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Platinum mettalicum

I read about a case which describes my situation in detail like no other by george vitholukas - a known homeopath.


In this case was a woman who wears dark sunglasses all the time, even for the homeopathic interview


has a TREMENDOUS antropo-phobia, (fear of people)


A strong sexual desire which makes her have sexual relationships despite the tremendous antropo-phobia


I shall copy some parts from the case which describe my situation exactly. My question is if this is enough to constitute a prescribtion of platinum mettalicum for me?

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This person came into my office wearing dark glasses. She would not take them off because she was afraid of people seeing her. She was a very attractive woman who was very stylishy dressed. She appeared very normal in every respect outwardly.


She did not want anyone to see her. She felt protected by the dark glasses and she did not want anyone to see her ... period ... not just because she was coming in the office, it was not just because of me. She always wore them. She looked very healthy and she seemed half-way open when you would talk to her.


Her major complaint was that she had a fear of people. There was TREMENDOUS fear of people. She could not go to the store, movies, restaurants. She would ride around the block for half an hour before she could go and face the gas station attendant. She would avoid even things like saying, 'Fill my car up with gas'. Almost every time she came into my office she had been drinking beer or taking some drug so that she could quiet her anxiety and come into talk with me.


With the fear comes the sensation that her head is shaking. She says that she becomes tense and that she cannot turn her head. She feels that this makes her look weird and makes her stand out. I could not perceive her head shaking any time that she was around me. But she has this image and is very conscious of this kind of thing. The fear of people is obviously underlined four times.


Kind of trembling. But it was imperceptable to me. She was very concerned about how she looks to the world. She will go out of her way to avoid looking dumb or stupid. She constantly repeats now degrading it is that she cannot control her fears and how unfair it is that she has to deal with these problems and how humiliating they are.


She gets very depressed about her own state. She will lie in her bed and cry about how awful this condition is for her and how she cannot function. Every day she feels like she HAS to get up and go out to battle her fears. She sighed a lot during the interview. She is over-punctual (underlined three times). She is very sensitive to criticism (two times). She arrived early and she is always waiting out in the hall fifteen minutes before the interview


She has difficulty meeting people and finding partners, but she has a boy friend and sex is great. Her sexual desire must be very high to force her past the fear of people



It is a very interesting fact that Platina women will come to you with dark glasses. They are good looking usually ... very good looking. But they will come inside with a sense of mystery behind them. In their attitude they become too romantic. In their fantasies they make themselves heroines and big Cleopatras. The Cleopatra in fantasy is Plat. It is interesting how they will wear dark glasses. There is a sense of lack of self confidence with people. You should probe deeper and you will see the real lack of self confidence.
It is interesting now in this case that if you repertorize, Plat. will be one of the main remedies which will come up if we look up: fear of people, over-punctuality, offended easily and sighing



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  vitamin.X on 2011-07-23
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
None of the Platina women, or people, I have seen have ever come into the office wearing dark glasses. This observation has nothing to do with the remedy - it is not a true symptom.

The core of Platina is a feeling of being superior to others - being special, like a queen or a movie star. That is why they *might* wear those glasses, to create that image. But it would be misleading to think that somehow the glasses are an important part of the case.

This feeling grows out of a deeper feeling of being very tiny and insignficant, to which the opposite feeling of being very tall and superior is a reaction.

The fear of people, while relevent, is not unique to this remedy - there are many many remedies that could be thought of for that problem.

It is important to understand what is behind various behaviours and reactions - why do they fear looking stupid - because they must appear better than others. They fear humiliation, they fear defacing their own superior reputation. They do not want to appear common, do not want to seem like ordinary people. They don't want to admit to having base animal urges (sex) so they suppress them or hide them, but in fact only make these urges stronger.

What will strike you about many platina people is they actually come from quite ordinary backgrounds, but act like they don't belong there, don't belong to their own family who can often embarass them because they are crude and common. They may seek out famous or rich people to associate with, or may make up stories to create a special image for themselves. Their real life may never be spoken about, just this imaginary life where they are someone far above the cut of ordinary.

So the problem of Platina is 'I am so insignficant that I must become someone truly special' and they will live this fantasy, act as if it is real.

So perhaps you could need this remedy, if you had this core.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I am not sure whether I feel superior to others or not.I do have an aversion to people who are nothing special or of low status. I distance myself from people of low status who want to associate with me. I refuse taking treatmeant from homeopaths of my country on the basis they are not good enough for me. I need professional homeopaths from the USA or any other of these prestigious countries. I am very critical of others and myself. Extremely high sex drive. I get very weak in the presence of other sex, feel as if I will faint or fall unconscious from the excitment I feel. I get sexually aroused very quick in the presence of other sex. Have some embarassing memories when it was inapropriate, ie. in groups of women or when dancing which caused embarassment. I make a big deal about remedies I get prescribed. Refuse to take 'low' remedies based on the meaning it would have for me.

Would it be dangeorus to try out platina?
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In the above case I presented Dr. George vithoulukas prescribed platina 10M and added it will take 1 year for the patient to be able to make social contact. Is homeopathy a slow healing process?
 
vitamin.X last decade
I do not know why I fear looking stupid
 
vitamin.X last decade
It is hard to say what remedy you are. Comparing yourself to a remedy in our materia medica is a sure way to make it very difficult for a homoeopath to see the truth, because you filter your own expressions through the remedy (colouring them in a very specific way). It sort of corrupts whatever the truth might be. My students often did the same thing. It would take time to get them to speak naturally, and they never ever needed the remedy they thought they did. Knowledge of the materia medica actually makes me very suspcious of most things people say. There are over 5000 known homoeopathic medicines now and the shades of difference between some of them is so fine it takes an objective listener to sort it out.

I do not know how long that case took in reality. Dr. Vithoulkas actually could only guess to the time it will take to cure - he could not know. Some cases take years, some take weeks. That depends on the patient and their particular situation and disease.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade

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