conditioning

Hi, recently I have lot of mid back pain when working in office chair and pain increases as day goes on especially on a weekday. When it’s holiday I feel like it’s less. I tried changing my office chair also. Anyone have success to overcome condition response like this to reduce pain ?

I have a conditioned response of extreme pain and anxiety when I am around other people. This began in the pandemic. I stopped leaving the house. I stopped attending social events. I got such pain around my extended family and friends that I began to avoid them. But lately, I’ve been trying to...

Hi all, I’ve been doing OK in my TMS journey of late, but today I had something new and it’s scared the heck out of me. I’m feeling sudden sensitivity to the A/C, I feel cold, but no one else feels it. Blood pressure a bit higher but body temp normal according to a nurse. I was sitting outside...

Hi I’ve had daily back pain for over 4 years. Got another MRI planned in January but the scan two years ago was clear, nothing to report. I am journaling and meditating. My back pain is worse in bed and morning. It’s actually worst in my sides just beneath the rib cage, I wake up every day...

I wanted to post an update for anyone who is struggling right now. I had a really rough couple of months starting in January. A history of TMS issues spanning back over the last 10 years or so that came and went. Had my worst episode from Jan-April this year. Terrible groin pain that brought on...

Hello all, I have been working my way through a long TMS journey and am stuck. I have had symptoms in many places but there is only one that still bugs me...knees. They don't appear swollen or red or hot but are clicky/grindy (maybe they always were?). I've also been checked out by a tms doc...

Hi all, I just passed my 8-month mark at my job and for the most part, love it. Is there stress? Of course, that comes with the territory. I typically do well, even though I still have some pain. I’ve also been going deeper into therapy and learning a lot about my childhood and interestingly...

Hi, I was diagnosed with TMS not long ago and the pain has been ongoing for over 2 years. Right lower back and right leg up until the knee. The issue is that the pain manifests in a programmed manner, at midnight or after a few hours of sleep every single night (a tylenol before going to bed...

Hi, Does anyone have any advice for me in regards to a conditioned response and migraines around fluctuating hormones and menstruation? I used to track my periods on a calendar and pay attention to when my hormones would fluctuate. That would trigger migraines for me. I don't do that any more...

Optional Contact Information: mrpearl67@yahoo.com After 6 weeks of driving for Lyft RSI came out of the blue and sidelined me as of today. Any thoughts ? Suggestions ? I stopped driving, went on an anti inflammatory diet, started meditating, noticed when I am stressed, holding tension...

Today I am on Day 6 of the program. I started reading Sarno's book about a week before that. I'm at least intellectually convinced that TMS is real for me. Today after listening to Dr. Shubiner's talk I think I had my first breakthrough in that the pain moved to my other leg (if only for a...

Hi all, Day 19 now and I suppose I can say my pain is not as acute as it was when I started, but I think that might be because I'm not deliberately trying to aggravate it like I was doing at the start. Or maybe it's because I've made real progress in the SEP. Or both. The thing that's bugging...

Hi everybody, I am new here. Quick intro - I'm 29, have had some back and neck pain since mid teens and lots of other things that I now believe are TMS manifestations (stomach problems, asthma, bad acne, hay fever). About 2 months ago my lower back began causing the worst pain I have ever...

Dr Sarno told in his book and lecture that our mind is conditioned to postures/situations. Like for me i am conditioned to sitting in office. I barely get pain when i sit at home at soft Sofa, I don't get pain when i do Yoga but i get pain when i sit in office chair> I know this is because of...

Hi - I used to suffer from severe neck pain. I used to carry my special pillow everywhere and could not drive even short distances. This all changed when I realized that I had TMS. I stopped all my treatment, and after a few weeks of journaling the pain went away. I started living a normal...

This is a question about IBS and TMS. As background, I've suffered from TMS back pain and anxiety which was helped with self-help techniques and therapy. I don't like to say cured because I still have episodes but I know it's TMS so they usually go away pretty quickly. In the last few years...

I asked Alan Gordon, LCSW the following question:

thanks to everyone whose replied to my other posts. I guess im still worrying whether i can undo my conditioning to expect and therefore have pain in certain positions/activities and whether I can uncover my repressed emotions as i seem to be having trouble doing this. I think it would be...

I have read Healing Back Pain and read and listened to quite a bit about TMS and it makes sense, but my main fear is that I won’t be able to overcome my repressed emotions or address them in whatever way is necessary to stop the pain. I know some people recover just by reading the book but as...

I have been treating TMS for about 2.5 months now. So much of Dr. Sarno's material seems relevant to my life. In addition to TMS, I have continued to treat allergy symptoms by receiving allergy shots. Yesterday, I had a significant reaction of some sort: left neck pain, radiating into my...