Author:
Maarten van der Meer
Book:
Evolution of analysis
Type:
Case
Chapter:
3-655.57.10
Guarea guidonia
Remedy code: 3-655.47.10.
A 17-year-old girl with epilepsy. At the age of 9, she often had 'blackouts', short seizures that became longer and more frequent and were later diagnosed as epilepsy. Other symptoms at the time were abdominal pain and wild behavior. After taking Abrotanum, these symptoms disappeared for a long time, and they stopped her medication for years. While talking, you regularly see her stare for a few seconds, and over time she has developed nerve spots on her neck. She comes from a large family, they are all very optimistic and like to get things done. Now she is coming in for fatigue. Two years ago, she had Pfeiffer's disease: she was very tired and spent a year in bed, unable to sleep well and suffering from frequent epileptic seizures. She has had the seizures for years, and in the last two weeks, they have been daily. The staring has always been regular. Every day, she feels that the seizure is there unconsciously, and she thinks about it constantly. The course of a seizure: first she becomes very grumpy, starts criticizing others, and when people react to her, it gets even worse. She then becomes very tired, lies down on her bed, gets a strange feeling in her stomach, and starts crying loudly, while thinking, “Was that necessary?” Meanwhile, she starts moving her arms and legs a lot. At first, the seizures occurred in the afternoon, but now they also occur in the morning. Her brain is very slow at the moment. During Pfeiffers disease, she usually had it on Sundays. For the past few weeks, she has also had severe cramps in her arms and legs. She is now studying pedagogy, and working with children, she already knows at a young age that she wants to work at a boarding school. She knew she liked it even before she started. Since she had Pfeiffer, she goes to bed very late and wakes up early. At 11 p.m. she is very active, then she goes to chat, or go to her parent's sleeping room, 'I have something to tell you'. She feels nauseous every day, eating peppermint helps. When she got Pfeiffers disease, she was doing an internship, which didn't go well. They said all kinds of things and she took it badly, and another girl wanted her gone. Her attitude was, “They can't tell me what to do,” and she deliberately went against them. After that, she became too tired to sit up, too tired even to eat. Occasionally she has headaches, and severe pressure on her temples, which is before the attacks and lasts 10 minutes; during the attack itself, it is over. The fatigue is then also gone. When she is about to have an attack, she is grumpy, and want it to happen so she can be rid of it. A psychologist says she should talk about something, a problem behind it, but in her opinion there is nothing. After taking Santonine C200, the attacks decrease, but continue at least 5 times a week for six months. During a period when she did nothing, sitting at home all day, they disappeared. Then they increase again to 10 times a day, just like in the beginning. After 15 months, I see her again. She is not functioning, and this is causing problems at school. Two days of school is already too much; the attacks are getting longer and more frequent. With these attacks, she is no longer allowed to continue her education. She discovers that she is highly sensitive; she feels what others feel and hears all conversations. During the seizure, she becomes more agitated and hears everything but cannot respond. She starts shaking or falls backward. The seizure can be triggered by a flash of light from a photo, or when people around her are experiencing intense emotions. It became so severe again when her brother's girlfriend broke up with him. The absences are still there too. All medication causes side effects, stomach ache, and double vision. Her day starts in the evening around 9:30 p.m., when it's for her as if the sun is rising. She puts off her homework and does it just before school. Now she has diarrhea every morning. Her feet are like ice blocks. Her stomach protests in the evening, heartburn. School is too busy, all those impressions. As a child, she had tantrums, screaming fits, sometimes so violent that the glass in the door would shatter. She was afraid for a long time. At age 6, she didn't even dare to go out into the garden. At age 12, she didn't dare to babysit or be alone, imagining all the things that could go wrong. Her periods are irregular, only in the last two years have they been about every month, with more attacks in the days before. She can't stand the pain, she grumbles at every ache and pain. In high school she was shy and quiet, now she is emphatically present, and humorous. They think she is very much herself, which they find strange. At birth, she had the umbilical cord around her neck, her mother got mastitis, and they had to cut it. For a while, there was a foster child in her room, a kid with behavioral issues (her psychologist thinks that's the cause). She feels other people's emotions, which worries her, not her own.
Analysis
Silver series: she is sensitive, humorous, wants to help and work with people, wants to talk, possibly 'culture' also plays a role, in the customs and habits of the family and the religious community. Feeling others emotions.
Phase 4: her choice was immediately clear, this is what I want. Accountability to others.
Phase 7: working with boarding school children, epilepsy (out of control). Rejection during internship. Foster sister with behavioral problems.
Stage 10: Action is certainty, being oneself, being present. Being oneself: she does this in her behavior, in how she presents herself, the area of Silver series. During the internship: you can't touch me. She has had a predisposition to epilepsy her whole life, so pay attention to the period when it manifested itself so strongly. Period of Pfeiffer's disease and increasing seizures in frequency, intensity, and duration. Study, age, hormonal changes. Epilepsy is characteristic of the Anthemidae, also Phase 4 7. As a child, Abrotanum helped, and later Santonine (the active ingredient in Artemisia cina).
Phase 7 because of being 'gone', passing out, and out of control. If this affects consciousness, Gold series is obvious, consciousness, the central nervous system. But here, during a fit consciousness remains good, major nerve pathways react strongly, consistent with Silver series. Sensitivity to people and emotions is characteristic of the Malvales, which can be extrapolated to the Malvidae. Searched within 6 55 7 4 and 6 55 4 7 for appropriate medications.
Prescription: Guarea trichiloides MK.
Follow-up
after four weeks, her manner is calmer, less messy, or confused. Her clothing and posture are now almost stately. After taking the medicine, she became calmer in her head, and the attacks went away. They are different now; instead, she now has crying spells, without knowing why, when she had conversations or too many stimuli at school. Her behavior is also different; she no longer stays indoors all the time, but now enjoys going into town to shop. She enjoys things more and has more energy. With a lot of stimuli, it feels like an attack is coming, but it does not happen. Going from very busy to calm does not go well either. The attack now: I feel very tired and very busy, my head falls asleep, then I lie down for a few minutes with her head on my arms. After that, she still has a moment where she “shouts herself down,” pretending that everything is going very well. No more stomach problems, no more headaches. I can still panic when doing homework. The absences, the staring, are more frequent now, she notices it herself and it lasts a few seconds, just like before. The body is asleep and the head is not. Menstruation used to be only when things were going well, only once a year in the early years, but this month it came without any problems. Her curls are coming back again (as a child she had wild and untamable hair, which changed after Abrotanum). She now says 'no' to people when everyone asks her to help out. Normally she would just keep going, but now she notices sooner when she has reached her limit. She is no longer always active in the evening and has even gone to bed early a few times. After four months, she has a busy internship period, but she remains calm in her head. There follows a week with three short attacks, after which they disappear for years.