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[Rosemary C Hyde, Ph.D., C.C.H.]

I suspect it all has to do with the similarity of patient/ symptoms and remedy, as I've also seen excellent results with obsessive compulsive disorder of lifelong standing and great depth.

Your comment on people who've made life changes to accommodate their conditions is really interesting. I want to reflect on that. There is a group of patients who respond very poorly to homeopathy, and their lack of response has something to do with a lack of ability to perceive the actual symptoms -- inability to be specific or to remember and form a continuum for themselves from one interview to the next, or....

Yet I have a patient currently who has given me the feeling of working amid a pea soup fog. She came for a feeling of fatigue and heaviness, with no details or specifics. I observed that she was really confused, unable to complete sentences or remember anything specific about her symptoms. She had a couple of relatively minor neurological symptoms physically. There were a couple of particulars -- like being really intensely and specifically annoyed about a friend she thought talked too much about herself, and a lengthy list of vaccinations throughout adulthood -- that made me think Zinc. Each time I've seen her, however, her mind has been clearer -- the remedy is definitely working very deeply. The heaviness has lifted. But she never had any idea that she was confused or disoriented, so I've had to demonstrate to her as she recovers much of what the remedy actually has accomplished. The neuroma in her foot and the slight tremor in her hand that she complained about initially have remained unchanged, not surprisingly, and she has no inherent awareness that the remedy has done anything, because she has focused on these peripheral symptoms. She is finally beginning to believe my comparisons of her initial conversations and now (5 months later).

In any case, her remedy response demonstrates that a lack of ability to perceive symptoms isn't the thing that makes people unresponsive...

So I'm definitely interested in your hypothesis about making accommodations.

Rosemary