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Anxiety/Depression
Age:39 yrsMarital Status: married with a single baby
Profession: IT Specialist
Medication: currently on Effexor XR 39.5mg/day
1. Describe your main suffering? State the correct location.
Ans:I live in Baltimore MD USA.I have a low energy all day long, sleep is not good and wake up feeling tired.I don't feel like socializing and have lost interest in everything and easily get bored with stuff.
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
Ans: Muscle aches especially neck and upper back,stomach ache,acidity and indigestion.excessive urinating and permanent sore throat.
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
Ans: Can't concentrate much,feeling insecure and frustrated,feelings of regrets and slight anger.unable to relax.
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
Ans:It seems like I am going to lose everything and will be on the streets at the mercy of others, feeling down, heart is sinking, feel like lying down alone undisturbed.
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
ans: It started in childhood, there is no event or disease which caused it, just developed overtime.I was feeling it in my mind when I was a boy, a little different from other kids, not social, not so confident,very shy.At the age of 15 developed OCD's and at the age of 18 totally became unsocial and started avoiding people altogether.Also I am extremely anxious person and think alot before taking any step.
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
Ans: usually around sunset
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.
Ans: Thinking about the past aggravate my suffering and especially thinking about the situations where I felt panic attacks. Although I did not get them now.
Things that ameliorate my suffering is around my loved ones, summer time when the temperature is high and sky is sunny. sex and cozy warm place in winter.
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)?
Ans:Change of place, definitely has an effect of my body.also I feel better when my digestion is good.
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
Ans:hot and 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.
Ans: Yes I am Moody,Mild,Nervous,Quiet and Lazy.I dont have any other symptoms as described above.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
Ans: Im ok
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
Ans:No I like taking pain so that people can see and sympathize at my situation.
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
Ans: yes especially noise
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
Ans: yes I play with my nose when I am nervous or in a problem.
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
Ans: They are a blessing for me.
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
Ans: No fears and have some nightmares once in a while.
12. What do you crave in food items and what are your aversions?
Ans: Not a big fan of food just like , lamb tikkas,yogurt and tandoori bread.
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Ans: Normal
14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Ans: less
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand?
Ans: Lentils and oily spicy food.
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
Ans: Less sweat, and usually sweat in underarms.
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
Ans: Not regular and I'm constipated.Don't feel empty after using bathroom.
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
Ans: Always sleepy but dont get enough sleep, I sleep on my abdomen/belly.
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
Ans: yes but not satisfactory for my age.I ejaculate very quickly.
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
Ans: Nothing as such.
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
Ans: I took following medicines for this treatment uptil now
1.Anafranil
2.Prohtiaden
3.Effexor XR
4.Xanax
All the medicines makes me sleepy which I personally dont like and also affects my descision power.
22. What major diseases are running in your family?
Ans: My dad had depression, heart disease and my mom has acid indigestion most of her life.
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
Ans: I am 6'-2', athletic built and weigh about 68 kg.
(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.
1. Typhoid at the age of 14
2.Depression and anxiety after 18 uptil now.
[message edited by whoami on Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:53:09 GMT]
whoami on 2014-02-18
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
You said you are taking some medication for this problem. How do you think you will wean yourself out of this? If you start taking homeo treatment, it will be imperative to discontinue any substance dependence.
Can you do without these allopathic drugs?
Can you tell me what new symptoms surface if you stop taking this medication?
You said you think about the past. What exactly happened to you in the past that you constantly think about?
Did you ever suffer from any bereavement or break-up that has left an indelible effect on your personality and behavior?
List everything in life that makes you feel bad physically and mentally.
Can you do without these allopathic drugs?
Can you tell me what new symptoms surface if you stop taking this medication?
You said you think about the past. What exactly happened to you in the past that you constantly think about?
Did you ever suffer from any bereavement or break-up that has left an indelible effect on your personality and behavior?
List everything in life that makes you feel bad physically and mentally.
♡ rishimba last decade
Rishimba, Thanks for your help and support.
I have already started the process of cuttinh down on Effexor XR 75 mg and it started when you first advised about taking Lycopodium 200M. During this one month I came down to 37.5 mg.
I think emotionally /mentaly I will not have any issues if I stop taking allopathic drugs.
When I stop or wean off my medication, my axiety aggrevates and so does my depression alongwith tachycardia.In addition to that I get indigestion and develop acid reflux and insomnia,ringing in my ears.The biggest issue which seems to bother me is Irritable bowel and my bowel frequency increases especially when anxious.
I think about past when I used to get panicked very often whenever the anxiety got triggered due to exposure to people.Some doctors in the past told me that I have a social phobia.Whenever I think about those days which comprises of the time from my early teens to 24yrs of age I get depressed and scared.It wasted a lot of my golden years and I have regrets about it.
No issues in life except for the behavioural disorder which did not allow me to fit in the society and brought my confidence down.
I feel bad about my past old days when I had behavioural disorder which made me take bad descisions in life and left me financially and socialy very weak.It seems like I wasted half of my life and never enjoyed my life.
I have already started the process of cuttinh down on Effexor XR 75 mg and it started when you first advised about taking Lycopodium 200M. During this one month I came down to 37.5 mg.
I think emotionally /mentaly I will not have any issues if I stop taking allopathic drugs.
When I stop or wean off my medication, my axiety aggrevates and so does my depression alongwith tachycardia.In addition to that I get indigestion and develop acid reflux and insomnia,ringing in my ears.The biggest issue which seems to bother me is Irritable bowel and my bowel frequency increases especially when anxious.
I think about past when I used to get panicked very often whenever the anxiety got triggered due to exposure to people.Some doctors in the past told me that I have a social phobia.Whenever I think about those days which comprises of the time from my early teens to 24yrs of age I get depressed and scared.It wasted a lot of my golden years and I have regrets about it.
No issues in life except for the behavioural disorder which did not allow me to fit in the society and brought my confidence down.
I feel bad about my past old days when I had behavioural disorder which made me take bad descisions in life and left me financially and socialy very weak.It seems like I wasted half of my life and never enjoyed my life.
whoami last decade
You suffered from Typhoid at the age of 14 and around 18 you started having OCD and became unsocial.
Can you recall what was happening in your life between 14 and 18 years of age. What lead you to become unsocial?
There has to be a direct or indirect cause of your OCD behavior that started at 18 years of age.
Now, if you go out and socialise with people, do you still get anxious and have to rush to toilet?
Do you have any burning sensation in any part of your body? Do you like being fanned on your head when you suffer from digestive problems?
Can you recall what was happening in your life between 14 and 18 years of age. What lead you to become unsocial?
There has to be a direct or indirect cause of your OCD behavior that started at 18 years of age.
Now, if you go out and socialise with people, do you still get anxious and have to rush to toilet?
Do you have any burning sensation in any part of your body? Do you like being fanned on your head when you suffer from digestive problems?
♡ rishimba last decade
Hi Rishimba !!
My OCD's started when I was 9 or 10 yrs old.It has nothing to do with my typhoid.actually my father was also a patient of depression all his life so he never gave me any confidence or support,so I became shy and lost in my own world, always think about my own self and absorbed in my own personal thinking.
about you second question, it still happens to me but not with that intensity as before,I have become mature now and can control my anxiety with my own thinking.
I get burning sensation in my stomach and always have sore throat.
I don't know what you mean by being fanned on my head?
Regards
Sahibzada ahmad
[message edited by whoami on Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:48:23 GMT]
My OCD's started when I was 9 or 10 yrs old.It has nothing to do with my typhoid.actually my father was also a patient of depression all his life so he never gave me any confidence or support,so I became shy and lost in my own world, always think about my own self and absorbed in my own personal thinking.
about you second question, it still happens to me but not with that intensity as before,I have become mature now and can control my anxiety with my own thinking.
I get burning sensation in my stomach and always have sore throat.
I don't know what you mean by being fanned on my head?
Regards
Sahibzada ahmad
[message edited by whoami on Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:48:23 GMT]
whoami last decade
Do you have a feeling that your body is cool while your head is hot and you needed to cool your head infront of a fan or put your head out of a moving car etc.
So, I understand, OCD is not your main concern now. You are more interested to work out your physical problems like gastritis, cough etc.
[message edited by rishimba on Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:53:54 GMT]
So, I understand, OCD is not your main concern now. You are more interested to work out your physical problems like gastritis, cough etc.
[message edited by rishimba on Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:53:54 GMT]
♡ rishimba last decade
OCD's are long gone,I only am concerned about my sad mood and low energy issue,as well as the digestion issue which is a result of depression because the stomach/gastrointestinal tract is the first organ that the depression hits.
Thanks
Sahibzada ahmad
Thanks
Sahibzada ahmad
whoami last decade
I have already suggested Lycopodium that may help you in high potencies and infrequent doses.
However, if you have more of acute gastritis symptoms as you have described, you may take CARBO VEG 30C three times a day for some 2 days.
However, if you have more of acute gastritis symptoms as you have described, you may take CARBO VEG 30C three times a day for some 2 days.
♡ rishimba last decade
Last time you prescribed lycopodium clavatum in 1M and it did show any effect, what do you suggest now.Thanks
Eshaal last decade
correction in the above post,'didn't show any effect'
[message edited by whoami on Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:01:12 GMT]
[message edited by whoami on Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:01:12 GMT]
whoami last decade
Try Carbo Veg as suggested.
♡ rishimba last decade
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