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Albert
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 Posted - 01/03/2005 : 10:18:19
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There are a few points I'm not clear on.
1. Dr. Sarno states that the mind creates bodily pain in order to divert a person's attention from suppressed emotions. Has anybody seen this to be true?
2. How does suppressed rage manifest once you stop suppressing it? I have a big aversion to being a person that treats people badly or makes a scene. I can see why my mind would want to suppress it.
3. In Sarno's book "Healing Back Pain - The Mind-Body Connection" it refers to Anxiety as a repressed emotion. In his book "The Mindbody Prescription" he refers to anxiety as a sympton. On Saturday night I experienced anxiety at a horrible level several times. I've never felt anxiety like that before. Because I stopped feeling back pain when it happened, I wondered if these were the emotions I've been suppressing. A scarry thought indeed, because as I wrote, it was horrible. But then it would go away when I threw up violently, along with a return of back pain. In all I experienced terrible anxiety and threw up four times Saturday night. I'm pretty certain that it had nothing to do with food poisoning or a flu. AM I RIGHT IN CONCLUDING THAT ANXIETY IS A SYMPTON OF TMS NOT A CAUSE, AND THAT "ONLY" SUPPRESSED RAGE IS THE CAUSE?
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Baseball65
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Posted - 01/03/2005 : 11:13:13
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Hi Albert.
We're like the blind men trying to describe the elephant...it's a tree..no,it's a snake, no it's a big flat thing..no it's a long sharp thing.
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Dr. Sarno states that the mind creates bodily pain in order to divert a person's attention from suppressed emotions. Has anybody seen this to be true?
#1.Yes..absolutely.My pain became obsessive and pre-occupied my every waking moment when I was in one of the biggest rages of my life,though at the time my "goodism" would not allow me to see or feel it.
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How does suppressed rage manifest once you stop suppressing it? I have a big aversion to being a person that treats people badly or makes a scene. I can see why my mind would want to suppress it.
#2. That's different for everybody...some people only need be made aware of the process for the symptoms to cease,others might actually have to deal with some or all of the issues.My pain left first....than I had the emotional overflow and sought help....I definitely do a lot of things others might think weird.
I talk to myself in public...I gesture in angry motions fantasizing about beatings people need....I'm sure others find it strange,but than again..I have no pain...I'd rather be strange.
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AM I RIGHT IN CONCLUDING THAT ANXIETY IS A SYMPTON OF TMS NOT A CAUSE, AND THAT "ONLY" SUPPRESSED RAGE IS THE CAUSE?
#3.Anxiety is the result of Rage being shoved up against our perfectionistic/narcissistic/good-ism.....I was really angry at someone this weekend...while we weren't talking it was easy to stay in a rage....when we began to resolve our issues,I began to feel ANXIETY...The adult in me knew I was wrong about many things,and needed to modify my own behaviour and perceptions to get along,but the child in me wants to hurt the other person as much as possible and them to love/like me anyways !
Sarno developed and modified his concepts as the evidence and study grew in scope,so I'd go with his most up to date idea that RAGE is the core and anxiety is just a symptom of rage that can not fully express itself due to fear of the moral imperative,fear of retaliation,or a combination of both.
peace
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Rage, doubts, anxiety
