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Chronic pain syndrome can be so devastating and debilitating that finding chronic pain support which provides clear, logical answers is essential! Here, in the form of a story, my story ..is mirrored a story which is played out in the lives of thousands of chronic pain sufferers and back pain sufferers across the globe!

We must act to stop this suffering! This blog is part of this quest, this call to action, to get the message across about the long term cure from chronic pain syndrome. Chronic pain support has never been so needed as it is now, you have only to google the forums to see the plethora of sites which offer such support from people in the same boat or just visit yahoo answers and you’ll see people eager to find answers!

This post today is continuing the education journey about what’s really at work, what’s really going on in a body most of the time when the chronic pain syndrome hits or when back (disk) pain and sciatic nerve pain shows up!

Continuing with my post twenty five (a) on chronic pain therapy and coping with chronic pain

HOW DOES THE TENSION MYOSITIS THEORY WORK?

In a nutshell and for the purposes of this post, the brain is made up of three main areas. The conscious mind, the subconscious mind and the unconscious mind. We are generally unaware of our unconscious mind, except perhaps for in our dreams. However, the unconscious mind is a huge part of our brain and generates it’s own emotions which are not actually ‘felt’ by us in the conscious mind most of the time (we can get a gnawing feeling that something is wrong if we are sensitive).

The unconscious mind has many great functions and runs the automatic nervous system so we don’t spend all day saying to ourselves ‘breathe’ ‘breathe’ etc. However it can also be seen as the ‘landfill site’ of the mind. The emotions and feelings we do ‘feel’ but don’t like or wish to deal with (or are ashamed of having such as anger!) are often ‘dumped’ into the waste ground of the unconscious mind.

Tension Myositis Syndrome Ailments

If we don’t clear out our emotional system regularly through emotional awareness techniques it acts like our physical digestive system and it can get pretty nasty in the unconscious mind then we can get sick or depressed/anxious, it comes out either way depending on our dispositions!

The way that this syndrome comes out in the body are manifold and to me fascinating. They range form severe manfiestations of the syndrome to ones that aren’t too bad but are annoying (eg hayfever). Here are a list of ailments that Dr Sarno states can derive from the syndrome and he gives reasons in his books for why this is the state of play! It really is so fascinating to watch in your life or in the lives of others (but if you try and tell people they don’t get it, they need to read Dr Sarno’s books or this blog and the long term cure for the whys)-it took me over six months to really understand why!

We can see how common this syndrome is and how it ranges in intensity, so here’s the list;

• Upper back, shoulder, whiplash and neck pain
• Lower back pain and sciatic nerve pain
• Carpel tunnel syndrome (wrist tendon affected)
• Knee tendonitis (knee tendon affected)
• Many common allergies (hayfever etc)
• Frequent urination
• Frequent colds, chest infections
• Acid reflux and digestive complaints
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome and related complaints
• Chronic constipation
• Chronic Fatigue
• Painful periods
• Migraines/tension headaches
• Depression
• Anxiety/Panic attacks
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

The last three of these are ‘mental’ ailments caused by the same root cause and so when someone who is prone to this physical chronic pain syndrome feels physcially better the chances are they feel overly anxious or quite down instead the OCD traits of being afraid of germs may flair up more as well! The root cause is the same but the symptoms vary!

How Does The Pain Occur?

One day the landfill site squashed full of emotional junk seems that it’ll spill out. The body often translates this inner emotional overload of  pain into a physical chronic pain syndrome because the brain goes into self protection mode and decides that it needs to sit on the ‘mess’  bit more.

Therefore the brain creates a painful physical reaction in the body one which will cause lots of severe pain, the mind can’t think of anything else or isn’t up to doing anything else and the brain thinks it’s protecting itself! But the self protection mechanism back fires as so many tend to do!

One of the favourite sites for the body to use this chronic pain syndrome is in the lower back and sciatic nerve! The pieces of the jigsaw do start to fit together.Keep reading the next post for chronic pain support.

Until next time

The Back Pain Advisor

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