Concentration problems

1. Poor concentration, very poor performance at school despite being intelligent, incapacity to trust and recognize authority. Questions even the most obvious rules.
2. No physical suffering except for enuresis
3. the mental symptoms are many. The most important are: lack of concentration, opposition, uncooperative, irrational fears.
4. At his worst my son is verballly rude, talks nonsense, blames others for what he has done or finds faults that are not there in others, gets malicious towards siblings.
5. He was adopted at the age of 2 and half. From the beginning there was something strange. He was uncooperative and could not distinguish between relatives and perfect strangers. Showed attachment to everybody he met, so we presume it all started because the mother neglected him and abandoned him at the age of 1 year. He could not speak until the age of 5 or six and made proper sentences even later.
6. He is possibly worst at night, when he is tired
7. I have not noticed anything that worsens him or ameliorates him in any significant way. He certainly likes sympathy and being at the center of attention
8. No, no apparent relation
9.No difference
10. Extremely or patologically lazy. Has to be served by everybody or he will not even eat. Says he is not hungry if that means to get up from the sofa and get his food. He prefers often to lie down. Needs to eat in front of tv and computer. One thing is not enough, he always needs two or more things switched on. The more inputs, the better. He is very disagreeable when faced with his lack of responsibility. He is not arrogant, though he thinks of himself as special. But only as a defense from the very low self-esteem he has. He is easily offended and must have his way, cannot take no for an answer. Selfish, cannot see other people's needs. Lack of respect for parents. Argues when asked to do things. He is hilarious, mischievous, full of jockes. Sings and dances often.
. I am not sure about thunderstorms
. I don't think he is ameliorated by consolation when very angry, but as I said he likes sympathy. He likes to lean physically on you, and needs to embrace and kiss me, the mother, all the time, only to be reassured of my love. But does not particularly like it if you lean on him or take the initiative. In general he doesn't like to be touched, but also likes to play physically with his little siblings where he lets them climb all over him and punch and kick and he feigns to be helpless. In other moments if they dare show disrespect, he is very stern and retaliates. He is an introvert when it comes to revealing his fears and preoccupations
. I don't know about habits. Nothing very peculiar, except maybe for an obsession for shoes which is the only thing he keeps spotless and has many pairs. As a child he had this habit of playing with two toys for hours, repeating always the same single noise and gestures whilst he was lost in a very vivid imagination of gigantic battles. The noise he made was always the same and made him sound stupid.
. I think his feelings are always marred by his lack of confidence that was determined by his deficient primary caretaker, so they are ambivalent. He has and needs millions of friends, always chatting on facebook and boasts childishly of having all these friends, but, in fact, he has no really close friend, no one he could open his heart to, because he cannot handle it. He has a fear of intimacy, though he says he has many girlfriends (he is almost 15 now), and in fact he is a charmer with everybody, but he could not get close spiritually or physically to anybody yet. He is very warm with people, but not in a sexual way. Whilst as a child, he wanted sexual intimacy with everybody. He cannot trust anybody and this shows in his rejection of authority, in his reluctance to lend a helping hand especially to the family, unless he has ulterior motives like impressing somebody or asking for somethnig. Even carrying a bag to help his mother is not natural for him, but something that he must force himself to do, if he overcomes an internal conflict with the bad part of him that tells him to not do it. He has two sides, almost all the time . Generally wins the bad side. I don't even think he is generally aware of the conflict. He is very manipulative. His feelings, potentially good, were spoilt by his negative experience with his natural mother or whomever should have taken care of him. With his siblings, he is also ambivalent, you can see he adores them, but at the same time, he must make sure they suffer as much as he has suffered. And then he consoles them. He tells tales and enjoys to see them punished, though at the same time is startled by it. He feels generally guilty about everything and this makes him deny the existence of God firmly, whilst he says he believes in the devil and all its manifestations. Even with me as a child, he seemed to enjoy hurting me physically. There is a hard core in him which is related to his early deprivation. I don't remember him being cruel to animals, in fact, he is very moved by the babies of every species, even the ugliest, like a bat, or whatever, this things move him a lot. He will not share his sweets or food with his siblings. He could not even share his sweets with me, his mother, as a child. Never happy about giving his toys away, or he gave them and then wanted them back. If his siblings want some food, even if he doesn't like it and has refused it before, he will claim he wants it. He does not like to be touched, but touches a lot and needs to embrace.
11. He has many fears which have got worst with the years. He could never be alone as a child, not even playing in the garden or on the balcony or in his room. He had to be watched all the time and asked us to look at him as if he was performing for us. When we adopted him, he was very withdrawn in the very beginning of our contact. Also the caretakers in the orphanage said he was a child who never smiled. But, when finally he came home, he started to laugh and make us laugh and never stopped. It was as if he wanted to conquer us with his hilarity, he is actullay very funny, a performer and behaves as if the world was a stage and has to clap him all the time for his beauty and performance. At the same time the world is a frightfull place full of presences. He is vane, but with a very low self-esteem. Recently, a year ago, when I asked him why he would never play in the garden or alone, he said that he saw people in the trees, people watching him, likewise in a room alone. I think he might be scared of becoming crazy or of being thought as crazy. This is why he needs the television on all the time and the computer and more if possible, all together at the same time. to be distracted from his fears. I can't imagine him thinking seriously about himself and his future, in fact, even when I try to make him think about his lack of projects and his lack of engagement, he closes up completely. He sleeps in the bed with his father, because he gets too scared during the night, and even so he has to cover his head completely, maybe because he sees things in the dark. Sometime ago there were zoombies, (from films he watched) now he is ashamed of telling me what makes him sleep like this, but I think it must be some vivid horrible scenes. He has to have all lights on just to go from the lounge to the toilet. He is afraid to flush the toilet. Very afraid of dark.
12. He craves chewey sweets. Loves chocolate cakes. Loves sprite especially and second, coke. Cannot take hot drinks. Cannot eat vegetables which are green and loaths spinach and sour broccoli.
13. the thirst seems normal
14. The hunger seems normal, except for the things he craves. Likes also wurstel, sausages, hamburgers and pasta and pizza.
15. He can't stand spinach and sour broccoli, those called mustard greens very used in Italy
16. His sweat was a lot and terribly smelly before we gave him the gallicum acidum, now is not smelly anymore and also his mood has improved a lot. He sweats under the armpit and on the face
17. Normal i think
18. He says he wakes up at night. He gets up late generally and not very refreshed, but since the gallicum he seems more refreshed, but fears are still there. He has slept for many years on his side with both hands under his cheeck, just like an angel, if you can picture it. He still does sometimes.
19.I don't think he is sexually active, not even masturbation, if i am not mistaken
20. I think I have answered this question
21. He was diagnosed with Adhd, 4 years ago, and only last year we were persuaded to try ritalin and strattera, with catastrophic results becasue these two drugs made all his symptoms worst and only made him talk incessantly and very depressed and belligerant when the effect was over. Recently the diagnosis was invalidated by some psychologists who did a brain scan and saw that he has a very active amygdala which takes most of his mental energies. It is as if he spends all his mental energy to control the world and himself to keep his fears at bay, and thus has no much space for any other purposeful interaction with reality, unless it happens to be very pleasurable like playing. You can see that in a way he is anesthetized in order to not feel pain and that he has a coinner conflict, though it doesn't generally surface.
Certainly he does not like school or cooperation at home which he finds exahusting.
He has tried few homeopathic remedies: Tuberculinum, hyoscyamus, lycopodium, tarentula. lachesis and recently also sulphur. None of them worked except for the Gallicum acidum which has improved the situation in the way i described. He has no aim in life except for amusements: does not go to school and does not do sport. He was good at basket. he is not engaged in any serious project
22 We don;t know the family history, we cannot exclude the mother might have taken drugs. She was described by the father as someone who could not stand still.
23. Very lean, quite tall, narrow chest, very slim limbs and long legs. Black african. Skin is very dry on legs and has always been.
24. No major diseases