Medorrhinum - Mental (inc. personality) symptoms - H.C. Allen

MIND

Mind

Great weakness of memoryfont

Dullness of memory and desire to procrastinate, because business seemed so lasting, or as if it never could be accomplishedfont

Entirely forgot what she had read, even previous linefont

Forgetfulness of names, later of words and initial lettersfont

Cannot remember names; has to ask name of her most intimate friend; forgets her ownfont

Cannot spell right; wonders how the word "how" is spelled.

Reads a letter and thinks the words look queer and are spelled wrong.

Time moves too slowlyfont

Dazed feeling; a far off sensation, as though things done today occurred a week agofont

Momentary loss of thought, caused by sensation of tightness in brain.

Loses constantly the thread of her talkfont

In conversation he would occasionally stop, and on resuming make remark that he could not think what word he wanted to usefont

Seems to herself to make wrong statements, because she does not know what to say next, begins all right but does not know how to finish; weight on vertex, which seems to affect mindfont

Great difficulty in stating her symptoms, loses herself and has to be asked over againfont

Difficulty in concentrating his thoughts or mind on abstract subjects.

Could not read or use mind at all from pain in head.

Thinks some one is behind her, hears whispering; sees faces that peer at her from behind bed and furniture.

Persons come in, look at her, whisper, and say "come."

One night saw large people in room; large rats running; felt a delicate hand smoothing her head from front to backfont

Fears he is going to diefont

Is sure that she is worse, knows she is not going to live, cannot see any improvement, even when it is pointed out; has no fear of death, speaks calmly about it; and gives directions as to the disposition of her affairs.

Sensation as if all life was unreal, like a dreamfont

Wild and desperate feeling, as of incipient insanityfont

Cannot speak without cryingfont

Tendency to suicide, gets up in night and takes his pistol, but his wife prevents him.

Is in a great hurry; when doing anything is such a hurry that she gets fatiguedfont

Strange exhilaration of spirits.

Alternation of happiness and gloominess.

Spirits in the depths, weighed down with heavy, solid gloom better by torrents of tears.

Is always anticipating; feels most matters sensitively before they occur and generally correctlyfont

Anticipates deathfont

Dread of saying the wrong thing when she has headachefont

Everything startles her, news coming to her seems to touch her heart before she hears it.

Woke at an early hour with a frightened sensation, as if something dreadful had happened; heavy weight and great heat in head; could not rest in bed; felt as if she must do something to rid her mind of this torturefont

Fear of the darkfont

Feeling as if he had committed the unpardonable sin and was going to hell.

A word or look of seeming harshness puts her in despondency for hours.

Usually depressed; easily tired; disinclined to any exertion, and yet often unable to keep still; forgetful; unable to think connectedly; mind wanders from subject, even in reading; cannot think at all if hurried.

Always wakens tired in the morning; hates to do anything that must be done, even nice things; gets nervous and excited about ridding and driving as soon as the time is fixed.

Constant state of anguish.

Always a feeling of impending danger, but knows not what.

There is no cause for such feelings, as she is not obliged to do anything when disinclined; is so situated that nothing need cause her trouble.

Inability to think continuously, to talk or to listen to talking when weary; vacant feeling in head.

Forgetful, cannot remember the least thing any length of time; writes everything down of any importance; cannot trust herself to remember it; great irritability and disgust with life.

The impatience, excitement, wild feelings; the unreal, dazed conditions; the gloom and fear in the dark; the difficulty of speaking without tears, are marked evidence of functional derangement of the nervous system.

Medorrhinum is forgetful of names, words, etc., but instead of forgetting occurrences, during certain periods of time, like Syphilinum (Luesinum) ^Syphilinum, it forgets what it is reading, even to the last line read; it cannot concentrate its attention; thinks words spelled wrong and have no meaning, etc.

Medorrhinum develops a peculiar sensitivity especially in relation to occurrences affecting itself.

It feels the evil coming to it, and the bad news before it arrives, of course it is selfish, and it is easily hurt by a harsh word.

It is also introspective, self-accusative, remorseful.

Time moves slowly to it, therefore it is hurried.

We find a dazed condition from the loss of the thread of thought, which annoys and causes a dread of saying the wrong thing, and a difficulty in stating symptoms.

It is always anticipating, fearing evil will happen, loss of reason or suicide.

It fears it has committed the unpardonable sin, and cares little for the result, because of the seething, restless, uneasy, unbalanced nerves.

Feeling of desperation; did not care if he went to heaven or hell.

Cross through day, exhilarated at night, wants to playfont

Irritated at little thingsfont

Nerve trembling, with worry.

Very impatientfont

Reading and writing make her nervous and enrage her.

Great selfishness.

Time moves so slowly that things done an hour ago appear to have occurred a year since; asked the time of day, and in five minutes insisted that half an hour had elapsed and could not believe it had not till she had seen the watchp