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Depressed Daughter

Sometimes cries just before going to sleep, lying in the dark-- just a few tears

Can be sensitive and irritable towards parents at certain times of the month

Depression--she describes it as an inability to feel joy, mild constant sadness 'behind her eyes'. She says, though, sometimes she feels neutral emotionally. The best she feels is just satisfied on a physical level, not happy. This didn't used to be true but has been for about 7-8 months, since taking Lexapro-- which 'evened her out' she says. Before she was in terrible depressive anguish 90% of the time but feeling genuine real joy 5% of the time, now she's more averaged out.

Craves cheese, and carbohydrates (the second as a defense against depression?)

Strong, independent, extremely intelligent personality. her intelligence takes the idea of being a great problem-solver and constantly having new brilliant creative ideas. Loves to read. Has ADD-like symptoms-- difficulty focusing in class or paying attention, poorly organized, tendency to procrastinate or half-finish-- attributed to constant depression. Never full-blown enough to be seriously detrimental. Likes delving into exciting new projects, entrepreneurial, etc.

No sleep troubles.

Given natrum muriaticum-- for her previous extremely severe depression, and because she hated consolation. Taking this, as well as Lexapro for a month and a half, got the depression down to the livable level its at now. She has been depressed nonstop for six or seven years, since she was 12 (she's 18 now). As a young child she was happy and joyful. There was no serious traumatic event/triggering event, besides the stresses of social life, social anxiety, having difficulty with friends, isolating herself, etc. She was never bullied or excluded (except periods where she just had no friends because she was unable to make any, caused by social anxiety?, and nobody liked her), but became depressed anyway.

She was happy for a one-month period after taking Natrum Mur, but (possibly because she took it again without asking her doctor?) her depression came back and has not left.

Strong desire to do something to help people, sense of justice. Very empathetic. Cares deeply about the environment.

Loves the warmth and spring/summer, dislikes the cold

Introvert, but has a couple close friends now (her social anxiety has disappeared since taking Lexapro) and can fake friendliness when needed

Weird relationship with chocolate-- often doesn't like it, sometimes does

History of post-nasal drip and sinus infections, snorting mucus up from back of throat

Short menstrual period-- every 15-20 days (taking progesterone for this, but hasn't seemed to help).

Twin brother who she (mostly) gets along with. Never had a boyfriend except one who dumped her after a month and who she never really liked-- fears guys only are attracted to women who are happy, unlike her.

Masculine personality to some extent-- was a tomboy as a girl and has a guy's personality to some extent (especially in the area of romance-- but not lesbian). but not an alpha female or excessively bossy (hates conflict due to being deeply hurt by it, but will stand up for what she thinks is right), and acts feminine enough in day-to-day life.

Brown hair, brown/hazel eyes (brown inside, greenish ring on inside). Into looking good (likes to feel she is impressing people or looking pretty for once, like most girls) but also likes wearing the same old t-shirt and shorts every day, and does so. Strong/wide jaw, small forehead, droopy (downward turning) largish eyes.

She ran track and played lacrosse, and was good at both. She loved lacrosse (but felt ostracized by mostly male teammates, as the only girl, a couple of the years before being on a team with her brother) but felt exercising through long distance track coincided with her worst years of depression. Exercising does NOT make her feel better. She was thin all those years because of exercising, but now has gained some weight and is, while certainly not fat or even chubby (except maybe around the stomach), definitely has plenty of meat on her. She gained the weight relatively quickly too, unlike past years when she took 6 month hiatuses between cross country seasons. She blames this on the new numbness of feeling, the fact that she no longer has anxiety (which she had severely, especially social anxiety) after taking Lexapro, and using carbohydrates and butter (she used to like to eat straight butter, but has cut back on that now and replaced the craving with a craving for cheese) to regulate her moods and combat the mild sadness she constantly feels, and get her feeling 'ok'.


Please, please help! If you took the time to read through all this, do you have any suggestions for a remedy that could help her?
 
  concernedfriend10 on 2014-08-01
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Only homeopathy has a potential to cure her fully. Anti-psychotic medicines will just palliate her condition, besides these drugs are harmful in the long run.

I would like to take her full case and try to treat her fully if you cooperate with me.

Please answer some initial questions.

1. Tell me the family history of both of her parents. What diseases are running in both the families?

2. Is there any case of murder, suicide or hardcore alcoholism in any of the families? Did you have any case of syphilis or ulcers in the families?

3. What are her hobbies? Does she collect any articles in her cupboard?

4. When she was young, did you notice any peculiar symptoms in her?

5. What was the mental state of her mother during pregnancy? Any mental or physical trauma?

6. What does she like to take about? Is she fascinated by any animal or insect?

7. Is she obsessed by any particular thought or happening or phenomenon in life or death?

8. Do you think she is gradually losing her mental faculties? Is she getting bad grades these days, especially in maths and science?

I will take the full case based on your answers to the above.
 
rishimba 9 years ago
Thank you so much for your response! I would be extremely grateful for any advice or guidance, and I'll do my best to answer your questions.

1. Her grandfather died from c-ancer, and her mother had trigeminal neuralgia (cured by homeopathy), fainting fits when younger, and a heart murmur which the girl also has (though it never affected her-- she's very athletic). Her father has prostate problems and the same stomach ulcer problems as her grandfather, but he has managed to treat the ulcers with diet and supplements.

2. Her grandfather was an abusive alcoholic (he was violent toward his family), later a prescription pill popper. He suffered from painful ulcers due to a lack of stomach acid, if I remember correctly. Her other grandfather also overdid the alcohol, especially loving vodka.

3. Her hobbies besides reading books and sports are generally nature-related. She loves to identify plants/trees and insects, and has lots of strange twigs in her cupboards besides books. SInce she was 4 she has wanted to be an ecologist, but she says she also wants to do something 'to help people'. She even said that when she was unbearably miserable, she chose to stick it through because she thought one day she could do some good in the world on a large scale. She also likes writing, and now she runs a small book kiosk selling kids' books as summer job (she came up with the idea herself).

4. When she was young, she did wake me up screaming many nights from nightmares that she never remembered that didn't wake her up. She never woke up either from them. As a baby, she slept a lot and was hard to wake up. She was a bit violent as a tiny baby, always trying to pummel her twin brother. As a toddler and child (at least until age 10) she was happy, mischievous, dramatic, fun to be around, and extremely intelligent.

**Also: when I gave birth, her head was smashed against my pelvis a bit coming out, making the way clear for her brother, who came out more easily.

5. Nothing, besides worry that the twins would be premature.

6. She loves horses and most wildlife and plants and natural phenomena in general. She also loves to talk about her projects and ideas for the future. She is interested in politics and is always coming up with 'bipartisan solutions' (her words) to problems that she hears about on the news.

7. Not that I know of, though one thing that really outrages her whenever she hears about it is rape.

8. She is getting worse grades than she did in the past, especially in math, as well as in physics, which uses lots of math. She uses her intelligence to cope, but her sporadic disorganization also hurts her (she forgets to turn assignments in), though she is fantastic in other subjects like English, Biology, and History.
[message edited by concernedfriend10 on Sat, 02 Aug 2014 03:57:55 BST]
 
concernedfriend10 9 years ago
A few more questions...

1. Is she quite talkative these days or gradually getting close-mouthed?

2. Did you ever notice her washing her hands more frequently during the day compared to other people?

3. What kind of articles did she collect in her cupboard?

4.Does she talk about death?

5. Did you ever see saliva dripping off her lips while sleeping?

6. Does she feel better or worse on the sea-shore?

My first assessment about her is that she has picked up the syphilitic or psychotic miasm from the families. Hence, before we get on with symptom based treatment, a few doses of a strong anti-miasmatic remedy would be required.

You will have to have to keep giving her this remedy till an ulcer or some discharge is seen developing in her. Once the discharge or ulcer is formed and subsequently cured, she will be completely cured of the bad effects of miasms.

For the present we need to find which miasm is occupying the top layer.

Please answer the above questions and then I will explain what remedy is to be given to her first and in what potency.
[message edited by rishimba on Sat, 02 Aug 2014 07:03:56 BST]
 
rishimba 9 years ago
1. She is somewhat close-mouthed at home (when she was at her worse point she didn't tell us what was going on for three years, and would fight and argue instead). Nowadays she talks to us, but often likes to be left alone. With her friends she is talkative.

2. She is very careful washing her hands every day coming in from outside or before meals/after using the bathroom after once getting an intestinal parasite when she was 15, but she doesn't wash her hands excessively.

3. In her cupboard I see she has books, twigs from trees, plant identification guides, dried flowers, pressed plants, a hunting knife, and a knit stuffed horse she made herself.

4. She doesn't talk about death. She doesn't seem to fear it either.

5. I have seen her drool in her sleep once or twice but I don't think it's a regular thing. I can't be sure, though.

6. I would say she feels better at the seashore. She said the only other time she felt happy was when we went to spend a week by the beach in Antigua. She says she loves the beach almost as much as she loves the night.
 
concernedfriend10 9 years ago
If you want her to be on homeopathic treatment she needs to stop taking anti-psychotic drugs or drugs of any nature whatsoever.

My first prescription for her is SYPHILINUM 10M single dose on a single day and observe her for a month.

Based on her response to syphilinum, we will decide the subsequent course of action.

If you have any questions, please clarify before giving her the dose. The dose has to be given early in the morning in empty stomach. Let her sleep for another 2 hours after taking the dose. One dose would be 3 drops of remedy in about 10 ml of water. Please stick to the prescribed potency. Do not lower the potency.
 
rishimba 9 years ago
Let me also add here that syphilinum patients don't fear death and are likely to attempt suicide during tense moments.

As a mother you need to be very careful in interacting with her. You should take care not to hurt her feelings or make any pessimistic remark on life.

Most syphilinum patients have hidden violence in them which many of us cannot observe. This latent violence may take their own lives.
[message edited by rishimba on Mon, 04 Aug 2014 05:04:04 BST]
 
rishimba 9 years ago
I have had her on the Syphilinum as per your recommendation. Recently she went through some rapidly changing emotions-- she was very happy for a couple of weeks, then very unhappy again due to an argument with her father because he did not feel like promising to spend time with her, then angry, then sad again. She has also been crying a lot. I do not know if the Syphilinum has helped her, but she certainly isn't suppressing her emotions! Do you have any suggestions on where to go from here? A friend of mine recommended Ignatia.
 
concernedfriend10 9 years ago
Ignatia is not a deep acting remedy besides NAT MUR is the chronic of Ignatia. To bring her out of depression, Ignatia or Nat Mur can be given. They will temporarily help her. They will only palliate her for some days.

However, the next curative dose should be of MEDORRHINUM 10M single dose after about 2 months of the first dose of SYPHILINUM 10M.

The fact that she was happy for a couple of weeks indicates that the remedy has created the required response.

A few weeks after Medorrhinum, the case shall be taken afresh and remedies shall be suggested based on presenting symptoms.
 
rishimba 9 years ago

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