Recent content by Zade

Andy hello and thanks for your post. I 've been writing a response for the last ten minutes at least, and it just disappeared! Perhaps I'll write again tomorrow.

Thank you Andy, though I have tried with what comes to me for several years now......

Well I guess I need a break from this because I feel very reactive. All I need is that Holmes And Rahe stress scale and add points up to be further worried about a risk of illness. Just one event in my life gets me a third of the way there. I have read ad nauseum about how our thoughts affect...

Well I took a long hike with a friend yesterday with just minor pain and felt fine in the morning but the old pain was back again after sitting at the computer and that was so awfully frustrating ....I feel like I'm in a maze that keeps turning into itself. Today's post talked about stress and...

Thank you Andy. what is SEP?

I know it just is not easy , but be kind to yourself ( sounds like you're kind of beating yourself up) and patient ( ha look whose talking!). Sarno really helped me several years ago and now I find myself not just getting better by reading the book either and so somehow we both have to drop the...

Thank you Andy. I guess why I'm frustrated is because I feel at this point in time that my back is so sensitive that just about anything will set it off, the nerves are so sensitized. I can directly feel a thought in my back. My physical therapist, the only one anywhere near, just moved, and...

In reading about TMS there are several explanations for symptoms...repressed emotions, anger and frustration from childhood and the present day stressors that trigger the pain. It seems to me that the last several episodes have had to do with current problems causing anxiety, the timing almost...

Yes yes don't we all just not want to be in pain! It is so unceasingly relentless. So I wish you the very best and hope your journey succeeds and isn't too long and has sliver linings!

Well day 8 suggests you write about your first week on the program....one thing I am very grateful for is the wealth of information on the TMS site. I really improved the first couple of days and thought I'd just keep on getting better, but I'm afraid that I'm in pain most of the time. But it's...