Is Globus not TMS?

Hi

I was diagnosed with Globus in my throat a few years ago. Well, I say diagnosed, they didn't give me the name but explained what was happening and I found the name online. The muscles in my throat contract when I am stressed causing what feels like a lump in my throat.

I know this is emotionally triggered and have done from the start, I was working opposite a bully and couldn't defend myself or speak to my boss as she was the favourite.

When I heard about TMS I naturally assumed it was connected. I've started working through a workbook and reading The Divided Mind in the hope that I can reduce the symptoms along with those of mild IBS and RSI in my hands.

I'm just reading through the section of TDM and it says that Sarno considered globus to be a hysterical rather than psychosomatic disorder. I realise I may be jumping the gun but that is really worrying me.... am I not going to be able to clear this through normal TMS methods?

 

Pages 63 and 346 GPD, it is healed by the normal TMS methods.

 

Great, thanks!!! It will be so good to get rid of this. It's not limiting my life but it is quite frustrating and annoying. I don't fear it any more, just get cross with it.

I'll keep plugging away at the work and hope it clears up

 

Hope is everything, but you have even more control than that. You can do it! Globus comes from feeling alone, with no strong ally or confidante. But this is true for most people at forums. They usually don't have anyone who understands them, or TMS to confide in, so they go to the strangers who do. It's the universal need to feel connected that causes most health problems.

 

it doesn't help that in MBTI I am an INFJ which means I am rarely understood anyway... when the globus came up it was because I was ramming down rage, hate and lonliness because I was forced to spend time with this woman that was being so nasty to me, and there was nothing that could be done and nothing I could say.

She has moved to a new office and we are back getting on again, but I think that experience broke me a little if I am honest. Now the globus flares up at the slightest moment of anxiety, even if I don't actually feel anxious consciously.. which is why I took it as TMS when I read about it.

I am working through a workbook and reading TDM so hopefully, in time, I can beat it....

 

Steve, you have no idea have often I refer back to the simple short section of your book. Gives me hope! I’ve had globus for over 3 years that’s apparently caused by reflux and has morphed to now cause severe 24/7 burning and stinging throat, hoarseness, speaking pain, mucous. I am working daily to practice outcome independence, but the symptoms and pain bring me to my knees

 

Hi Steve, I totally see myself in that description. Can this trauma be, loosing a tooth, I mean, I remember when my tooth fell off, thinking, what if the rest fall as easy as this one did? What is surprising is that when I saw my tooth falling I immediately felt this globus sensation. Could this be? The emotional trauma, and the onset of physical symptoms? I mean, when a veteran looses a arm in the war, could it's phantom limb pain, starts immediately? I was fine, I wasn't depressed. I still look for answers which I know are delaying my recovery.

 

@Filipe2025 Just to say that this is a very old thread and Steve O hasn't been active on these forums since September 2018 so, unfortunately, I very much doubt that you will receive a response from him.

 

Thanks.