Bryonia - Mental (inc. personality) symptoms - T.F. Allen

MIND

Mind

Emotions, Delirium.

Mental illusion; her head seemed too heavy,

Irrational talking of his business, for an hour (after half an hour),

Nightly delirium,

In the morning at daybreak delirious prattling about business to be attended to; this disappears when the pain commences,

About 10 o'clock at night, a delirious frightful fantasy, as of soldiers cutting him down; that he was on the point of escaping; with great heat in the body; sweat (without thirst); the delirium relieved by uncovering and getting cool,

Moods.

Much crying for one and a half days,

(Great despondency; disinclined to think; exhaustion of the intellectual powers),

Despondent,

A very unusual melancholy mood,

Great depression, and very morose mood without any cause, quite contrary to his habit,

My usual lively disposition becomes changed to hypochondria, which lasts several months, without any reason,

Anxiety; he is apprehensive of the future,

Anxiety in the whole body, which compelled him to do something constantly, and wherever he went he found no rest,

Feeling of anxiety on lying down in the evening, which appeared to depend upon a constriction of the chest,

In the room he became very anxious; better in the open air,

Great anxiety, with sensation of constriction of the cavity of the chest; difficult short respiration,

Great sense of insecurity, with mental depression, and apprehension for the future (sixth and seventh days),

Apprehensiveness, fearfulness (after eighteen hours),

He tried several times to escape from bed,

Disposition more irritable than usual; contradiction easily provoked anger during the whole proving,

Irritable, mood (with not have his wife and children about him; wishes to be alone),

Mood at once irritable, weeping, and morose,

Very irritable mood; inclined to fright, fear, and vexation,

Fretful mood,

Fretful; she imagines that she cannot accomplish her work; constantly takes up the wrong piece, and always inclined to change and take another; followed by pressive headache in the forehead,

Ill-humor,

Ill-humored and inclined to be angry,

Very ill-humored and inclined to be angry,

Ill-humored and quarrelsome without reason,

Very ill-humor; troubled with needless anxiety,

General ill-humor and discomfort, after a meal,

Out of humor, ,

Out of humor during and after a meal,

Morose; everything puts him out of humor,

Discontent,

At first despondent, at last (after five days) jovial,

Intellect.

Over-busy; she undertakes and works far too much (after twenty hours),

Disinclination for work,

Imagination very sluggish; it is impossible to make any plan for the future, even for the next day; the judgment, however, is unimpaired,

On attentive reading the thoughts seemed to vanish suddenly,

So weak in mind that his ideas disappear, as if he would faint, together with heat in the face, especially on standing,

Mental exhaustion,

Want of memory (after four hours),

She is not conscious of what she is doing, and lets everything fall from her hands (in the room),

She was not fully conscious of what she was doing (in a room); worse when lying; lasting twenty-four hours (immediately),

Insensibility greatly increased in the evening,