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| Alpha |
Posted - 03/14/2008 : 09:42:28
Hallo everyone,
I would like to know, how you "fight" non-pain symptoms.
I mean, when you have backpain, you can accept the fact, that the pain is not caused by a structural problem, but it is harmless muscle tension and challenge it by exercising, moving, carrying.
But how do you deal with other symptoms?
My main problem for example is teeth clenching, every night I press my teeth so hard, that my gums are extremly painful and irritated, pain and pressure all over my jaw and teeth, teeth are sensitive and it feels numb when I am eating something. The problem with this symptom is that it is damaging my teeth for REAL, but I have no idea how to challenge it?!
I mean I know it is just stress/tension, thats a well-known fact, I do everything normally, it isn't realy bothering me, its just uncomfortable.
Another difficult symptom are visual disturbances.
The first symptom I got 8 years ago, is visual snow, a constant flickering over everything I see, also I have floaters and some aura/flashes in my visual field.
How can I challenge that? I mean I use my eyes all the time, I can't think of anything I am afraid to do with my eyes... Also I know that its just tension/poor circulation.
Would do you do about symptoms you don't fear, you even forgot about because they are there 24/7 for years and you got used to, but still find them bothersome at times.
So what do you do with symptoms you can not directly challenge by exercising through the pain or similar methods?
Just accepting that it is harmless and identify every thought of worry/fear related to it or command your brain to stop it?
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"Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed." - - from the Bhagavad Gita |
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| westcoastram |
Posted - 03/16/2008 : 12:27:48
Alpha,
This too I have struggled with. I think it helps to continue to do the emotional work, if knowledge and repudiation of pain has been your main weapons, emotional work and journaling should become your primary one now. That, and talking to yourself.
Additionally, there are ways to repudiate non pain symptoms only they are a bit more enigmatic.
When I've had acne outbreaks... I've ensured that I don't hide behind a hat and that I go out into the world and that is my way of repudiating them.
When I get stomach cramps, I make sure I don't change my diet at all. I fight it.
In regards to your jaw pain, I would search for ways to repudiate it. Don't eat gingerly. Even if your teeth are numb, chomp away. In that way you are repudiating it. When you wake up, do some self talk, the pain you are experiencing is as much due to clenching as I'm sure it is to TMS right in that moment. It's important to ignore it... but not before you do some acknowledgment that it's TMS (with self talk).
For your eyes, remember the self talk and perhaps you can challenge it by doing something "strenuous" with your eyes with you get visual snow. When you get it next, try immediately to read a book. Focus on where the snow clouds the words.
Hope some of this helps,
WCR |
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