Dr. Sarno says: "The longer I work with TMS the more impressed I am with the role of anger. We have all learned to repress it so
completely, that we are totally unaware of its existence in many situations. In fact, I have begun to wonder if anger is not more
fundamental to the development of symptoms than anxiety and, indeed, whether anxiety itself may be a reaction to repressed anger."
He also says, "In retrospect, I know very well why I was getting migraines way back then [as a family doctor] and what I was repressing.
Now when I get the warning signal I can usually figure out what I am angry about and am constantly struck by the fact that no matter how many times I recognize that I have repressed anger, I will do it again and again, for it is apparently part of my nature, the way I developed psychologically, to do this But see how powerful knowledge can be. By recognizing what I was doing I was able to stop a very nasty physical reaction. Just as with TMS."
My own way to deal with my repressed anger is to laugh. Laughing, for me, is a great stress relief. I guess it's not possible to be angry and laugh at the same time.