Healing from Inside: Archive

freedrn asked: I am a pediatric nurse who has been working with a 9 year old boy who has migraines. He has had a headache now for over 2 weeks without relieve, dispite several attempts at medications, including DHE, was on that for over 72 hours no relief. Now after seeing some of his behavior I wonder how much is pain and how much is attention seeking behavior. Family doesn't have money for counsoling, any...

Nov 3rd

From Wheelchair to Iceskates

Recovery from Chronic Pain Excerpt from the TMS Wiki: “Despite having a spinal fusion from T2 to L2 (for severe scoliosis when I was 17) I used to be very active, I played football every week and used to love horse riding, skiing, walking and hiking. Then in 1998 I pushed a sofa that was extremely heavy and I put my back out: I couldn’t stand up straight and was taken to hospital by...

Jun 25th

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This is amazing. It’s a syndrome called Foreign Accent Syndrome with less than 100 known cases. Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome

May 27th

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Hi Will, My name is Shelley and I am in Mississauga. I stumbled across your site after doing a search on psychosomatic illness today. I have been dealing with chronic pain since 2005, most of which has been lumped under the heading of fibromyalgia. Today I was thinking that it must be all in my head. In fact, for some reason I was convinced and decided to google it. Reading your story LITERALLY...

May 2nd

Story #11 - Pre-Wedding Back Pain

This story comes from an old friend of mine who asked that her name be kept confidential. My friend (let’s call her Julia) is a physiotherapist who works in spinal cord rehabilitation. In 2007 she called me a week before her wedding in a panic because her back was hurting so much. I told her my story, and referred her to Dr. Sarno’s book Healing Back Pain. A week later she did a...

Dec 11th

Allergies still not well understood

From the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/health/research/12allergies.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=food%20allergies&st=cse

Dec 9th

Feeling Despite Pharmaceutical Drugs?

My friend Ivan Staroversky found this great quote from Hippocrates: “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.” Ivan is an alternative health care consultant who helps people get over their illnesses and find their purpose in life. In a recent blog post Ivan writes of the Pharmaceutical industry by quoting the movie...

Oct 15th

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Story #10 - Wil Carlos, Recovery from Chronic...

Hi, I’m Wil and I am excited to share with you all about my experience of shoulder pain, and the impact of reading Dr. Sarno’s book Healing Back Pain has had on my experience of my pain. First a bit about me: I am a Success Coach living in Toronto. I have really found what I love to do as a Coach in that I support people to do what they’ve never done, or thought possible. My...

Oct 9th

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Story #9 - Hives in a Patient with Multiple...

An amazing 1988 article from the New York Times pays testament to the power that the mind exerts over the body: “WHEN Timmy drinks orange juice he has no problem. But Timmy is just one of close to a dozen personalities who alternate control over a patient with multiple personality disorder. And if those other personalities drink orange juice, the result is a case of hives. The hives...

Sep 16th

Story #8 - Jonathan Van Ee's story about finger...

Excerpt from http://www.mindisbody.com/story.html: “For about two and a half years my fingers were in continual pain from typing on a computer. I visited a variety of highly regarded doctors, took anti inflamatory medications, went to physical therapy, iced my hands, and more. My condition progressively worsened, even though I stopped typing completely. Eventually, I effectively lost the...

Aug 18th

Story #7 - Tom Haliburton, After over 25 years...

Thanks to Dr. SARNO’s book - Healing Back Pain - The Mindbody Prescription where Dr. SARNO shares his thinking about psychosomatic disorders, introduces Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS), and explains how the brain and emotions are the source of most of the misunderstood symptoms which people experience today, I can actually say that my pain is all but gone. My Story, In 1982 while playing a...

Aug 18th

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Fibromyalgia

Guest Author: Tatyana Staroverska from www.StarOverSky.com What is Fibromyalgia? Symptoms of Fibromyalgia Causes of Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia takes the form of chronic musculoskeletal pain that occurs in different parts of the body and at different intensities. This sensitivity of the tissues is not accompanied by any inflammation, nor does it damage the internal organs. For the most...

Aug 16th

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The Danger of Chronic Stress

Guest Author: Ivan Staroversky from www.StarOverSky.com Did you know? What is Stress? What Happens Under Acute Stress? What Happens Under Chronic Stress? What can be done about stress? Sleep disturbances, eczema, headache, chest pain, high blood pressure, muscle aches, back pain, clenched jaws, tooth grinding, upset stomach, constipation, diarrhea, tiredness, sex problems, anxiety,...

Aug 16th

Story # 6 - Rachel's RSI Homage to Dr. Sarno

Excerpt from http://podolsky.everybody.org/rsi/: “I had RSI for about a year and a half. By random luck, a stranger (actually, two of them) referred me to The Mindbody Prescription by John Sarno. This was September 1999. I had chronic arm pain, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I treated my arms like they were made of fragile glass, I didn’t type at all (I used voice recognition software...

Aug 13th

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Story #5. Psychosomatic Conversion Disorder in...

By Dr. Jorina Elbers, MD I’m a Child Neurologist, and have been seeing children with psychosomatic symptoms for 6 years. I have seen children with symptoms including non-epileptic seizures, weakness, blindness, unstready gait, migraines, dizziness and sensory disturbances, with no underlying medical explanation. With the proper education and support these children have had full...

Aug 11th

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Jul 22nd

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Story #4 - Interview with Ivan Staroversky

Last month I interviewed Ivan Staroversky about psychosomatic medicine. Ivan is a member of the American Psychological Association, an Neuro-Linguistic Programming Trainer, and an alternative health care consultant based in Toronto Canada. Ivan has his own story over-coming the Mumps virus and now uses innovative methods to help people deal with their illness and get well again. For more...

Jul 11th

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Story #3 - Pain in the Guts

(Mike is a talented stand-up comedian who describes here a mystery pain in his guts that developed after he moved to a new country, and his meditation technique to get rid of it forever - WS) I was walking down the street one day on my way to work and all of a sudden had a stabbing pain in my guts region. Ow! I thought, darn is this a hernia or ulcer or something? I knew very nothing about health...

Jul 11th

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Story #2 - A Tale of Psychosomatic Tendonitis from...

Will asked me to share my story of tension myositis syndrome (TMS) about a month ago, and I couldn’t be happier to do so. Discovering TMS, learning about it, and applying self-treatment techniques was one of the most interesting, rewarding, and important experiences of my life. It was also a lot of fun at times! I started experiencing pain in my left knee around February 2007. I was in 2nd...

Jun 24th

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Jun 16th

Story #1 - Welcome to Healing from Inside!

Healing From Inside is dedicated to sharing stories about psychosomatic or “emotions-based” illness so that people currently suffering from one of these conditions can find treatment and get well. My story: I lived with debilitating back pain for years. I tried physical therapy, chiropractic, massage, swimming, supplements, meditation, acupuncture, osteopathy, and yoga before I...

May 27th