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

MIND

Mind

Emotional.

Very easily excited; hod hands even from speaking,

Fanciful raving at night,

Sadness, with thoughts of nothing but death (eleventh day),

Sad, despondent; she was obliged to weep,

Gloomy mood (fourth day),

Dejected, sad mood (after seventy-two hours),

Dejected, with great heaviness of the feet,

Completely depressed in mind, together with great anxiety, lasting until lying down in the evening,

Oppression,

Oppression, with anxiety, and a very unpleasant sensation in the stomach,

Very much inclined to grieve and cry in the evening, whilst in the forenoon she had laughed about every trifle, contrary to her habit,

Grief about the slightest occurrences, even to despair,

Weeping in a child, with fretfulness,

He was obliged to weep, without cause, in the evening,

She was obliged to weep at music,

Anxiety, with headache, vertigo, and ill-humor,

Anxiety and hastiness drive him about like an evil-doer,

Anxiety, so that she cannot sit, with nausea and sweat,

Constant anxiety at night, so that he had no rest in bed; he constantly talked in sleep (twelfth hour),

Great anxiety, so that she trembled all over for some minutes,

Great anxiety, in the evening, as if some misfortune had happened, with heat of the face and coldness of hands and feet,

At night, after lying down, thoughts full of care, from which she could not free herself, and which were so distressing and anxious that the blood became excited, and she could not sleep the whole night (fifth day),

He awoke at 2 A.M. with restless mood; everything that could injure him happened, and made him anxious, so that frequently he did not know where he should turn, for over seven nights (after twelve hours),

Hypochondriac uneasiness, discouragement, anxious sweat, loss of sleep,

Fearfulness,

Apprehensiveness, with inclination to weep, in frequent attacks,

Extreme apprehensiveness, so that she did not know how to overcome it, disappearing after weeping,

It frequently seemed to him as though his end were near, or the greatest misfortunes were impending,

Timid (after six hours),

Irritable and uneasy,

Irritable, violent, in the morning; hypochondriac in the afternoon,

He would much rather be alone; every disturbance irritates him,

She is very easily angered, but it just as easily passes out of her mind,

Fretful,

Fretful and hypochondriac, without special cause,

Extremely fretful; everything angers and offends him,

Peevish (after three hours),

Very peevish and wrathful,

Mood in the morning lively, in the evening depressed,

Intellectual.

At night she was obliged to think of all sorts of things, on account of which she slept very little,

At night a fixed idea took possession of him, so that he could not sleep before midnight,

Uneasiness and unsteadiness; he had no thought for his work, no inclination for anything; relief after walking in the open air,

Extreme hesitation; she is unable to make up her mind about anything,

Slowness of purpose and thought,

She was usually very quick to resolve, but soon after taking was very slow of thought and resolution,

Incapable of mental work, after the midday nap, lasting four hours,

Beclouded mind,

Makes mistakes in talking and writing,

Absentminded,

Constant forgetfulness,

Extreme forgetfulness (after eight days),

Only obscure recollection of the most recent events,

Lethargy,