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tennis tom
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 Posted - 06/05/2014 : 14:03:29
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| You don't need to lecture me on the holocaust, due to it I only have one relative left on the planet. My mom was at Club Med Auschwitz, my dad was a slave for Hitler. I've been bullied, 99% of the planet has been bullied. You came here for advice, I went out of my way several times and gave you good sound TMS advice. You come here and bash Dr. Sarno, start with the TMS is a religion cult crap, get your free advice, don't like the way it's presented to you then skiddadle. The disgust is mutual. Adios, don't let the door slam on you on the way out! |
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Dave
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Posted - 06/06/2014 : 17:04:10
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Originally posted by Schooner
I wish by all my heart that the Good Doc is correct.
You seem to be going down the path many people seem to take: skepticism, over-analysis, search for alternative explanations, hypersensitivity, and (in your own words) disgust.
Many people overcomplicate things when it comes to TMS. Some feel the need to understand the details of how the process works (we can't). Some insist that Sarno's Freudian metaphor is hogwash and seek different explanations (none of which can be proven right or wrong). Some claim that TMS patients are in some kind of cult and blindly follow "the leader". Many dismiss Dr. Sarno's theory when they don't experience total relief of symptoms according to some timetable.
This path is counterproductive. It is really not that complicated. Dr. Sarno has proven, through decades of clinical experience and thousands of success stories, that the mindbody connection is real. He has revealed to us how the mind can manufacture symptoms. He has shown us techniques that, over the long term, lead to relief from those symptoms.
Dr. Sarno's explanation is rooted in Freudian psychology. He describes the symptoms as serving to distract us from repressed emotions threatening to become conscious. The mind believes it is protecting us from feeling these emotions by choosing to give us physical symptoms that we can focus on instead. This explanation has helped thousands to recover.
That said, do we really know if this explanation is accurate? How can we? I choose to believe that the details of the process are more complex than we can comprehend given our limited knowledge of the brain, and Dr. Sarno's explanation is simply a metaphor that provides a framework for successful treatment.
Many have come to this forum offering alternate explanations. Perhaps the concept of distraction from repressed emotions is all wrong, and TMS is simply an anxiety disorder. Maybe the symptoms are an expression of emotional pain rather than a distraction from it.
Who knows? And who are they to claim that their explanation is more accurate than an MD with decades of research and clinical experience on the subject?
Nevertheless, it is irrelevant. It is not necessary nor possible to understand the detailed mechanisms of the process. To gain relief, we simply need to accept that the symptoms are manufactured by the brain due to psychological factors. We feel the symptoms because we are conditioned to feel them. We need to reverse that conditioning. This takes time and discipline: a life-long change in the way we think about and react to the symptoms.
TMS is essentially a bad habit that we need to break. How we get there is a personal journey. |
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