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forestfortrees
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 Posted - 05/18/2009 : 14:22:43
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Flutterby recently posted the following in a different thread. I thought it was really interesting, but I didn't want to change the topic of the thread, so I am starting a new one. 
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PS Another thing that has made a difference is what I read in 'The Divided Mind' about 'calendar-watching' and for that reason, I'm not sure how long it has taken me to reach this point; but for those who are new to this process, it wasn't as quick as I had inferred from the books, but it has certainly been less than a month! Not bad in comparison to the 42-year duration of my 'back problems'!
I think that calendar watching is a really important thing to be careful of, and I think that it is a subject that it is important to share information about. People need to understand that a slow recovery is completely normal, and having a place that we can point them to for a bunch of "slow recovery" success stories could be very helpful.
I just made a special wiki page for "slow-recovery" success stories. If anyone pastes a link to a thread about a slow-recovery success story in this thread, I (or another wiki editor) will copy it into the relevant wiki page.
Forest
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flutterby
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/18/2009 : 16:15:28
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Excellent idea!
I suspect that many will have read the reviews of Healing Backpain etc as I did and draw the conclusion that if the pain or whatever doesn't vanish instantly, it can't be TMS.
I feel SO lucky to have found this forum and discovered that this wasn't the case.
(BTW, this is decidedly off topic, for which I apologise, but I came across this forum in a rather unusual way! I am involved in campaigning for evidence based teaching of literacy and read on the Reading Reform Foundation message board that one should always look for evidence that does not support one's preferred opinion, in order to get a balanced view. So, with that in mind, I typed 'is Dr Sarno a quack?' into google and came up with an old thread from this forum! The rest is history....) |
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forestfortrees
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Posted - 05/18/2009 : 16:24:08
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Originally posted by flutterby
BTW, this is decidedly off topic, for which I apologise, but I came across this forum in a rather unusual way! I am involved in campaigning for evidence based teaching of literacy and read on the Reading Reform Foundation message board that one should always look for evidence that does not support one's preferred opinion, in order to get a balanced view. So, with that in mind, I typed 'is Dr Sarno a quack?' into google and came up with an old thread from this forum! The rest is history....
That's a terrific story!
Forest
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HilaryN
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/19/2009 : 05:16:35
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(flutterby)one should always look for evidence that does not support one's preferred opinion, in order to get a balanced view.
Interesting you should say that, because that was my initial thought on reading Dr Sarno's book. After all, people who write books about their cure never mention their failures.
But I realised that in this case it would be counter-productive as it would introduce more doubt and sabotage whatever chance I had of recovering. So I decided to wait until I was better.
Only then I couldn't be bothered as there was no point.
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A thread for slow recovery success stories
