The King’s Speech as Mind Body Syndrome, by Howard SchubinerThis is a featured page


ATTENTION: This page has moved to:
http://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/
The_King's_Speech_as_Mind_Body_Syndrome,_
by_Howard_Schubiner
Please click on the above link to continue.


www.tmswiki.orgThe TMS Wiki has moved tohttp://www.tmswiki.org.
On this new website, we have a weekly chatroom and TMS book discussion, an active forum with participation from TMS practitioners, a webinar archive, a media library, and up-to-date versions of all 600+ pages from the old TMS Wiki as well as new ones. Please update your bookmarks and weblinks to help us reach more people in the future.

Best Wishes,
The Leadership Team of the PPD/TMS Peer Network, sponsor of the TMS Wiki


TMS Discussion Threads
The following is a list of links to some of the better discussions from our old forum. However, we encourage you tovisit our new foruminstead.

  • Writing about feelings: "If this tension, this rage is meant to be unconscious, how come some of us actually know the source already? I too have felt that I have eaten some of my worms (thanks Tiger for this lovely metaphor) only to find they've reincarnated themselves."
  • Could I have a past physical injury, and TMS in the same place?: "Perhaps all the years of anxiety and muscle tightening have taken a toll. I think I've had TMS or MBS for a very long time and am just now beginning to become aware. I can't wait to talk to my therapist about it. And also I can't wait to start the real work."
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder: "One idea I have had about confronting the fear/anxiety involved with TMS/PPD is to practice some form of mindfulness or meditation. Mindfulness is basically focusing on the present moment instead of what has happened or what may happen."
  • ACUTE SCIATIC PAIN ADVICE: "I have just had the results of my MRI which says I do not have a herniated disc just one that is somewhat 'diminished', also all nerve tests done in my leg are normal......it just has to be TMS would still love to hear of any other sciatica sufferers out there in cyberspace!"
  • Doubts about Sarno’s remedies: "When later I read Sarno´s books I was relieved at thinking it was psychosomatic and his emphasis on childhood rage and actual circumstances fitted in with my life and my views on psychotherapy."



ForestForTreesTMS
ForestForTreesTMS 		Latest page update: made by ForestForTreesTMS , May 9 2013, 5:47 PM EDT (about this update About This Update ForestForTreesTMS Edited by ForestForTreesTMS

4 words added
1 word deleted

view changes
- complete history)
Keyword tags: None
More Info: links to this page

Threads for this page

Started By Thread Subject Replies Last Post
ForestForTreesTMS Scott Adams and traveling mind-body symptoms. 4 Mar 9 2011, 11:37 PM EST by Quert
Thread started: Dec 9 2009, 1:50 PM EST  Watch
I just found the following interview with Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. A fascinating example of how mind-body symptoms can travel from area to area. It's from the New Yorker's Cartoon Lounge ( http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2008/10/scott-adams-dilbert.html ). I feel for him....

C.L. [Cartoon Lounge]: You lost the ability to draw. How did this happen, what was it like for you, and how did you overcome it?

S.A.: It was tough. I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer’s cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

I first got symptoms over ten years ago, and drew some strips left-handed while working through it. Over time, I retrained the hand by a gradual process of getting closer and closer to the motion of drawing without actually drawing, until my brain somehow allowed it. (The problem is in the brain. That can be proven by the fact that my right hand would spasm when I drew with my left hand.) Anyway, I was probably the first person who ever overcame that particular problem.

About ten years later, I overused the hand again, and the problem returned. This time I ditched paper and pen and started using the Wacom Cintiq 21 ux, which allows me to draw directly to the computer screen. Although the motion is the same as drawing on paper, my brain doesn’t recognize it as such, and I have no problems whatsoever. Now the dystonia has gone away again, but would pop up if I started overusing the hand and drawing on paper again. But that won’t happen. The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.
Do you find this valuable?    
Keyword tags: None
Show Last Reply
Showing 1 of 1 threads for this page