655.42.05 Rhus aromatica, CaseWoman, 75, depression.
She has a feeling of a big black ball of anxiety in her solar plexus. She trembles and has stiff muscles, mostly in the morning on waking. She needs Seroxat, cannot do without it.
Her father was very dictatorial. He was often angry, used to beat her so much that she feared being beaten to death. She had to think the same as her father, was not allowed to have her own opinion. She worked hard for his approval, harder and harder, was not allowed to make mistakes. But he never gave compliments, every mistake was enlarged. Her father said that one could achieve all what one wanted and that someone without backbone did not deserve to carry the family name. She feared and hated her father silently. The whole atmosphere came from a very orthodox religious background.
Mother worked off her feelings on the children. She could ignore her children for days, be cruel, locking her in a dark cupboard. She could be hard, killing little kittens.
She was a sensitive girl who lost her self-confidence. She developed migraines. When her father discovered that she missed work, he forced to make up for it in the weekends.
She felt fenced in, sad, melancholic as if something dark around her. She always believed people and only late in life discovered that people manipulate.
She always had to adapt. This was the same for her siblings.
She married a softer, but just as orthodox man as her father. He made all the decisions and she could not develop in her marriage. He gave her the pressure of heavy religion, whereas she herself felt more like a free spirit.
Fears: many things, traffic, parties, future, people.
Old complaints.
Child: face pustules, ulcers,
Eczema in armpit.
She feels guilty about her son having obsessive neurosis.
Neuralgia.
Conjunctivitis frequently. Urticaria. Asthma.
Nose polyps, operated on; sinusitis. Cystitis 3 times. Varicose veins.
Migraine violent, 4 days sick, vomiting gall.
Muscles stiff, pain everywhere, knee, neck, shoulders, operated on. Hypertension.
Energy: fatigue often, concentration difficult, aggression, disappointed.
Dream: losing her child; daughter being killed by a car; son falling in a hole.
She is studying philosophy, loves to think about the essence of life, it is liberating.
AnalysisShe feels fenced in, which is a key for
Anacardiaceae. This fits with the dictatorial father, the held in anger, fear of people, stiff muscles.
Follow upOld symptoms came back of pustules in the face.
She feels better, reduces the Seroxat.
Rhus venenata did not help her.