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| shawnsmith |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 11:49:36
I hate to say it but it now appears to me that evereyone I know has TMS or its equivalent. I know numerous people who live with chronic pain yet have no specific diagnosis, despite numerous tests, or attribute their pains to accidents they had years ago. Yet again today I met someone who has chronic back pain which he says is due to an accident he had 2 years ago. I young, healthy, big strapping lad with no other health issues that I know of.
My sister also suffers from great amounts of pain in her upper back again, with the explantion being it is due to an accident she had close to 10 years ago. I know two poeple in my bldg, who have been diagnosed with fibro, and I have a nephew who has anxiety attacks. My own mother has strong leg pain and unexplained skin problems, yet numerous tests- some from top phsycians in their fields- have found nothing to account for the pain or skin problems.
I could go on and on and on and on and on...............But, as Dr. Sarno says in his tapped lecture in responce the the question why does not everyone get TMS, "every body has something." |
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| shawnsmith |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 13:29:18
Actually, many of the people I met who have TMS I did not know previously or would not regularily associate with other than in passing, but then, by accident, I found they had TMS. So I personally think my sample is biased. But I indeed only mentioned the few I did know. It appears that close to 80 million have TMS or an equivalent, if we go by the unxplained chronic pain figures, in the US and possibly more. Frankly I have yet to meet a person that does not have TMS in some form or another. |
| armchairlinguist |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 08:27:24
Yep, I have met many, many people with TMS of varying severity. In addition to it being part of the condition in our society and thus quite common, I think those of us with TMS tend to:
1) come from families with TMS, due to similar genes and environment
2) have friends with TMS because we often choose friends similar in personality to ourselves (goodist/perfectionist/driven/etc).
So we also get a biased sample. 
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Wherever you go, there you are. |
| Wavy Soul |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 23:38:13
Yup.
Everywhere I go, there it is!
xx
Love is the answer, whatever the question |
| tennis tom |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 18:46:54
"I hate to say it but it now appears to me that evereyone I know has TMS or its equivalent."
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Absolutely, the Good Doctor calls it part of the human condition. |
| Stryder |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 16:01:26
I think most people are good, and happy on the outside, but on the inside core they are all tired with today's stress-riddled society. If you have some pain, that can be their external reason for being unhappy. Its an acceptable conditions for others. If life had less sensory overload, these same good people would have no TMS equivs. -Stryder |
| floorten |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 15:39:47
Sounds like the Law of Attraction at work to me. Keep TMS in your thoughts for long enough and soon enough everyone you meet will remind you of it!
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"What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves."
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| mizlorinj |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 14:30:01
Shawn, agreed! I see things in those in my family like spinal stenosis, knee pain thought to be related to an operation 20 years ago, frequent back pain, etc. Friends who've read Dr. Sarno's books seem to be able to come up with episodes of what must've been TMS (well, those who accept it can be mind-induced pain anyway). So it does seem that most people do have a form of TMS or its equivalent. Some take it more seriously now since they saw me go from an invalid for weeks in excruciating pain to functioning normally 1.5 weeks after starting the treatment plan! But they realize you have to FULLY accept this is harmless TMS and nothing else. 
-Lori |
| alexis |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 12:35:31
I'm not convinced it's all bad, though. It's like how everybody has a selective memory, because really it isn't healthy to rehash the same bad things all the time. We all repress -- or selectively maintain --memories for a reason.
The same goes for distraction syndromes; we evolved them for a reason. This problem is when they've gone too far. It's equivalent how eating and appetite are good for you, but you don't want to take a good thing too far.
A little distraction is good and healthy, but anyone who's ended up here has taken things too far. Some of these other folks we're seeing may be suffering unnecessarily. But others may just be functioning normally and appropriately. |
| marytabby |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 11:59:22
I have to agree with this. Everyone I know suffers from some type of crazy ailment which I have either experienced myself as TMS or have read about in Sarno's books as TMS. SO MANY ailments are stress/anxiety induced. It's crazy. And 9 out of 10 people won't buy into a psychosomatic causation. Very sad. |
