Author:
Maarten van der Meer
Book:
Evolution of analysis
Type:
Case
Chapter:
3-665.73.06
Plumeria obtusa
Case by Maarten van der Meer
A 61-year-old woman, she is stocky, her posture a little slumped, she has an open gaze, is attentive, and shows commitment. At the age of seventeen, she had a car accident and has had chronic headaches ever since. She has learned to live with that. Since menopause, appalling fatigue came along and the headaches have gotten worse. Sleeping is bad. The pain is throbbing at the heart rate, “maddening”. Her blood pressure medicine makes her tired. Once she had amitryptiline, which gave her nerve pain. She has had stress, her husband became unemployed, and she had to work a lot, and take care of the children. She is a control freak, she cannot let go of the stress, and it is emotionally difficult. She uses sleeping pills, but she wants to know the cause. It has been intense fatigue for years, starting in the morning, distraction from her work helps. After work there is chaos in her head, when she sits down at night it starts pounding around the ears. That can dominate the ambient sounds. During the day it is occasional. She works as a pedicurist in a nursing home, it's intense work, with people with dementia. She used to do office work, then came home due to the kids. She always wanted to work in care, but due to her club feet, she couldn't. She loves to care. Nursing was out of the question, so office she was fine too. Working was too much she thinks in retrospect, with adolescents and small children at home, her husband was studying at the time. She experienced it as hard, as her husband there was nothing for me. Everything came down to her, she had no support from her husband. Then came the transition with the symptoms, with this fatigue. Menses were always well, the pregnancies went well. Her clubfoot was operated on five times. In her childhood, she learned to put my emotions away. Father was authoritarian, crying was not allowed, everything had to be the way he wanted, she comes from a big family, it was cozy. She was very shy, everyone lived his own life. Mother was always very busy, she also did what father wanted. When she was eighteen they emigrated, that's what her father wanted, and four years later she came back. The psychological burden for her has to do with her husband, they are not so open to each other, and she has changed a lot in terms of openness. She has to push her husband to go out. She has developed herself, with talking, a job, and her practice, with the children. The change of times: your children have to move on, too. She is still a bit of a mediator. The headache is a nerve pain right on the forehead, shoots of pain, and it never goes away. She also feels it in the neck and shoulders. Sometimes she has “ordinary headaches”. In her childhood she had many headaches, school days, that were a dull pain, a band around the head, that was fatiguing, with burning eyes to tears. Other than that she is perfectly healthy, she was sick only once after the booster vaccination. She feels that her body reacts badly to medication. The children didn't ever know she had headaches, she didn't want them to suffer. Her parents were not there for her emotions. Father went through a lot in the war, that hurt her, jokes were made about it, but she had to cry about it. Never was it expressed. For her, it is difficult to face confrontations, because she cannot stand arguments. Her hobbies are reading, crafts, jigsaw puzzles, and audio books, all of which give her peace. A day alone, that does good. She loves plants. With large company or screen calls, she gets busy in the head. For weeks she has had joint pain in the thumb, which radiates to the wrist. She still works: I won't let myself get down. She forces herself to keep her work and social life going. A lot has happened in the family, she takes that to heart, she sees how difficult they are. She also senses moods very much, then the tiredness becomes more intense, you know how someone feels, she also senses atmosphere. Pelargonium odoratissimum and Adansonia digitata only give a short improvement.
Analysis
Her parents refer to Phase 5 and Phase 2. Confirmation we see in shyness Phase 2, wanting further, ‘drive’ Subphase 5. Medication, overreactions or allergies to it: Gold series, Developing oneself, Gold series, with talking and study Silver series, ‘putting oneself’ to this Phase 5. Chronic headaches after accidents have been seen before in Gentianales. Phase 2: Putting oneself away. Compare the theme of embarrassment of Calcium, and the theme of quarrel of Magnesium. Inability to care in advance, Phase 2, but having the drive of Phase 5. Phase 10: they can't get me down, she holds on. The description in Qjure is of a proving, not yet confirmed from case histories, and we do not find the description in this case. However, the abstractions and themes of Phases 2 and Phase 5 are evident. It shows how relatively we should take a proving, in terms of interpreting the symptoms obtained, or images.
Confirmation from case histories is needed to interpret the theme, to learn how to recognize a drug, and to learn how the theme manifests itself in people. Studying the family of the Rauvlofieae, a possibility is Plumeria rubra, because of “forcing” oneself to work, the trauma, and having to do a lot of Stage 8. However, Stage 10 suits the obviousness and responsibility taken, the steadfastness, the attitude “I can handle it all, they can’t get me down”.
Prescription: Plumeria obtusa C200.
Follow-up
After taking it, she had a reaction, two days of pounding headaches, and fatigue: it all came back. But since then she has been feeling better for a few weeks. That noise in the head is completely gone. The ‘ordinary’ headaches are gone. The stiffened shoulders are still there in the morning, she also has stiffened jaws. The fatigue became less, therefore she was clearer in the head. She was going to reduce the sleep medication (which she had been taking since the transition) to get even more clarity, but that didn't work: extra fatigue, which hits the throat directly: pain, and malaise. She does sleep better, no more waking up at 2 am and staying up, it stretches to 4 am until now, and then restless sleeping. She had been on medication so many times before, but when the doctor comes along with it now the heels go off. After work, she still have to sit down, with chaos in her head, which is busy. When she has something in her head, a plan, she wants it even better (now that she has less pain and is clearer, here we recognize the Phase 5 aspect). The joint pain is less. Putting things on herself: I tell myself, try to put it on the other person, but I quickly feel guilty. Clear now is her waiting attitude, subordinate almost (the Phase 2 aspect), and above that, responding with cheerfulness, radiant (the Phase 5 aspect). If she falls silent, then you see more aspects of the Phase, the Subphase usually seems more visible when active, more appropriate to active or conscious behavior. After three months, she can make screen calls without complaints. With crowds, she still needs to shield herself. Sleep medication she could skip. Joints remain good; she now plays sports. Her chronic headache is unchanged. After five months, she has an emotional time, and Plumeria is repeated, giving more energy again.