stressors

Well, yesterday we heard from the mechanic: our family car is done. The engine is dead. The car needs to be replaced. We have another, smaller car, which does not fit the whole family. We'll be making do with this one car for a few months while we save for a new one. Boy, am I noticing the...

I went through a lot the last few months. A job I didn’t get, which gave me rejection anxiety. I have a tms coach. We do hypnosis and internal family systems. It started around Easter. Sensations that were lessened from my last pelvic flare up in 2022. Tight pelvis, feels like my “protector” is...

Hello- I have overcome many TMS symptoms in my life thankfully to Dr. Sarno and his techniques. I am the classic TMS person. I overcame upper back pain almost 30 years ago and over the years have been able to knock out other symptoms when they have shown up correlating them to stressful times in...

I swear I'm not repeating myself. It's just that my Pocket news-clipping service (thank you Mozilla) happened to have a couple of really relatable articles today. This one (much shorter than the first) is an old reprint from 2021, but it is SO relevant to modern life as we currently know it. It...

What do you do if you have a stressor in your life you can't get rid of? I was journaling today and started to write without a specific topic in mind hoping one would come to me. I've done a few month of journaling so I got all my past stressors out on paper. There are a lot but I'm thinking...

You’ve done everything right. You’ve made your lists of past stressors, current stressors and tms personality traits. You’ve done expressive writing exercises for 20-30 minutes most days. You self soothe after these sessions through meditation or walking in nature. And you still have symptoms...

Has anyone found that actually leaving an ongoing stressor improved their symptoms? My mother had a narcissistic meltdown at me and punished everyone in my family for something I had done to her (in her mind). I didn't know she had a personality disorder at the time. My symptoms started after...

We understand that our thoughts, emotions and physical symptoms are intertwined. Everyone understands blushing or crying as a physical response to our inner world. But just how does our mental and emotional world affect us and what is at the top? Where does it all start? I like to think of...

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...

Hi TMS Forum, Some of my friends and I are offering support for folks during the Covid19 Pandemic, free of charge on Zoom, Tuesday evenings, 6:00 to 7:30 pm, Pacific Time. We start next Tuesday, May 12, with the esteemed Ted Sundin, Psychiatrist. You can see the presenters and subjects below...

Hey everyone, Hope everyone is doing well and having a great summer! It’s been some time since I posted - just been living my life, mainly pain-free!! In the last number of months, I have worked very little on my TMS, only doing two things: repeating my mantra of “I am safe; I am not in any...

What’s wrong with this picture? So I am retired and can pull dollars from my retirement funds at will, Great? Not so much, I have a new annoyance/ stress points to contend with; returning faulty purchases. So far this year I have had to return 6 items as follows: 65 inch TV to Costco, the...

Most of my current stress comes from my job. I think my work ethic and need to please others really compounds my work stress. I often think of others' with different personalities doing my job with ease. Add to that my general fear of doing or saying something wrong, especially in group...

Very interesting thing happened this morning. I realized that my list of past events/stressors only lists the times I was, or saw myself as, a VICTIM! I realized I have guilt and remorse for times I've wronged people, but in my mind I've been portraying myself mostly as a VICTIM and buying this...

So I keep reading about how things that are repressed which we are unaware of and the emotions tied to them, usually rage are at the root of pain. I went back to childhood and listed everything I can think of and also the present and I have to say my current stressors are producing alot of...

Hi, I've posted a few times about work stress. It's been bad for me lately but in a different way. There are changes going on in my dept. and I've given up certain projects that would be desirable to others. As a result, I'm finding out that people like working with my co-worker much better than...

I'm supposed to write a list of past traumatic events and experiences. I read that first thing this morning, 12 hours ago. The drama that rose in my mind was exhausting, to say the least. A tiny glimpse of what went through my brain this morning... What traumatic experiences? My childhood was...

Dear friends, I keep on being astonish how much the behaviour of our parents influence us. It seems like their patterns of behaving has imprented into me and I carry it all the life with me. If I now see situations that hurt me in my adulthood I see the roots of my behaviour in my childhood, in...

I apologize if his video has already been posted. I struggle with remembering my childhood and JP Sears discusses dealing with childhood hurts a lot. This video is about how self destructiveness may be a rejection of nurturing and in the end he takes you through some things to verbalize.