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h2oskier25
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 Posted - 09/19/2006 : 09:19:06
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Originally posted by IcyScythe
I'm kinda worried again that I'm not going to recover.
Yeah, there's your TMS. I used to have those same thoughts when I needed to get better fast for the new job. I orderer Dr. Schechter's tapes, and there's a part in there where he says something like.
"Just need to remind yourself that the pain is Not anything destructive or damaging going on, but rather a benign condition initiated by the brain resulting from emotional issues."
That's it. Just keep repeating that to yourself. I'd even do it in front of a mirror so you would get through to your subconscious.
Regards,
Beth |
Edited by - h2oskier25 on 09/19/2006 09:19:45 |
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IcyScythe
USA
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Posted - 09/19/2006 : 12:20:04
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Thanks everybody for the advice... you have no idea (or maybe you do ;)) how encouraging it is to hear from people who've succeeded.
What's the cheapest place I can get the tapes/cds? (I already just ordered like 4 more books on tms to read in addition to the mindbody prescription) |
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armchairlinguist
USA
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Posted - 09/19/2006 : 15:34:54
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Rachel's website has some stories that are free, if you haven't listened to them:
http://podolsky.everybody.org/rsi/audio/
I don't know about the other stuff.
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IcyScythe
USA
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Posted - 09/20/2006 : 17:28:52
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I tried listening to those, but I could only understand the intro, outro and first speaker because of the quality.
Thanks though. |
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tennis tom
USA
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Posted - 09/21/2006 : 08:52:42
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Purely looking at the stats on this thread, (the number of reads and replies), the numbers seem to prove Dr. Sarno's assertion that TMS epedemic symptoms are a matter of what is in vogue at the moment.
Many people keyboard today in offices, at cashier stations, at home, me right now. We need a symptom to hang our TMS hat on and RSI seems a logical unconscious choice--a form of group psychosis. I remember at the tennis club a while back, the attractive and athletic wife of the tennis pro got plantar fascitis and so did many of the other club ladies--co-incidence or TMS?
I see all these people with wrist and hand support bandages. They tend to reinforce the RSI dx, a group identity, commonality, support for the dx--sort of like getting tatoos and finding new friends to show and tell.
In our culture it is OK to use injuries or superficial topics as conversation starters--but not what you discussed with your shrink today. Isn't a shrink's waiting room one of the most awkward of places to be sitting? If not, why are they so careful to schedule people, so they don't run into each other, and have a backdoor to leave so ignominiously. If there are others waiting, no acknowledgement or eye-contact; just hideing behind Vanity Fair's and New Yorker's .
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armchairlinguist
USA
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Posted - 09/21/2006 : 10:33:58
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tt, good observation that the board itself is a great proving ground for Sarno's theories! I agree that RSI is epidemic because it's in vogue, just like ulcers once were. Here in Silicon Valley, who doesn't have RSI?
I sometimes worry that by moderating a group on RSI on LiveJournal (which I started before I heard of TMS), I'm encouraging people to think it's real and to be reinforced in their beliefs about it. Everyone currently in the community knows that I recovered using the Sarno method and no longer believe in RSI (well, they do if they read my long entry that says that), but I think for most of them it probably went right over their head with a "But that's not my problem" thought. I've been considering transferring the moderation to someone else, but then there might not be any voices of reason for those few who might be able to benefit.
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IcyScythe
USA
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Posted - 09/21/2006 : 12:55:18
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Why not just bombard them with TMS info (if you got better... that's pretty good proof!), in a nice way of course?
In other news I sprained my wrist (I guess that's what it is) today in rugby but that'll surely go away in a few days and it'll be back to just battling the TMS. |
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Tendonitis/RSI in both hands/wrists
