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Discussion in 'Support Subforum' started by Fal, Nov 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM.

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  1. Fal

    Fal Well known member

    Has anyone experienced this to some degree during recovery? I'm just short of 2 years into working out what the problem was and putting it into action.

    1st year was mainly just teaching myself not to be bothered and after about 10 months the pain went away and i was just left with stiffness and my body is all crooked from tight muscles in different places etc...

    2nd year has just been downright terrible despite still doing the methods and getting on with my life as best i can. Im sure its the symptom imperative but ive had a number of issues this year that i didnt have last year or when i was going through the worst of it...

    - Stye in my left eye (never had one before)
    - Conjunctivitis in both eyes, not had that in 25 years from what i recall.
    - Fingers that pruned for no reason even upon waking
    - Random bouts of tiredness middle of the day despite sleeping well
    - Such severe jaw tension out of nowhere which knocked my bite out of alignment and caused some shifing teeth and literally felt like my teeth were breaking (also began clenching which ive never done before). This got better after 3 months but i get the odd bout of it randomly, the clenching if im still doing it only happens during sleep.
    - Difficulty swallowing a few things, mainly bread.
    - Lastly just random bouts of overwheleming sadness and crying, i literally had to call my mum this past monday as it was making me sucidal and wanting to give up. Ive cried randomly on the phone to my kids. just cried again randomly tonight.

    I've been researching an explanation as i dont feel stressed or anxious (i mean i would feel better once by body is back to normal obviously) and generally feel calm most days, i can sleep fine. It seems that this can be a sign of emotional purging that my body is finally letting go of the built up emotion i never processed before which if thats the case the fine. I just want to know if anyone else just cried for no reason or a random bout of sadness out of the blue??
     
  2. JanAtheCPA

    JanAtheCPA Beloved Grand Eagle

    Hmmm, let's see... Mom still around, adult kids...reaching out to mom and kids... if I had to put a name to it, the euphemistic term would be midlife crisis. The TMS viewpoint is that the midlife crisis is a pretty straightforward and normal response to the big existential issues of Isolation, Abandonment, Meaning, and, of course, Mortality.

    And what is the "normal", or typical, response? It's Repression, baby!

    Just a thought. You know, based only on my personal experience.
     

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