Day 16 Talking about it

[Rusty Red]

I've actually talked to a lot of people about TMS. I include my journey in my daily workout posts. In more depth I have talked to my fiance and my mom. Two sides of the fence on that one. My fiance is all in, and my mom has no belief whatsoever. She actually told me my brain is too smart to keep sending pain signals to somewhere that isn't a problem. Huh.

I still talk about it briefly in my workout posts as far as saying I'm still at it, things like that, but I have mostly stopped talking about it around here, even with my fiance. I'm trying to play by the theory of talking about it less keeps it at the front of my brain less. It doesn't really work though, at least for me. I have been completely inept at not thinking about it all the time, no matter what I try. I'm struggling more the past couple of days and just haven't felt much like talking about it at all to anyone.

 

[feduccini]

Hi Rusty. Couple of things here: the first is that TMS walks hand in hand with OCD like symptoms, so the problem is not much talking about TMS. It is not being able to keep your ming focused on other things. If you manage to push this subject away and engage with life, I don't see much of a problem.

The second is the nature of the talk. If you are venting out, you're getting used to seeing the symptoms as danger. A better solution is (when you have the space for it) let the emotion be felt and try not to reason why it's happening. It will consume itself. It's exactly like somatic tracking, but for the emotions. It's a practice we should have been taught to use since childhood actually...

 

[Rusty Red]

Hi Rusty. Couple of things here: the first is that TMS walks hand in hand with OCD like symptoms, so the problem is not much talking about TMS. It is not being able to keep your ming focused on other things. If you manage to push this subject away and engage with life, I don't see much of a problem.

The second is the nature of the talk. If you are venting out, you're getting used to seeing the symptoms as danger. A better solution is (when you have the space for it) let the emotion be felt and try not to reason why it's happening. It will consume itself. It's exactly like somatic tracking, but for the emotions. It's a practice we should have been taught to use since childhood actually...

Thank you. Unfortunately right now the pain sits like dead weight right at the front of my brain. I haven't been too successful at living outside of it despite still exercising.

I'm pretty lousy at somatic tracking. LOL