Sure, why not? There's no such thing as a 100% "cure" for TMS symptoms, because the TMS mechanism is a survival tool built into our brains. IMO, the definition of "recovery" is fully living our lives by mindfully and rationally recognizing, accepting and managing what are
usually unnecessary symptoms.
I say "usually" because when it comes to paying attention to your body, I'm with
@bobbyPT. I had my TMS recovery in 2011/12, but I have personally taken the "it's all TMS" a bit too far - I'm thinking about the summer cough that I tried to ignore back in 2018 (age 67) until it turned into walking pneumonia... In 2020 I suddenly developed RA (that I tried to ignore) (age 69) as a result of really extreme stress from two different sources, made mindlessly much worse by the pandemic. Last summer (age 74) I had an episode of irregular heartbeats that are common for me, but this time they kept going and felt worse the more stressed out I got, so I finally called a Lyft and went down to urgent care well after midnight - where they said I was in full-blown A-fib. Dang. WHICH I believe was totally stress-related (and indeed, Kaiser's intake protocol includes a question about recent stress which I consider quite enlightened - and which was relevant due to a phone call earlier that evening which left me very concerned about the emotional well-being of a close friend).
So, IMHO
age needs to be considered. I've always been mindful about maintaining a relatively healthy lifestyle with moderation. But I also had lifelong anxiety. I've realized, looking at my ancestors and now the friends and family in my own generation, that our Medicare-eligible age of 65 is not arbitrary, because at some not long after 60, even those of us who are considered very healthy start to experience less resilience. We weren't really designed to live this long, after all, right? This is particularly true when it comes to the stress-based conditions, which, for those of us who discovered TMS recovery late in life, often result from prior decades of untreated anxiety and TMS symptoms. Living past our planned obsolescence requires rational mindfulness.
All that being said - At 74, even with the RA (well under control with a low dose of a basic med) and maybe the A-fib (which two weeks on a monitor indicated was a one-off, so I told them I was not going to take the anti-coags anymore) I still consider myself to be in better shape than I was at 60 when I was on the road to becoming housebound with escalating symptoms. The only time I saw a TMS doctor was a video consult with Dr. Schecter after my RA diagnosis in 2020. I didn't want to take the medication, but he said I had to, or face serious physiological consequences, because my inflammatory markers were way out of line. Perhaps if I meditated an hour every day I could wean off of the drug, but I know myself and it ain't gonna happen. My primary doc and my rheumatologist at Kaiser are both happy to agree with me that stress is at the core of most of my symptoms (enlightened!)(both female, BTW) although before 2020 I had decided not to mess around with high blood pressure, so I've been on another basic and low dose med for that. Again - a commitment to serious meditation would probably make a difference, but that was unlikely to happen after 2016 and it's even less likely in 2026 (enough said).
