Thuja Occidentalis - Mental (inc. personality) symptoms - T.F. Allen

MIND

Mind

Emotional.

She fancies that she has intentionally represented herself as insane in the presence of others in order to palliate a wrong supposed to have been done, and that now she is punished, therefore, by real insanity,

She feels and says that she is deranged and unfit to live, as a punishment for a fault which she cannot name, with talking of the most confused subjects without any connection, sense, or understanding; commences every sentence anew without ability to finish it in spite of every effort of the vanishing memory,

She fancies that she has committed a sin,

She has a decided sensation that her soul is separated from her body, and in such a condition hears and feels everything as from a distance,

She often fancies that some one is sitting near her, with whom she talks aloud while she is lying quite wide awake with open eyes, and wonders when she is asked with whom she is talking, then she does not know what to think of it,

She constantly longs for the offices of the church in order to banish her sinful thoughts of suicide,

At night, while lying awake with closed eyes, she seems to see ghosts, and also now and then all kinds of animals brilliantly illuminated, coming to her from a distance and then disappearing; on opening her eyes everything disappears, but returns on closing the eyes again,

Weakminded, pious condition,

(Weakminded, with pious fanaticism, dread of work, incessant restlessness, sleeplessness, constipation and suppression of the menses, gradually decreased after fourteen days after the dose, and within nine months became permanently and radically cured),

Distraction of mind,

Distracted in mind, unsteady, and inclined to do now this, now that (after six hours),

The child is excessively obstinate; on the slightest contradiction it throws itself to the ground in rage and loses its breath,

Passionate in unexpected attacks,

Very much excited; at one time cried, at another laughed,

Causelessly excited and inclined to be angry; contrary to all his previous habits (fifty-fourth day),

Uneasiness of mind for many days, everything seems burdensome and distressing,

Remarkably earnest mood in a young girl,

Very earnest frame of mind in spite of the cheerfulness of those around him, in the evening (sixtieth day),

Inclined to talk (after sixteen hours),

Spasmodic laughing and weeping at the same time,

Mood especially cheerful (thirty-eighth day),

Good humor without gayety (after seven hours),

Good humor (after fifteen hours),

Spirits excited, lively and loquacious (effect of the alcohol?),

During the febrile symptoms his mind is quiet, and he is well disposed (after three hours and a half),

Weeping mood (fourth day),

Violent spasmodic weeping in the evening, changing to febrile coldness, which lasted all night,

Spasmodic weeping, with hiccough and twitching of the hands and feet,

Constant weeping mood, with anxious oppression,

While talking, she is unable to go on in spite of every effort; she begins to weep bitterly, and says she can no longer think or live,

Weeping and trembling of the feet during music,

Sad mood (seventh day),

Sad mood and discouragement (thirteenth day),

She has constantly very sad thoughts about the merest trifles, in which she stares in front of her and picks at her nails,

Very gloomy mood, in the afternoon (ninth day),

Gloomy, melancholy state of mind; came on in the afternoon, which was still apparent on waking next morning (after second dose, second day),

Very gloomy frame of mind, before going to sleep (seventy-third day),

Exceedingly out of tune; sad, and disposed to weep (twenty-fourth day),

Mood very unhappy, despairing,

Melancholy in the forenoon, more cheerful in the afternoon; this alternation has manifested itself for some days past (thirty-second day),

Extreme melancholy (fifth day),

Depressed in body and mind (twenty-first day),

Very low-spirited (twenty-second day),

Very depressed, sad, irritable mood,

Cannot endure soft, tender music without tensive spasm of the heart,

Remarkable indifference to the opposite sex,

Aversion to all company, in a young girl usually full of life,

Discontentment,

Despondency frequently occasioning a sobbing weeping,

Loathing of life,

Apprehensive (thirty-ninth day),

Apprehension of becoming sick (ninth day),

Continual thoughts of dying, with increasing weakness,

Presentiment of death,

Anxiety (after ninth day),

After half an hour sleep, was suddenly seized with anxiety, after which slight perspiration broke out; whereupon he fell asleep, but continually started up again (sixth night),

Averse to everything; anxious and solicitous about the future,

Anxiety, with intolerable aching in the chest, even to spasmodic weeping and screaming, recurring daily, at 4 to 5 P.M. (second week),

Frightful anxiety, like death agony; a nameless internal ache, as if the soul were escaping from the body, with most terrible uneasiness, frightful orgasm of blood, at night, even to suffocation (at the beginning of the seventh month),

Anxiety, with internal trembling, confusion of the head, and difficult speech, alternating with spasmodic laughing (ninth month),

Anxious, lachrymose despondency,

Sudden unaccountable anxiety in the head, which, against her will, compels her to call some one,

Very anxious thoughts, with heat of the head and anxiety about the heart, driving out of bed and house,

Constantly tormented by groundless anxiety,

Great and constant anxiety without cause,

Anxious and without thought, she went about as in a whirl, with heaviness of the head and limbs,

Constant anxiety, as if he had committed a great crime, with forgetfulness and general trembling, even to disturbing sleep,

Frightful anxiety at night, so that she cried aloud from internal distress,

Constant great despair changes at last to complete indifference,

Increasing despair which allows rest nowhere, seemed to be intolerable day and night,

Dread that she would be attacked with apoplexy, with confused tremulousness and anxious perspiration,

Very much frightened, to trembling of the whole body,

Ill-humor (after twelve months), ; (fifth day),

Ill-humor, with dulness in the head (twelfth and thirteenth days); ill-humored and restless (seventeenth day),

Want of disposition to do anything, ill-humor and inclination to anger,

Exceedingly ill-humored, speaks but little (twenty-ninth day),

Impatient ill-humor,

Very ill-humored and depressed,

Very ill-humored and excited, with death constantly before her eyes,

Peevishness (fifth day), ; (thirty-first day),

Great irritability (after one year),

Irritable humor, in the afternoon (twenty-sixth day),

Very peevish and passionate, always in renewed paroxysms,

Fretful if everything does not go according to his wishes,

Excited mood; he is irritable, especially if any one says anything of which he does not exactly approve (after thirty days),

Morose, quarrels about a harmless joke,

Vexatious, mostly in the morning,

Constantly irritated and vexed at everything,

Great indifference, changing to weeping,

Very changeable moods,

Intellectual.

A delightful feeling of corporeal well-being and inclination to intellectual labor, in the afternoon (twenty-eighth day),

Aversion to all work,

Indisposition to any kind of intellectual labor (sixty-sixth day),

Intellectual exercise soon fatigues, in the evening (twenty-first day),

Excessive thoughtfulness about the merest trifle,

The power of thought was increased, but rather for analytical than synthetical reasoning (sixty-fifth day),

Unfitted for every work on account of a confused whirling of thoughts in the head,

Mind affected; he cannot get rid of a thought he has just had,

Thought is very irksome,

The boy speaks with excessive haste, frequently jumping over words and syllables, however without stammering,

Speaks very slowly and monosyllabically (twenty-seventh day),

Collects his thoughts and speaks slowly; he seeks for words while talking (after third day),

Clear, connected thought, when writing a letter, becomes more and more difficult, till impossible,

In thought, she often misses words; on the other hand, it often happens that a great many little insignificant words interpolate themselves, as if involuntarily tumbling in between the others,

He made mistakes in writing very frequently; with the greatest attention he changed or omitted at one time letters, at another syllables, at another whole words,

He frequently makes mistakes in talking and writing, with confusion of the head, vertigo, fluttering and flickering before the eyes, so that he could not see distinctly (after six months),

He makes mistakes in talking, and writing, and in looking (after twelve months),

Makes frequent mistakes in writing (after thirteen months),

Thoughts vanish, with vertigo,

Sudden vanishing of thought, with dull headache,

Vanishing of thought and senses, as in delirium,

Thoughts vanish, so that she does not know what she is about to say,

Quiet, absorbed in himself, without thought, unsteady, she walks about from place to place without knowing what she wants,

After rising, she is unable to go on with her dressing, and constantly requires the reminding assistance of others,

Inattention to what was going on about him,

Inability to fix the attention and to think, with crawling in the hands and head,

While reading, he is unable to follow he meaning understandingly,

She could no longer recognize her acquaintances, and could not recall those she had lately seen, even if they had but just been seen by her,

Memory very weak; he forgets everything which he does not write down; has great difficulty in fixing the attention (after twelve months),

Forgetfulness, ; (twenty-first day),

Continued loss of thought,

Could scarcely collect his senses for half an hour, in the morning on waking,

Stupid, as if intoxicated, especially in the morning,

Felt as if stupefied, sleepy, and weak for four hours after the dose (thirtieth day); stupefaction and weakness again, but not lasting so long (thirty-first day),

Stupefaction (effects of the alcohol?), (first and second days); stupefied (twenty-fifth day),

Constant coma for two or three days (sixth week),