Is there an end to TMS symtoms?

It did, thank you. So in your daily life, you don’t really notice any symptoms? Only during stressful periods? And during those periods, you now know how to tackle it all, so it doesn’t get bad again? I’m just trying to picture how a “recovered life” feels like… lol. Sorry for all those questions.

I’m aware that it might be different for everyone.

 

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This will save me a lot of time typing my responses here.

 

Just chiming in here with my experience, it took me 2 years to recover from my first symptoms in 2020 (unable to use my hands due to pain) and after that, it took around a month to knock the following symptoms back like whack-a-mole. Now it takes a few days, less when I actually sit down and do the work, which during a busy life can be hard to clear time for.
Not only have I come to the realisation I've had TMS my entire life and didn't know it, but it is very easy to pinpoint when it will show up again for me personally. It's always stress. I can go months and months and be normal, then something bad will happen, it can be death, a breakup, or even someone annoying me at work: then just like clockwork, the symptoms will start the next day. It's so rote now, it feels weird when TMS doesn't show up after a stressful period.

I consider myself as recovered as possible, and I've come to terms this is a game I will play with my brain for the rest of my life. But it's so normal it just becomes a little irritation for a few days, like an insect bite, and then it goes away. It doesn't stop me from living like it used to. In fact, since discovering TMS and learning how to cope with it, I've achieved more in the last 5 years and conquered more things I'm afraid of than ever. It's made me a more resilient person!

 

@monica-tms Occasional, manageable symptoms after recovery rather than a return of chronic, disabling pain and/or other symptoms — is considered typical in mind–body/TMS recovery communities and published recovery accounts. For example, off the top of my head, I can immediately think of at least 6 forum members that I know of who come back to post on these forums to help others, who consider themselves to be recovered, but who say that they have symptoms on occasion; one of them calls such symptoms "a tickle". Mind/body coaches Dan Buglio and Helmut (aka The Mindful Gardener) have also said that they experience very occasional symptoms, but they know what's causing them and what to do about them, and therefore those symptoms come and then go relatively quickly and don't become chronic.

Buglio is always talking about "clarity"... the clarity is about not doubting that the symptoms are mind/body and knowing that dealing with and experiencing 'lifey' stuff does not have to cause symptoms (in truly knowing and believing that, the brain realises that it's not fooling you and/or that you are not actually in any danger and lets go so much more easily). When you're angry and/or fearful the brain tends to and tries to go back to how it used to deal with difficult situations, but it can't do that fully if you respond by recognising/knowing that it's just up to its old tricks again. Lately, when I get a new symptom I call it out and repeatedly say to my brain "don't be ridiculous' and by the next day it's gone. (I am still working on challenging older symptoms with mind/body work and my brain is very gradually releasing its ingrained-pattern grip to the extent that I've gone from being bed bound and house bound to functioning pretty well by comparison these days.)

 

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and insights. I feel I understand it a bit better now, and it gives me hope for a better future

 

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