Helleborus Niger - Mental (inc. personality) symptoms

MIND

Mind

Slow in answering

Thoughtless; staring

Involuntary sighing

complete unconsciousness

picks lips and clothes.

Aversions, dislikes

being approached

company

being alone

to being spoken to

wants to be let alone

Behaviour

attempts to escape

makes gestures; picks at bedclothes

makes noises; growling like a dog

makes noises; grunting

runs about (see escape)

shrieking

brain cry

in children

during sleep

inclination to sit

sits quite stiff; still

striking

Consolation

Dazed

during chill

between convulsions

during vertigo, dizziness

Delirium

morning

on waking

maniacal

muttering

raging, raving

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

devils

sees devils

illusions of fantasy

paranoia; thought was pursued; by enemies

about self; body; cannot walk, must run or hop

about self; circumstances; wrong; fancies has done wrong

talking; as with dead people

visions; on closing the eyes

visions; horrible; in the dark

visions or presence of phantoms, figures, people

in the dark

figures; sees figures

spectres, ghosts, spirits

desire for open air

Desires, wants; hide

As if in a dream

Symptoms follow intense emotions; disappointed love

Excitement

Mental exertion

Fantasies

of exaltation

of exaltation; after going to bed

of exaltation; vivid

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

envy

cheerful, happy; alternating with other states of mind; sadness

feels as if capable of great deeds

impatience

impetuous; heedless

indecisive

indifference, apathy, etc.

has no desire, no action of the will

to everything

to loved ones

to pleasure

to relationships

to suffering

irritability

consolation

laughing

mildness

mirth, hilarity, liveliness, etc.; alternating with sadness

reproaches; himself

rage, fury (see insanity, mania, delirium)

reserved

rudeness

sensitive, oversensitive; to noise

suspicious

unhappy; despair

discouraged

of recovery

religious (of salvation etc.)

unhappy; discontent, displeased, dissatisfied, etc.

unhappy; wants to injure self; suicidal disposition

by drowning

unhappy; lamenting, regretting

complaining (see lamenting)

moaning, groaning

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

girls, before puberty

before period

during first period

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

consolation

Facial expressions; grimaces

Home-sickness (see desires home)

Intellectual faculties

bright, intelligent, clear; abundant ideas, clearness of mind

impaired thinking; absent-minded (see forgetful)

impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

while studying, reading, etc.

impaired thinking; confusion

afternoon

during chill

when stooping

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

afternoon

during chill

impaired thinking; idiocy

impaired thinking; imbecility

impaired thinking; vanishing of thoughts

ideas; abundant ideas, clearness of mind

ideas; deficiency of ideas

Insanity

in alcoholics

mania, madness

from drinking (delirium tremors)

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; with fear

fear

of death

of evil

frightened easily; starting, startled; evening; jerking or twitching, ceasing on falling asleep

Memory

forgetful

weakness of memory

for what has heard

for what was read

for what has been said

for what was about to say

for words

Occupation

Perception

objects seem new

senses; dull

Preoccupied

absorbed, buried in thought

introspection

introspection

afternoon

meditation

brooding (see anxiety, sadness)

one track minded

Restlessness, nervousness

night

anxious, etc.

tossing about in bed

Shameless

Slowness

Talking, conversation

answers not lucid; confusedly as though thinking of something else

answers not lucid; reflects long

answers not lucid; refuses to answer

answers not lucid; slowly

dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn

afternoon

of others

speech; slow

talks with dead people

Thinking of complaints

Thoughts (see preoccupied); persistent (see delusions)

Unconsciousness

mental insensibility (see conduct automatic)

when stooping

Contradiction of will; muscles refuse to obey the will when attention is turned away