Author:
Maarten van der Meer
Book:
Evolution of analysis
Type:
Case
Chapter:
3-655.35.11
Ceiba pentandra
Remedy code: 3-665.55.34.11
Woman, 49 years old. She always appears strict, clear, and strong. Her way of speaking is remarkable and often seen in Ceiba indications: she starts with a sentence, an opening, then waits with her head slightly tilted, as if listening to herself and reviewing what has been said. After the spontaneous opening, she checks how it comes across and if it does, waiting, contemplating. Movement and even breath pause for a moment. A kind of stiffness, possibly to avoid revealing herself completely, holding back, staying alert. This has been seen before with Gossypium.
The complaint is low energy, she is 'very tired.' She always had a lot of trouble with menstruation, in the last months there is hardly any flow, before there was always a lot of blood loss, it was painful at the right ovary, which was pressure-sensitive with radiation to the back. The feeling of 'there is something,' something unpleasant in my body. In the days before, she is irritable, 'nothing is enjoyable.'
Now she is nauseous, has diarrhea, dizzy when getting up, extremely lethargic, not interested in anything. She even reported sick, which is exceptional for her. 'In the morning, I feel nauseous, and have a craving for grapefruit.'
I never like my job, it is boring. I spend the whole day doing things I don't like.
She is sensitive to atmospheres, if people around her argue, she finds it unpleasant. She quickly picks it up, also feels who is bothered by something. They are a kind of antennas. Those antennas have to do with the past, mother suffered from depression, I was always focused on 'how does she feel, should we be quiet.' At 12 years old, parents separated, and we moved afterward.
Father gentle, mother always very negative about him, loyalty to mother made it impossible to like father. This orientation is unconscious, on bad days it is worse. Later with my ex, that came back. Now happily married for 10 years, before that, she had a difficult relationship; he was manic- depressive, and it was challenging to live with him. She spent a long time freeing herself, working hard, and had to watch out everywhere: after the break-up, there was stalking, found it a drama, she had nightmares.
Analysis
If analyzed for sensitivity, you end up with the Malvales, recognizing the theme of feeling, art, antennas, letting go of vulnerability. In Malvales, a Silver series characteristic strongly comes forward, the experience, the awareness is outside themselves, ideas and images, from there they focus on what they feel inside, as a reference point. Contemplating an abstraction. Justification for the choice of this family from the theme of Class and Phase:
Silver series: Sensitivity, focus on people, at her job, she is a personnel advisor, between management and people, a hobby is designing gardens. Previously, she worked in education; the atmosphere is the most burdensome, not the work itself. It's about more than presenting her person, more than the job.
Silver series: Idea, philosophical, art: before a consultation, it's always a cheerful conversation, where she focuses attentively on the one hand, on the other hand, watches from a distance, on guard, on the edge of her seat, figuratively, and holding back. Silver series characteristic: comparing everything, relating to personal experience. Gold series looks beyond their own boundaries.
Silver series5:In the described case, many features of Malvales are present, hence the Malvidae.
Phase 3: She has a place but not to her liking; she doesn't know well what she wants; it's burdensome that she has to adapt too much. Father is gentle. This is her base layer.
Phase 4: Above, she shows a certainty; she is also in her place, feels responsible for herself and her functioning. This brings us to the Bombaceae.
Prescription: Ceiba pentandra C200.
Follow-up
The unhappy feeling and fatigue that lasted for months were gone a day after taking the remedy. She immediately had a lot of energy; in the first week, she even slept restlessly, waking up at 3 or 4 hours, but being well-rested was annoying: with so much energy, you can't find your rest. The restlessness is still there to some extent: wanting to do a lot, this and that, she even rescheduled the appointment three times. She is less forced, more spontaneous; she gives as an example that she also tried a different route to the consultation, making her late. More pleasantly waiting, more warmth, less sharp. Now I can empathize well at work, get people on board. I now feel how I should stay true to myself; otherwise, I go in all directions. In meetings, where I often used to get annoyed and hold back, I now bring lightness, interrupt people, intervene with a joke, take the heaviness off. Got some trouble with hands, the joints. More often, sleeping hands, stiffness. Now it seems more like the joints; her mother also had it. Less strength, it feels thicker.
Mood was better; after the first few days, there was a turnaround once, been gloomy again for a few days, and nothing was enjoyable. The first week, I was busy with aging, with every elderly person I saw, I realized: that awaits me, disability, dependence. In every conversation, I brought it up. Holding on to your situation, your life, is a theme of stage 11. 'As long as it stays good.' After two remarkable dreams, this disappeared. Dream 1: her partner was emigrating to America, she couldn't persuade him - then go for just a year - but he stuck to his guns, that was a sad dream. The next day, Dream 2: ex-partner had died. My experience with dream symbolism: dying is saying goodbye, the beginning of a new situation, the dream is about yourself, the old, troublesome is over, the new - a land of promises, a beautiful future - is a consequence of that, there is difficulty letting go of the present. The second dream reassures, even the previous relationship, the past that bothered her, is 'over.' See the sensitivity to atmospheres, where she talked about the origin of that with her mother and ex.
This winter she hasn't been sick; there was often a severe viral disease going around, no more fungal infection. After six months, due to stress, cramps occurred in the leg, sensitivity to people and atmosphere is worse for a few weeks again. She now comes across as strong, also cautious, reveals only a small piece of her inner self each time. Art is fun, painting, she's exploring this, taking lessons, experimenting with it. I often have to talk to myself 'pay attention,' she does this literally visibly!. Quickly moved, people around me, TV, especially aggression. I still get tense at times. I become tense, even start a fight. You commit yourself to something, put effort into it, and then you go too far. Completing work makes me anxious; I've held on, now the end is in sight.
The ex, aggression, intimidation, psychological things: touch me quickly, when I see someone who reminds me of him, I'm bothered.
Confirmations that come up in the follow-up: many stage 11 aspects, cramps, holding on, storing tension, not being able to let go. Phase 4: appearing strong, holding on. Phase 3: not up to mother and ex, cautious, feeling and knowing herself vulnerable. Silver series: art, probing.