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balto
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 Posted - 02/18/2012 : 10:25:32
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I don't think it's helpful to compare levels of suffering, there will always be someone who has it better/worse than you, we all have to deal with what we've got. First world problems? Well, they're relevant if we live in the first world.
Hi Joy,
My thought is different. I think they are very relevant and helpful to compare and to learn as much as we can about the differences between "there" and "here". Researchers do it all the time.
Why do the Eskimo have a much much lower rate of heart disease than many other populations? They eat mostly foods from the sea and rarely consume any fruits or vegetables. Researchers think it is because of the high level of Omega-3 in their diets.
Why do people in Okinawa, Japan and Seven Days Advantists in Loma Linda have more members lived to be 100 than compare to the general public? What ddi they do different? What is the differences in their life styles, their diets, their genes, their beliefs,... that made them be more healthy longer into their old age and lived much longer than the general public? Don't you think it is important to know?
I know there are a few Physicians on this forum who suffered from tms/anxiety. As a doctor they have achieved many goals other people can only dream of. Success, prestige, financial security, ... Why do they have tms/anxiety while a guys working hard his whole life on the field somewhere in Cambodia, who was abused, tortured when he was young, who have witnessed his whole family murdered in front of him, who has 4 kids and a sick wife to take care of... never have tms/anxiety? Don't we want to know what "protective mechanism" this poor man has against tms/anxiety while the doctor is miserable with pain that all his years of medical training can't help him?
Therefore, I think it is very important to compare. Even Doctoc Sarno did it. He compared the difference rates in Whiplash syndrome of 2 different populations in one of his book (I think in Divided Mind). |
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MatthewNJ
USA
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Posted - 02/18/2012 : 16:27:24
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Joy,
you can Reach Dr. Sarno @
Dr. John Sarno
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicineý
400 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016-4901
USA
If you like, the TMSwiki.org is currently in the middle of a "thank you" project for Dr. Sarno. You are welcome to get involved.
But, to stay on topic, I have been succesful at solving all my severe TMS (Sciatica, Gastric ulcers, Gastritis). I am still working on the little stuff. "It takes approximately One lifetime". And there is NO doubt, for me (and I believe for most) that MOST of it comes from my childhood. And I had one of those childhoods most people would look at and term "good". Trauma is in the eyes of the child who percieves it (see Dr. Peter A. Levine's work "Waking the tiger, Healing Trauma").
Matthew
Ferretsx3@comcast.net
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Less activated, more regulated and more resilient. |
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Joy_I_Am
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Posted - 02/20/2012 : 03:06:05
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Thanks for that, MatthewNJ, and for the book recommendation!
Joy
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Bad childhood seems to be a common factor?
