Thinning skin? Circulation? When does it end

I’ve had a big TMS journey for years. My emotions are improving and I have less symptoms but I still have some random pains here and there:

About a year ago I started getting cold feet and have to warm them up at night. My hands have these dark veins running through them and now my male member gets cold when laying. My skin is getting dry and wrinkly and thin.

There’s visually verifiable changes in the qualities of my body externally.

I don’t currently have access to a doctor. Yes there’s always something changing that’s stressful in my life. But I also have had serious stress, have had periods of binge eating and lots of years of smoking to amount to a circulatory issue that maybe led to thin skin?

I’m taking some NO supplements that have helped some symptoms and improved my brain fog and depression which is great.

I’m unsure how seriously to take it so I took it very seriously and am dieting intensely and taking supplements to battle an undiagnosed cardiovascular issue. Exercising and of course, daily journaling and stress reduction.

any thoughts ?

 

It ends when you stop catastrophizing every little thing, and seeing yourself as a victim to TMS symptoms.

You have a mindset that these "ailments" are illnesses and ailments that are to be treated with physical intervention. You aren't seeing yourself as a totally well and fine human, and that the things causing your symptoms are ONLY from stress, your mindset, personality, how you think about yourself and how generate internal stress and how handle external stress. I can only imagine this creates a lot of anxiety.
ALL of this is a TMS brain, doing what TMS brains do - focus on the physical and resist the truth.

Since you are not finding the success you are hoping to find using the techniques of journaling and "stress reduction" (what do you do for this?) then perhaps you need to find another method that will help you deal with your anxiety, stress, mindset and the OCD type thinking that is making you catastrophize everything. Not having access to a doctor is tough when you want to rule out a true physical condition, but you are simply presenting with cold feet at night, that is all. Stop checking your body for every little possible thing that you think might be wrong. Begin to picture yourself as whole and healthy.

Why not try the Alan Gordon programme here on the Wiki and see if his methods can work better for you: https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/painrecovery/ (Pain Recovery Program)

 

I agree with Cactusflower. Also, try to engage in something for fun. What do you like to do for fun? Show your brain that you are healthy and that there is nothing wrong with you.

 

Here is the latest Mind Body Couple podcast that I think will help you.
The main component to listen to is the fear, and how it can transgress many areas of life, not just symptoms, and how it magnifies symptoms and creates more fear…and the ocd tendencies to need to fix with “things” rather than rely on the mind body work. He also talks about how the nervous system is affected by all this.

 

Hi, don't know about all of your issues but my dermatologist when I asked him about my thin skin said drink more water, use good moisturizer. stay out of the sun, wear hats and long sleeves even in the summer. He said you can't fix thin skin but you can keep it from getting worse.