S3 Ep74: Teens Teaching Teens TMS: Anxiety, Stomachaches, Migraines and More
The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW
Nicole Sachs, LCSW
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today we have something long overdue in the sense that we’ve been wanting to talk about it for a couple of years, but we knew we had to get it right when we did. Teenagers have never been our target audience, and it’s not because they don’t need these tools as much, and often more, than adults. I hear so often from concerned adults who badly want to help the young people in their lives get relief from chronic symptoms: Anxiety, migraines, stomach problems, and so many other struggles. Most of you listening already understand the relationship between perfectionism, achievement, self-criticism, and all the qualities we know are the breeding ground for TMS. So many teenagers find themselves in this debacle.
But being a parent myself, I know you have to talk to teens differently - find them where they are, break through to them and build credibility in a different way. One night, Lisa and I were talking about all of this and her teenage daughter, Kate, got involved in the conversation. She broke the news: the only people teenagers will take their information from is other teenagers. We knew she was right.
Not only is Kate an awesome communicator, she has her own TMS story. After a childhood of debilitating stomachaches that sidelined her in the most important areas of her life, the pain mysteriously ended (anyone who knows about the Symptom Imperative knows it wasn't mysterious) and she began struggling with anxiety and a feeling of being stuck. It was then that she began to JournalSpeak and saw, as she describes, "magical" changes in her life. She is now officially a member of TCFCP Team - our first teen ambassador. Today she comes on the pod for her debut interview, and we discuss it ALL. Spoiler - she's a JournalSpeak badass of the highest order. She will help you get right down to it, no matter your age. We discuss it all, as we embark upon the adventure of creating a message crafted by teens, for teens.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cure for Chronic Pain Podcast with me, Nicole Sachs. |
| 0:07.0 | You are here. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello everyone, how are you guys today? |
| 0:15.0 | This is Nicole, and you've reached my podcast, The Care for Chronic Pain with me, |
| 0:19.0 | Nicole Zax, welcome to it. |
| 0:21.0 | Today we have something a little different for you. Something really long overdue in the sense that we have been wanting to talk about this for a couple of years now, but we really knew we had to get it right when we did. I know I talk a lot about my own kids and their |
| 0:36.8 | TMS, but in general, teenagers have never been our target audience. And it's certainly not because they don't need these tools as much or |
| 0:45.2 | often more than adults. In fact, I've heard from teens over the years and I've also |
| 0:51.1 | heard tons from their concerned parents and other adults in their lives who really badly want to help them. |
| 0:57.0 | And we know it's important, we just didn't quite know how. |
| 1:01.0 | You know, teens are suffering so badly with anxiety and |
| 1:04.9 | migraines and stomach issues and so many other struggles. When Lisa first |
| 1:10.4 | started producing the podcast, she had recently worked on a documentary called |
| 1:14.1 | Chasing Childhood. And it was about the teen mental health crisis. I don't know if you saw it. It's really |
| 1:19.7 | excellent. It was looking at the epidemic of anxiety and depression in America and its relationship to the relentless pressure that kids are under. |
| 1:30.0 | Most of you listening already understand the relationship between perfectionism, achievement, and all of those qualities we know are the breeding ground for TMS, that type T personality that many different societies tend to push in our kids even though we really don't mean to. |
| 1:49.0 | And one of the first goals when Lisa and I started working together was to find a way to bring my work these |
| 1:54.8 | tools to this demographic that needed solutions more than ever. |
| 2:00.4 | But we just knew it wasn't that simple and I think that's why it took us this long. |
| 2:04.4 | You know as a therapist and a producer, Lisa and I knew from professional experience that you have to talk to teens differently and I would find myself trying to explain this |
| 2:14.8 | to teens in different settings. |
| 2:16.4 | And I was like, oh, God, I'm falling short. |
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