Case by Maarten van der Meer
A woman of 67 years, she often feels very agitated and has a feeling like a stone on her chest, this lasts for a few weeks and then depression follows, with poor concentration in which she remembers nothing. She is then indecisive, she finds it a horrible feeling, and she is dead tired of it. It was already there when she was still working, but now that she is retired she no longer likes life, she feels useless, and has a “rotten feeling” where she cannot breathe properly. She can't quite explain it; after all, now is a good time. She finds quitting work confronting, it is a new time, “it's not going to be any different,” she is afraid of falling into a hole. She has cystitis for weeks. With telling, she searches for the words or memory with her eyes, looking far to the left or horizontally in front of her and inward. She sits upright, tight, and centered. In the past, she had this complaint more often in stressful situations; where she didn't quite know what to do, in indecisive situations. Previously, she started eating a lot as a result of the stress, and she had a stomach reduction done.
Stress for her can be anything: work, criticism, or a nasty comment, she can't let go of that and keeps thinking about it.
Stress can also be something physical, she has had surgeries on her knee and hip with worry and pain. Hobbies include working in the garden, watching movies, and reading magazines or books. She has high blood pressure with medication and arthritis. Previously she worked in healthcare, but it became too hard, she quit because of her depression, she never wanted to work again, but “work also brings a lot. She worked long and hard, she had to: she was divorced with three small children, it was very busy. She learned to have to do it. After her breakdown, she went to work in childcare. She is still on her own. The gastric bypass: she was overweight, an emotional eater, and she wanted to 'enjoy life' anyway. She used to be able to lie awake for a long time, thinking too long and worrying, now there is occasional annoyance towards people she lies awake over. She has sleep apneua. During the day she gets down, looks up to everything, and goes to check everything 10 times because she feels insecure and doubts everything. As a child she was always terribly insecure and quiet, shy. Mother was dominant, father liked everything. Her parents were busy, she withdrew, then they won't bother her. Epiphegus virginica has no effect.
Analysisthe theme of the
Fabidae and the
Fabaceae is recognizable: work and “moving on” as a solution and at the same time as a burden. Enjoyment, tension, workload, and fatigue are appropriate to the
Fabaceae and to
Phase 5. We search in
Qjure, keyword 'sadness' within Iron series4 and
Phase 5. Does an appropriate medicine emerge here, or do we search further (under another keyword or revisiting the themes or through the directory). Ulex springs to mind,
Stage 17 fits with “end” of her working life, “is it still fun,” and not being able to let go.
Iron series: practical, work, tackling, the way she looks when telling and thinking (her eyes search horizontally, seeking the void), gastrointestinal.
Phase 5: restlessness, thrusting, tensing, enjoying, dominant mother.
Stage 4: responsibility (working and caring for the children), her straight and central way of sitting (may also indicate
Stage 10, but there is much uncertainty in her).
Stage 17: end, farewell, letting go.
Prescription:
Ulex europaeus C 30.
Follow up,After three weeks she calls that she is doing much better, she is comfortable in her skin, she is looking for volunteer work to make sense of life. After fifteen months, she is still stable.