DELUSIONS OF Sepia 200 every day for a month
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:42 am
Sepia is a homoeopathic remedy derived from a sea creature. The Delusion rubric: seeing people, can be interpreted as one's feelings of persecution and potential threat, or it can be interpreted as a sign that one will be saved. Sepia fear being exposed. They feel they need to protect themselves from potential threat. Sepia fear being looked at and mocked. Sepia alternate between illusions or idealized perceptions of hope that they will be saved, and psychological 'delusions of persecution' that they will be attacked or persecuted. The differing interpretation of the Delusion rubric: seeing people highlights an inherent polarity within their psyche. The theme is dependence versus independence. When Sepia are sick it is easy for them to feel anxious and ungrounded and unable to understand anything. Sepia appear extremely foggy and confused when they are sick. This is indicative of their psyche somatically mirroring the murky ink of the cuttlefish.
The homoeopathic practitioner will be viewed as their 'God' who is able to save them. This is the psychodynamic application and relevance of the Delusion rubric: three doctors come. Sepia disproportionately over-react to their illness; this is why they need not one, but three doctors to attend to them. Sepia are also listed in the Mind rubrics: fear doctors, and aversion to homoeopathy. It is normal to struggle with the acceptance of disease and death, but Sepia struggle with their dependence on their health practitioner. Sepia disproportionately depend on their health practitioner and conversely react negatively to becoming dependant on their practitioner. The essence is the internal struggle for independence. Sepia are listed in the Mind rubric: antagonism with self.
Sepia struggle to survive unsupported in their life in general. Conversely, they struggle to allow themselves to be supported.
A Delusion rubric is only used if you can see a misinterpretation of reality which prevents the person from making a correct assessment of reality. The Delusion rubrics of the psychological 'delusions of grandeur' become relevant in case-taking when the patient presents with an unrealistic belief that they can depend on someone else to save them. The psychodynamic relevance of the Delusion rubric: three doctors come, and the Delusion rubric: illusions of fancy, is that it indicates an exaggerated belief in cure, as well as an exaggerated assessment of the gravity of their illness. If there is an exaggerated belief in cure or need, then underneath it are numerous Delusion rubrics of being forsaken. If there is an exaggerated assessment of the gravity of their illness then the fear of losing support will also be exaggerated. This is why Sepia have numerous rubrics pertaining to persecution and abandonment. The most potent is the Delusion rubric: he or she is neglected. Sepia feel ungrounded and unsupported in life, particularly around their inability to survive financially in the world. Sepia have the Delusion rubrics: he is poor, and family will starve. The Delusion rubrics: family will starve, going to be robbed, and he or she is neglected, are Delusion rubrics which indicate psychological 'delusions of deprivation'. In Sepia the psychodynamic struggle to survive in the world and become a self-actualized person has its causation in neglect and starvation as a baby. Sepia struggle their whole life to be able to have their needs met. The psychodynamic trauma inside Sepia which undermines them, or leaves them floundering in starving emptiness, is that they do not believe they can have their needs met in a relationship, or in life, because they literally do not know how to verbalize or understand those needs. Sepia have the Delusion rubrics: she would have to learn anew everything she wished to do, and she could not understand anything. Both of these Delusion rubrics indicate that the 'never-well-since-event' in a Sepia case has its foundation in the early, pre-verbal years of their life. If the first needs of the infant are not met then the infant presumes that their needs will remain unmet for the rest of their lives.
Sepia are confused and unrealized in their emotional independence[ii] and in particular in their financial independence. The Mind rubric: antagonism with self, indicates the degree to which Sepia feel unsupported, even within themselves and towards themselves. Interestingly, Sepia do not have any psychological 'delusions of original sin'. Their internal battle is about whether to accept and trust the support offered from the world, not about whether they have personally caused the unsupported dilemma they find themselves in. Sepia struggle to acknowledge any wrong doing. The biggest undermining fear which causes Sepia pain is the fear that others will laugh at them particularly when they are unable to know how to do something. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: being laughed and mocked at, and she could not understand anything. [1] 1. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: suspended in the air. This rubric should not be taken literally, rather it is indicative of the psychodynamic trauma within Sepia which is caused by lack of support. Sepia often appear unable to enact effective change. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: he was chased and had to run backwards. [1] 1. The psychodynamic interpretation of this rubric indicates that Sepia feel as if they can always be potentially defeated. Furthermore, all effort to enact change [escape] is self-defeating because it is ineffective [backwards]. Sepia are often noted for their confusion and inactivity if they are depressed. Their depression is not the cause of their confusion. Their depression arises as a result of feeling defeated in their attempts to enact change. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: delusions of emptiness. Sepia, aside from feeling empty and unsupported, literally feel crushed if they are over-controlled. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: something else from above which is pressing the chest. [1] 1. My Sepia (case) in the Case Companion to Homoeopathic Psychiatry reflected on the following dream, which highlights the conflict between the need to be dependent versus the need for independence: It is interesting when I think back about that dolphin dream. The dolphin landed on me like that, but the dream I was having when the dolphin landed on me was I was in the Garden of Eden. It was all happy, beautiful fruit trees all covered in fruit and then bang there it was. The dolphin was jumping from one level to another, then it landed on me. This dream is a good example of the paradox of Sepia relationships and of their life in general. Dependency in relationship is associated with being smothered, like when the dolphin landed on her. Dependency on the homoeopathic practitioner brings to the surface the same dilemma; this is why Sepia have the conflicting Mind rubrics: fear doctors, and aversion to homoeopathy, versus the Delusion rubrics: three doctors come, and believes in witches. Dependency on the homoeopathic practitioner brings to the surface their 'delusions of hypochondria'. The underlying, psychodynamic, somatic feedback loop that Sepia are embroiled in is a negative reinforcement and it is self-deprecating. Sepia undermine their power to support themselves financially in this world. Sepia were undermined as infants; they in turn, then undermine themselves by not taking their own energy seriously. Sepia have been unsupported and they, in turn, struggle to believe their own body will support them. This is why Sepia have numerous hypochondriac Delusion rubrics alluding to not being strong enough to work. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: he would faint, and the Delusion rubric: she could easily strain herself, and the Delusion rubric: being sick and for this reason will not work.
The Delusion rubric: seeing people highlights an inherent polarity within their psyche. The simillimum will only be Sepia if the patient has a need to create dependency and a need to create independence.
1. Denial: Delusion rubric: people: seeing people: sep. Delusion rubric: doctors come; three: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: witches; believes in: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: calls: someone calls: sleep; someone calls him during: SEP. [3] 1. [These rubrics can pertain to doctors or witches or specters and ghosts coming to save them, or illusions of people coming to mock them.] Delusion rubric: fancy, illusions of: sep. Delusion rubric: visions, has: sep.
2. Forsaken: Delusion rubric: laughed at and mocked at; being: sep. Delusion rubric: poor; he is: Sep. Delusion rubric: robbed, is going to be: sep. Delusion rubric: starve: family will: Sep. Delusion rubric: unfortunate, he is: sep. [This rubric can pertain to feeling abandoned, or feelings of depression and failure.] Delusion rubric: air: suspended in the air: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: alone, being: graveyard; alone in a: sep. Delusion rubric: neglected: he or she is neglected: sep. Delusion rubric: poisoned: he: has been: sep.
3. Causation: NONE.
4. Depression: Delusion rubric: anxious: sep. Delusion rubric: understand: not understand anything; she could: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: unfortunate, he is: sep. Delusion rubric: emptiness; of: SEP. Delusion rubric: learn: anew everything she wished to do; she would have to learn: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: run: backward; he was chased and had to run: sep. [1] 1. [This rubric pertains to ineffectual actions.]
5. Resignation: Delusion rubric: sick: being: sep. Delusion rubric: strain herself; she could easily: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: faint; he would: sep. Delusion rubric: sick: being: work; and for this reason will not: sep.
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"The homeopathic remedy Sepia is derived from the ink that cuttlefish squirt out when they sense that danger is present. If cuttlefish feel hemmed in or threatened they need to quickly create a subterfuge so they can escape. The Sepia theme of escape and subterfuge runs through the presentation of the emotional, mental, and physical complaints." Lalor, Liz, A Homeopathic Guide to Partnership and Compatibility, Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, 2004, p.68.
[ii] "Sepia present with converse polarities. The healthy Sepia is self-actualized, and the unhealthy, ungrounded Sepia struggles to realize independence: the theme is dependence versus independence.
· Healthy Sepias are nonconformist.
· Need to find meaning and purpose in life-through career, occupation, or creative outlet.
· Freedom is crucial to feeling happy and secure.
· The Sepia love of space and freedom is often expressed in a love of dance, movement, or exercise.
· Often feel better if they are busy and active; even feel better if they rush around and clean the house.
· Healthy Sepias are creative and passionate.
· Need physical and emotional space to feel alive.
· All gender role expectations of wife and mother will threaten Sepia women.
· Unhealthy Sepias are irritable and defeated.
· When they feel distraught, can often present as typical nagging harridans.
· Unhealthy Sepias look and feel overburdened and exhausted.
· React to restrictions with anger.
· Feel emotionally disconnected if they feel overburdened.
· The cuttlefish need to create subterfuge has parallels in Sepias' feeling cut off and detached.
· Premenstrual tension, anger, and weepy depression are all worse if Sepias feel overburdened.
· Indifferent to everything when depressed and passionately creative when healthy.
· A Sepia woman who is able to walk away from family is healthy. Sepias often stay feeling overburdened out of a strong sense of duty; this is the type of self-suppression that will eventually lead the Sepia woman into crippling depression. It is, of course, far healthier for Sepia to know that some independence will prevent the need to walk away in the first place."
Lalor, Liz, A Homeopathic Guide to Partnership and Compatibility, Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, 2004, p.p. 69-70.
The homoeopathic practitioner will be viewed as their 'God' who is able to save them. This is the psychodynamic application and relevance of the Delusion rubric: three doctors come. Sepia disproportionately over-react to their illness; this is why they need not one, but three doctors to attend to them. Sepia are also listed in the Mind rubrics: fear doctors, and aversion to homoeopathy. It is normal to struggle with the acceptance of disease and death, but Sepia struggle with their dependence on their health practitioner. Sepia disproportionately depend on their health practitioner and conversely react negatively to becoming dependant on their practitioner. The essence is the internal struggle for independence. Sepia are listed in the Mind rubric: antagonism with self.
Sepia struggle to survive unsupported in their life in general. Conversely, they struggle to allow themselves to be supported.
A Delusion rubric is only used if you can see a misinterpretation of reality which prevents the person from making a correct assessment of reality. The Delusion rubrics of the psychological 'delusions of grandeur' become relevant in case-taking when the patient presents with an unrealistic belief that they can depend on someone else to save them. The psychodynamic relevance of the Delusion rubric: three doctors come, and the Delusion rubric: illusions of fancy, is that it indicates an exaggerated belief in cure, as well as an exaggerated assessment of the gravity of their illness. If there is an exaggerated belief in cure or need, then underneath it are numerous Delusion rubrics of being forsaken. If there is an exaggerated assessment of the gravity of their illness then the fear of losing support will also be exaggerated. This is why Sepia have numerous rubrics pertaining to persecution and abandonment. The most potent is the Delusion rubric: he or she is neglected. Sepia feel ungrounded and unsupported in life, particularly around their inability to survive financially in the world. Sepia have the Delusion rubrics: he is poor, and family will starve. The Delusion rubrics: family will starve, going to be robbed, and he or she is neglected, are Delusion rubrics which indicate psychological 'delusions of deprivation'. In Sepia the psychodynamic struggle to survive in the world and become a self-actualized person has its causation in neglect and starvation as a baby. Sepia struggle their whole life to be able to have their needs met. The psychodynamic trauma inside Sepia which undermines them, or leaves them floundering in starving emptiness, is that they do not believe they can have their needs met in a relationship, or in life, because they literally do not know how to verbalize or understand those needs. Sepia have the Delusion rubrics: she would have to learn anew everything she wished to do, and she could not understand anything. Both of these Delusion rubrics indicate that the 'never-well-since-event' in a Sepia case has its foundation in the early, pre-verbal years of their life. If the first needs of the infant are not met then the infant presumes that their needs will remain unmet for the rest of their lives.
Sepia are confused and unrealized in their emotional independence[ii] and in particular in their financial independence. The Mind rubric: antagonism with self, indicates the degree to which Sepia feel unsupported, even within themselves and towards themselves. Interestingly, Sepia do not have any psychological 'delusions of original sin'. Their internal battle is about whether to accept and trust the support offered from the world, not about whether they have personally caused the unsupported dilemma they find themselves in. Sepia struggle to acknowledge any wrong doing. The biggest undermining fear which causes Sepia pain is the fear that others will laugh at them particularly when they are unable to know how to do something. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: being laughed and mocked at, and she could not understand anything. [1] 1. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: suspended in the air. This rubric should not be taken literally, rather it is indicative of the psychodynamic trauma within Sepia which is caused by lack of support. Sepia often appear unable to enact effective change. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: he was chased and had to run backwards. [1] 1. The psychodynamic interpretation of this rubric indicates that Sepia feel as if they can always be potentially defeated. Furthermore, all effort to enact change [escape] is self-defeating because it is ineffective [backwards]. Sepia are often noted for their confusion and inactivity if they are depressed. Their depression is not the cause of their confusion. Their depression arises as a result of feeling defeated in their attempts to enact change. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: delusions of emptiness. Sepia, aside from feeling empty and unsupported, literally feel crushed if they are over-controlled. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: something else from above which is pressing the chest. [1] 1. My Sepia (case) in the Case Companion to Homoeopathic Psychiatry reflected on the following dream, which highlights the conflict between the need to be dependent versus the need for independence: It is interesting when I think back about that dolphin dream. The dolphin landed on me like that, but the dream I was having when the dolphin landed on me was I was in the Garden of Eden. It was all happy, beautiful fruit trees all covered in fruit and then bang there it was. The dolphin was jumping from one level to another, then it landed on me. This dream is a good example of the paradox of Sepia relationships and of their life in general. Dependency in relationship is associated with being smothered, like when the dolphin landed on her. Dependency on the homoeopathic practitioner brings to the surface the same dilemma; this is why Sepia have the conflicting Mind rubrics: fear doctors, and aversion to homoeopathy, versus the Delusion rubrics: three doctors come, and believes in witches. Dependency on the homoeopathic practitioner brings to the surface their 'delusions of hypochondria'. The underlying, psychodynamic, somatic feedback loop that Sepia are embroiled in is a negative reinforcement and it is self-deprecating. Sepia undermine their power to support themselves financially in this world. Sepia were undermined as infants; they in turn, then undermine themselves by not taking their own energy seriously. Sepia have been unsupported and they, in turn, struggle to believe their own body will support them. This is why Sepia have numerous hypochondriac Delusion rubrics alluding to not being strong enough to work. Sepia have the Delusion rubric: he would faint, and the Delusion rubric: she could easily strain herself, and the Delusion rubric: being sick and for this reason will not work.
The Delusion rubric: seeing people highlights an inherent polarity within their psyche. The simillimum will only be Sepia if the patient has a need to create dependency and a need to create independence.
1. Denial: Delusion rubric: people: seeing people: sep. Delusion rubric: doctors come; three: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: witches; believes in: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: calls: someone calls: sleep; someone calls him during: SEP. [3] 1. [These rubrics can pertain to doctors or witches or specters and ghosts coming to save them, or illusions of people coming to mock them.] Delusion rubric: fancy, illusions of: sep. Delusion rubric: visions, has: sep.
2. Forsaken: Delusion rubric: laughed at and mocked at; being: sep. Delusion rubric: poor; he is: Sep. Delusion rubric: robbed, is going to be: sep. Delusion rubric: starve: family will: Sep. Delusion rubric: unfortunate, he is: sep. [This rubric can pertain to feeling abandoned, or feelings of depression and failure.] Delusion rubric: air: suspended in the air: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: alone, being: graveyard; alone in a: sep. Delusion rubric: neglected: he or she is neglected: sep. Delusion rubric: poisoned: he: has been: sep.
3. Causation: NONE.
4. Depression: Delusion rubric: anxious: sep. Delusion rubric: understand: not understand anything; she could: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: unfortunate, he is: sep. Delusion rubric: emptiness; of: SEP. Delusion rubric: learn: anew everything she wished to do; she would have to learn: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: run: backward; he was chased and had to run: sep. [1] 1. [This rubric pertains to ineffectual actions.]
5. Resignation: Delusion rubric: sick: being: sep. Delusion rubric: strain herself; she could easily: sep. [1] 1. Delusion rubric: faint; he would: sep. Delusion rubric: sick: being: work; and for this reason will not: sep.
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"The homeopathic remedy Sepia is derived from the ink that cuttlefish squirt out when they sense that danger is present. If cuttlefish feel hemmed in or threatened they need to quickly create a subterfuge so they can escape. The Sepia theme of escape and subterfuge runs through the presentation of the emotional, mental, and physical complaints." Lalor, Liz, A Homeopathic Guide to Partnership and Compatibility, Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, 2004, p.68.
[ii] "Sepia present with converse polarities. The healthy Sepia is self-actualized, and the unhealthy, ungrounded Sepia struggles to realize independence: the theme is dependence versus independence.
· Healthy Sepias are nonconformist.
· Need to find meaning and purpose in life-through career, occupation, or creative outlet.
· Freedom is crucial to feeling happy and secure.
· The Sepia love of space and freedom is often expressed in a love of dance, movement, or exercise.
· Often feel better if they are busy and active; even feel better if they rush around and clean the house.
· Healthy Sepias are creative and passionate.
· Need physical and emotional space to feel alive.
· All gender role expectations of wife and mother will threaten Sepia women.
· Unhealthy Sepias are irritable and defeated.
· When they feel distraught, can often present as typical nagging harridans.
· Unhealthy Sepias look and feel overburdened and exhausted.
· React to restrictions with anger.
· Feel emotionally disconnected if they feel overburdened.
· The cuttlefish need to create subterfuge has parallels in Sepias' feeling cut off and detached.
· Premenstrual tension, anger, and weepy depression are all worse if Sepias feel overburdened.
· Indifferent to everything when depressed and passionately creative when healthy.
· A Sepia woman who is able to walk away from family is healthy. Sepias often stay feeling overburdened out of a strong sense of duty; this is the type of self-suppression that will eventually lead the Sepia woman into crippling depression. It is, of course, far healthier for Sepia to know that some independence will prevent the need to walk away in the first place."
Lalor, Liz, A Homeopathic Guide to Partnership and Compatibility, Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, 2004, p.p. 69-70.