Aurum Arsenicum - Mental (inc. personality) symptoms - T.F. Allen

MIND

Mind

Religious excitement,

In a reverie he says something absurd,

The child woke after three o'clock, early in the morning, and spoke rapidly in a strong voice, and with red face, thus "Mother, thou art my jewel of a daughter! What sort of a dog is that? What sort of a head is that at the wall? What is running about there in the room?" and many other such foolish questions,

Desire for solitude,

(Loathing of life),

Disgust for life, suicidal tendency,

Good humor the whole day, with talkativeness and self-satisfaction (reaction),

Tolerable degree of cheerfulness, agreeable ease (after two hours),

Frequent weeping,

She howls and screams, and imagines herself irretrievably lost,

Despondent,

Melancholy; he imagines he is unfit for this world, and longs for death, which he contemplates with internal delight,

Despondent melancholy, he imagines he cannot succeed in anything,

Dejected, and full of melancholy,

He is dejected, and seeks solitude,

He imagines he has lost the affections of his friends; this makes him sad, even unto tears,

Discouraged, and out of humor with himself,

The least trifle makes him discouraged,

He feels discouraged and despondent; he imagines he does everything wrong, and cannot succeed in anything,

He is dissatisfied with everything; he imagines obstacles everywhere in his way, partly occasioned by adverse fate, partly by himself; this latter makes him morbidly depressed,

Great anguish coming from the praecordial region, and driving him from place to place, so that he can remain nowhere,

Excessive anguish, with palpitation of the heart, weariness in all the limbs, and sleepiness,

Great anguish, increasing unto self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of the abdomen,

Uneasiness, and hurried desire for bodily and mental activity; he cannot do anything fast enough, and cannot live so as to be satisfied with himself,

He feels uneasy and uncertain, without orgasm, he constantly imagines he neglects something, and deserves reproaches in consequence; he appears to carry this uneasiness about him in his mind, and it deprives him of all energy and perseverance,

While eating, the anxiety of mind leaves him,

Timidity,

Apprehensiveness; a mere noise at the door made him anxious; he feared lest some one would come in; anthropophobia,

Constant sullen mood and taciturnity,

Unsociable mood,

Weariness; causeless vexation,

Some persons are offensive to him,

Peevishness, and want of disposition to speak,

Peevish and vehement; the least contradiction excites his wrath,

Impatience; anger,

Choleric and quarrelsome,

Violent anger and vehemence,

Extreme disposition to feel offended; he was deeply affected and provoked by the least thing that seemed to grieve him,

He becomes angry while thinking of some absent persons,

He quarrels with every one, and says coarse things,

She alternately weeps and laughs, as if not conscious of herself,

Silent peevishness and cheerfulness, often alternate (after one and three hours),

If left alone, he sits still, taciturn, apparently melancholy, in a corner by himself; but the slightest contradiction excites his wrath, which he first manifests by disputing and talking a good deal, afterwards by uttering a few detached words (after three days),

The intellectual faculties are more acute, and the memory more faithful (reaction),

She is anxious to reflect deeply about this or that subject; this, however, makes her quite weak, tremulous, cold, and damp over the body,

Memory impaired,