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For the past month I've been working on my attitude and it has been by far the biggest breakthrough for me personally. And I don't mean just my attitude towards my symptoms, but changing my overall attitude towards life from pessimism to optimism. I had lived with an incredibly pessimistic...

12 symptoms and 8 months in—changes have come in three categories for me: changes in personality traits, thoughts, and life circumstances. Changing personality traits Personality traits have changed due to learning things on this forum and reading TMS material. When I first came here I had...

They all say: “getting on with your life” is one of the best ways to heal from TMS. This is really hard for those of us who really got hit hard with a lot of symptoms. One of the most troubling is not being able to walk unassisted. And,not having full access to your hands. I have both of these...

Somewhere in a post in the past few days I read that a well known member recommending against reading Healing Back Pain as well as Mind over Back Pain, both by John Sarno. I read that this website is only in honour of John Sarno, and not necessarily a full blown enthusiastic support of all of...

I honestly didn’t expect things to progress this quickly! I haven’t even finished the book yet! Anyway, so I decided today that I was going to get up, stop ‘resting’ (see: avoiding everything, my fear, any symptoms, pain) and just got on with my day. I’m packing the house up as we’re moving at...

So you completely (or mostly) believe that your symptoms are due to TMS or mind/body syndrome, and you're doing the work of looking at your emotions, maybe journaling, maybe meditation, some somatic tracking thrown in, but it just doesn’t seem to be enough. You’re not getting any results…no...

I recently did an interview and was asked about what I saw as a common mistake that those who have TMS, have been trying to heal and yet have not found symptom relief are making. The answer was easy. Program hopping… where an individual dabbles in this modality and that one, reading a bit here...

Since I've started the structured education program, my symptoms have grown more varied and harder to pin down. It seems like my body cycles through fatigue, gastrointestinal trouble, ear pain, mouth sores, hay fever, and several different areas of musculoskeletal pain and tension (feet, legs...

I first complained about LPR, that started with intense stomach pain then everything went away. Later another stomach pain and went to the ER CT scans everything stool test came back fine, then it went away, but started having LPR and when LPR went away I started having the symptoms that where...

Was listening to a podcast called Mind and Fitness by a TMS friendly host and he had a great guest on who talked a lot about doubt. In fact, his theory is that doubt is probably the biggest obstacle in TMS recovery. Not doubt in that it exists or not... but his patients doubt that their exact...