designer diseases --a reply

[Charlotte Gilruth]

Joy Lucas wrote:

Dear Joy,
I have been dealing with this very issue myself lately, with three of my
clients. One is a woman whose extreme sinus pain developed when her mother
died suddenly and unexpectedly. She blamed herself for her mother's extra
stress at the time. The pain went away for brief periods of time with what
I felt must be the simillimum. Over the course of a year she improved
overall as we experimented with various potencies of the remedy. Then she
had a momentous turning point when she was pain-free for 7 weeks.
Unfortunately, things did not turn the right way: She crashed again to
intense pain, went back on antibiotics, and dropped out of treatment when I
suggested it might be time to really probe the unconscious dynamics of her
disease. I frankly feel she needs the pain in order to punish herself for
her mother's death. She seems to believe she "doesn't deserve" to be
pain-free.

Another woman, alos slowly improving with ups and downs for over a year,
had a remarkable day recently when all symptoms disappeared, she felt like
her "old self." She too then crashed. She said in her appointment last
week that she didn't see any point in getting well, as she doesn't have a
job, or a relationship, or anything to do.

Entrenched beliefs can be serious obstacles to cure. Sankaran says,
"Delusion is disease, awareness is cure." Sometimes people are not ready to
become more aware, therefore they cannot let go of their disease. I've been
continuously surprised at who stays with treatment and who drops out. It's
not always easily predictable.

Thanks for bringing up this puzzling phenomenon.

Charlotte Gilruth

[Tanya Marquette]

So, are what people saying is that we cannot use homeopathy to relieve people of their guild, despair, sense of loneliness? Or is it that we need to hone our skills more?

I know what you mean about patients not being ready to get well. But I always thought that is what we did in our work. The description of peeling an onion was often used to describe the process of removing separate layers of dis-ease. Is it that we sometimes get stuck at understanding a particular layer or correctly perceiving what the layer is before us?

tanya

[Nancy Siciliana]

Tanya wrote:
I know what you mean about patients not being ready to get well. But I
always thought that is what we did in our work. The description of peeling
an onion was often used to describe the process of removing separate layers
of dis-ease. Is it that we sometimes get stuck at understanding a
particular layer or correctly perceiving what the layer is before us?

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To me, it seems that the fear which underlines everything in the case may
not be so evident, or has not been so strongly felt by the patient who then
has to confront its reality.

In a sense (and this may be really oversimplifying it), we're giving a
remedy for an ailment--its physical sx and its accompanying other sx--but we
ought to be giving a remedy for the fear. Everything seems to improve in
the body and to some extent even in the patient's life--but once that fear
shows itself and remains unaddressed, the illness comes back. That fear
seems to be the whole case.
Nancy

[Sheila Parks]

hi again dear everyone, for me, this is how i would look at the woman with
guilt or fear or whatever it is she feels in her dis-ease about her mother's
death. this comes from my experience of listening to thousands of stories
over more than twenty years, not in homeopathy. i would look at what was
done/not done, said/not said to the CHILD that caused her to have this guilt
or fear or whatever the feeling is, this wound. and i would suspect that it
was done/not done said/not said by this self same mother. father also or
other caretakers could also have played a part. that for me would be the
never well since and what needs to be healed. sheila
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