Panic Disorder and Depression in a 30 year old Pregnant Woman

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There are, however, as has just been stated, certainly a few emotional diseases which have not merely been developed into that form out of corporeal diseases, but which, in an inverse manner, the body being but slightly indisposed, originate and are kept up by emotional causes, such as continued anxiety, worry, vexation, wrongs and the frequent occurrence of great fear and fright. This kind of emotional diseases in time destroys the corporeal health, often to a great degree.

(Samuel Hahnemann: Organon of Medicine)

What is panic disorder?

A panic attack is a sudden episode of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions when there is no real danger or apparent cause

Panic attacks can be very frightening

When panic attacks occur, you might think you’re losing control, having a heart attack or even dying

If you’ve had recurrent, unexpected panic attacks and spent long periods in constant fear of another attack, you may have a condition called panic disorder

Although panic attacks themselves aren’t life-threatening, they can be frightening and significantly affect the person’s quality of life.

Signs or symptoms of panic attack

Sense of impending doom or danger
Fear of loss of control or death
Shortness of breath or tightness in your throat
Dizziness, lightheadedness or faintness
Numbness or tingling sensation
Feeling of unreality ordetachment
Chills
Hot flashes §Nausea §Abdominal cramping §Chest pain §Headache §Sweating
Rapid, pounding heart rate
Trembling or shaking

These factors may play a role:

Genetics
Major stress
Temperament – more sensitive to stress or prone to negative emotions
Certain changes in the way parts of your brain function §Some research → the body’s natural fight-or-flight response to danger is involved in panic attacks
But it’s unknown why a panic attack occurs when there’s no obvious danger present.

Psychospiritual Cause of Panic disease

– the blockages are at the level of the Muladhara – trust, security

– they have to learn how to relax

Panic disease 

– is triggered in those people who insist too much on control and who want to seem calm and able to solve everything

– when something happens that gets out of their control, they panic

Risk factors

Symptoms of panic disorder often

– start in the late teens or early adulthood and

– affect more women than men

Family history of panic attacks or panic disorder

Major life stress (death or serious illness of a loved one)

A traumatic event (a sexual assault or a serious accident)

Major changes in your life (a divorce or the addition of a baby)

Smoking or excessive caffeine intake

History of childhood physical or sexual abuse

Complications

Left untreated → can affect almost every area of the life.

The person live in a constant state of fear, ruining his quality of life

Development of specific phobias, such as fear of driving or leaving his home
Frequent medical care for health concerns §Avoidance of social situations
Problems at work or school
Depression, anxiety disorders and other psychiatric disorders §Increased risk of suicide or suicidal thoughts
Alcohol or other substance misuse §Financial problems

Homeopathic approach to Depression

Basic principles of homeopathy:

Individualization – treats the person, not the disease
Holism – totality of symptoms on mental, emotional and physical level, causality, life circumstances

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The patient details the history of his sufferings; those about him tell what they heard him complain of, how he has behaved and what they have noticed in him; the physician sees, hears, and remarks by his other senses what there is of an altered or unusual character about him. He writes down accurately all that the patient and his friends have told him in the very expressions used by them. Keeping silence himself he allows them to say all they have to say, and refrains from interrupting them1 unless they wander off to other matters. The physician advises them at the beginning of the examination to speak slowly, in order that he may take down in writing the important parts of what the speakers say.

1 Every interruption breaks the train of thought of the narrators, and all they would have said at first does not again occur to them in precisely the same manner after that.

Case : 30 year old married woman

Dg.: Panic disorder Depression

5 weeks into pregnancy

Chief Complaints – 6.09.2019.

– recurrent panic attacks

– anxiety and

– depressive state, being admitted and treated in psychiatry repeatedly, last time for a few months

She was treated with Escitalopram 10 mg daily and Alplazolam 0.25 mg ½ – ½ – 1

A week ago she found out that she was pregnant!

Because they as a couple want to keep the baby and because the treatment from the psychiatrist is not recommanded during pregnancy, she came for homeopathic treatment.

Case taking, Observation

Case history, life circumstances

A young, married women from Romania
She graduated from the University, an economist
Two years before they moved together with husband in the UK, to work there
She experienced there an intense homesickness, and presented also some physical complaints (pain in her legs, measles, head pain) , being exhausted from working too much
After that she presented vertigo
They returned from UK and she was admitted in the psychiatry dept. presenting very intense fear of diseases, anxiety, panic attacks, depression
Although she took the treatment, her state was the same § Her greatest concern was not to receive electric shocks

Her nature, her complaints (1.)

She experiences episodes of choking and constrictive pain in epigastrium, having the feeling that she is controlled by somebody else, beyond her will, some superhuman force
All the time she is trying to control the situations §She has fears, of getting too mad!
She used to brood a lot
She used to worry because of money
When this situation started, she got tired in the UK because she had to work a lot there and experienced a strong homesickness, which she suppressed. Her husband use to say “You have to resist, other people are dealing with the same situation”
She felt underestimated – she would return home earlier, had a lot of fights on this topic with husband
After coming back home, she felt that others are moving forward, but they as a couple just stagnate
She is very competitive, but even at her workplace now she feels that she is underestimated, because she is not paid well enough.
“She is the one who all the time is left behind” What does it mean? That she feels being underpaid
“My husband is a little quiet, I would like to talk more” – and she was speaking continuously, there was no need for questions!
She is anxious when she has to perform.
Sleeplessness because of constant worry and anxiety
At her workplace she has a colleague, who is very domineering toward her.
If something bad is happening with her, if somebody offends her, she becomes revengeful
In a conflict she does not give up easily. §She doesn’t like to adapt to others.
When she is angry, she became hysterical, aggressive. §She used to ask a lot of questions, being very curious.
Sometimes she is envious of others, having a feeling of inferiority. §Before she was very religious, now she misses those times.
She is interested in other cultures, and if she had money, would like to travel in the East.
She feels irritated by people who behave like they are important, who want to go everywhere, who flatter and manipulate – “I am not like this.”

Fears

Fears something will happen with her mother or husband; §Fear of fears – „From where are the thoughts coming from?” §“Fear that they (the doctors) will not be able to calm me down” §Fear of diseases ”that I will never heal”
No other fears – she used to hike

Hobbies

To move ( running, hiking)
To be creative, to arrange her house (interior design) §To cook
To be active
To go to parties ( she is missing this now, because her husband doesn’t like it)
Her favorite fairy tale: The Beauty and the Beast

Dreams: does not remember

Other Interests

Strong desire to have a child
She is very attached to her family ( husband, parents) §Has low self-confidence
She loves cats very much §She does not like changes §She likes the autumn
She feels worse in the morning
She feels, that her life now is depressing

Lachesis muta (Bushmaster or Surucucu)

The largest pit viper and the largest venomous snake in the Western Hemisphere (from the Brazilian rain forest)
Homeopathically – the best known snake remedy §Loquacity and an ability to perform – pronounced §Jelousy – very powerful in Lachesis
Cannot bear any form of restriction ( tight clothing) §Aversion to change – most extreme in Lachesis
Change of season §Change of weather
Change of life ( puberty and menopause)
Worse for the sun and for the light → worse on waking §Has affinity to blood and hormones
Destructive and syphilitic remedy – causing poisoning of the blood and of all the tissues, hemorrhagic nature
The throat – most sensitiv to restriction §Strongly left -sided

( Peter Fraser – Transformation between the Realms – SNAKES – Drawing Power from the Underwold)

General characteristics of Snake remedies (1)

“ Their concern is with a world that is out of their control and which may destroy them.

Their reaction is to impose order and control on everything around them.

In the venomous snakes the feeling is that people are against them and their reaction is more subtle and more malicious.

………..Within the Vipers the Crotalinae, the Pit Vipers, are more paranoid and less able to deal with society than any of the other snake remedies. They are the most suspicious and the most malicious of the snakes.”

The snakes are sensitive how people are around them
They are clairvoyant
Selfish group of remedies
They tend to use the knowledge and power that they gain from their instinct in a way that will increase their power and put other people at a disadvantage.
Periodicity of the symptoms is characteristic.
Snake remedies DO NOT LIKE CHANGES – causative factor in both cases!
Can present aggravation at pregnancy or delivery and anywhere that the patient must face a new situation, a new school or a new job ( in my cases new country/ new homeplace).
Snakes are very quick animals – speak quickly, confused speech §Snakes are solitary animals
They fight, retaliate or attack anyone who opposes them §Powerful sexual instinct
They are masters of disguise – manipulative, charming, use their look ( rubric foppish – the meaning from Decoding Mental Rubrics by Dr. Gaurang Gaikwad)
The important affinities are the throat, the blood and the hormones , nervous system
Almost always constipated

( Peter Fraser – Transformation between the Realms – SNAKES – Drawing Power from the Underwold)

Snake alert words at the human level

Themes of superior/ inferior
Competition with the disadvantaged- one-upmanship
Conspiracy
Planning, calculative, scheming, plotting
Manipulative
Deceitful
Jealous
Suspicious
Sexuality
Competitive
Loquacity, vivid, descriptive
Clairvoyance, supernatural things
Persecuted
Pursued
Hiding
Hear voices
Split, two wills
Lack of moral values
Murder, kill
Desire to be famous, recognized
Glamour, fashion, advertising, show, appearance
Agg. tight clothing
Choking, throat sensitivity

( The Reptile – Rajan Sankaran with Meghna Shah)

“Healing is the end of conflict with yourself.” ( Stephanie Gailing)

References

Peter Fraser – Transformation between the Realms – SNAKES – Drawing Power from the Underwold
The Reptile – Rajan Sankaran with Meghna Shah
Sankaran DeWise
Gaurang Gaikwad – Decoding Mental Rubrics
Dr. Erzsébet Túrós – Medical Astrology Course
Synergy Homeopathic Software
RADAR 10.0
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/panic-attacks/symptoms-causes/syc-20376021
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7414304/
https://www.slideserve.com/sara-landry/sleep-disorders

Dr. Erzsébet Túrós MD, HOM

Panic Disorder and Depression in a 30 year old Pregnant Woman

What is panic disorder?

Signs or symptoms of panic attack

Psychospiritual Cause of Panic disease

Homeopathic approach to Depression

$84

Case : 30 year old married woman

Lachesis muta (Bushmaster or Surucucu)

General characteristics of Snake remedies (1)

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Erzsebet Turos

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What is panic disorder?

Signs or symptoms of panic attack

Psychospiritual Cause of Panic disease

Homeopathic approach to Depression

$84

Case : 30 year old married woman

Lachesis muta (Bushmaster or Surucucu)

General characteristics of Snake remedies (1)

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Erzsebet Turos

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