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Gemma_Louise
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 07/10/2007 : 12:54:55
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Just been reading a women's lifestyle magazine I picked up today and came across an interesting article focusing on stress and it's physical ramifications. See below for some excerpts:
"A recent study by Lancaster University found that 50 per cent of us are more stressed today than we were five years ago, and it's issues such as money worries, jobs and families that are helping to crank up the tension. 'If you're juggling work, a social life, a relationship, and family commitments, then you're going to be under a certain amount of stress', says health adviser Liz Tucker. 'It's an inevitable part of modern life, but we often don't have time to deal with the things that are driving us crazy, so we carry all that pressure and frustration around with us, and the tension keeps building up.'
Before long, your head is aching, your back's stiff...keep a stress diary, note how you feel each day - do you have a headache, sleeplessness or dodgy tummy? Think about anything that might be triggering this reaction. Are you unhappy at work? Is a relationship causing you anxiety? Just being able to isolate the cause of your daily stress will help diminish it."
Sounds like TMS to me, found it particular interesting that they noted about the back becoming stiff. The article as a whole, differs from the TMS theory, however, as it suggests that physical effects are the bodies way of making people aware that they have emotional problems that they need to deal with. Sarno, of course, argues that the physical symptoms are a distraction, rather than a means of drawing attention to the real issues.
Still, I think it's positive that more is being written about how stress and tension can lead to physical pain. Hopefully it will gradually become more widely accepted and people will be able to break away from the notion of physical pain always having a physical cause.
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h2oskier25
USA
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Posted - 07/10/2007 : 14:59:13
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dodgy. LOL. You brits are so cute with your language 
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Gemma_Louise
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/10/2007 : 15:04:04
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Ha ha! That's a pretty common word here, so it's weird to think you will never have heard it.
You have some amusing words to us to, y'know. I particularly like 'fanny pack' for what we refer to as a 'bum bag'. A fanny here refers to a certain part of a ladies anatomy...lol.  |
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HilaryN
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/10/2007 : 15:54:22
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it suggests that physical effects are the bodies way of making people aware that they have emotional problems that they need to deal with.
I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that. I can't quite get my head around the distraction theory - but I can't discount it, because when I tell myself that's what's happening, the symptom often goes away.
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Interesting article
