Remedy code: 3-622.54.10
A young woman of 30, with a child of 1 1/2, she works as a creative therapist. She is engaging, gentle with warm eyes, lively, and expressive. Before pregnancy, she suffered from anxiety and a fear of heights, which disappeared after Squilla. She feels a lot from people, the impressions, the emotions, the presence. She has had this sensitivity for a long time, but could use it well in her work; in her youth, it was overwhelming and caused tension, but that disappeared after
Daphne indica. Now she enters and says, 'I feel so...' (she waves her arms, looking awkward), 'I feel completely unbounded'. She gives the feeling of being a cloud of gas, so open and fluid. Everything comes in: clients, colleagues, many people, many energies, and even art. The most annoying thing about this is that she becomes anxious, she gets stuck in her head, which gives her high tension and high breathing. Fear is the trigger to do something about it. Especially driving a car, just the idea of having to drive already triggers it. What also plays a role is questions towards the future. The work, can that be in the future, how will that go? She has been aware of this for months, when these thoughts come, her heart races, and a lot of emotion and unrest come out. Work is often chaotic, very busy, with intense problems. She takes on too much work out of norms and values, with a lot of enthusiasm, she crosses her own boundaries. In a week of vacation, there is discharge, with lots of crying. She also has that boundless enthusiasm for her child. Everything is very busy, so she has even more trouble with the people around her. She feels she must be able to do a lot. Problems with clients: she thinks because of their energy they bring, that it's too much, she feels it especially, but can't articulate it well. Sometimes it's empathy, especially when it comes to psychiatry. She has to make a lot of effort to get rid of the feeling again, can easily empathize with a story. She goes in without limits, empathizing, and imagining. She is tired, and the energy buffer is small, at home, the child demands attention, and energy goes there. Occasional tension in the body stuck in the shoulder. The feeling of losing control, which of course is not true. Sleep is well. She feels responsible, and that there is no space. Among colleagues (internally) a lot is going on, that also affects me.
There is still a lot of tension and a lot of discharge. If she has difficulty focusing, she calls her parents. The head is so full, that she doesn't feel any space. Sometimes clenching her teeth. She feels lost, she is looking for stability. Doubt, insecurity, not standing firmly on the ground, unable to make choices. On rare occasions, she went out with her husband, but couldn't enjoy it, she says with tears. On school, she had structure, which she missed in practice. The remedies
Ruthenium and Anhalonium do nothing, Ether temporarily gives a slight improvement.
AnalysisThe sensitivity characteristic of the
Malvales is not being utilized now, which fits more with a situation where you can avoid tension or feel or live around the tension. The problem now arises in the workplace, which is a 'new world' for her, where her responsibility and enthusiasm are determining characteristics. The family situation is also 'new' and unfamiliar. Themes that stand out, here as a burdensome factor. Furthermore, she is not ‘in her body'. The body is a theme of
Carbon series.
Magnoliidae fit with a new situation, alone in a new and threatening world, confusion and disorientation occur. Forgetfulness, getting lost, a situation where your boundaries are not yet developed, or because your own identity is not yet developed, or as here not adjusted to the new situation. If this is a theme, a burdensome factor, or a solving ability by fleeing into it, you think of the entire
Carbon series. The theme, of guiding factors or influences on the person or the situation, of characteristics or features of the entire picture, the entire life or the 'world' of the person, can lead you to the
Phases and a Stage.
Carbon series: Base, the body is not safe, the situation is 'unknown': new as a parent, child, and mother, family. Fear is physical, not yet emotional, or in thought. The theme of norms and values.
Phase 5: Restlessness, congestion, boundlessness, chaos, enthusiasm, pressure from work, wanting more, themes of possibilities and enjoyment, missing these and searching for them.
Phase 4: Responsibility. Being stuck in the situation. The tension between expansion (
Phase 5) and fixed situation (
Phase 4).
Stage 10: she must be able to do everything, theme stable versus unstable.
Prescription: Lauris nobilis MK.
Follow-upAfter two days, she feels unusually tired and collapses for a day. After that, there was a stomach virus, 'that made me very focused on my stomach'. She had a lot of headaches, and couldn't think clearly, she never has headaches. She realized that as a mother, you have little time to be sick. After that, it went very well. She had no more tension with driving and felt no fear. Work went well, she is now aware of what is too much and is adjusting to the times. At home, the busy rhythm is now also noticeable, she now says something about it, before the tension builds up. At work, she notices that she now reacts from her feeling in her belly, directly and effectively, it no longer happens that it passes her by, nor she passes herself by. After a month, she 'floated' again for a while, after bottling up irritation at home. But now it only lasted an hour, it was no longer for weeks. Formerly that was her basic feeling.
She calls herself searching, 'how it goes as a mother' (a psychological and emotional new 'world' for her). After a period of long and intensive conversations with clients, she was very tired, and felt she was losing her boundaries again, the beginning of floating. Now she was aware of it and could withdraw from the hustle and bustle and that feeling. She remains very sensitive, but now notices in time 'I have to be careful'. Sleep is good, shortly after taking it, she had a dream: a hilly landscape, there were many people, and we had to go up with a lift, and then lie on some kind of sled down. It was scary, but it wasn't me, it was another person (probably the symbolic descending again, back in her body). After four months, it is still going well, it was a period of very busy, she became tired, and as a reaction, she became irritable, no longer fluttering or floating. On the first vacation day she had muscle pain and headaches, then a day of fever, she sees this as confirmation that it was 'too much', work. So stress comes out in an acceptable way and there is more consciousness. Motherhood now feels good, and she bursts into tears, 'I am happy'. Driving is still sometimes scary, but it went well. The next years her energy is good, sleep is good, and her health is good.
Note: 10 years ago, this woman responded very well to her first medicine,
Daphne indica, in Greek mythology, the nymph Daphne is transformed into a laurel tree. Nice coincidence.