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The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain (John Sarno, 1998)

"Symptoms are not physical substitutes for bad feelings, like anxiety. Nor are they self-punishment for bad thoughts or guilt.

They are players in a strategy designed to keep our attention focused on the body so as to prevent dangerous feelings from escaping into consciousness or to avoid confrontation with feelings that are unbearable. (…)

Psychopharmacology, the branch of medicine that uses drugs in the treatment of psychological disorders, is guilty of very unscientific thinking when it asserts that it can cure an emotional disorder by altering the brain chemistry associated with that disorder.

But that may be no more true than saying that the cause of pneumonia is fever.

Identifying the chemistry of a clinical state is not establishing its cause. We may be looking at a result rather than a cause.

If that is the case, treating depression with antidepressant drugs may be poor medicine for some patients: The symptom is being eliminated without identifying its cause.

Experience with TMS indicates that if an emotionally induced symptom is artificially removed with a drug or a placebo, one of two things will happen:

The symptom will return when the drug is withdrawn or, more problematic, something will develop to take its place, either emotional or physical.

The patient discussed in Chapter 1 got his depression under control with a medication, only to suffer a recurrence of his severe back pain, which he had previously eliminated.

Mindbody symptoms exist to serve a purpose.

If you thwart that purpose by taking away the symptom without dealing with its cause, the brain will simply find a substitute symptom or disorder."

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John Sarno, M.D. Eschewing computers, he wrote patients letters in elegant cursive with his treasured Mont Blanc fountain pen.

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“As long as the person remains unaware that the pain is serving as a distraction, it will continue to do so, undisturbed. But the moment realization sinks in (and it must sink in, for mere intellectual appreciation of the process is not enough), then the deception doesn’t work anymore; pain stops, for there is no further need for the pain.

...It is in order to prevent the conscious mind from becoming aware of the unpleasant emotions that they are repressed, that is, kept in the unconscious. It must be that something in the mind is fearful that they will not remain repressed, that they are trying to come to consciousness, for it is decided that a defense mechanism is necessary and, psychologically speaking, a defense is anything that will distract the conscious mind (the “mind’s eye”) from what is being repressed. So the brain creates TMS... Now the person must pay attention to all the various manifestations of TMS and can avoid the unpleasantness of experiencing those bad feelings...”

...One gets rid of TMS by learning about it. If I can convince the conscious mind that TMS is not serious and not worthy of its attention, better yet that it’s a phony, a charade, and that rather than fear it one should ridicule it, that most of the structural diagnoses are not valid and that the only things worthy of one’s attention are the repressed feelings, what has been accomplished? We will have made the TMS useless; it will no longer have the ability to attract the attention of the conscious mind; the defense is a failure (the cover is blown, the camouflage is removed), which means the pain ceases.”

John Sarno, Healing Back Pain

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The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain (John Sarno, 1998)

"What’s wrong with striving to be perfect and good? Doesn’t that benefit everybody?

From a social and interpersonal perspective, it’s wonderful, but it also engenders great internal anger.

Though we may consciously want to be and do good, the narcissistic self does not have such an imperative.

Indeed, it reacts with anger at the imposition.

Add to this the unconscious anger at not being fully appreciated for our efforts and, worst of all, the anger at ourselves for not living up to our own expectations.

Remember, the unconscious is often irrational.

A young mother with a newborn, whom she loves dearly, is very worried about doing things right, and she’s up half the night.

Completely preoccupied with being a mother, she is unaware that she is unconsciously angry at the baby.

Many of my patients have found it difficult to accept the idea that parents may be unconsciously angry at their children."

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برنامج عقلي-جسمي طوّره الباحثون يتفوق على العلاجات الأخرى في شفاء آلام الظهر المزمنة

مساء الخلوّ من الآلام ورفع الآمال، اليوم سنتكلم عن برنامج صحي بُني فوق جهود الراحل جون سارنو الذي حرر بمقاربته الثوريّة في عالم الطب ملايين البشر من آلامهم ما هو برنامج العلاج النَفْسِيّ فِيزْيولوجِيّ لتخفيف الأعراض (PSRT)؟ تُعدّ آلام الظهر المزمنة السبب الرئيسي للإعاقة في جميع أنحاء العالم. في الولايات المتحدة لوحدها، ينفق المرضى ما يصل إلى 300 مليار دولار سنويًا لعلاج هذه الآلام، وفقًا…

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“...the cause of most back pain is emotional, for the years between thirty and sixty are the ages that fall into what I would call the years of responsibility.”

John Sarno, Healing Back Pain

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“Why the mind has chosen to implicate these muscles, nerves, tendons and ligaments in TMS seems beyond our capacity to comprehend at this time. Indeed, it is likely that at this point in the evolution of the human mind, we are incapable of understanding how the brain works generally, how it comprehends and produces language, how it thinks and remembers, and so forth.”

John Sarno, Healing Back Pain

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“We have postulated that in TMS the autonomic system selectively decreases blood flow (vasoconstriction) in certain muscles, nerves, tendons, and ligaments in response to the presence of repressed emotions like anxiety and anger. This state is known as ischemia, that is, the tissue involved is getting less than its normal complement of blood. This means that there will be less oxygen available to those tissues than they are accustomed to and the result will be symptoms—pain, numbness, tingling and sometimes weakness. These things happen because of the critical importance of oxygen in all physiologic processes. When it is reduced below its normal levels one can expect a reaction that will signal the fact.

...Oxygen-deprived muscles are painful for two reasons that are known and perhaps others that are beyond our ability to comprehend. (1) Muscle spasm... (2) the chemistry of the muscles was altered in these patients and they experienced pain because of a buildup of waste chemicals from the metabolism of lactic acid.

...It is likely that oxygen debt causes nerve pain because the reduced level of oxygen threatens the integrity of the nerve, as it does not in muscle... More sensitive nerve tissue is more easily damaged and in order to warn the brain that something is wrong, pain begins with very mild oxygen deprivation. We postulate then that nerve pain is a warning signal.”

John Sarno, Healing Back Pain

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