Have you had symptoms since you were a child?

Since I've discovered TMS and Dr. Sarno, one night I was thinking about all the ailments I had as a child. I kept going back in my life, starting from today, to my 20's, to my teens, and childhood, and I've noticed a pattern of odd pains that couldn't be explained. I don't think it's a coincidence.

My mom would always tell me whenever I got sick, I would get a UTI, every time. She would have me soak in chamomile baths. My mom always said I was a quiet baby that never cried, and very sensitive.

From ages 7-8, I began having strange pain on the inside of my right foot. I walked funny for months avoiding the pain. It was like a muscle cramp and I was convinced that was how I would walk for the rest of my life. My parents took me to a foot specialist where they wanted me to wear an insert, but I refused and continued to walk funny. Finally, one day, something clicked. I decided to walk normal despite the pain. It went away.

When I moved out of my parents' home and was first time on my own, I had insomnia for the first year. I realized later I was incredibly sad and stressed with the big life change.

In my early 20's, I developed unexplained burning chest pain, twice. I had x-rays done with nothing of concern. It passed when I decided to move on with my life and ignore the pain. I also had horrible acid-reflux , it eventually cleared up. During my 20s I worked at a job that wasn't very good for my mental health, it was very stressful. I was angry all the time.

I was just wondering if anyone else has had symptoms since they were a child?

 

It’s so interesting. I had brief periods of OCD behavior too although I’m finding a connection with it right now and my pain… the constant checking…

 

Most of us when we learn about TMS can look back very far and see episodes or ongoing things that were clearly of TMS origin.
My Father and Nanny both died within months of each other when I was 5-6. My mom left me with friends and went on a vacation....and right before she left I had the most painful spasms in my neck that necessitated going to a dr, wearing a collar and the whole deal... Don't need a degree in psychology to figure out that one.
I forgot about it completely until I was 32 and reading Sarno. As I looked back over my life, I had episodes whenever big changes happened and I wasn't 'feeling' the drama....many times I didn't need symptoms because the drama was so obvious..it was always the subtle ones...the ones where showing emotion would have been improper.

But yes, this is a 'tendency' or 'propensity' so people with it will find they re-frame a lot of their 'history; after discovering Sarno and co.

 

It's so fascinating to me. It's like everything clicked for me when I realized all the "odd" aches and pains I was a child. From a toothache that took over a month to go away, earache, to a horrible migraine that I had for weeks in high school (at that time I was a senior and incredibly under pressure). The mind is so fascinating to me.

 

I have been working for a guy who I really like. He is 33, married with 2 daughters and perhaps one of the most conscientious contractors I have ever worked for. (You already know where this is going, huh?)

He was late to the Job yesterday (Uncharacteristic) as he had to go to a chiro for back pain.. I had told him about TMS when he mentioned it was bugging him a few weeks ago, but yesterday I gave him the Sarno "Sermon on the mount"..he is literally exactly where I was when my worst TMS came. ...this post reminded me of being able to see ourselves in other people....to Identify ('To make the same as'...idem-facere).. he is ME.

I didn't lecture him about going to the Chiro... but I DID point out all of the things that have been happening around us that he DID NOT get angry about that he probably should have. In particular, one big job we are trying to finish, another worker did a HORRIBLE job and the client let my boss know about it .... but when the time came for the 'ass chewing' my boss 'nicely' gave him the details. As an outsider I thought "Uh oh!"...and then... BLAM

it was educational watching all of the action from a relatively safe vantage point.....that brainstorm in our head "Oh, I am going to lay into so and so and let him have it" and the actual 'adult' ' 'mature' and 'measured' response..

Reminded me that it is when we are in social leveraged positions where we cannot respond properly = TMS farm.

anyways..after my lunchtime "Sermon on the woodpile" he ordered a copy of "Healing back Pain"

I don't always do this.. I see people having what are clearly TMS attacks all over the place, but I usually just make notes, and try not to get preachy...but this guy is Sooooo me.

and how different we all are NOT..(LOL)

peace

 

Car sickness where I would get sick before we even got into the car.
Allergies which I don't really remember in detail but I remember that I loooved my "green medicine" --- which I think was later banned for having too much happy drugs in it.

 

someone...probably Sarno, or maybe Ozanich...referred to surgery as the "ultimate placebo." I 100% agree with that.

 

I wish I could be better at this. I have seen so many opportunities with friends of mine, but I am terrible at delivering the message. But I WANT to help them.

I try to rationalize that I myself wouldn't have listened to that "message" back when I was at my rock bottom too - I had to find the answers myself (or at least I think I did, I know someone had to point me in that direction whether that someone was in real life, or read on the internet).

 

As to the thread topic, it was "stomach aches" for me as a kid. I learned quickly that was my "get out of jail free" card and I could use that to get out of a lot of distasteful thing.

 

The man I mentioned in the story is now pain free... He read the book and his pain left. He did say however, that if he didn't know me , had heard my story, he probably would have thought it BS. So occasionally our testimony to it's efficacy is called for...it's just tough deciding where and where.