Lyssin (Hydrophobinum) - Mental (inc. personality) symptoms - T.F. Allen

MIND

Mind

Emotional.

Strange notions and apprehensions during pregnancy,

Exaltation; thinks he has something of importance,

Singing, in walking through the whole house, entire day,

Sanguinaria Canadensis ^Sang more than usual, but did not feel at all merry; singing involuntary,

Happy disposition, after perspiring in the evening,

Exhilarated, felt as if he had received joyful intelligence, all day,

During the first two or three days, temper more equable than usual,

Felt unusually serious,

Had a good cry before going to bed; felt very sad (third day),

Bitterly crying, with headache,

Anxiety of mind, restlessness, with great prostration, ; with pain in the heart, ; with the headache,

Feeling as if I had heard, or was about to hear something bad; morose and crabbed feelings until 4 P.M. (fourth day),

Mind much depressed; felt as if something disagreeable was about to happen (third day),

Feeling as if something annoying was about to happen; goes off when thinking of it,

He cannot prevent ideas of something awful about to happen, or as if he would do something awful,

An indescribable idea, which I could not shake off, of something dreadful about to happen to me; all day feeling as if some great misfortune were about to occur,

Irritability,

Irritable, with headache,

Feel irritable; spoke short to the children (ninth day),

Very irritable at trifles,

Am extremely irritable, or rather feel stern (sixth day),

Disposed to get mad,

Impatient all day,

Impatient all day, with headache,

Cross and hypochondriac in the evening,

Felt very cross; did not want to converse or see any one,

Very cross and crabbed until 10.30 P.M., when I fell asleep,

Very cross, so much so that my children expressed great surprise; took offence at the merest trifles; scolded my wife and children; could not concentrate my mind of anything,

The last day or two feel more morose; caught myself saying to nephew, in severe tone, "If you do that again," etc., when he was not really in fault,

Offended at everything; gives offensive answers,

Inclined to use offensive expressions,

Thought came into his mind to attack others in a mean way; to cut others with a knife he holds; to throw water he has in a tumbler into another's face,

Occasionally exhilarated, then again morose, both feelings going off very readily on conversing,

Intellectual.

There seems to be two distinct trains of thought operating at one and the same time,

Plays chess much better, but cannot relate a story,

Undecided about little things,

Have found it difficult through the whole proving to think intently, and at times almost impossible (seventh day),

Restlessness in the mind during the forenoon and at noon,

A strange oppression and indifference, as if he was unable to do anything if he forces himself; there is no power in the mind,

Dulness and stupidity (second day); at night restlessness,

Memory for words much better,

He loses consciousness for a moment,