Is hypochondria normal with TMS. My TMS presents itself as sciatic-like nerve pain in my right leg, but mostly in my lower lege with numbness/tingling that can move around in my calf, shins and feet. It has gotten better as I've started to believe again that it is TMS. However earlier this week, by chance, I came across a story of another runner who had developed Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) in her calf. (And it progressed into a pulmonary embolism.) I didn't really think much about it at the time (except to feel sorry for her - she's an acquaintance) and my calf was feeling mostly pain free at the time. But over the last several days my calf has gotten progressively numb and painful again without explanation. Today it finally dawned on me that I'm projecting her diagnosis/symptoms on me.
Is this typical with TMS? Are TMS suffers more likely to be hypochondriacs (or vice versa)? When I was in my 20's (I'm 47 now) my father had a quadruple bypass and I remember getting mild chest pains at the time. I was sure I had heart disease. In general I don't think I'm a hypochondriac but there have been a few instances....
Hypochondria is not only normal, but a requirement for the condition to continue. Your fears about what it might be or turn into are what keeps your body stressed out in addition to the way you already dealt with things. It just turns over and over like a dryer drum in your head, and you think by watching it and being on guard that it won't get any worse. Since it doesn't get worse, you think that paying attention to it saves you somehow, so you keep it up. And the wheel just turns and turns.
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients—as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts—as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.
welcome to the complicated perpetual world of obsessive compulsive disorder.
And it's really making me mad! Last thing I need (or any of us!) is to believe I have a life threatening condition that I don't. I can see I still have a lot of work to do.
hypochondria?
Posted - 03/23/2012 : 09:28:58
