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 Posted - 03/09/2006 : 01:36:46
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Just thought I like to post this to hopefully add some encouragement to those of you in the process of recovery from TMS. Especially if, like me, you are finding it a slow and sometimes difficult process.
Here's the short version of my story:-
August 2002 - lower back pain so crippling that I could not return to my job as a teacher after the summer break
The rest of 2002 - pain became so bad I was unable to do the most basic of things - anxiety and depression set in. Higher and higher levels of pain medications.
August 2003 - took early retirement from teaching - utterly desolate!
Sometime after that in 2003 - began to suspect my brain was heavily implicated, if not responsible for the pain. Started trawling the internet - found out about Dr Sarno and TMS. Started reading and posting on this board.
My recovery began - slow, hard work, with many set backs along the way.
May 2005 - began a part time job at an educational centre.
March 2006 - have just been offered the manager's job at the centre. I'm nervous - haven't quite decided whether I'll take it or not. My TMS gremlin is going mad! Trying all sorts of sneaky tricks - making my heart race, waking me in the early hours - a hundred 'What if's?' rattling around my brain - but no back pain!
My husband has pointed out to me that what I am experiencing is not TMS - he says it's a normal reaction to a situation that would cause the same reaction in most people - not just people who have gone through TMS.
Anyway - if you are having a hard time right now with set-backs and feeling that you will never get a normal life back - I did and so will you.
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drziggles
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Posted - 03/09/2006 : 08:34:28
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Kajsa
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Posted - 03/13/2006 : 04:54:10
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Originally posted by drziggles
Can someone say...SuccessStory?
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Kajsa
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Posted - 03/13/2006 : 04:57:04
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Take the job AnneG.
I am sure that you will do it very well - you are wise and
know a lot about "the mind" - so you will be a very good manager.
I think that your story is a very good successStory! |
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miehnesor
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Posted - 03/16/2006 : 13:00:40
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AnneG- Recover is all the more sweet when the struggle has been long and drawn out. What an inspiring story!
I also want to thank you personally for all the help you gave me when I was in the "utterly desolate" stage about a year ago. I really appreciated it very much. Now as symptoms are fading it feels like a miracle that it is really happening for me after so many years of imprisonment.
Are you still persuing the psychology stuff that you were considering a while ago? Sounds like you are pretty happy where you are at but was just wondering. Regards |
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Posted - 03/17/2006 : 02:27:57
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I have had success, drziggles. Sometimes I have to pinch myself that things are so very different now to the utter misery of a couple of years ago.
Thanks for the good wishes, Kajsa. I'm meeting with the two people from the company at the end of this month to put together a 'package' (Is that term for a work agreement used everywhere, or just in the UK?). I've more or less decided to go for it, unless anything unexpected comes up at this meeting.
Thanks, Miehnesor. You are so right - recovery is always sweet, but often the pain and depression seemed insurmountable and frankly hopeless at times, so to overcome that is indeed very sweet.
It's really good to hear that you are recovering. Imprisonment is exactly what severe TMS is. Thank goodness Dr Sarno took the time to put his books together, making recovery possible for people far and wide.
I'm still very interested in the psychological stuff and would have liked to take it further than reading, but things took an unexpected turn with my work. I took a little part-time post with the company I work for now, really to further my recovery, if I am honest. I had left teaching under a horrible TMS cloud and needed to work again to prove that I could and, in a way, to test my recovery.
The offer of the manager's job was unexpected, but the more I think about it, the more I want to go for it.
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