Case by Maarten van der Meer
A 62-year-old woman, she is troubled by emotions, and feeling unstable. She is quiet, vulnerable, and “feeling the environment”. Her eyes are involved, and while looking she scans the interlocutor with her eyes, she feels what is going on, what is visible has her attention, still remaining well in her own body. Of her own accord, she gets straight to the point, somewhat directive. As if it is the most natural thing in the world for her: “First of all, we are going to deal with the main issue, the emotions”. She has always had many emotions, and since the menopause it has been like a roller coaster for years. She feels the emotions of her children, and all the misery of the world that comes along, it's too much for her. She can be very happy for a moment, but a few moments later it's gone. She misses her pink cloud. Because of her sensitivity, she knew a lot about the children, and her parents, but she didn't say it, she was always very insecure. At school she could not learn, she stored this frustration in her feelings and reacted by running away, feeling fear, and fleeing from all the people at school. She also fled from home, marrying quickly, but her husband and she could not talk. She married three times and divorced after arguing, then ran out of energy, and she now has burnout. From the age of 50 blood pressure went up and she uses losartan, and triamtereen, and was recently diagnosed with fibromyalgia. She has an eating disorder, she wanted to have a nice body, but she has that disorder “under control”. In her mind, she is still dealing with it. Too much fat or sweet gives it acid. She always has hot feet and also feels it stewing in her head. She does not feel safe and has no warmth, no nurturing, no reassurance. Her father was often beating the family, he was never sociable and had a harsh voice, her ex was also rough on her and the children, at those times she was very decisive. She has eczema on her face, for three years red pimples, and on her hands, and palms since children were born. It gets worse with cream. Stools are always very thin. Sleeping: now she handles food better she sleeps well, before sleep was a mess. Previously she had chronic chest inflammation and vein inflammation. When a lot of emotions were involved she was sick, on her legs she had big blisters and high fevers. During that period eldest daughter was in divorce. She got stuck at age 12; she has been stuck ever since. “I tried so hard, to make it different, better”. She is on an island. She heard from her mother: you were “accidental, you had never had been born”. Having children herself was a necessity for her, she wanted to do things differently.
Dreams: during the time of separation about lots of water, everything came over her, but the head came up again. As a child she had dreams about all doors, gray, they stayed closed, or just closed. Now in dreams often crying, like a colander. She was on antidepressants for a period and tapered this herself because she now understands herself and her position.
AnalysisProbing her own words and the interlocutor, and presenting herself outwardly is seen in the
Lamiidae. This is non-verbal already a strong characterization of this person. Is more visible from the Gold series5? Recognizable are the
Malvidae qualities, empathy, and sensitivity to people and atmospheres. In addition, clear Lanthanid aspects.
Lanthanides, Serie 6: autonomy, standing alone, the Shadow (experiencing this consciously, even as a child), Helicopter view (being able to explain her process). Allergy to medication.
Silver series: ideas world, communication.
Phase 2: insecure as undertone, the base.
Subphase 5: tension, running away, hypertension, restlessness, always wanting to do better. Having to give birth herself. Control (in caring for, nutrition, medication): Serie 6. The eating disorder involves a beautiful body, 'how do I come across (
Silver series). Mother:
Phase 2 (you are an accident, you are there but not fully accepted), father:
Phase 5 (heavy-handed, harsh voice). Rauvolfiaceae: Hypertension. Strongly focus on children.
Stage 12: struggle, flight, threat, protecting the children, repetition, repressive inflammation, and tension (of self or sympathizing and taking over the tension).
Prescription:
Rauvolfia serpentina MK.
Follow upFrom the first week already the bowels are better, and she has less diarrhea. The eczema on her face was very calm for the first three days, then it came back. Before she was always weird in her head, dizzy, that's now less, she didn't suffer anymore from heavy emotions in the family, though it felt still to her “it's like I'm burning because of the emotions". Her head also went itchy. Her sleep is good. Eyes look gray, deep,vulnerable, or hurt. No more craving for sweets in the evening, during the day she has a pattern, eating something every two hours, that is going well. The warm feet are still there, which comes from the belly, the whole body can then join in as a flush, including the legs and feet, they have to be exposed. Tension is better, from 150 to 130, still with medication. When tension is high, she can feel it; then her head is not going well, she makes mistakes. About her sensitivity, she now says: ‘you see, you feel, you know, you communicate’. After three months she is open, clear, receiving. Her energy radiance is now much outside, forward, well- distributed, and stable. Her mother passed away, she always took care of her mother, even as a child she was claimed. As child she retreated to her room and had no contact with the others. The emotions now give severe pain in the neck and shoulders, and pain at the attachment of the knee, every movement worsens, she can't name the pain (she had this for much longer, with walking). The headache at the vertex is also bad now, it gets hot there, and she is then afraid of a brain hemorrhage, and with busyness, it gets worse, also with nice things. She is less lousy in the morning these months, she can get going better, her eating is better, she feels more balanced, has better control of herself. The dreams are back, about the house and the children.
Eczema on the face is calmer, on the palm it is gone, and greasing is enough. 'The way I feel good now I want to keep feeling,' she says radiantly. She can now laugh heartily and light-heartedly in between. She can shake off difficult things better. She is no longer flooded with emotions and feelings like before. The hot feet are still there, but no longer the 'exploding', this started during the divorce and the children's problems, with severe rashes, blisters, and burning. The fibromyalgia she had already as a child, after the menopause it became severe: in the neck, knees, and shoulders. The muscles are hard and tight, worse with emotions. For the years after this, it remains fine.