Advice please

[Archie]

Hi, I am continuing with the SEP and have had a significant decrease in some of my symptoms . I have been out of full-time work for a few months, and yesterday had a couple of meetings with new employers who I will start work with in a few weeks. It was all very positive and hopeful , but when I came home I started feeling very "hyper" and that night the symptoms returned. Initially I had no idea why, but continued to try to "think psychologically" and eventually realised I am very anxious about the associated workload and that getting back into work will be too much for me to cope with. Intellectually I can look at it and know that after a steep learning curve , it will all settle down ok. However, what do I do with these emotions such that my symptoms recede again? ... I am worried and anxious, I have identified that, so now what? How do I get my brain to stop the symptoms? I have NO doubt it is TMS, but still haven't got a complete handle on how to manage things when symptoms flare up.
Any suggestions will be very welcome. Thankyou

 

[MindBodyPT]

Hi Archie,

Good job on recognizing your feelings associated with the potential job and realizing your pain correlates with them! I'm also dealing with a symptom flare up so I hear you and know your pain. I find that practicing unconditional acceptance of the feelings and pain alike is the way through all of this. Journaling can help, and I really like meditating to work on self-acceptance of all I am feeling emotionally and physically. It's a time to simply notice what comes up in my mind-body and not judge it. Alan Gordon's program is very good at dealing with these kinds of issues too, it's worth a look.

 

[Archie]

Hi Archie,

Good job on recognizing your feelings associated with the potential job and realizing your pain correlates with them! I'm also dealing with a symptom flare up so I hear you and know your pain. I find that practicing unconditional acceptance of the feelings and pain alike is the way through all of this. Journaling can help, and I really like meditating to work on self-acceptance of all I am feeling emotionally and physically. It's a time to simply notice what comes up in my mind-body and not judge it. Alan Gordon's program is very good at dealing with these kinds of issues too, it's worth a look.

Hi, Thankyou, that does sound like good advice as I feel a bit stuck with some of the nuts and bolts of the "how to" aspect of this work - it seems that for me, merely identifying the emotions has not been enough to get the symptoms to go away, nor some fairly vigorous "brain talk", so the self-acceptance meditation and a non-judgemental approach is perhaps also what is needed. Something more gentle. Thankyou again for your reply. Archie