Author:
Maarten van der Meer
Book:
Evolution of analysis
Type:
Case
Chapter:
3-665.73.06
Campsis radicans 3-665.65.06
A 39-year-old woman, tall, with a flexible body and an open posture. She is attentive, engaged, enthusiastic, and powerful in her demeanor but can collapse when she turns inward. She is an elegant woman, playful and spontaneous, exuding confidence interspersed with mental emptiness, her expression a question mark. She has a busy life, a job, and three young children. Her complaint is a concentration problem: a ‘foggy head,’ forgetting words, and fatigue in the head and the arms and legs. She needs to get going, but it’s more of a cognitive issue. Once she’s started, things go well. At work, things are going fine. She works as a coach within a large organization and has to process a lot. She likes the freedom her work offers. Her dream is to one day work independently. For now, it’s too busy because of the young children; there’s no mental space for it. She would like to take an additional course. She also experiences mood swings. As a child in elementary school, she was always dizzy and had headaches, was often sick at home. She worked quickly, ‘bam! I’d get going.’ She can still work well under time pressure. She was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, but it is now much worse. During pregnancy, it flared up strongly, and she started forgetting things. She used to be very organized and kept everything in order, but now things sometimes fall apart. As a child, she suffered from allergies and asthma, was often sick, and used inhalers. During winters, she frequently had the flu, often with fever and delirium. After school, she wanted to study medicine but didn’t get in. She found her second choice interesting but quit after a year—it was too massive and impersonal, and she didn’t feel at home among those people. She then traveled and tried other studies, including philosophy. Eventually, she completed a degree in pedagogy, and worked in a few specialized fields, but often quit quickly. She finds many things fun and interesting. She has had a lot of joy in life. She can be extremely happy but also extremely down. During depressive periods, she knows, ‘it could be different tomorrow.’ It’s all or nothing. In the evenings, she often has an energy peak. She loves the silence when the family is asleep. She always needs to shut out the noise, even at work. She is very sensitive to sounds. Her partner also struggles with depression, is quickly overstimulated, and withdraws because of this. As a result, he can’t handle much of the chaos at home, leaving her with little free time. It’s challenging for her to find time for hobbies, but she is creative. She listens to audio books, often at an increased speed. These are usually work-related but also include topics about children, fantasy, and Eastern European writers. Her mother was told she couldn’t get pregnant for medical reasons, and during the pregnancy, she was constantly anxious about whether it would go well. She was a quiet baby, delivered using a vacuum pump. Her mother was very busy with work, and her father took care of her.
Analysis
Serie 6: Recognizable in her desire to work independently and be meaningful.
Serie 5: Working with people, coaching, traveling, and interest in many sciences.
Phase 5: sensitive noise, people, atmosphere, behavior (during her study).
Her enthusiasm, cheerfulness, and traveling, combined with working with people, are well-known themes in the Lamiidae.
Phase 6 and Subphase 5: Clear parameters include her enthusiasm, wanting more in her studies, and experiencing pressure, which fits Phase 5. Fatigue and being overburdened are themes of Phase 6. Because the fatigue and collapse are visible when she is not outwardly focused or pushing herself, it aligns with Phase 6 and its corresponding Subphase 5. The phase is usually the foundation, the basis; the Subphase is more visible, an active component. Aspects of Phase 6 5.
In her youth, you also see themes of pressure and quick action (Phase 5) and fatigue, lack of breath, and energy (Phase 6). Her parents: her mother was very busy and often absent, showing a dynamic of Phase 5 and 6. The depressive tendencies fall within the tension between Phase 5 and 6: wanting a lot, starting opportunistically in Stage 6, but being too tired and collapsing in Phase 6.
All of this leads us to the Bignoniaceae, 3-665.65.00.
The theme of stability fits Stage 10, but other characteristics are clearer: taking on challenges, doing everything despite fatigue, starting one study after another, and her pregnancy being stressful (‘Will it go well’). Want to prove it to herself. This all points more toward Stage 6, Campsis.
Prescription: Campsis radicans C200.
Follow-up
Five weeks later, she feels clearer in her head. Previously, she lacked the motivation to start; now, she has it.
She is always obsessively preparing and researching everything (Phase 5), which is part of her. Previously, it overwhelmed her (Phase 6); now, she thinks things through first (in control of Serie 6). After two weeks, shestarted sweating more, just like when she was a child. Sweat pours from her armpits, often while doing homework back then. During puberty, this stopped after a Botox treatment. Now, she also experiences increased muscle tension in her legs, or cramps in her calves, similar to before. She also has issues with her ankle, which she used to have as well. Her energy is much better: previously, she felt like ‘Oh no, the evening is wasted.’ Now, she takes on tasks and is more engaged. At work, she still needs to give herself a push to get over the threshold. Previously, she had extreme hunger in the evenings and was constantly eating platefuls of food. She felt hungry all day, but now that is gone. The headache she had is now only very mild at times. Her sleep remains minimal and is still interrupted by her child. She is still sensitive to noise; loud noises overstimulate her, and than she feels tension. Now, she is aware that she can also just go to bed. She is paying more attention to her appearance, standing in front of the mirror, and buying new clothes. Many ‘old’ complaints are returning, indicating that the remedy is working on more than just her current fatigue. Muscle tension persists for a few months. She stays well.