Homeopathy & Mental Health
/What is mental health?
Mental health is just as important as our physical health. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Good mental health means being generally able to think, feel and react in the ways that you need and want to live your life. Mental health problems include anxiety disorders, behavioural and emotional disorders in children, depression, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive compulsive disorders.
How can homeopathy help your mental health?
Homeopathy expertly addresses mental health through psychological assessment, selection of a remedy based on homeopathic laws and principles and ongoing analysis and treatment with follow up appointments. The aim of treatment is to understand your experience of mental health as an individual, as opposed to a conventional one size fits all approach. Homeopathy is a complete system of treatment that addresses how you think, feel and experience mental health, including its interrelationship with your physical health.
What to expect at your appointment
When you visit a homeopath the aim is to find out how your experience of being unwell is different from everybody elses. Homeopathy is based on the idea of individualisation, because the way in that we experience being unwell differs from one person to the next. The way you think, feel and experience everything in relation to being sick provides important information. Behavioural patterns, causative and moderating factors, personal, medical and family history, environmental responses, desires and aversions and diet provide are just some of the areas that are taken into consideration for a homeopathic prescription.
Homeopathic remedy pictures
Arsenicum album
Central themes: Anxiety, Depression & Compulsive behaviours
Characteristic symptoms: 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.
Arg nit
Central themes: Phobias, panic & anxiety
Characteristic symptoms: Anticipation, apprehension, anxiety and fear. Lots of phobias; including crowds, narrow places, bridges, high places, failing. Performance related symptoms, such as stage fright. Anticipation induces nervousness, impulsiveness and hurriedness, as well as diarrhoea. Lack of self confidence, fears undertaking anything, has a delusion they will fail. Sensation times goes too slowly, wants everyone to hurry. Heart palpitations. Feels better for open air
Aurum
Central Theme: Depression, anxiety & suicide.
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.
Aconite
Central Themes: Acute attacks of fear & panic, phobias & anxiety
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 focussed on a life and death situation. Aconite avoids crowds, crossing the street and any situation that would excite the mind.
Stramonium
Central themes: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), phobias, depression, night terrors & anxiety
Characteristic symptoms: 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 or company is strong. Unable to recognise anyone, clinging to whatever and whoever is there. Feeling alone, lost and trying to escape a perceived terrifying situation. Living in fear that there is some kind of immediate danger. Disorientation and stammering. Kicks, bites and scratches to escape. Specific fears of violence, cemeteries, ghosts, water, suffocation, strangers, demons, tunnels and animals.
Tony Fox DSH
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