Rochelle
You and others have had good suggestions so far. If I may contribute some
thoughts!
Your case has reminded me of an experience I had about 10 yrs ago -
When I worked in a general hospital on the psych ward as a psychologist and
before studying Homoeopathy, I was asked to attend to a gentleman who would
have been in his sixties who had resisted all their attempts at treatment.
They had tried all the drugs, and he had just had 3 weeks of
electro(shock)therapy - And he just 'wouldn't snap out of it'!
They basically wanted to commit him to a psychiatric hospital and wanted me
to do a battery of tests and come up with a diagnosis of say, dementia, so
they could get him out of the ward and give the bed to someone else!
I sat with him initially, before doing the tests, and tried to talk to him.
He was not too interested in talking, and I got the impression that he
didn't care to live anymore - he was looking despondent, spaced out, and
just wanted to be left alone. It was obvious to me that 'the spark' was
gone, so to speak. He had a wife who was constantly hovering around him,
very efficient - a nurse/matron - however,one of the problems for the
hospital was that he didn't want to go home - he was refusing to go home
actually - where he could be looked after by this efficient wife.
My personal conclusion was that he was weary of life for reasons I was not
able to uncover due to lack of time and that their efforts to 'revive his
spirits' or his 'desire to live' were a waste of time. It was as though he
had decided that this was it -
It was cases like this that led up to my studying homoeopathy in the first
place. I would love to have the opportunity to work with these people again
with the craft of Homoeopathy up my sleeve!
You mentioned in one of your mails that he wanted to be put out of his
misery - this seems to be quite a common theme for severly depressed people
of any age or circumstance - when whatever has been dealt to them is too
much for them to handle - they have hit their threshold of coping, and
cannot see a way through the situation.
Just looking at rubrics such as
MIND - WEARY OF LIFE
MIND - WEARY OF LIFE - unfit for life
MIND - PHENOMENA - WEARY of life
MIND - PHENOMENA - SADNESS, despondency, depression, melancholy
MIND - DELUSIONS - sick - being
MIND - PHENOMENA - DEATH - desires
MIND - SADNESS - despair; with
these would lead me to look at Agn, Hell and a few others with Agn being the
highest contender
If you then add in the possibility (and you would need to confirm this in
interview with him) of physical and consequent emotional impotence as
causative to his present state of mind then adding say
MIND - SADNESS - impotence, with
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - wanting
Agn and Kali Brom become prominent - but do not discount Calad. which has
impotence and depression and is clinically successful at 200C (Banerji)
Rochelle, with prostate problems there is always likely to be issues to do
with sexuality and aging issues, with possible fear of not being able to
hang on to things - territorial type issues - so thorough interviewing on
these topics should lead you to the core problem - if he doesn't want to
reveal or can't for whatever reason, then you can only do what you can do!
Just some thoughts
Interesting case - keep us informed
Robyn
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