anyone out there know what TMS is?

Answer 1

Well, there are a number of different abbreviations it stands for.

The most common is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. In TMS electromagnetic coils are placed over the skull and the magnet induces electrical currents in specific areas of the brain.

Here's a link to the (pretty good) wikipedia article on this, if you want more detail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_Magnetic_Stimulation

Answer 2

It is Tension Myositis Syndrome. I don't know if I buy this as a real diagnosis.

This seems to be a diagnosis of last resort when a person has Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI), like carpal tunnel syndrome from typing incorrectly (poor ergonomics) or typing too much for too long. Basically, TMS says that RSI isn't really RSI--it says that the symptoms of RSI (pain, etc.) are actually physical manifestations of psychological problems. The solution proposed for TMS is for you to admit that you have a problem ("Hi, I'm Bob, and I have TMS"), uncover the unconscious emotional problems that are causing the symptoms of TMS, and work through the problems. Some patients are being told to go to counseling, psychotherapy, and psychiatrists. The doctor who came up with this theory had a best selling book in 1999 (his third, I think), and readers online have said that it's more Freudian than his previous two books (psychotherapy here we come!).

Yes, there is a link between mind and body. I just don't know that you can say with any great assurance that the symptoms of repetitive stress injury don't have a physical cause and that it all stems from unconscious emotional problems. It just sounds too New Age-ish for my liking.

Speaking of the New Age, one of the links found when you look up TMS is a site that's all about yoga. I'm part east indian in ancestry, and no, there is no such thing as yoga without Hinduism or eastern mysticism. Yoga has always been, and always will be, one of the most powerful ways of entering an altered state of consciousness and communing with the "spirit world." People may do yoga as exercise, but yoga has a lot more to do with altering your mind than keeping your body fit. The deeper you get into yoga, the more you'll find this to be true. I personally stay very, very far away from yoga.

Answer 3

its a common disease actually brought about by stress. often finding its way to single parents. it usually arises when you have to pick up the kids, have extra work to do while the boss is breathing down your neck, the rent is late, your car needs to go to the shop, the cat puked in the floor, wind blew down the power line in front of your house, and your mom is in the hospital. TMS is Too Much $hit

Answer 4

I know PMS!!

haha