can anyone give me a clue please

[Robjna]

Hi Rochelle

I think Michel’s idea of Ignatia is a worthy one – and also have another thought.

The idea came from Sankaran’s plant sensations – of which the Anardiaceae family came to mind when your client mentioned ‘tightness’. The remedy that comes to mind from that group from your notes, was Anacardium.
Because my main work is as a psychologist, I see a lot of people with similar issues as your client has described – and I don’t fully rely on a homoeopathic remedy for the healing – but have found that in the cases where there is a high intellect and then disorders such as monomania etc.... a remedy often helps the rest of the therapy.
The tightness could also be ‘tension’, and it can lead to a feeling of being paralysed, immobile or stuck – and some will try to change this by becoming restless – but not always. They get frustrated because they feel stuck.
Some rubrics that could support Anacardium and a few other rems that could be used are:
Monomania

Thoughts – persistent

Fear of failure

Anger

Mental tension

Want of self confidence

Anxiety – respiration impeded (which leads one to take a deep breath to try and break the tension)

Ailments from being abused

General tension of muscles
When looking at some of the keynotes of Anacardium – and keeping in mind that you don’t always have to have the dual personality aspect with the cruelty part showing through for this remedy to be beneficial:
There are aspects in Anacardium as in Baryta Carb – eg.,the lack of self confidence, which is big in Anac.

Internal conflict from the need to prove himself

Stays in bad situation ; needs to prove themselves over and over

Students before examination: fear of failure; students who pressure themselves intensively

Anxiety about future

Irritability, fly into temper

Feels as if living in dream

Complaints from humiliation – being put down. Etc.........
It is also a good remedy for states of depression that are not suicidal as in the Aurum depressions. It also has the inability to think at times, when under pressure. The 200th potency is particularly noted.
Anyway, it was just a thought – as I don’t contribute alot to the list these days, and have been recouperating this week, and had more time to think and explore.
I hope it goes well with this client
Robyn
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Dear Michel,

Thank you so much for your analysis. Ignatia actually comes quite high in my rep (not as high as the Nux suggested) because of the rubric Monomania which I only hinted at but if a big part of the case. I shall certainly consider everything you have said.

I have not given him Calc but Carcinosin - was the first remedy that started him on the road to improvement. The breathing got a lot better but when repeated when it reared its head again did nothing. There is of cause a lot of grief in Carc. I gave the Bar Carb because I have had a case similar to this before and Bar Carb sorted it.
He is scared of taking the remedy and he takes it in water as I told him it was milder to do it that way. He also prefers to take it at home not infront of me in case he goes into a panic like he did the first time. (Well he called it a panic but it only lasted a few seconds!!)
The causation of a lot of this is mental abuse by the father (domination) in childhood and mollycoddling by the mother.
Thanks again

[kali]

i would look at strong metals (i.e. Aurum, Cuprum) because he is
competitive, but it also sounds as if he is afraid of failure, afraid
of looking like a failure, afraid he is not good enough. sounds
"anti-social," striving for perfection, striving to show that he is
better then the next person, etc.

kali

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "rochelle" wrote:
improved a lot and progress is being made. It is mainly on the M and
E side. I am going to reproduce some of what he wrote in an email in
the hopes that someone maybe able to lead me towards the next
remedy!!! So far he has had Carc and Bar Carb.
class degree in maths)
where things were coming from, why they gave the results they did,
blah, blah, blah. I started to let it really get to me if I could not
understand what was going on - it was certainly not enough to just
know what you did, I felt I needed to know why you did it.
........Maybe I still secretly want some recognition for my
acheivement.........So, with that in mind, is it perhaps
understandable that I became quite frustrated if I couldn't understand
something or couldn't work something out. And, heaven fordbid, if
someone in the class was better than me at something. .......... I
remember the first time I experienced a severe "frustration attack."
I was staring at the same place on the same page of a book, trying to
work out how a formula had been derived - there was one stage in the
derivation which I just couldn't follow. I was getting more and more
frustrated at my inability to understand it - I must have been
concentrating very intensely on trying to work it out for over an
hour. I then started to feel really bad and upset. I left the table,
had a very unreal feeling, walked upstairs at cried my eyes out for a
bit. And, I have never been the same since. ....... Since this time,
I have gone into the "high tension" mode very easily. .......And then
when I can't (understand something), my habits dictate that i start
feeling very frustrated straight away, worried I can't understand it,
focusing on it to the detriment of everything else, feeling like I am
going to burst a blood vessel. Feeling my breathing tighten - my
whole body tighten and just feel quite unpleasant. .......I do get
extremely angry if I feel there's any suggestion that someone is
trying to tell me to relax. ....
feel is in my grasp>>
car or design something practical for his house (he lives with his
twin brother) he learns how to do it.
this is one of his problems. He is 30 and has never had a job. His
social phobia has improved dramatically since the homeopathy. He has a
problem with EFT.

[Rochelle]

Dear Robyn,
Thanks for your thoughts. I actually have a young patient on Anac at the moment and it is really keeping the feelings of despair away if only for a short time.
I don't see duality which as you say doesn't have to be there but there are mood swings. It doesn't take much to start one.
I have to say I like the Ignatia aspect at the moment because of the respiratory stuff and the fact that it is a hysterical remedy and I think he is an hysterical person. I might try this next and then thing abut the Anac for the reasons you have said.
Thank you for your contribution. I think this list is great as contributors give me places to research when I become too stuck in the case to be able to see the wood for the trees if that is the expression.
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Rochelle]

Dear Kali,
These are definitely his issues. Thanks for putting it so succinctly.
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Tanya Marquette]

i guess one of my questions about his relationship with his brother is
whether there some kind of confused identity. what i wonder is whether
he has his identity so bound with the brother that he becomes 1/2 and
sees the brother as the other half. now that would make a duality in a
strange way. then one can view his monomania as an attempt to deal
with his loss of self at specific moments; ie, the sudden panic attacks
due to loss of selfhood and monomania as a means of clinging to
something, anything. so he obsesses on whatever is before him and
then goes on to something else. in this vein his hatred for his brother
could be his battle to separate himself and find his own identity.
maybe this is a stretch, but there it is.
tanya

[Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D.]

Wow -- that would really put the "duality" and confusion of identity theme at the top of the pile. Interesting. Rosemary

[Rochelle]

Very interesting however I don't think I dare suggest it!! I wish I was treating both as I think it would be easier for me to find out the family dynamics.
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Jean Doherty]

Very distracted at moment but on first reading I thought Aconite for panic with base of Sulphur which think is chronic for Aconite for Ego issues, FWIW, Jean

[Tanya Marquette]

well, he certainly seems to be a good challenge. good luck
keep us informed
tanya

[Tanya Marquette]

yep. that twin stuff got me. twins are so interesting and they become so
intertwined. interviews are always focusing on individualizing their identities.
so the thought came to me that if that individualization did not occur for this
guy, then he might be continuing his struggle for it and hanging on dysfunctional
things like hatred and monomania for some kind of self-definition.
so maybe a bit far out, but what can i say.
tanya