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Leslie, I agree 100% with TennisTom who said that anxiety is TMS. At age 60, three years ago, I was a mess, with increasing physical and neuro symptoms and anxiety attacks that were all threatening to make me house-bound. Until I discovered The Divided Mind by Dr. Sarno, which totally changed my life. Three years later, and with the help of many more resources, including Claire Weekes and other authors (my faves are listed on my Profile page) and the people on this forum, I am thrilled to be able to report my recent success in overcoming a frightening incident that incorporated both pain and panic - which I wrote about here, and to which you might relate: http://tmswiki.org/forum/threads/still-working-on-it-recent-successful-incident.5547/#post-33064

Anxiety creates a vicious cycle - it is TMS, but at its worst, it also creates physical TMS symptoms, which create more anxiety, which creates more TMS symptoms... The biggest problem is that it's SO easy to give in to anxiety, and admittedly not easy to fight it - but once you discover the switch in your brain which allows you to turn it off, or at least turn away from it, you are on the road to recovery. As you can see from my story, I'm not "cured", in the sense that I can still experience incidents like this - but what I have now are the knowledge, belief, and faith that allow me to get past an incident quickly and without repercussions.

You can do it too!

~Jan