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tennis tom
USA
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 Posted - 07/07/2010 : 09:36:24
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(From Kim Ruby's Article:
"In a nutshell, Tension Myositis Syndrome symptoms (such as back pain) are initiated by our fear of "not being good enough." And no, you're not crazy if you are suffering from TMS."
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This is me:
This is plain and simple, in psychological terms, called :"THE INFERIORITY COMPLEX". Many years ago, while going through a psychological crisis in my college days, in the late '60's, I retreated to the college library to "research" what my "problem" was. I went to the Psychology section and started leafing through psych texts--BIG MISTAKE! When you're a callow youth, in the midst of a routine growing-mind-pain, you can easily magnify your problems from mild to neurotic to psychotic.
My research led me to the "inferiority complex" and the text said, to my recollection, that it cant' be gotten rid of. And--of course--since I read it in a book--it must be TRUE! That really scared me. And I closed the book shut and stopped doing the psych research--otherwise known as "psyching yourself out" and got a hold of some Librium instead, that did a very nice job of quieting my anxieties in the, short-run. But the term inferiority complex and fear of it settled in the back of my mind.
Now that I'm in my early sixties, and done some living and some accomplishing--and become a devotee of the Good Doctor, I have come to the conclusion that most of the planet (at least the planet California) suffers from the complex. It probably corresponds very closely to the numbers of people suffering from TMS.
Most people are followers, because they lack confidence to break free and follow their own path. The few who are the "leaders", are no more intelligent than the rest of us, they just have an over-abundance of confidence and go crashing through life, without looking back and worrying what people are thinking. They wind up leading us (into wars and higher taxes), leading us into making purchases we don't need by being style leaders, leading us to bad entertainment choices like Hollywood movies and raves. These leaders carry-on leading and either retire to the golf course or to a prison (with a golf-course). If they get TMS issues, they just shake them off and carry-on leading.
The truly gifted and intelligent, the Dr. Sarno's, Sir Issac Newton's, the Galileo's are ridiculed, shunned, compartmentalized, demonized--until their deaths--then they are immortalized, memorialized, statues made of them, and fund-raising soiree's honoring them. Just another aspect of the human condition.
TAKE THE HOLMES-RAHE STRESS TEST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale
Some of my favorite excerpts from _THE DIVIDED MIND_ :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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Edited by - tennis tom on 07/07/2010 09:56:30 |
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