5/20/2010
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
MINDING THE MIND IN THE CLINIC
A young girl who is working in a call center came to me for treatment of pain and discomfort in the lower abdomen with excessive weakness. Her health is not at all improving in spite of taking so much of treatment. She had undergone all the tests but nothing abnormal was detected. She was advised to take vitamin pills, tonics and occasional painkillers. But her condition of health remains unchanged.
I asked, “What she thought about her problem?”
She replied, “I am not at all worried about my health as I am like this since so many years”.
Sometimes when her fiancée and would be in-laws tell her that she looks abnormally thin then she feels bad, otherwise she is not worried about the same.
Rather, she is much worried about the excessive weakness. She gets exhausted easily. Earlier, she used to work in the office, do all her own work at home even helped her mother in household works but now even she is unable to manage her office work.
She gets occasional vertigo attack after little exhaustion, immediately she lies down as she apprehends she may fall down. The most worrying factor is that how she would manage her home after marriage as she had to look after everything on her own.
I gave this girl Sepia 30. The mental state of this patient is understood by linking all the following rubrics:
1. DELUSIONS - poor, he is
2. IRRITABILITY - exertion; from
3. CARES, full of - domestic affairs, about
4. FEAR - poverty, of
In most of my cases of this remedy I have observed that Sepia will always give more emphasis on her weakness and the changed mental state there of.
Let us try to understand this remedy.
Sepia is a very caring lady for her family. She works day and night to make others happy in the family and to keep the home in a very good condition. She loves doing work and enjoys doing all the domestic chores. Though during the process she overexerts herself and gets worried but she continues doing the same and sometimes these activities gives her mental satisfaction and she continues doing so.
1. CARES, full of
2. CARES, full of - domestic affairs, about
3. ANXIETY - others, for
4. OCCUPATION - amel.
5. DANCING
6. SINGING
DELUSIONS - poor, he is
IRRITABILITY - exertion; from
The statement of
“Now I am able to manage the condition but the way it is going on I apprehend in the coming days I won’t be able to manage myself.”
But in Sepia there is no wealth, so the present state is poor.
Her expression in the clinic may be, “I feel so weak to even manage my day to day activities, further I apprehend how I will continue doing the same in the coming days”.
“bruh detksjh yx jgh gS fd ?kj dk routine dke djus esa Hkh eqf”dy gks jgk gSA ;gh Mj yx jgk gS fd vkxs ?kj dSls pysxkA ”
Sepia cares only for her domestic activities whereas
In the present situation Sepia will always have a feeling that if she doesn’t work because of her weakness then the whole family will starve.
DELUSIONS - starve - family will
Hence
During my initial days of practice on mental state, I used to prescribe
When Sepia becomes energy less (poor) then she feels everybody in the family should help her in this state of exhaustion as she had reached this state because of working for the family.
But she does not get proper response. Though others try to help her but it is not up to the expectation as she desires (FASTIDIOUS).
That time her problem get aggravated and her weakness level further goes down.
AILMENTS FROM – disappointment
1. INDIFFERENCE, apathy - family, to his
2. ESTRANGED - family; from his
1. IRRITABILITY - exertion; from
2. ABUSIVE
3. ANXIETY – sewing
Once she feel that she cannot cope up with the situation, she just does not pay heed to anything and stay alone.
1. INDIFFERENCE, apathy - lies with eyes closed
2. COMPANY - aversion to - sight of people; avoids the - lies with closed eyes, and
3. COMPANY - aversion to - alone; when - amel.
Closing eyes does not mean that Sepia does not see anything. The meaning is that she just sit down quietly does not participate in any activity going on around her as if she is not concerned about the surrounding and not affected by it.
Sepia never wanted to stay indifferent but because of exhaustion she had no option but to do so, that time she feels helpless.
1. HELPLESSNESS; feeling of
2. CONTRADICTORY - actions are contradictory to intentions
COMPLAINING - others, of
Rather she feels that her luck was unfavorable.
UNFORTUNATE, feels
Though Sepia stays indifferent but at the core inside, she is still a family lady. The thought of the maintenance of the family even during her exhaustion hurts her. She always feels how the family will survive now and if the state continues how they will survive in future also.
During this condition she becomes more depressed and feels she has reached to such a pitiable state from which now she cannot come out, as she had nothing left in her.
1. DELUSIONS – of emptiness (c)
2. DESPAIR - existence, about miserable
1. FORSAKEN feeling - beloved by his parents, wife, friends; feels of not being
2. DELUSIONS - alone, being - graveyard; alone in a
If somebody even come near to her to reassure or comfort she rebels against the same as it pinches her and she feels they are making fun of her.
She feels that the sole aim of taking care of his family and others at home is now not possible, as she has lost all interest and energy for doing so.
AMBITION - loss of