Why didn't his book help me with my ankle pain? I suspect it's because there's been very little information in his books about it.
Countless people post messages here asking about specific symptoms. This pretty much misses the whole point.
TMS will deliver the precise symptoms that are most likely to grab your attention; the symptoms most likely to have you convinced that it is an injury or structural problem.
Say 100 people post here and say they had ankle pain and cured it. It's only a matter of time before you experience some other symptom that is not explicitly discussed in Sarno's books, and you'll go through the same cycle again: is it a physical problem or is it TMS?
The distraction succeeds. The strategy continues...
I have a bone chip in one foot right at the ball of the foot. A true injury.
If I wear tennis shoes I'm great. If I try to wear high heels, I get steadily worse until I go back to shoes that don't put pressure on that joint. Then I get slowly and steadily better. That's how a TRUE injury behaves.
If your ankle pain "comes and goes" its TMS. If it "Hurts when I first start running, then gets better" it's TMS.
Dave is right when pointing out to you that your need of re-assurance is evident. He's also right that if you read EVERY post on this board, and wrote down every symptom you found, your clever mind would find one that's not listed, and begin giving you problems with that new symptom.
I have had tms right ankle pain that went away. It was a come and go type pain involving varieties of symptoms; stiffness, coldness, tingling, and sharp pain at random times while walking. It would go away for short or long spells and then reappear for no apparent reason. It had a climax about a month ago and I was getting worried. Now it is gone and I know there was nothing really "wrong" with it. I consider it purely tms. There is a link on one of these messages that shows Sarno talking with Oprah about one of her employees who recovered from serious foot/ankle pain after learning about tms. Look up a search on "Oprah." Good luck. I'm sure you can get better if you are determined enough.
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