Old files on Hoarding:
Probably not complete search, and depends partly on whether food vs.
functional things vs. things of monetary value.
The word hoarding dont find in either repertory. Rfwrks search for hoard
(manually sifted)=
Hoard: 3Cent-so., 3Kali-c., 2ars., alab., benz-p., calc-f., dros., helo.,
hyos., lyc., meli., nux-v.
Avarice is the tendency to Hoard, so that is the closest rubric, most
likely.
MIND; GREED, cupidity (SRI-565) (65) : abies-c., acon., agar., all-c.,
all-s., ang., ant-c., ant-t., arg-n., ars., asaf., bry., calc., caps.,
carb-v., caust., cham., chin., chin-ar., cina, coff., euph., ferr.,
fl-ac., graph., hell., hep., hyos., iod., ip., kali-bi., kali-c., lob.,
lyc., mag-c., merc., mur-ac., nat-c., nat-m., nat-p., nat-s., nit-ac.,
nux-m., nux-v., op., petr., ph-ac., phos., plat., puls., rhus-t., sec.,
sep., sil., sol-n., spong., squil., stann., staph., sul-ac., sulph.,
tarent., thuj., verat., zinc.
MIND; GREED, cupidity; desires are greater than her need, her (1) : ars.
MIND; DESIRES; more than she needs (K35, SRI-389, G28) (5) : ars., ars-s-f.,
bar-s., bry., zinc-p.
MIND; FEAR; general; starving, of (K47, SRI-524, G37) (6) : ars., bry.,
calc., kali-m., sep., sulph.
MIND; DELUSIONS, imaginations; starve; he must (K33, SRI-358, G26) (2) :
kali-chl., kali-m.
MIND; FEAR; general; poverty (K46, SRI-518, G37) (23) : adam., ambr., ars.,
Bry., calc., calc-f., calc-s., calc-sil., cand-a., chlor., falco-p., graph.,
hydrog., kali-c., med., meli., nux-v., psor.,
puls., sep., stann., staph., sulph.
MIND; DELUSIONS, imaginations; fortune, that he is going to lose his (K26,
SRI-291, G21) (2) : psor., staph.
MIND; AVARICE (K9, SRI-102, G7) (38) : alum., ARS., bar-c., bry., calc.,
calc-f., carb-an., carb-v., carc., caust., cina, coloc., con., dulc.,
graph., hep., hyos., lach., lap-mar-c., lyc., med.,
meli., merc., nat-c., nat-m., nit-ac., nux-v., petr., ph-ac., phos., plat.,
Puls., rheum, sep., Sil., stann., staph., sulph.
Synthesis
MIND - AVARICE - anxiety about future; avarice frombry.;2;vh bry.;2;vh/dg
bry.;2;vhx1 granit-m.;1;es1 nux-v.;2;gl1 ph-ac.;2;gl1 psor.;2;vh
psor.;2;vh/dg psor.;2;vhx1 stann.;1;gl1
MIND - COLLECTS many thingsars.;2;mrr1 sulph.;1;mrr1 sulph.;1;oss
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Re: [H] history of a disease [Hoarding]
Date:
Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:37:18 -0800
From:
giniellis@juno.com
To:
BRoten1721@aol.com
CC:
homeopathy@homeolist.com
It could be but you REALLY have to ask the patient WHY they hoard to find
out if it IS fear of poverty... also HOW they feel when they hoard (as
well as how they feel when they can't hoard) is important. There are
different reasons (and feelings) associated with hoarding. When repping
the symptoms of hoarding it is important, as you probably already know,
to focus on the mental aspects behind the action and the anxiety it
produces before and after, rather on the action itself. You will not
find hoarding under MIND in Kent but there are other mind symptoms that
might be useful....
Hoarding can be a devastating ritual to not only the sufferer, but to the
immediate family. Also, while it sometimes proves difficult for us to
separate a hoarder from a collector, the person himself is usually quite
aware of the difference, as hoarding involves not the accumulation of
valuables, but rather the INABILITY to throw anything away. This is an
important piece of information when repping... why can't they throw
things away... maybe it's fear of poverty, but never assume. Ask
them.... get to the *feeling* behind the action.
There is usually a great deal of ANXIETY behind hoarding which leads to
the avoidance of parting with even what the person themselves consider
the most trivial items. Therefore, finding out what that anxiety is
proves important. In some situations the patient will develop a
paralysis of INDECISION which results in this avoidance of choosing what
to keep and what to discard. As in many other symptoms, there is a
*grain of truth* which promotes accumulating. For instance... It makes
sense to be prepared for an emergency such as a natural disaster (with
all the essentials such as water, canned goods, warm clothing, etc.).
The difference here with the hoarder is the question of "how much is
enough"? No one can predict the future (present astrologers excluded)
and it is this scary fact that promotes the hoarder to be overly prepared
for any eventuality. It is the ANXIETY of *dealing with uncertainty* and
*unpredictability* that lies behind this effort to be prepared, but often
the quest for "when is there enough" can never be quite answered.
Most of you know that in extreme cases hoarding is one of the OCD
spectrum disorders. Two of the most distressing aspects of OCD are the
questioning of one's own reality and the need for absolute certainty. I
always am amazed when I run across a rubric which describes this
confusion of reality so well - like when someone wonders "Am I really
here?" Other people are able to trust in their sense of reality ("I
definitely remember locking the door"), or they can tolerate uncertainty
("I don't really remember locking the door, but I'm pretty sure I did").
But the hoarder is compelled to repeat an action over and over again, to
save, save, save, to relieve the feeling of anxiety and to have absolute
certainty that they will have something if they ever need it.
One list member offered this: "The hoarding / collecting / gathering is
also a Merc. symptom, and there with the quality of inability to
differentiate between what is needed/wanted and what is not. Just keep it
all then perhaps something might come in useful."
Gini
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