tough crowd....

I suggest you don't continue to theorize that much abstraction into
your T.  Your T is loud and it is reality to you.  And I would suggest
you go for a treatment while doing whatever fancy 'habituation' you can
in the process.  The idea of learning as much about your T as possible
is fine but is an expensive exercise.  Old Ts are harder to treat then
new ones.

Most doctors don't know how to treat T.  And this is no exaggeration.
I went to about 15 doctors during the onset of my T about 2 years ago
and each and everyone involved was trying to grope the cause of my T
much as the blind were led to feel the various parts of an elephant.
You may think that T is not curable and the only way to deal with it is
by 'living with it'.  That is STUPID!  On the other hand, it is equally
stupid to visit doctors who can't tell their a.ses from  elbows.

I am suggesting to you, as I have suggested to many T patients in this
group, to visit Dr. Murray in this group.  You have to pay whoever you
visit any way so why not pay someone who knows what he is talking
about?  I wish I had done that as soon as my T came.  Now it is too
late because it is well healed.

Dr. Murray has been around the globe visiting and lecturing in
hospitals and universities, and in doing so having gathered a lot of
useful experiences from not only his work but from the work of other
foreign doctors too.  And he is humble enough to have entertained
himself with various complaints from T patients all over the world
albeit some of the complaints may be beyond his comprehension of
'science'. His approach to T treatment is thus more rounded and
objective than that of those who were born and raised in a
linear-thinking culture of Big Mac and chips.  One dimensional thinking
people don't make good doctors.

I don't know how much Dr. Murray charges, but it is better to go for a
few expensive good visits than to waste your money and time on many
cheap but useless visits.

After you exhaust the best western medical treatments available, and if
you could still not find the answer to your T at that time, I would
direct you to visit the 'alternative' doctors.  Actually, looking back
into the development of medicine worldwide, the so-called 'alternative'
should have been the 'conventional' while the conventioanl the
alternative.  After all, when the Chinese were building the Great Wall,
tracking down the comic, applying acupuncture and various herbs for
medical treatments, the WASPs used to live in the dark forests of
Europe, drinking animal bloods and dancing around camp fires with their
bottoms naked...
So which medical practice is more 'conventional' in terms of
development?

Go for a proper medical treatment and at the same time you are welcomed
to share you learning experience of your T with us.