Author:
Maarten van der Meer
Book:
Evolution of analysis
Type:
Case
Chapter:
3-665.73.06
Camellia sinensis
Case by Maarten van der Meer
A 40-year-old woman, she has an intense gaze, she is always cheerful and appears firm, and her attitude is expectant. She has had sleeping problems for years. Sometimes it gets a little better. During pregnancy it was good, now the child is 6 months and she sleeps very badly again. She thinks it all has to do with the fact that “all the curtains are open” during the day, she doesn't shut herself off and all the stimuli come in. She tried to exercise more, does meditation, and uses herbs, but it doesn't help anything. On the couch, she can doze off at night, but then she suddenly jerks awake. At some point, she then gets over sleep and lies awake until 3 a.m. She tries not to get frustrated then, but she stays clear-headed. She always sees bears on the road, 'Will it go well', which starts weeks in advance, 'What if this or that happens'. She constantly feels “pressure,” she has to do this or that when she wakes up. Ten years ago she had a major burn-out, she calls it a “melt-down,” since then she has been very sensitive to stress. At work at the time it was a period of reorganization, imminent dismissal, and a lot of anger, a period of retraining, and the same period starting her own business. For three years they had been trying to get pregnant, which caused tension. That burnout: for 30 years she had been doing what someone else wanted, never had she thought about what she wanted for herself. Following everyone, trying to live up to others' expectations. She also had a boyfriend that didn't quite work out, he only thought about himself, then she collapsed. She couldn't do anything anymore, had panic attacks, woke up in the night, and started hyperventilating. A house of cards that collapsed. Then in therapy, she learned to stand up for herself, which is going very well. She was working in social work, probation, and addiction, she kept up appearances that she was doing well. She had a mask on for years: no idea what she was doing, she hated it. The uncertainty was about “what do they get out of me, out of this conversation. She didn't know what she wanted after school, she didn't know what I liked and just did a study. If someone is angry, she feels it in her belly. Her childhood was good, she had a dominant mother, and she just listened to her. Father used to go to work a lot, he doesn't talk about feelings. She argued a lot with the other children. Regularly she has migraines, when days peak, and pain in the neck. The pain starts in the left shoulder, and trapezius, it radiates upward, temporal, ear, higher and higher until on the fourth day stabbing pain on the vertex. Light and sound make the pain worse, a nasty feeling behind the eye. She has a herniated disc L4-5, she thinks it is something psychological. This came after a year of intense cross-fit, and then she also did chores after moving to her new boyfriend (either after forcing). She had back problems since her 18. She has no dreams, she wakes up fit. Hormonal she is doing well, four years back she had a miscarriage, cycle was off after that. Nutrition always interested her, she studied dietetics and then natural medicine. Her mother had her own home-based business, her father was self-employed, when she was 15 he was unemployed at home. As a child, she had anger outbursts, if she wasn't listened to. After that: she changed, let me go with the flow, and not stand out. It is exciting now for her to step out of that safety. If anything happens, she flips or staggers, she collapses like a small child, like a stamping toddler. She always feels a lot of tension in her body, like the adrenaline is at a peak. I have that very much at night, a bubbly feeling. It's like having to take an exam, sometimes it starts at 6 p.m. or 8 p.m., it changes, it stays all evening until she sleeps. It is continuously a nervous feeling as if something is going to happen, and then she feels her muscles tensing, everything is high. This is since that burnout. Before that she didn't want to feel anything, only in therapy with bodywork did she hear “how stuck you are, in your head”. She is disappointed when something doesn't work out, the yoga, etc, that feeling gets in her way. She is sensitive to stimuli, crowds, stores, noise, and people. Then she has to go home and start cleaning up everything there. Then she is very chaotic in behavior and starts reacting to everything, it has to be orderly. Ilex aquifolia fits the situation (Gold series because of independence, and autonomy, Phase 1 because it has never been developed) but it does not give reactions.
Analysis
We look for identifiable, nameable characteristics, which can be linked to the person's focus on or influences of the inner and outer worlds. Do you find arguments for a Class, Phase, or a Stage, and does it apply to multiple aspects of her life? In her childhood, her parents give clues: dominant mother (Phase 5). Father was less present, Subphase 2 or 3. Father was not a strong person in terms of “own business,” the Gold series aspect, and not getting anything done here, Iron series. A starting point in her life to think about the Styracales. Tackling, independence as an item, working on herself she likes and helps her, own business, here we also see back Iron series and Gold series. Standing firm, tackling, what she has always done is known from the Ericidae. Earning a living, problems at work Iron series, disagreeing Gold series (having her own opinion, aspiring to haveher own company), wanting something different Phase 5. Feeling tension Phase 5, adrenaline. Pressure imposed from home Phase 5, adjust Phase 3. So we can look for a combination of Phase 53, or Phase 52, and compare this combination with other Classes. Here Theaceae stand out, because of the main complaint, failure to sleep (think of the effect of theïne). Stage 8, forcing is where it once broke down, and the burnout occurred.
Prescription: Camellia sinensis C200.
Follow up
She goes right to sleep from the first night, going to bed at 10 p.m., with lots of dreams. Sometimes she does wake up in the night. After a week, sleep is bad again for a few nights, restless, then it goes well again. She has had no more migraines, she has resumed sports the back can handle it now, and she also goes out again: there is energy again. There is still uncertainty: she has no clients, no money, how should I handle this, she is calmer about it though, and can respond more calmly now. She used to find everything exciting, school, friends, ''do they like me'', the jobs, are they waiting for me. She always had the mask on, always adapted, but now: I can handle the world (Stage 8). As a child she often had a cold, ears were always plugged. She expects a lot from herself. The symptoms stay away, she becomes calm inside, stops forcing herself, and chooses quiet work. WP: Ericidae: difficulty adapting to society/ normal life and rules/obeying the authority of others versus going own way, own life, against conventions of society. The world is what they make of it. Angry from being limited, feel being snowed under, not seen. With the development of Q-search, you can find confirmation with the search term “sleepless,” within Phase 53, or within Gold series and Phase 5, which allows you to find a selection of medications that you can compare, and find confirmations for.