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| mariel100 | talking to people about TMS | 4 | Jan 20 2011, 6:57 AM EST by pandamonium09 | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 18 2011, 1:50 PM EST
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does anyone have any suggestions about what (if anything) to say to friends, colleagues and aquintances - specifically people who might benefit from TMS? I never mange to get it right....to explain ennough quickly ennough that people don't just think I'm sahying 'it's all in your head'. I have one aqaintance who is experiencing horrible sciatica and has done for months but when I mentioned it to him I used the words 'back pain' and so he siad 'Oh not this isn't back pain, it's completely different' - even though my TMS sympotom was actually sciatica! And of course being a TMS person each rejection is painful for me! :-)
I feel like I need a sor of business card (or flyer) with a few lines of key messages that I could discretely hand them and leave them to mull it over / look it up!...any ideas
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| MonteH | Another syndrome name (page: 1 2 3) | 52 | Mar 6 2010, 2:24 PM EST by HilaryN123 | ||||
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Thread started: Oct 12 2009, 1:00 PM EDT
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This is going to be super challenging, but what is it going to take to get at least the TMS docs to agree on one name for tension induced pain? I notice Dr. Schubiner's name for TMS is MBS - Mind Body Syndrome. Brady names it AOS - Autonomic Overload Syndrome. I understand these guys want to promote their program and it can increase exposure for Tension Induced Pain - TIP - LOL! Ultimately it causes confusion for the patient.
Anyone have thoughts on this or is it - Any attention/exposure is good exposure? Monte
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| ForestForTreesTMS | Renaming the Promoting TMS Awareness page | 4 | Sep 27 2009, 5:55 PM EDT by ForestForTreesTMS | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 15 2009, 8:10 PM EDT
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Hi all,
I'm trying to clean up the site pages box on the left hand side of the screen. One way to do this is to make page names more concise so that they only take up one line instead of two. Would anyone mind if I renamed this page "Promoting TMS Awareness?" My writing teacher used to always say that concise wording was almost always better, and I think that it might even be more accurate in this case. This isn't just a page of ideas--it's got tips and resources as well! Perhaps a better title would be TMS Activism. It feels a little like we are trying to start a movement and empower people to help make changes. The phrase "TMS Activism" seems to capture this for me. What does everyone else think?
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| HilaryN123 | Video | 1 | Mar 7 2009, 5:05 PM EST by ForestForTreesTMS | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 6 2009, 7:03 PM EST
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Hi Forest,
What format does the video need to be in? I have ECap on my PC which makes .wmv files. I also have a camcorder but don't know how to transfer the videos to the computer.
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| Anonymous | Health Insurance | 4 | Feb 23 2009, 9:58 PM EST by Peghanson | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 23 2009, 6:55 AM EST
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Not knowing a lot about health insurance in the U.S. maybe someone else could add to this section / rephrase the heading.
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| ForestForTreesTMS | Writing a blog | 1 | Feb 5 2009, 1:13 PM EST by HilaryN123 | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 5 2009, 11:02 AM EST
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I think that we should either add some content below the "writing a blog" heading or delete it. The argument for deleting it is that it seems like a huge time commitment to get a blog going and develop enough of an audience to make it worthwhile that I think that the suggestion may just overwhelm people or make the goodist within feel guilty without prodding them to action. (perhaps I'm just sensitive to this because I know how hard it is to start a wiki ;-) )
I'm happy leaving it in, but if we keep it, we should probably add some text below it.
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| ForestForTreesTMS | Research page | 3 | Jan 25 2009, 1:31 PM EST by HilaryN123 | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 17 2009, 4:57 PM EST
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Another idea would be a research page, where we link to research articles about TMS. We could possibly mention some of the articles in the Dr. Letter.
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| ForestForTreesTMS | Ideas on writing a letter to SKEPTICAL doctors | 0 | Jan 17 2009, 4:42 PM EST by ForestForTreesTMS | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 17 2009, 4:42 PM EST
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There is a To-Do at the top of the page that I had some ideas about (look for the dark blue circle with a white '+' in the middle).
A major source of repressed rage (I think) for many doctors, is patients who they can't help and who they can't find anything wrong with. A quote about this, written by a doctor, can be found at http://tmswiki.wetpaint.com/page/Quote+about+physician+attitudes+toward+hypochondriasis I think a lot of doctors may be hesitant to completely endorse Dr. Sarno because he is outside of the medical mainstream. Sarno himself stated in a 2004 interview with Medscape Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine that "99.999% of the medical profession does not accept this diagnosis." (from Wikipedia). Given this, it makes sense to approach a doctor by wowing them with some of the amazing success stories that we have (ideally, your own). Perhaps we could point them to the amazing reservoir of positive reviews for Sarno's books at Amazon.com, because they are already familiar with that website and they know that the numbers are "stacked" by a TMS enthusiast. After that, we could say something like "even if you don't believe in TMS, you can still tell your patients about the books, letting them know that you can't endorse it professionally, but that a huge number of people claim to have had their lives transformed by it." The doctors might still think of the success stories as being caused by the placebo effect, but it still is a way to get the "worried well" out of their office! Because they aren't endorsing it, they have nothing to lose but an annoying patient (yes, doctors think this way... read the above link). Once they give these "nonendorsements" a try, they might become convinced after the books heal some of their most frustrating "worried well" patients. Just a thought...
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