After 17 years of being pain free...unfortunately...I'm back

It's so interesting how differently each of us relates to our unique variation of the TMS mechanism in action. @Diana-M is often laughing or alternately treating her TMS brain with compassion, @Baseball65 just thanked it and said it could F off now, and so many others...

I'm often pragmatic with mine, following the "primitive survival mechanism" theory, which is that what we still call TMS is a normal brain response which evolved in all humans in order to survive in the primitive world. Like many evolutionary quirks, the design doesn't seem great, but we didn't have to live very long in order to accomplish the only goal of a biological organism, which is reproduction. We didn't have a lot of different things to stress about, and we'd be dead from one of them sooner rather than later, but clearly enough of us survived and bred and raised the next generation to do the same, because here we are today.

We have to remember that the era of modern humans with our long lives, and of modern civilization with its many stresses, comprise a teensy little blip on the timeline of human existence. As a result, we're still dealing with this primitive mechanism, which is still being deployed by a primitive area of the brain that still thinks we live in a primitive wilderness.

All of which is why the TMS mechanism pretty much works for shit in the modern world.

My two cents!

 

And I get it! Whatever works!

The other thing I've found is that we often have very different takes and techniques for different manifestations of TMS. Well, I do, anyway. For example, reflux means I'm holding myself too tight, forgetting to breathe, and generally not being mindful about my general stress level. But an RA flare means it's time to get out the pen and paper and figure out what happened recently that my TMS brain thinks is worth repressing (quite often it's surprisingly inconsequential). My poor silly TMS brain thinks that pain in my hands and wrists is going to keep me from writing, but since I don't keep it and don't care if it's legible, I've figured out a way to hold the pen without needing to curl my fingers. The flares last less than 24 hours.