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| MikeJ |
Posted - 10/30/2006 : 07:15:36
Hey everyone,
This is for those of you who caught a cold.
http://www.sanicopaper.com/products/files/59_21195.jpg
 I hope you get better!
I've had a cold for a couple of weeks and I can't seem to get rid of this annoying dry cough!
On TMS and colds; are they really equivalent? I've talked about this with someone who disagreed. His argument was that TMS is a highly specific mechanism: there is an area of the brain that controls oxygen flow to your body; RSI or back pain may, Sarno suggests, be caused by changes in the brain that restrict oxygen flow to specific areas, e.g. back, wrist. Sarno claims this is triggered by subconscious emotional issues.
The idea that colds or flu could be triggered by TMS seems false to me: cold/flu are caused by identifiable virii and have nothing whatsoever to do with oxygen flow. However, there could be clear links between our general state of mind and the effectiveness of our immune system that are not TMS-related. Anecdotally, depressed individuals seem to suffer much more from general illnesses than happy people. People get sick more in the winter when the days are shorter and people feel more miserable. And so on. Would you be open to the idea of a link that way, but not necessarily through TMS?
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| Jeff |
Posted - 10/30/2006 : 14:20:23
For what it's worth, I'm not sure that even Dr. Sarno would take the position that all TMS symptoms, including the equivalents, are caused by ischemia. While this is a logical explanation for some of the major TMS symptoms -- lower back pain, nerve pain -- it does not readily explain GI tract symptoms, or skin symptoms, or tinnitus, etc. But this doesn't really bother me. If the Subconscious is capable of using ischemia to cause muscle pain, it is capable of finding the necessary internal levers to cause other consequences, too, including a less effective immune system to cause colds and other viral infections. |
| ndb |
Posted - 10/30/2006 : 07:35:32
This question was addressed somewhere in this thread too:
http://tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2691 |
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