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4.5 Years of Chronic Pain Resolved in 2 Months

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  1. Rabscuttle

    Rabscuttle Well known member

    Rabscuttle, Mar 25, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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  2. CalmIsTheCure

    CalmIsTheCure Well known member

    CalmIsTheCure, Mar 25, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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  3. Rabscuttle

    Rabscuttle Well known member

    Thanks! It’s still a struggle, but one filled with a lot more hope.
     
    Rabscuttle, Mar 25, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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  4. JanAtheCPA

    JanAtheCPA Beloved Grand Eagle

    Look to the times, my friend. Everyone in my personal circle is suffering right now, from bad news, information technology overload, deep discouragement, and what the experts are labeling as a crisis of world-wide existential depression. I'm also just doing my best to maintain, which I know I'm managing way better than if I'd never encountered the wisdom of Dr Sarno and the resources I accessed back in 2011 thanks to this forum.

    I first got a hint of this future in 2020, when we started seeing a sudden influx of formerly-recovered individuals suffering from devastating new symptoms, years or even decades after successfully doing the work, often with Dr Sarno personally or as a direct result of his books - combined with an alarming increase in the number of young people suddenly showing up with frightening and serious issues.

    Interestingly, the number of legitimate new members that we get every week has been extremely consistent during the same period of time: about 10 to 15 per week.
     
    JanAtheCPA, Mar 25, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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  5. JanAtheCPA

    JanAtheCPA Beloved Grand Eagle

    Indeed - my therapist had to remind me of this recently. It's really at the heart of the existential depression I just mentioned.

    It is theoretically possible to slap our own brains upside the head and tell them to get the fuck over it. Possible, but also reeeeally hard. It's why we are so addicted to doom scrolling - a feature of the human psyche that the entire media industry takes full advantage of.
     
    JanAtheCPA, Mar 26, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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  6. Adam Coloretti (coach)

    Adam Coloretti (coach) Well known member

    Cool so this makes a lot of sense to me. Basically, you freaked out initially (of course you would, anyone would), and it got worse as a result of this freak out UNTIL you had it confirmed that you had no hearing loss/infection. Naturally, because you got that confirmation from a medical expert that you were actually ok and nothing was wrong with you (and you didn't need medication), your fear dropped and it got better (typical TMS).

    Then, you went on a vacation with your mum (stressful for its own reasons - and there is a pattern here with parents which makes sense), and this was so conflicting and stressful (for whatever reason) that your brain, having remembered the symptom pathways from a month ago, turned them back on in order to protect you. Had you known about TMS at that time, it might not have happened like that, but because you didn't, naturally you would have started to think (even subconsciously) "have they missed something"? - the fear returns which fuels the chronicity of the symptoms.

    I'll stop there so it doesn't become confusing and we can work with what I said above, but a question to finish based on this (and I've assumed the answer in part above but I should ask you). If you thought it was a setback but that you'd get better from it - and note this is before you knew about TMS because you said after 1 week of this you found it - what did you actually think was going on? I.e. When it came back on the vacation but before you knew about TMS, what did you think was going on? Because you'd already had confirmation from the doctor you were ok, but obviously that didn't align with symptoms coming back on that vacation, so I'm just curious as to what your thoughts and headspace was in the time between the flare up on vacation and finding out about TMS.
     
    Adam Coloretti (coach), Mar 26, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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  7. CalmIsTheCure

    CalmIsTheCure Well known member

    I ask my partner to not watch the news when im in the room. I say im perfectly alright not knowing.
     
    CalmIsTheCure, Mar 26, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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