I've lost my voice

[mikeinlondon]

I have totally lost my ability to speak this morning. My voice box is inoperable this morning. I've been doing a lot of TMS work lately and was wondering if this is due to my TMS brain playing tricks on me? My girlfriend thinks it's just an infection but I've had so many TMS symptoms lately that I'm suspecting it's TMS. I don't have any other symptoms of an infection e.g. fever, sweating etc ... I've just lost the ability to speak and when I try to speak my voice box hurts.

Could Laryngitis be caused by TMS?

 

[BloodMoon]

Could Laryngitis be caused by TMS?

It could be an infection that might need medical treatment, but it could indeed be caused by TMS.

In Healing Back Pain, Dr. Sarno refers to laryngitis being of emotional origin. In The Mindbody Prescription Sarno indicates that he believes spastic dysphonia to be psychogenic, and in The Divided Mind he writes:

“The patient may experience a wide variety of highly debilitating maladies, including muscle weakness or paralysis, feelings of numbness or tingling, total absence of sensation, blindness, inability to use their vocal cords, and many others, all without any physical abnormalities in the body to account for such symptoms.”

In Steve O's book, he says he had a squeezing throat (globus pharyngitis) which left with TMS healing and is a TMS equivalent.

Tiago Forte, a well-known productivity and mind-body writer, described in detail his struggle with unexplained throat pain and loss of voice control in his essay “Unspeakable Pain: A Personal Journey Through Psychosomatic Illness.” He recounts how a scratchy throat escalated to severe pain and vocal dysfunction, leading him to seek medical and alternative therapies. Ultimately, he found that addressing the psychosomatic roots—the interplay between mind and body—was crucial to his recovery https://fortelabs.com/blog/unspeakable-pain-a-personal-journey-through-psychosomatic-illness/ (Unspeakable Pain: A Personal Journey Through Psychosomatic Illness)

My voice box is inoperable this morning. I've been doing a lot of TMS work lately and was wondering if this is due to my TMS brain playing tricks on me?

Yep, might well be! In another recent thread of yours @Diana-M gave you this imo very sage advice:

Mike, Stay the course: Sarno, Claire Weekes. Helmut. Buglio. Don’t take any complicated twists and turns. They are distractions that will slow you down. Plenty of people have healed from insomnia using standard TMS methods. (After you heal, you can research biomes all you want. I’m sure there are so many things yet to be discovered there.) But for now, don’t get sidetracked. Journal. Get vulnerable. See your therapist. Challenge your symptoms. Soothe your nerves. And carry on with life. Add fun things to your life. (Stop researching.) Trust me: it’s a time killer, and a dead end, imho."

Diana was advising you to do exactly what your TMSing brain doesn't want you to do... so maybe if your intention was to take her advice to stop getting sidetracked etc., your TMSing brain has responded by saying "okay, great, I'll shut you up physically then, and that'll put your conscious mind into overdrive!".

In one of Louise Hay's books (I've got a compendium of her books called The Essential Louise Hay Collection) she lists all manner of maladies and what she believes they mean; with throat issues she writes that they are to do with "Swallowed anger. Stifled creativity. Refusal to change." and specifically for laryngitis "So mad you can’t speak. Fear of speaking up. Resentment of authority."

 

[mikeinlondon]

It could be an infection that might need medical treatment, but it could indeed be caused by TMS.

In Healing Back Pain, Dr. Sarno refers to laryngitis being of emotional origin. In The Mindbody Prescription Sarno indicates that he believes spastic dysphonia to be psychogenic, and in The Divided Mind he writes:

“The patient may experience a wide variety of highly debilitating maladies, including muscle weakness or paralysis, feelings of numbness or tingling, total absence of sensation, blindness, inability to use their vocal cords, and many others, all without any physical abnormalities in the body to account for such symptoms.”

In Steve O's book, he says he had a squeezing throat (globus pharyngitis) which left with TMS healing and is a TMS equivalent.

Tiago Forte, a well-known productivity and mind-body writer, described in detail his struggle with unexplained throat pain and loss of voice control in his essay “Unspeakable Pain: A Personal Journey Through Psychosomatic Illness.” He recounts how a scratchy throat escalated to severe pain and vocal dysfunction, leading him to seek medical and alternative therapies. Ultimately, he found that addressing the psychosomatic roots—the interplay between mind and body—was crucial to his recovery https://fortelabs.com/blog/unspeakable-pain-a-personal-journey-through-psychosomatic-illness/ (Unspeakable Pain: A Personal Journey Through Psychosomatic Illness)

Yep, might well be! In another recent thread of yours @Diana-M gave you this imo very sage advice:
Diana was advising you to do exactly what your TMSing brain doesn't want you to do... so maybe if your intention was to take her advice to stop getting sidetracked etc., your TMSing brain has responded by saying "okay, great, I'll shut you up physically then, and that'll put your conscious mind into overdrive!".

In one of Louise Hay's books (I've got a compendium of her books called The Essential Louise Hay Collection) she lists all manner of maladies and what she believes they mean; with throat issues she writes that they are to do with "Swallowed anger. Stifled creativity. Refusal to change." and specifically for laryngitis "So mad you can’t speak. Fear of speaking up. Resentment of authority."

Wow, what a reply. So much food for thought!!!!! Thank you so much for this!!!!!!

 

[Diana-M]

Mike,
I highly endorse @BloodMoon s advice. And I’ll add: You have got your TMS on the run! This is great news. It’s trying a totally new tact to freak you out. Don’t let it. In fact, tell it thank you. You could use a little contemplative time by not talking. Tell your lizard brain you enjoy not talking. That will frustrate its purposes. When symptoms start moving around and new ones come, it means progress. Be happy! You’re getting somewhere, even if you think you aren’t. Stay the course!