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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. |