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tennis tom

I guess I'm just lucky that from the first moment I accidentally stumbled on Dr. Sarno's first little paperback, it resonated and it all made perfect sense. I never found the need to question how the mind can cause structural pain as well as affective emotional upheavals such as depression, OCD, anxiety, etc.

Dr. Sarno, says the convolutions of the mind are so complex we may never know the "mechanics" of TMS--and he says we don't need to know them to heal. I don't know what's inside my computer or my Tylenol, nor do I care, I just want it to do it's job. I don't need to know which polyneuropeptide distracts which propreoceptor in my hip causing it to stop producing synovial fluid and lock-up, I just want it to stop.

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I just wonder where stress fits into this. Many people who suffer from chronic stress develop physical symptoms identical to those associated with TMS, the process of which has been well documented by biologists. There are no mysterious convolutions, but people end up dealing with GI problems, skin complaints, musculoskeletal pain, arrhythmia etc anyway that often goes undiagnosed.

So how do you distinguish somebody who's arguably too emotional, setting off a stress response at the slightest provocation and suffering the inevitable consequences, from somebody who's having symptoms created by their mind which (currently) can't be well explained by science because they're not expressing emotion? Isn't it important that people receive the correct diagnosis? Especially since the former doesn't casually exclude a majority of the public for lack of faith, as Sarno does.

By the way, you might want to know what's inside your Tylenol, especially if you take it regularly. That stuff's poison like just about any pain medication we're happy to spend billions on a year.

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