Dear Tanya, thank you for your notes re: your case.
This is why it is so important to grade symptoms - if aspects of the case
are in the past and no longer relevent they should be stated as such or
graded as such. Although the notes do not read as though these aspects ARE
just in her past. They seem so strong that their relevence to me, at least,
are high and should be taken into consideration NOW. She has been through a
certain amount of re-hab etc and this can act as a form of suppression.
So she now wants to live in isolation - this is also a Sx from the past.
SPIDERS live in isolation! (Sorry just plugging TARENTULA again). But yes -
thuja is possible, also cunning but fragile want to be protected - not sure
that the violence/sex is there though.
Something alive in the stomach/abdomen - your Rx has to appear in this
rubric.
I have a comparison of the snake remedies if anyone would like it. It is
always an interesting way to get to know remedies that are grouped together.
Best wishes, Joy Lucas
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Beverly Shamon
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Re: online caseTM/Dec.01
Hello Joy,
yes, I would certainly like a comparison of the snake remedies if you would
be so kind
kind regards
Beverly Shamon-Turner
yes, I would certainly like a comparison of the snake remedies if you would
be so kind
kind regards
Beverly Shamon-Turner
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Tanya Marquette
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Re: online caseTM/Dec.01
Dear Joy,
My apologies if I was misleading in any way. When you are so close to a situation, and feel it so intimately, it is sometimes hard to realize how you sound in presenting. having worked on this case for so long, i am afraid this is what is happening.
i think this woman had a great deal of repressed anger at the beginning of the case. when she presented her appearance was very red (4). she is not a big woman and came in wearing a large red turtleneck, green and red plaid pants, red socks over the pants and red shoes. her make-up was very red, too. and of course her hair was very cherry red and spiked. this was significant, considering her age at the time, 54.
over time she toned down considerably. i remember commenting to her one day that she had become 'pink'. she no longer wore those intense reds. outside of her hair, her appearance is very subdued now: minimal and soft color make-up, clothing colors are neutral or tones.
my original take on the case was lots of suppressed anger or rage. but her affect was very sweet and soft. i worked with suppressed anger for quite a while as a rubric. lately i have been working with supressed emotions, fear of loss of control as central emotional rubrics. shame became an important rubric awhile ago, too. but the control issues have been coming to the fore in the past year.
the 'violence' is interesting to me. i am not comfortble with my sense of it. i think she still has some in there, but i am not sure what degree of intensity i would assign it. sometimes i think it is great, and other times i think we have relieved it to a good degree.
recently she has been expressing irritability when things dont go the way she planned. she does phone orders for a jewelry company. a customer was giving her a hard time and she just "wanted to knock him in the head." she also takes care of her grandchildren a lot, but on a schedule. when her daughter asked her to deal with a little child out of schedule, M said yes, but was very irritable and out of sorts because she felt out of control with her life. I think this is a big piece of the case (4)--out of control and irritable.
the beating of pillows was a therapeutic exercise that was done to help her release supressed feelings. and as a very dutiful person, she did this. she does seem able to release feelings by yelling and cursing when in the privacy of her home. once she was having an aggravation of the RA. i had her come in to see me (we work mainly overy the phone). she told me how angry she was at me and the world. she discharged her anger in the car driving into the office. but, of course, told me this with a smile and sweetness about her. she was feeling secure enough in our relationship, she said, to let me know.
so, i think we are dealing with insecurity about intimacy as well. she clearly doesnt trust men, but she does have many women friends and support people in her life.
i do question my own perceptions about the level of anger that she feels (or supresses) these days. Control, shame, fear, worry for her son in the armed services, concern for her daughter--these are the themes of her discussion. but anger is not talked about. "why do they hate us so?" was what she said after the WTC.
her relapse with the RA seemed very connected to feeling out of control (4) and very fearful (3-4). childhood confusion about not understanding seemed to come into it, too.
do these notes clarify things? am i not seeing the case clearly?
thanks
tanya
My apologies if I was misleading in any way. When you are so close to a situation, and feel it so intimately, it is sometimes hard to realize how you sound in presenting. having worked on this case for so long, i am afraid this is what is happening.
i think this woman had a great deal of repressed anger at the beginning of the case. when she presented her appearance was very red (4). she is not a big woman and came in wearing a large red turtleneck, green and red plaid pants, red socks over the pants and red shoes. her make-up was very red, too. and of course her hair was very cherry red and spiked. this was significant, considering her age at the time, 54.
over time she toned down considerably. i remember commenting to her one day that she had become 'pink'. she no longer wore those intense reds. outside of her hair, her appearance is very subdued now: minimal and soft color make-up, clothing colors are neutral or tones.
my original take on the case was lots of suppressed anger or rage. but her affect was very sweet and soft. i worked with suppressed anger for quite a while as a rubric. lately i have been working with supressed emotions, fear of loss of control as central emotional rubrics. shame became an important rubric awhile ago, too. but the control issues have been coming to the fore in the past year.
the 'violence' is interesting to me. i am not comfortble with my sense of it. i think she still has some in there, but i am not sure what degree of intensity i would assign it. sometimes i think it is great, and other times i think we have relieved it to a good degree.
recently she has been expressing irritability when things dont go the way she planned. she does phone orders for a jewelry company. a customer was giving her a hard time and she just "wanted to knock him in the head." she also takes care of her grandchildren a lot, but on a schedule. when her daughter asked her to deal with a little child out of schedule, M said yes, but was very irritable and out of sorts because she felt out of control with her life. I think this is a big piece of the case (4)--out of control and irritable.
the beating of pillows was a therapeutic exercise that was done to help her release supressed feelings. and as a very dutiful person, she did this. she does seem able to release feelings by yelling and cursing when in the privacy of her home. once she was having an aggravation of the RA. i had her come in to see me (we work mainly overy the phone). she told me how angry she was at me and the world. she discharged her anger in the car driving into the office. but, of course, told me this with a smile and sweetness about her. she was feeling secure enough in our relationship, she said, to let me know.
so, i think we are dealing with insecurity about intimacy as well. she clearly doesnt trust men, but she does have many women friends and support people in her life.
i do question my own perceptions about the level of anger that she feels (or supresses) these days. Control, shame, fear, worry for her son in the armed services, concern for her daughter--these are the themes of her discussion. but anger is not talked about. "why do they hate us so?" was what she said after the WTC.
her relapse with the RA seemed very connected to feeling out of control (4) and very fearful (3-4). childhood confusion about not understanding seemed to come into it, too.
do these notes clarify things? am i not seeing the case clearly?
thanks
tanya