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Please helpme find remedy for my daughter
My daughter is 16 and last year experienced a period of panic attacks on starting college.she had been home schooled prior to starting college due to an aversion to school due to problems with some of the girls there. She refused to go to school.
She has had some psychological help and has made huge progress over the last year, but since the initial episode of panic and to date, she has been experiencing a sensation which she describes as a floating feeling, feels detached or like in a bubble. The feeling makes her anxious and she is now worried that it may hinder her returning to college in september.
1. Describe your main suffering? State the correct location.
Experienced a panic attack prior to starting college over a year ago. Since that time she has experienced the following:
Floating sensation in head. Like a faint feeling. Nervous about life, about getting on bus, think a panic attack will occur. Symptoms of panic attack which occurred before were hearing muffled, chest tight feel like cant breathe, feel like going to faint, palpitations, nausea.
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
Numb and shaking, stutter, inability to speak properly.
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
Detached feeling, anxious about everything in life, sad and worries about getting better.
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
Depressed because of her condition. Doesnt feel safe outside home.
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
Started about a year ago, just prior to starting college. Did start college, but symptoms became more severe and she had to leave college and has been working from home.
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
Symptoms are worse outdoors especially at night
7. What are the things that aggravate your suffering and those that ameliorate the same? Example: time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
better for cold air and open space if not at home, better for being at home.
8. Do you think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)? Being outside fear that she will have a panic attack.
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
Better for cold weather.
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
Mild, changeable, nervous, easily offended, irritable at times and lazy, unorganised, untidy, averse work/study
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
Loves not affected by them.
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
Yes
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
No
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
Likes talking to self out loud when alone.
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
Friends don't have a lot of friends. Had trust issues in the past with friends, that lead to problems at school and eventually left school.
Family - father issue no contact for almost 2 years
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
Fear of panic attack
Fear of confrontation with friends from past
12. What do you crave in food items and what are your aversions?
Like seafood
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Less
14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Normal
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand?
N/a
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
N/a
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
Normal
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
Difficulty getting to sleep. Sleep on right side
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
N/a
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
Feel different to others because of the anxiety.
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
Doctor prescribed an anti anxiety tablet called
22. What major diseases are running in your family?
HBP, cancer
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
Average build, brown eyes, brown hair
(For Females)
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.
1. Describe your main suffering? State the correct location.
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
7. What are the things that aggravate your suffering and those that ameliorate the same? Example: time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
8. Do you think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
12. What do you crave in food items and what are your aversions?
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand?
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
22. What major diseases are running in your family?
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.
25. What major diseases have you had in your life and when. Please write them in a chronological manner.
normal
25. What major diseases have you had in your life and when. Please write them in a chronological manner.
No major
I would happily provide more info if you can help determine a possible remedy for her.
Thanks in advance
[message edited by mhuss1130 on Sun, 08 Jun 2014 22:27:38 BST]
mhuss1130 on 2014-06-08
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
please write her feeling in her own words, exactly what she says i.e. when i first go to college i was very nervous and then my whole body started sweating...
Family - father issue no contact for almost 2 years
if possible describe the reason.
Family - father issue no contact for almost 2 years
if possible describe the reason.
rituraj 9 years ago
Actually, first panic attack happened the weekend prior to her starting college. She was on the train going to see a friend, in her own words this is what she experienced....rush of feeling as if going to be sick. Palpitations felt in chest. Head was spinning. Has a fear of vomiting which makes me panic. I wanted to get off the train, but stayed on train. Got off train felt ok, but same feelings started again when I got off bus.
Attempted to go to college, same feeling felt sick with palpitations.
Started to avoid going out. As only experiences this outside and when away from home.
Since that time, the symptoms that remain are...
Tired, drowsy and floaty feeling in head.
Father issue - parents separated when she was 3. Parents relationship not very good. Father contacted her as and when suited him. She Felt close to father. All contact with father was stopped by him just over a year ago, as a result of her not sticking to an arrangement they had made to meet. Father also had a baby around this time. Did not involve her in this, and to date she still has not seen him or had any contact, even on her birthday or Christmas. This all happened prior to the panic, and starting college.
Attempted to go to college, same feeling felt sick with palpitations.
Started to avoid going out. As only experiences this outside and when away from home.
Since that time, the symptoms that remain are...
Tired, drowsy and floaty feeling in head.
Father issue - parents separated when she was 3. Parents relationship not very good. Father contacted her as and when suited him. She Felt close to father. All contact with father was stopped by him just over a year ago, as a result of her not sticking to an arrangement they had made to meet. Father also had a baby around this time. Did not involve her in this, and to date she still has not seen him or had any contact, even on her birthday or Christmas. This all happened prior to the panic, and starting college.
mhuss1130 9 years ago
Dear Dr. Evocationer:
I would really appreciate if you could go through this case http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/434115/ and help my teacher to gain his eyesight back.
Best Regards,
I would really appreciate if you could go through this case http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/434115/ and help my teacher to gain his eyesight back.
Best Regards,
mani_jee 9 years ago
The questionnaire you have used is a poor one for proper case-taking. There are so many leading questions in it, so many yes/no questions, that much of the information given cannot be relied upon and I have had to discard it.
Just as an example, this is the kind of questionnaire I find elicits more useful information:
Mental and Emotional State Description
1. What are the issues in your life that bother you the most. Not physical issues but mental or emotional ones. List each one separately and describe why each one bothers you so much.
2. What emotions are the most troublesome for you? What situations provoke these emotions. How do these emotions make you act? Do you feel any ill effects from expressing or not expressing these emotions.
3. What incidents in your life have had a deep impact on you? Describe each incident in detail and how they made you feel? What did you do in those situations? What effect have they had on your life?
4. What are you afraid of? Especially important are phobias, but it might be objects, situations or events that just produce a high level of anxiety. How do you manage your fears? How do you react when confronted with these fears? What would be the worst situation for you to be put in that would provoke these fears? You may need to talk about each fear/anxiety separately.
5. What hobbies do you have? Why do you like each of these activities?
6. Do you have any persistent thoughts, ideas or beliefs that are difficult to stop or cope with? What are they?
7. Do you have any unusual gestures or movements of the body? Do you feel any unusual sensation or pain throughout your body? What exactly does it feel like is happening in your body?
8. When you experience your fears, persistent thoughts, or difficult emotions, what kind of sensation or reactions do you get in your body?
9. When did you feel at your best in your life? What was that like for you? If you imagine the complete opposite of this feeling or moment, what would that be like?
10. Do you feel like you are stuck in a pattern of behavior, especially when trying to deal with your problems? What is this pattern?
11. What difficulties or problems do you have in relationships? Talk about your family, your romantic relationships, your spouse or partner, your friends, and your work colleagues. You may need to talk about all of these separately.
12. List 5 positive things about yourself. Are there any situations where this positive attribute becomes negative (is a problem)?
13. List 5 negative things about yourself. Are there any situations where this negative attribute becomes positive (is useful)?
14. Do you have any reoccurring dreams? Describe them in detail, including any feelings that come while dreaming.
15. Did you have any reoccurring dreams as a child, or earlier in your life? Describe those in detail including any feelings that came with them.
16. What were you like as a child, your character, your personality, your fears, your dreams, your problems?
17. What kind of environment did you grow up in? What problems where there at home, with your family, with your parents, with your siblings, with school?
However, I will see where the clues I can glean from this lead me.
Just as an example, this is the kind of questionnaire I find elicits more useful information:
Mental and Emotional State Description
1. What are the issues in your life that bother you the most. Not physical issues but mental or emotional ones. List each one separately and describe why each one bothers you so much.
2. What emotions are the most troublesome for you? What situations provoke these emotions. How do these emotions make you act? Do you feel any ill effects from expressing or not expressing these emotions.
3. What incidents in your life have had a deep impact on you? Describe each incident in detail and how they made you feel? What did you do in those situations? What effect have they had on your life?
4. What are you afraid of? Especially important are phobias, but it might be objects, situations or events that just produce a high level of anxiety. How do you manage your fears? How do you react when confronted with these fears? What would be the worst situation for you to be put in that would provoke these fears? You may need to talk about each fear/anxiety separately.
5. What hobbies do you have? Why do you like each of these activities?
6. Do you have any persistent thoughts, ideas or beliefs that are difficult to stop or cope with? What are they?
7. Do you have any unusual gestures or movements of the body? Do you feel any unusual sensation or pain throughout your body? What exactly does it feel like is happening in your body?
8. When you experience your fears, persistent thoughts, or difficult emotions, what kind of sensation or reactions do you get in your body?
9. When did you feel at your best in your life? What was that like for you? If you imagine the complete opposite of this feeling or moment, what would that be like?
10. Do you feel like you are stuck in a pattern of behavior, especially when trying to deal with your problems? What is this pattern?
11. What difficulties or problems do you have in relationships? Talk about your family, your romantic relationships, your spouse or partner, your friends, and your work colleagues. You may need to talk about all of these separately.
12. List 5 positive things about yourself. Are there any situations where this positive attribute becomes negative (is a problem)?
13. List 5 negative things about yourself. Are there any situations where this negative attribute becomes positive (is useful)?
14. Do you have any reoccurring dreams? Describe them in detail, including any feelings that come while dreaming.
15. Did you have any reoccurring dreams as a child, or earlier in your life? Describe those in detail including any feelings that came with them.
16. What were you like as a child, your character, your personality, your fears, your dreams, your problems?
17. What kind of environment did you grow up in? What problems where there at home, with your family, with your parents, with your siblings, with school?
However, I will see where the clues I can glean from this lead me.
♡ Evocationer 9 years ago
I don't think it is enough for me to go on. Although some of the sensations are interesting, many of the other symptoms given are not specific enough for me to get to a specific remedy. I have gone around in circles looking at different symptoms, but no one remedy is clear.
Can you get her to answer the second lot of questions I posted. Perhaps that will direct me more easily.
Can you get her to answer the second lot of questions I posted. Perhaps that will direct me more easily.
♡ Evocationer 9 years ago
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