Does anyone have any opinions on hayfever. If this only occurs in the Spring, say, and there are no other obvious symptoms for the rest of the year - why is it only necessary to create symptoms for a few months a year. In the case I am thinking of the symptoms are very severe.
Conditioning is extremely important to understand in the context of TMS.
If you expect hayfever in the spring, TMS will oblige and give you the symptoms when you are likely to attribute it to something "real".
Another explanation is that the immune response to allergans (e.g. pollen) is constant but since these allergans are in low supply for most of the year, we don't get symptoms.
I have personally found that I no longer experience hayfever in the early fall like I used to every year, despite not doing anything special to treat this symptom as TMS.
quote:And I think it is important to realize that the conflict does not have to be resolved in order to recover from TMS- it seems enough to simply acknowledge it (albeit at a deep level).
Don't want to rehash this debate too much, but this depends on the person. MOST people don't have to resolve them. Some do. And it isn't always changing the situation, but changing your reaction. But sometimes it is the situation. It varies.
-- It's not 100% belief that's required, but 100% commitment.
Is distraction always the reason for TMS
Posted - 02/05/2008 : 06:03:50
