Homeopathy & Mental Health

What Is Mental Health and Why Does It Matter

Homeopathy addresses mental health holistically, treating emotional and physical symptoms together. It seeks to find and treat root causes of anxiety and depression, not just symptoms. Remedies are tailored to the individual's mental state, temperament, and health, promoting balance, reducing stress, improving mood, and supporting lasting emotional resilience.

Mental health is just as important as physical health. It includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being—and affects how we think, feel, act, handle stress, relate to others, and make decisions.

Good mental health means having the emotional resilience and clarity to navigate life in a way that supports your values, needs, and relationships.

Common mental health concerns include:

• Anxiety disorders

• Depression

• Behavioural and emotional issues in children

• PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)

• Obsessive-compulsive behaviours

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How Can Homeopathy Support Mental Health?

Homeopathy addresses mental health through a truly individualised lens. Each treatment begins with a full psychological and emotional assessment, followed by a remedy selected according to homeopathic laws and principles.

Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, we look at:

• How you experience your mental health

• The root causes and triggers

• Your emotional and physical symptoms

• The patterns that make your experience unique

Homeopathy treats the interconnection between mind and body, offering support that is both holistic and personal.

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What to Expect From a Homeopathic Appointment

A homeopathic consultation aims to uncover the specific ways your experience differs from anyone else’s.

We’ll explore:

• Your thought and behaviour patterns

• Emotional tendencies

• Medical and family history

• Diet and lifestyle

• Responses to your environment

• Causative and moderating factors

This comprehensive picture helps select a remedy that reflects you, not just your condition.

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5 Key Homeopathic Remedies for Mental Health Support

Arsenicum album

Themes: Anxiety, compulsive behaviours, health fears

Profile: Feels vulnerable, weak, and unsafe. Deep fear of illness, poverty, or being alone. Often restless and controlling. High need for reassurance.

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Argentum nitricum (Arg nit)

Themes: Anticipatory anxiety, phobias, panic attacks

Profile: Nervous anticipation, fear of failure, fear of high places or confined spaces. Diarrhoea from nerves. Feels time moves too slowly. Relieved by fresh air.

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Aurum metallicum

Themes: Deep depression, guilt, suicidal thoughts

Profile: High-achieving, responsible, conscientious. Overwhelmed by failure or loss. Feels life is black and without hope. Suicidal despair with a strong moral or religious conscience.

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Aconitum napellus

Themes: Panic, shock, sudden fear

Profile: Intense, sudden fear as if death is imminent. Panic attacks, breathlessness, fear of crowds, accidents, or open spaces. Acute, explosive emotional states.

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Stramonium

Themes: Trauma, night terrors, PTSD

Profile: Haunted by terrifying past events. Afraid of the dark, of being alone, or of something lurking. Clings to others, disoriented, fearful of ghosts, demons, or animals. May become aggressive when overwhelmed.

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Ready to Explore a Natural Path to Emotional Healing?

If you’re struggling with anxiety, trauma, depression, or emotional overwhelm, homeopathy offers an individualised and gentle approach to support you.

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Homeopathy & the Treatment of Depression

Homeopathic Treatment for Depression

Although depression isn’t uncommon, the way it’s experienced is unique from one person to the next. These diverse experiences are reflected in the wide range of homeopathic remedies used in the treatment of depression. Many homeopathic remedies cover broad symptoms, such as sadness, pessimism, fear and anxiety, but in order to find an effective remedy it must match the individualising symptoms of the patient’s case.

For example, the remedy Aurum is characterised by duty bound and performance issues reflected in a workaholic type. The remedy Sepia on the other hand is characterised by a central feeling of being forced into situations against their will, and the remedy Nat mur feels let down by the person they love and depend on.

If you would like to find out more about homeopathy and how it can support depression or other symptoms, please contact me on +44(0)7962666873 or email info@tonyfox-homeopathy.com or message me via the contacts page.

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Depression Remedies

Aurum

Central Theme: Dutiful and performance orientated workaholic who feels they can’t succeed.

Characteristic symptoms: Pessimistic. Often a feeling of performing tasks that are impossible or beyond capacity. They demand a lot from themselves, very responsible, industrious and conscientious. Can destroy themselves in trying to achieve goals for fear of failure. Fear of falling from a high position; fear of losing confidence of others and self. Lots of guilt and despair of religious salvation. Strong suicidal tendency. Moralistic, principled and orthodox. Ailments from loss of property, wounded honour, responsibilities. Closed and serious personality. Depressive and melancholic mood, everything feels black inside, loathing of life. Sensitive to contradiction of others.

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Cimicifuga

Central Theme: Overriding feeling of being caged or hemmed in.

Characteristic symptoms: Very clingy (especially to family) with a strong fear and anxiety to be alone. May also feel the need to break free from family ties. Can be very creative and artistic. Depressed, sad and gloomy, enveloped by a black cloud. Feeling of going insane. Manic behaviour. Feels grieved, troubled. Strong phobias, such as foreboding of death, insanity, impending evil. Uneasy, nervous and restless. Symptoms often associated with menstruation, menopause, pregnancy and gynaecological problems. Fears insanity. Changeable symptoms or alternation between physical and mental symptoms. Lots of sighing and talks quickly, jumping from one subject to the next, very excitable. Post natal complaints. Suicidal.

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Conium

Central Theme: Slow withdrawal into complete isolation.

Characteristic symptoms: Slow onset of depression and withdraws. Introverted, isolated and averse to company. Shuts down gradually and results in isolation. Lack of mental and emotional range that leads to a lack of mental and emotional expression. Very morose. Become rigid, ritualistic and compulsive. Ideas are fixed in the way they do things. Over time memory becomes weak and there is emotional indifference and hardness. Very material types with great attachment to the material world. Conservativeness. Can be very religious and superstitious; or sober and realistic. Lack of anxiety when confronted with poor prognosis or uncertain future. Grief ending paralysis. Aversion to light and better for darkness. Complaints associated with suppression of sexual desire (religion) or loss of sexual partner.

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Syphilinum

Central Theme: Distant and far away feeling.

Characteristic symptoms: Deep, dark emotional depression. Often associated with alcoholism. Craves alcohol. Suicidal depression with severe insomnia. Antisocial with an aversion to company. Anxious about health and a despair of recovery from illness. Great sense of hopelessness. Fear of dying, suffering and pain. Feels as if going insane. Fear of germs and infections, always washing and wringing the hands. Obsessive compulsive behaviour is strong, leads to obsessional anxiety. Strong sense of guilt and a fear of punishment. Fear of night and symptoms are worse at night. Behaviour can be erratic and odd. Fascination with the macabre and death, can have a sadistic streak.

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Sepia

Central Theme: Feels forced to accept situations against their will.

Characteristic symptoms: Often a female remedy, eg. forced to give up work to be a mother. Feels disfigured or unattractive, especially to opposite sex. Doesn’t feel good enough. Feels dissatisfied, miserable and unfortunate. Desire to be alone. Indifference to loved ones; all manifestations of love drain reserves of energy and are an obstacle to independence. Incommunicative, defensive. Aversion to sex. Fear of rape. Dependence and independence are central, wants independence but feels dependent. Can be fault finding, sarcastic, spiteful. Disappointment in love. Worn out feeling from burden of responsibility.

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Nat mur

Central Theme: Feels let down, betrayed or disappointed by the person they trust or love.

Characteristic symptoms: Great hurt and sadness, shuts off from people, withdraws. Leads to fear of being emotionally hurt, avoids further disappointment with emotional wall. Feels vulnerable and fears rejection. Desire for solitude, avoids company, cries when alone. Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences; clings to traumatic experiences, goes over them again and again. Silent grief. Absorbs the grief of others, very sympathetic to others. Broods and listens to sad music. Defensive and cautious, not in a hurry to open up to anyone. Worse for any consolation; or craves it but only from the right people. Also tremendous grief from the death of a loved one or someone dear.

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Homeopathy & the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders frequently cause intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Ongoing anxiety can make a person imagine that things in their life are worse than they really are, which in turn can prevent them from confronting their fears whilst and cause a lot of suffering.

Although anxiety isn’t uncommon, the way it’s experienced is unique from one person to the next. These diverse experiences are reflected in the wide range of homeopathic remedies used for its treatment. Many homeopathic remedies cover broad symptoms, such as fear and anxiety, but in order to find a truly effective remedy it must match the individualising symptoms of the patient’s case.

For example, the remedy Arsenicum by the feeling that the world is a threatening and chaotic place, the remedy Aconite feels acute and uncontrollable panic, and the remedy Stramonium feels they’re in a life threatening situation and responds with a flight or fight reaction(eg. PTSD).

If you would like to find out more about homeopathy and how it can support anxiety and other conditions, please can me on +44(0)7962666873 or email info@tonyfox-homeopathy.com or message me via the contacts page.

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ANXIETY REMEDIES

Arsencium: The main feeling is that the world is a threatening and chaotic place and Arsenicum feels weak and defenceless within it.  This vulnerable feeing leads to loneliness and dependency on others with a constant need for reassurance. Arsenicum has specific fears and anxieties of robbers, poverty and being left alone. There is also characteristic anxiety around health and dying, leading to a hypochondriacal anxiety. Restlessness can be strong in Arsenicum and it is also one of the main remedies for compulsive behaviour.

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Aconite: The main feeling of Aconite is of a sudden and intense threat.  This is an acute state of anxiety filled mental excitability and hurriedness.  This can arise from a fear of walking across a busy street, of an accident, of suffocation, or that you are about to die.  When triggered, fear and nervousness rise quickly leading to panic attacks and difficult breathing (shortness of breath).  Often the feeling is one of a life and death situation. Aconite avoids crowds, crossing the street and any situation that would excite the mind.   

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Arg nit: Caused by a sudden danger where you must respond in a crisis, which excites impulsive, restless and nervous behaviour. This could arise in a crowd of people, in closed spaces, tunnels, bridges, aeroplanes, any place that is blocked or high places.  Arg nit is anxious to be in control in critical situations so that they can find their way out, for example they will sit near an exit in a theatre or in an aisle seat of public transport to escape quickly.   Any kind of situation where the Arg nit feels trapped will trigger an impulse to get out of this situation.

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Stramonium: Causations include witnessing death, violence and life threatening situations (PTSD). Stramonium feels helpless, as though abandoned and left in a terrifying place. Fear of darkness and a longing for sunshine, light and company is strong. They don’t recognise anyone, they just cling to whatever and whoever is there.  They feel alone, lost and try to escape a perceived terrifying situation. Stramonium lives in fear that there is some kind of immediate danger, they feel disorientated, they stammer, and will kick, bite and scratch to escape.  Specific fears of violence, cemeteries, ghosts, water, suffocation, strangers, demons, tunnels and animals.

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ANXIETY SYMPTOMS & DISORDERS

Common anxiety signs and symptoms:

• Feeling nervous, restless or tense

• Having a sense of impending danger, panic or doom

• Having an increased heart rate

• Breathing rapidly (hyperventilation)

• Sweating

• Trembling

• Feeling weak or tired

• Trouble concentrating or thinking about anything other than the present worry

• Having trouble sleeping

• Experiencing gastrointestinal (GI) problems

• Having difficulty controlling worry

• Having the urge to avoid things that trigger anxiety

Types of anxiety disorders:

• Generalised Anxiety Disorder

• Panic Disorder (regular sudden attacks of panic or fear)

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

• Social Anxiety Disorder

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Specific Phobias (overwhelming and incapacitating fear of a specific object, place, situation or feeling)

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Tony Fox DSH

Appointments available via online video and telephone.

M+44 (0)7962666873

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