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| lobstershack |
Posted - 05/26/2006 : 11:27:26
Hope everyone is chipper!
Question: Even though I've accepted that my pain is TMS, I cannot help but still feel a bit of depression, I mean after all, pain is pain, and even though one may know the underlying cause--this, after years of searching. I'm trying my best to stay positive, but part of me says that because I have these feelings that I can never get better, that I must not be upset at all at the fact I have pain.
I'm hoping the answer is no and it's just my unconscious trying to trick me.
Seth |
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| ndb |
Posted - 05/27/2006 : 08:08:16
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Originally posted by Seth
Thanks Miche,
I know that one must no longer fear the pain, which I'm working on day by day. But the fact that it gets me depressed is still there. As I mentioned before, pain, regardless of its origin, is pain, so I would imagine that my feelings are normal.
The help I've received from this board has been of tremendous help. I now know that it's alright to have fear and doubt, it's normal, it's natural, and I must stop thinking that these must not, beyond a shadow of a doubt, enter my mind.
Basically, I'm just upset that the pain still gets to me, even though I know the true cause now. Can anyone relate to this? Must these feelings be abolished in order to recover?
Seth
Hi Seth,
Not sure if I can say with certainty the answer to your question, but I am going through feelings where I am upset or depressed about substitution symptoms, because I feel I don't have the power of 'discovering TMS for the very first time' to deal with them, which I think helped me get rid of my primary shoulder and neck pain very quickly.
I was doing lots of journalling whenever I would feel the substitution symptoms, but things weren't improving noticeably. Then, a couple of days ago, I realized I had fallen into the pattern of looking for my pain all the time. I would wake up and think...ok, its still there, about 10% worse than last night etc. I would monitor the pain throughout the day, and go to bed worrying about whether journalling had helped or not. At this point, I realized I CANNOT LET THE SYMPTOMS RUN MY LIFE! I'm just going to go about my day, but not let these symptoms be the focus of the day (initially, it seems that the symptom is so intricately bound up with some activities that it is impossible, but just throw this assumption out of your mind). Just thinking this gave me the hope that "this too shall pass".
cheers,
ndb
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| lobstershack |
Posted - 05/26/2006 : 21:57:48
Thanks Miche,
I know that one must no longer fear the pain, which I'm working on day by day. But the fact that it gets me depressed is still there. As I mentioned before, pain, regardless of its origin, is pain, so I would imagine that my feelings are normal.
The help I've received from this board has been of tremendous help. I now know that it's alright to have fear and doubt, it's normal, it's natural, and I must stop thinking that these must not, beyond a shadow of a doubt, enter my mind.
Basically, I'm just upset that the pain still gets to me, even though I know the true cause now. Can anyone relate to this? Must these feelings be abolished in order to recover?
Seth |
| miche |
Posted - 05/26/2006 : 12:02:29
SETH, PAIN IS UPSETTING AND DEPRESSING, WHEN YOU GET ON TOP OF THE PAIN YOUR DEPRESSION WILL LIFT, YOUR PRESENT FEELINGS ARE NORMAL, REMEMBER HOW YOU FELT BEFORE THE PAIN? ONE TENDS TO FORGET HOW IT IS SO MUCH EASIER TO FEEL IN CONTROL OF OUR EMOTIONS WHEN ONE IS PAIN FREE, SO MUCH EASIER TO CONCENTRATE , TO HANDLE PROBLEMS, MAKE DECISIONS, BE PATIENT WITH YOURSELF. CHEERS |
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