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stress/anxiety in 9 yr old daughter
My 9 year old daughter has a long standing history of anger problems, defiance, and most recently anxiety. We sought help from a homeopath in the past (age 6) and she was given STRAM 200c. We had some reduction in her rages and improvement in nightmares. She is gifted in learning and overall in excellent health. She rarely gets sick even when her identical twin does. We are seeking help to deal with her chronic anxiety that is causing her to avoid her schoolwork and to help with new obsessive tendencies we are noticing. I don't want to treat with STRAM again unless it is the right remedy.-age 9, identical twin (mirror image twins)
-female, adopted at birth
-placed for adoption due to highly stressful situation with birthfather (emotionally abusive)
-healthy pregnancy
-delivery at 37 weeks
-5lb6oz
-experienced breathing problems (rapid breathing)and spent 9 days in intensive care
-normal development, no allergies, no surgeries
-anger began as rages at age 3
-Very resistant when she does not want to go along with what others want
-poor self esteem, but aggressive and bossy toward twin sister
-doesn't trust adults easily
-says mean things to hurt others
-never says she is sorry on her own, blames others for her mistakes
-highly embarrassed to talk about her problems
-hates other to talk about her problems especially behind her back
-avoids doing school work that she finds too hard or will attempt and melt down in frustration
-says wants to run away from school and come home
-easily distracted in school
-shuts down when stressed
-not talkative until bedtime
-absolutely loves to be outdoors doing sports
-loves to be in water
-physically small, maybe 15th centile in height. Weight is similar. Strong, good muscle tone, but skin feels flabby
-bruises very easily
-skin is mottled and pale
-hair blond, very tangled (hates to brush it)
-face full and has good coloring
-wears glasses, has astigmatism
-never wants to go to bed
-has occasional nightmares about robbers breaking into house
-very difficult to wake in morning
-angry and irritable in morning, never in hurry
-good appetite, but hates smell of yogurt
-refuses to take medicine, will gag (but will take remedies)
-Enjoys music, soothes her
-very jealous of twin sister, so far as to say she hates her
I welcome any remedy suggestions or additional questions.
adoptivemom on 2015-04-21
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I can make a suggestion for you. Let me have a look at what you have given here, and I may need to ask a few more questions.
♡ Evocationer 8 years ago
I wanted to repertorize this, because on first glance the remedy seems really obvious, and I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a less obvious remedy.
I looked at the following rubrics:
Malicious
Rage
Dictatorial
Suspicious
Blames others
Embarrassed
Suspicious others are talking about them
Desire to go home
Desire to run away
Fear/dreams of robbers, that robbers are in the house
Aggravation on waking
Refuses to take medicine
Music ameliorates
Jealous
Jealous of sibling
Taciturn
Loquacity in the evening
LACHESIS is the obvious remedy, and it is found in every one of these rubrics.
Further down the list are HYOSCAMUS (probably my next choice), ARSENICUM, IGNATIA.
This is then followed by STRAMONIUM, BELLADONNA. Honestly I don't think the general state suits either of these, despite their appearance in the rubrics.
So I would give her a single dose of LACHESIS 200C. Obtain the remedy in liquid form preferably.
If you have obtained pillules or pellets, you will need a small bottle and a dropper to make your own liquid dose. Mix water and alcohol into this small bottle to the ratio of 5:1. Dissolve 3 pillules/pellets into this bottle. All doses will be made from this bottle.
If you already have a liquid dose just start from step 1.
1. Hit the bottle 5 times firmly against the palm of the hand
2. Place 3 drops into 100mls of clean fresh water
3. Stir very thoroughly
4. Take 2 teaspoons out into the mouth and hold for 20 seconds, then swallow.
This is one dose and the same steps should be taken for any further doses, unless I ask you to change them in some way.
If any old symptoms reappear, or any current symptoms worsen, this is a GOOD sign in most cases. DO NOT SUPPRESS them with other kinds of medication unless you are in real danger (which is a highly unlikely reaction to a remedy).
However, if you are on regular medication it is also important that you do NOT stop taking this unless it is perfectly safe to do so. Once it is determined the medicine has acted beneficially, we can look at reducing such medication. Regular medication in this instance is NOT defined as other homoeopathic medicines which MUST be stopped. Tissue salts are the same as homoeopathic medicines and are in this category, as are Bach Flowers, Flower Essences, and Bush Flower Essences
One dose only for the moment, and let me know what has happened after a week.
I looked at the following rubrics:
Malicious
Rage
Dictatorial
Suspicious
Blames others
Embarrassed
Suspicious others are talking about them
Desire to go home
Desire to run away
Fear/dreams of robbers, that robbers are in the house
Aggravation on waking
Refuses to take medicine
Music ameliorates
Jealous
Jealous of sibling
Taciturn
Loquacity in the evening
LACHESIS is the obvious remedy, and it is found in every one of these rubrics.
Further down the list are HYOSCAMUS (probably my next choice), ARSENICUM, IGNATIA.
This is then followed by STRAMONIUM, BELLADONNA. Honestly I don't think the general state suits either of these, despite their appearance in the rubrics.
So I would give her a single dose of LACHESIS 200C. Obtain the remedy in liquid form preferably.
If you have obtained pillules or pellets, you will need a small bottle and a dropper to make your own liquid dose. Mix water and alcohol into this small bottle to the ratio of 5:1. Dissolve 3 pillules/pellets into this bottle. All doses will be made from this bottle.
If you already have a liquid dose just start from step 1.
1. Hit the bottle 5 times firmly against the palm of the hand
2. Place 3 drops into 100mls of clean fresh water
3. Stir very thoroughly
4. Take 2 teaspoons out into the mouth and hold for 20 seconds, then swallow.
This is one dose and the same steps should be taken for any further doses, unless I ask you to change them in some way.
If any old symptoms reappear, or any current symptoms worsen, this is a GOOD sign in most cases. DO NOT SUPPRESS them with other kinds of medication unless you are in real danger (which is a highly unlikely reaction to a remedy).
However, if you are on regular medication it is also important that you do NOT stop taking this unless it is perfectly safe to do so. Once it is determined the medicine has acted beneficially, we can look at reducing such medication. Regular medication in this instance is NOT defined as other homoeopathic medicines which MUST be stopped. Tissue salts are the same as homoeopathic medicines and are in this category, as are Bach Flowers, Flower Essences, and Bush Flower Essences
One dose only for the moment, and let me know what has happened after a week.
♡ Evocationer 8 years ago
Thank you, I will obtain the lachesis and mix as you suggest. I will report in a week.
adoptivemom 8 years ago
I encountered trouble with the remedy. I mixed the remedy in water and put it in a clean bottle (happened to be blue) as instructed. She was afraid of taking it since it wasn't in pellet form like she has taken before. I was able to convince her take a small drop, but she gagged on it. She then complained of how it gave her a headache. Over the next few days, she showed a pronounced fear of other people's medicine hurting her (ie not her taking their medicine, just being near it making her feel sick). I gave her 2 30c pellets of lachesis after this because I thought she probably didn't get any of the liquid. No improvement, still malicious, suspicious, and angry at times. The only improvement I saw was she wasn't having as many nightmares. Still extremely hard to get her to wake up in the morning. She now tells me she will not take the liquid rememdy, only pellets for fear of what is in the bottle. Any suggestions?
adoptivemom 8 years ago
I forgot, she has ADHD but it is not severe. Her distractedness appears to be more of an impulse to attend to whatever is bothering her. She strains to hear other people's conversations and misses directions from her teacher. Also, she gets fixated on something being messy or not how she likes it and then misses directions. She gets angry if she is not allowed to have exercise outside, even when it is raining.
adoptivemom 8 years ago
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