on light & darkness
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 8:22 am
Hi Lisa,
correct me if i am wrong, but you would use the rubric "light desire for"
because
- the patient wanted to know what was wrong with her - ringing up the
doctor, reading medical books etc.
- She wanted to know because she could not bear *not* knowing, she was
afraid of this state of not not knowing
- most of the remedies in the rubric "light desire for" also has fear of
darkness
- fear of darkness is fear of unknown
i don't think i understand the logic very well (not the least of which is -
why don't you use fear of darkness ?!!! if we go by your line of thinking)
the feeling state of the patient at this point of time appears to be -
Anxiety
the reaction she has shown is typical with most anxious people, they cannot
bear the uncertainty.
when the anxiety is about health related matters, they try to remove this
uncertainty by asking the people who know (doctor) or trying to know herself
by reading books
we can find examples of other remdies/patients where their behaviour is
"tailored" to reduce the uncertainty. the desire for order and
perfectionism of Ars. for example
again i think it is always best to *ask* the patient, why does he/she want
to know? is it the uncertainty that's killing her? is she afraid that she
has some serious illness ? is it something else ? - that's one of the
serious drawbacks i see to the observe patient - convert to rubrics -
formula. if the patient can indeed tell us, we won't have to use much of
our "theoretical" faculties. (ask the next patient with fear of dark why
they fear it - i have a suspicion that you'll get answers other than simply
fear of the "unknown")
coming to the earlier point, if the behaviour/ symptom of the patient is
marked, we should take it in the totality - not the action of ringing up
doctor/reading book etc, but of the underlying state of anxiety. this
state of the patient (and the behaviour) is not very uncommon, i should
say - many would have come across anxious patients who change doctors and do
all sorts of investigations - because as you say "they need to know"
further, if you indeed have to search for remedies which cannot bear the
"unknown" it would be very inappropriate to take the rubric "light desire
for", - for a lot of remedies in the rubric "Anxiety" and specifically
"anxiety health about" can naturally, have the "desire for light" as you put
it. if we use "light desire for" we would be limiting ourselves to ten
drugs , for a symptom which is not so uncommon/peculiar (not to mention we
would be comparing something entirely different - )
like i said there *are* remedies with great anxiety and fear in their
pathogenesis in the rubric (and in many other rubrics for that matter - they
*are* well proved), and one of those *might* be suitable to Rochelle's
patient, but to say the patient had "light desire for" is stretching it to
the extreme...
regards,
Arun
correct me if i am wrong, but you would use the rubric "light desire for"
because
- the patient wanted to know what was wrong with her - ringing up the
doctor, reading medical books etc.
- She wanted to know because she could not bear *not* knowing, she was
afraid of this state of not not knowing
- most of the remedies in the rubric "light desire for" also has fear of
darkness
- fear of darkness is fear of unknown
i don't think i understand the logic very well (not the least of which is -
why don't you use fear of darkness ?!!! if we go by your line of thinking)
the feeling state of the patient at this point of time appears to be -
Anxiety
the reaction she has shown is typical with most anxious people, they cannot
bear the uncertainty.
when the anxiety is about health related matters, they try to remove this
uncertainty by asking the people who know (doctor) or trying to know herself
by reading books
we can find examples of other remdies/patients where their behaviour is
"tailored" to reduce the uncertainty. the desire for order and
perfectionism of Ars. for example
again i think it is always best to *ask* the patient, why does he/she want
to know? is it the uncertainty that's killing her? is she afraid that she
has some serious illness ? is it something else ? - that's one of the
serious drawbacks i see to the observe patient - convert to rubrics -
formula. if the patient can indeed tell us, we won't have to use much of
our "theoretical" faculties. (ask the next patient with fear of dark why
they fear it - i have a suspicion that you'll get answers other than simply
fear of the "unknown")
coming to the earlier point, if the behaviour/ symptom of the patient is
marked, we should take it in the totality - not the action of ringing up
doctor/reading book etc, but of the underlying state of anxiety. this
state of the patient (and the behaviour) is not very uncommon, i should
say - many would have come across anxious patients who change doctors and do
all sorts of investigations - because as you say "they need to know"
further, if you indeed have to search for remedies which cannot bear the
"unknown" it would be very inappropriate to take the rubric "light desire
for", - for a lot of remedies in the rubric "Anxiety" and specifically
"anxiety health about" can naturally, have the "desire for light" as you put
it. if we use "light desire for" we would be limiting ourselves to ten
drugs , for a symptom which is not so uncommon/peculiar (not to mention we
would be comparing something entirely different - )
like i said there *are* remedies with great anxiety and fear in their
pathogenesis in the rubric (and in many other rubrics for that matter - they
*are* well proved), and one of those *might* be suitable to Rochelle's
patient, but to say the patient had "light desire for" is stretching it to
the extreme...
regards,
Arun