yes I had severe tinnitus for about 1 1/2 years - like everything else I've had it took its place in the queue. One pain symptom went, another one arrived! It's now completely gone - I only get issues with very loud noise. The problem (like everything else) was that I started to obsess about...

Fantastic news - so good to hear! Thanks for sharing :)

yes, tinnitus can definitely be TMS as well (I used to have this....) Great to hear you are on the road back to enjoying your life again!