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Agata
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 Posted - 09/03/2004 : 09:08:13
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Have you seen Jane Pauley interview on NBC two days ago? She was diagnosed with Bipolar Syndrome. I don’t know anything about that but her story sounded as she had TMS when her problems started years ago. I am sorry for her because I think she feels like nut and is on drugs that may mess her up later on with something else. It’s too bad so few physicians know (or want to know) about TMS.
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tennis tom
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Posted - 09/04/2004 : 10:20:58
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Agata, Sorry I missed the interview. I have a great concern with all the psychological dysfunctions that individuals get labeled with, and like Jane Pauley, believe they have. Unfortunately, people take these terms to heart and they become a self-fufilling phrophecy. In my opinion, these psycholgical diagnoses are the equivalents of the TMS physical mis-diagnoses. If you believe it, you will surely become it.
I have met young people who were labeled schizophrenic and are prescribed medications that cause them to bloat up horribly. I thought these people were perfectly normal, having the day to day problems that youth in our culture encounter. But, once they get the label, it sticks. The medications are worse than the conditon. From my own experience, with OIC pain killers, I know that the meds can create much more severe problems than the orginal condition.
Fortunately for Jane Pauley, she is on the East Coast and she could avail herself of the services of the Good Doctor at NYU, as some of her other colleagues in the media have, such as John Stossel, Howard Stern, Annee Bancroft have.
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Burton
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Posted - 09/07/2004 : 16:03:48
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I will profess my relative ignorance when it comes to psychology right off. But having said that, I feel I have lost my mother to the self-fulfilling phropecy one post mentioned and to the drugs her doctors have her on. To me, they seem to have done little good and have turned her into an invalid. I guess it's good that she's not having psychotic episodes or paranoia but she is basically a zombie now, sort of shuffling along, slurring her speech and having a very hard time keeping up with conversations, concentrating etc. She has had a hard time holding a job since being diagnosed as bipolar and being drugged to the gills by her physicians. She's had to be hospitalized several times for adverse drug reactions that come on suddenly, even after she's been taking the drug for some time.
In my opinion, I believe her problem to be the same problem I have struggled (am struggling with) which is the unfamiliarity with how to appropriately express anger and how to assert oneself without villainizing others. She has a lot of anger towards my grandfather and my father etc. but does not know how to express it except to constantly complain about things, usually to my sister or myself. She used to be a strong, independent, energetic person but her TMS - chronic fatigue, hip and knee pain, bipolarism etc. - have basically turned her into a prisoner under house arrest. Part of what motivated me to work as hard as I had to in order to cure myself of TMS was the terror of becoming just such a prisoner myself. I thank Dr. Sarno and the powers that be, daily. |
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Jane Pauley interview
