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Mental picture of a Psoric patient
 

Dr. Aarti Mahavir Patil, BHMS, M.D(hom)
6th lane, Behind Girls High School,
Mala Bhag , Jaysingpur-416 101.
Tal: Shirol., Dist: Kolhapur.
MAHARASHTRA


 

      Psoric patient is very emotional and sensitive to all impressions and saying of others; mental depression, despondency; timidity with a sense of fatigue; vanishing of thoughts while reading or writing; cannot control thoughts; at times seems deprived of thoughts; sadness, anxiety and dread of labour; great inward uneasiness and anxiousness; oppression and anxiety on waking in the morning.

 
    The Mental anxiety of Psora often makes its appearance around full moon or at the approach of menses in women. Weeping often palliates. A certain feeling of insanity induces those patients to kill themselves although they have no anxiety, no anxious thoughts and they seem to enjoy their full understanding. Nothing can save them except the cure of Psora.

 
     Psora is full of fear; he fears everything. He fears darkness, he fears to be alone, fears an ordinary ailment, and thinks that something serious would comes out of it. Fear of death or of illness, or that their case is hopeless, incurable, Fears what will happen in the future. Easily frightened, often by trivial things - fear often begins with trembling and shaking of body followed often by great weakness, muscular prostration, and copious perspiratio.

 
     They become dizzy and faint in a crowd, or when they meet strangers, or when any unusual ordeal is to take place. They are easily bewildered, inclined to be irritable, cross, or sensitive to many impression, such as odors of flowers, smell of cooking foods, atmospheric changes, bad news, joy, or they are very easily disturbed mentally.

 
    They easily fly into a passion yet in a moment again they weep and are penitent. In anger they tremble with rage whenever they are greatly prostrated and often sick for a time. The true Psoric patient is bright, active and quick in movement. Usually exalted although when he has the dumps that everybody knows it-he is a constant annoyance to his friends. They are often in trouble; often found complaining; faultfinding. Unsatisfied, never well and yet often quite able to locate their troubles. A chronic complainer - a chronic grumbler, never satisfied with his conditions in life, they are abused, neglected and yet at the same time one is doing all that one can. Sudden anxiety with strong palpitations of the heart. Anxious when ill, apprehensive, despondent, melancholy, sad, changeable in their moods, when they are very changeable is quite pathognomonic of Psora. Time goes too fast or too slow.

 
    Absent minded in a general way. Psora is restless, in thought, feeling and will and this leads to restlessness in action. There is an all round restlessness - he is never satisfied with the existing state of things. He thinks he is not rich enough and tries to acquire more riches. There is no calmness, no peacefulness of mind; no quietude. It however follows that this restless state of mind has a keenness of intelligence, because restlessness of mind means sensitivity, and sensitivity is the power of understanding things easily. But this power of understanding or keenness of Psora is of no use to the world because it is perverse.

 
    Mental delusions of all kinds. In delusions or mania there is no end to his words; words are multiplied and he has no trouble in finding them. His thoughts run so fast and words are so multiplied that he does not know what to do with them. He may be so depressed he cannot speak but when he is able to speak he is never at a loss of words, in fact they come to him in mental troubles faster than he can speak them. Delirium and action is often disgusting and they have more foolish fancies than they would have in true delirium.