Hydrlysis, I have two very different recommendations for you. One is based on Sarno's work and the other is based on modern pain science research.
I was an ardent follower of Sarno for about a quarter of a century starting with his publication of
Healing Back Pain in 1991. Within six weeks of studying that book and applying what Sarno said about pain as a distraction from repressed anger, I ended more than two decades of chronic low back pain and it never returned. I had equally good success with subsequent forms of what Sarno called the symptom imperative. Without intending to take away from anything Baseball65 said, since he too has had great success in applying what Sarno taught, I want to refer to something Sarno said in a question-and-answer section of
The Mindbody Prescription. One of the questions he answered was: "I know I'm angry. I can feel it. In fact, I often show it. Why do I still have pain?" Sarno responded:
"Because the anger you know about and express is not the anger causing your pain. TMS is a response to anger-rage generated in the unconscious (in which case you are not aware of it), or conscious anger suppressed. TMS is not a response to conscious anger felt or expressed. . . . Bear in mind, we repress anger that violates our image of ourselves." (I added the emphasis.)
Sarno gave the example of having the self-image of being a "nice guy." To expand on this, a nice guy who gets terrible service at a restaurant might be unconsciously angry at the waiter but repress it and be totally unaware of the anger. Then he wonders why the meal gave him heartburn. (Heartburn is a TMS equivalent from which Sarno himself suffered.) Personally, my self-image does not include being a nice guy. I would know I am angry about the terrible service. I might choose to express the anger or choose to let it go, e.g., because I notice the waiter is overworked and trying hard or because I fear that if I complain he will spit in my next course before he brings it from the kitchen. But since I do not repress my anger about the terrible service, I am not going to get heartburn.
Sarno ended his answer as follows:
"Finally, anger you are aware of may be what is known as displaced anger. That is, you bcome come overtly angry at something relatively unimportant, like traffic tie-up or poor service in a restaurant, instead of at your spouse or a parent, because the latter is simply not allowed by your psyche. This is very common among my patients."
That was me. My psyche did not allow me to get consciously angry at people I was close to. I would get angry but repress it. The key to me overcoming my more than two decades of chronic low back pain was to become aware of when I was angry at my spouse and why. It is very common for people to have psyches that regard anger at people they are close to as taboo to express, so they repress their anger. You might ask yourself, Hydrlysis, whether your unrelenting anger at how the insurance companies treated you is displaced anger and you often are unconsciously angry at someone you are close to?
If your answer after careful reflection and true effort to uncover the unconscious anger is no, I turn to my modern pain science answer about what to do regarding your unrelenting anger at the insurance companies. This is not the place to go into detail about what this research adds to Sarno's approach (and actually proves Sarno presciently correct in important respects). Instead, I will just say that Dr. David Hanscom is fully into this research and refer you to what he days about how to stop your anger-induced chronic pain. It is in a subform on this website at
https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/forgiveness-is-a-learned-skill–and-a-power-move.22570/
To put that in a nutshell: You need to,
and can, choose to stop letting the bastard insurance companies ruin you life, which is what they are doing. Stop giving them that power.
