I am not sure where to begin . . .

[Roger B]

Dear Minutus,

An hour ago, my 15 year old son flipped me the bird, the middle finger. That is not the worst of it. That is not even the problem. He was sleeping on the couch and . . . Where do I begin? He says that he didn't even remember getting to the couch. He walked downstairs from sleeping in his bedroom and put his head in his very loving mother's lap and "went" back to sleep, although it seems that he was walking in his sleep. He slept with his head in her lap for a while and then she wanted to go to the gym so she put a pillow under his head and went to the gym. I came along and put a blanket over him and he continued to sleep.

About an hour later he screams out a short scream and I yelled down to him "I love you sweet boy. I'm here for you." And he flips me the bird, in his freaking sleep. His making an ugly gesture at his father who adores him is insignificant compared to his not remembering having done it.

He has a history of some very seriously horrendous nightmares and running around the house as a child while asleep during these nightmares. From the outside, they rival the worst Hollywood movie freak-outs. It has been years since he had such a nightmare, until this morning.

I used LSD in the late 1960's, and this might be related.

He is an otherwise wonderful and healthy teenaged boy with no health problems that I can discern. His room is a mess, which is very normal, but don't tell him I said that. (:->)

He says that he has been under a lot of stress because a close friend was killed accidentally by her step-father. Consequently, he used marijuana for a couple of weeks until I caught him, but I think that we have that sorted out. His grades are OK and getting better. He is very responsible about studying, and I have got him started on www.vocabulary.com , and I think that his vocabulary has been a problem with his grades. I am trying to get him to do yoga and do other stress reducing practices.

Any advice will be deeply appreciated, especially of the homeopathic kind. I fear that we cannot allow this trend to continue because young adulthood can be be very stressful and a lot of people end up on the rocks emotionally/mentally at that time. So I have to fix this problem now, not after he has landed in a mental hospital or is living in our basement as a loser.

Sincerely,

Roger Bird

[Jean Doherty]

Was he clinging to his mother. Is he sensitive to light ? Stramonium
Ref Works
Somnambulism (94): 3Zinc., 2dict., 2kali-br., 2meli., 2phos., absin., acon., agar., allox., alum., alum-p., am-br., anac., ant-c., arg., arg-n., art-v., aur-br., bar-br., bar-p., bell., brom., bry., bufo, calc., calc-br., camph., cann-i., caps., carc., cath-a., cham., chloram., cic., cinnb., croc., crot-h., croto-t., cupr-p., cur., cycl., diosp-k., dpt, graph., hell., hipp., hyos., ign., kali-c., kali-p., kali-s., kalm., lach., lap-a., laur., luna, lup., lyc., lyss., m-arct., mag-br., mag-s., meph., mosch., nat-br., nat-m., nit-ac., nux-m., op., petr., phase., plat., plb-p., psor., rheum, rumx., sep., sil., spig., spong., stann., stram., sulph., syph., tarent., teucr., titan., titan-s., tub., verat., x-ray, zinc-m., zinc-n., zinc-p.
Maybe Kali Phos because of the stress
Bromine Ringer, who finds it very useful in the night - screaming and somnambulism of children, and the nightmare of adults. We may remember, too, the connection between too profound sleep and nocturnal enuresis.
Calc : Sleep often disturbed up by dream. Somnambulism.
Kali Brom Night terrors of children (Kali p.); grinding teeth in sleep, screams, moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends. Somnambulism (Sil.). ?? blames himself for not saving mate.
Need modalities, Jean

[Jean Doherty]

Complete
MIND; SOMNAMBULISM (69) : 4OP., 3Acon., 3Dict., 3Nat-m., 3Phos., 2anac., 2art-v., 2bry., 2cann-i., 2m-arct., 2sil., 2spong., 2stram., 2sulph., 2tarent., agar., alum., alum-sil., ant-c., arg., aur-br., bell., calc., camph., cham., chap., chel., chlol., cic., croc., crot-h., cur., cycl., des-ac., gaert., guare., hell., hipp., hyos., hyper., ign., kali-br., kali-c., kali-p., kali-s., kalm., lach., lap-a., luna, lyc., lyss., m-p-a., meph., mosch., nit-ac., paeon., petr., plat., podo., psor., rheum, rumx., sep., spig., stann., teucr., tub., verat., zinc.
Nat mur a grief remedy. Cann- Indica there and it may have precipitated return of state but would be nervous of using it.
You just have to explore most likely remedies .
Best wishes, Jean

[Roger B]

Dear Jean, He is very close to his mother, but I would not call it clinging. I have even told him to be his own man and to say no when he wanted to say no. It is she who seems to be doing the clinging, but it is sort of part of her culture. She does not seem to be pathological about it. And he often let's us know that he has had enough love and affection.

Roger
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: clellyd@bigpond.com
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:01:31 +1000
Subject: Re: [Minutus] I am not sure where to begin . . .

Was he clinging to his mother. Is he sensitive to light ? Stramonium

Ref Works
Somnambulism (94): 3Zinc., 2dict., 2kali-br., 2meli., 2phos., absin., acon., agar., allox., alum., alum-p., am-br., anac., ant-c., arg., arg-n., art-v., aur-br., bar-br., bar-p., bell., brom., bry., bufo, calc., calc-br., camph., cann-i., caps., carc., cath-a., cham., chloram., cic., cinnb., croc., crot-h., croto-t., cupr-p., cur., cycl., diosp-k., dpt, graph., hell., hipp., hyos., ign., kali-c., kali-p., kali-s., kalm., lach., lap-a., laur., luna, lup., lyc., lyss., m-arct., mag-br., mag-s., meph., mosch., nat-br., nat-m., nit-ac., nux-m., op., petr., phase., plat., plb-p., psor., rheum, rumx., sep., sil., spig., spong., stann., stram., sulph., syph., tarent., teucr., titan., titan-s., tub., verat., x-ray, zinc-m., zinc-n., zinc-p.
Maybe Kali Phos because of the stress
Bromine Ringer, who finds it very useful in the night - screaming and somnambulism of children, and the nightmare of adults. We may remember, too, the connection between too profound sleep and nocturnal enuresis.
Calc : Sleep often disturbed up by dream. Somnambulism.
Kali Brom Night terrors of children (Kali p.); grinding teeth in sleep, screams, moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends. Somnambulism (Sil.). ?? blames himself for not saving mate.
Need modalities, Jean

[Roger B]

Jean,

He is not sensitive to light. I have experienced that decades ago, and I see it in his mother, who is very sensitive to light. But he is not sensitive to light.

Roger
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: clellyd@bigpond.com
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:01:31 +1000
Subject: Re: [Minutus] I am not sure where to begin . . .

Was he clinging to his mother. Is he sensitive to light ? Stramonium

Ref Works
Somnambulism (94): 3Zinc., 2dict., 2kali-br., 2meli., 2phos., absin., acon., agar., allox., alum., alum-p., am-br., anac., ant-c., arg., arg-n., art-v., aur-br., bar-br., bar-p., bell., brom., bry., bufo, calc., calc-br., camph., cann-i., caps., carc., cath-a., cham., chloram., cic., cinnb., croc., crot-h., croto-t., cupr-p., cur., cycl., diosp-k., dpt, graph., hell., hipp., hyos., ign., kali-c., kali-p., kali-s., kalm., lach., lap-a., laur., luna, lup., lyc., lyss., m-arct., mag-br., mag-s., meph., mosch., nat-br., nat-m., nit-ac., nux-m., op., petr., phase., plat., plb-p., psor., rheum, rumx., sep., sil., spig., spong., stann., stram., sulph., syph., tarent., teucr., titan., titan-s., tub., verat., x-ray, zinc-m., zinc-n., zinc-p.
Maybe Kali Phos because of the stress
Bromine Ringer, who finds it very useful in the night - screaming and somnambulism of children, and the nightmare of adults. We may remember, too, the connection between too profound sleep and nocturnal enuresis.
Calc : Sleep often disturbed up by dream. Somnambulism.
Kali Brom Night terrors of children (Kali p.); grinding teeth in sleep, screams, moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends. Somnambulism (Sil.). ?? blames himself for not saving mate.
Need modalities, Jean