Patients need to learn that these TMS symptoms are in essence “growing pains.” The TMS patient, for example, is the former child who learned that speaking up might aggravate the frazzled adult in his life, who might get angry; this was scary. The TMS patient is the former child who was never praised unless he accomplished something. The TMS patient is the former child who was abused. The TMS patient is the former child who thought that his parents’ divorce occurred because he was not perfect.
