3.6 Lanthanum oxydatum caseWidth 8, Depth 5,
Cure 9, Duration 6
A 32-year-old man feels stressed. He worries a lot about what other people think of him and fears losing his girlfriend. His self-confidence is low. He has the feeling that he cannot express himself properly emotionally. He speaks hesitantly, pausing long in the search for what to say. It’s difficult for him to express anger. He's always afraid that things will go wrong, and he always blames himself. He’s always apologizing, always saying “sorry”. Even when he has helped a friend the whole weekend he says “sorry” that he cannot help more. He feels confused and thinks he sounds confused. His feelings can be overwhelming, which can make him burst into tears. He doesn't know how to be happy with himself.
As a child he had little self-confidence. His parents were often late picking him up from school and he was always afraid that they wouldn’t come at all. He lets others stand in front, stepping back himself.
At primary school he was good at sports and study. Around the age of 7 a lot of boys at school signed a paper against him, saying that he was a piece of slime. He was very shocked, embarrassed and humiliated. His mother had to tear him from the table to take him back to school again. His mother spoke about it to the head teacher. The boys then said that the paper was meant as a joke, not seriously.
After high school he studied English, history and cultural studies, all for a short while. Then he did a course in photography, worked for a journal as a photographer and became a journalist there. He became editor, then chief editor and then general manager of the magazine and others. Each promotion was offered to him because he was so good in his work, he never applied for the jobs.
He’s very creative and inventive, good academically. He’s a perfectionist, hard on himself, must be an expert. He’s interested in human stuff, people.
He can’t express himself very well, though many people look on him as very confident.
He also lacks confidence sexually. This arose from his upbringing and his former girlfriend where the sex was awful. She was nasty and abused his help and support even after they had split up. He felt stupid for not standing up for himself.
Pain in knee.Eczema when young.
Psoriasis in palms of hand when handling films at 21.
Hobbies: bicycling, 25 miles every day.
Smoking hashish to get rid of stress.
Fears: heights, being arrogant.
Dream: being chased by a man with a gun.
GeneralWeather: -> sun, -> summer, -> outdoors
Perspiration: head << nervous, < coffee.
Time: < 1 pm.
Desire: cheese (3), bread, coffee (2).
Aversion: slimy food (3), tripe, lumpy custard, slime on puddings; as a child: runny eggs, cheese, spinach, red cabbage, fish.
Food: < spicy: burning mouth.
AnalysisHis searching is typical of
Stage 3. He tries many professions, like one can see in
Scandium. He hesitates and struggles in speaking. But he’s too sophisticated for the
Iron series. His creativity points to the
Silver series or
Gold series. The theme of teasing, “it’s just a joke” is typical of
Lanthanum. In this case one can see the similarity with
Barium, who feels even more embarrassed and humiliated, but stays passive with it.
Oxygen is expressed in the symptom “fear being left by parents”. Combined this gives
Lanthanum oxydatum.
Confirmations:Lanthanides: good academically, creative, inventive, humiliated, sexual problems, fears heights, fear being arrogant, marijuana.
Stage 3: hesitation, confused, overwhelmed, low self-confidence, blames himself, steps back himself, embarrassed.
Oxygen: abused.
Follow upAfter
Lanthanum oxydatum MK he’s more content, less doubtful. His stress and confusion have lessened. He’s more himself. After one month he feels 50% better. He apologizes less. His perfectionism is going down. His sexuality is improving, he’s more in tune and can talk about it with his girlfriend. They have decided to get married.
Four months later, the change in his behavior was apparent. His fear of heights was gone.
2 years later he’s still doing very well.