Does this sound familiar?
You've had the scans. The bloodwork. The specialists who shrugged, or worse, implied it was in your head. You've tried the medications, the diets, the things that were supposed to help and didn't. You've started to wonder if this is just who you are now.
Why should you care about a framework, a chart, a book?
Because I asked the same questions, for nineteen years, before I found an answer that actually held. Not a diagnosis that explained everything away, and not a promise that it was all in my mind. An actual mechanism, one your doctors likely never tested for, because it isn't where they're trained to look.
This isn't a cure. It's a place to start looking somewhere new.
For everyone who has ever been told 'it's all in your head,' and believed it.
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Written by Tomasz Maciaszek
I lived with cluster headaches for years before I understood why.
Today I'm a certified psychotraumatologist and mindfulness practitioner, supporting people through chronic stress, with several certifications including training through the Trauma Research Foundation, the same foundation behind The Body Keeps the Score.
This book is what connected it all: my own pain, and what the science actually shows about where it can come from.
Pain level, tracked daily (2017-2020)
What's inside
Personal data. Established science. A new psychosomatic model
Charts & Figures
Pain levels, attack patterns, and medication use, logged daily and laid out honestly, including the parts that didn't improve right away.
The Virus Code Model
A five-chart framework of the trigeminal-autonomic reflex, established neurology connecting to my own synthesis about early emotional encoding.
Tested exercises
The same exercises I used to track my own patterns and work through them, included in full in Chapter 9.
Three Parts
The Fog
Years of pain with no clear answer, and what it costs to live inside that uncertainty.
CH1. Life through the limitations
Unveiling the Patterns
What cluster headache actually is, and the mechanisms, established and hypothesized.
CH.2 Cluster Headache
CH.3 Horton's Syndrome & Histamine
CH.4. PTSD & C-PTSD
CH.5 Psychosomatic truths
The Path Out
Not a straight line. What resolution actually looked like, and the practices that moved it forward.
CH.6-10 Body & Spirit; A different kind of health; Practices; and a Letter to the one still searching
This is the model the book is built around.
"The mechanism described is established in neurology. The connection to early emotional encoding is my own synthesis, based on my case and the clinical literature on trauma's neurobiological effects."
- from Chapter 3
Author's note
Hello my dear friend,
It is my pleasure to meet you here. Whatever brought you to these pages, your own pain, someone else's, or simply a quiet curiosity about the connection between body and mind, I'm glad that you're here. I didn't set out to become someone who understood any of this. Life simply left me no other choice.
From the Author's Note
Written to be checked, not just believed.
Before publication, the manuscript is being reviewed by headache researchers for medical accuracy. Where the book draws on established neurology, it says so. Where it's my own synthesis, it says that too.
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