GRAPHITES MIND SYMPTOMS

WILLIAM BOERICKE

  • Great tendency to start.
  • Timid. Unable to decide.
  • Want of disposition to work.
  • Fidgety while sitting at work.
  • Music makes her weep.
  • Apprehensive, despondency, indecision



J.H.CLARKE

  • Dejection, sadness and profound melancholy with discouragement and much weeping.
  • Feels miserably unhappy.
  • Agitation, compression of the heart, and anguish, as if at the point of death, or under the fear of some calamity, often with headache, vertigo, nausea, and perspiration.
  • Anxious agitation (with inclination to grief, anxiety about the future), sometimes when seated at work, or at night, with impulse to quit the bed.
  • Agitation and inquietude in the morning.
  • Much inclined to grieve and cry in evening, whilst in forenoon she had laughed about every trifle, contrary to her habit.
  • Weeping without cause.
  • Obliged to weep at music.
  • Timid disposition. resoluteness with excessive cautiousness and hesitation.
  • Too great susceptibility to impressions.
  • Tendency to be frightened.
  • Irascibility.
  • Dread of labor.
  • Extreme hesitation; unable to make up her mind about anything.
  • Absence of mind.
  • Forgetfulness with misapplication of words in speaking or writing.



S.R.PHATAK

  • Sad; fearsome; irresolute, hesitates at trifles. Impulse to groan.
  • Timid. Dread of work.
  • Fidgety, while sitting at work.
  • Feels miserable and unhappy. 
  • Weeps; without cause, from music.
  • Forgetful, makes mistakes in speaking and writing. Child impudent, teasing, laughing at reprimands.
  • Thinks of nothing, but death.
  • Remembers all the events of youth, recent events are forgotten.
  • Fatigue from scientific labour.



J.T.KENT

  • The patient becomes very restless when attempting close mental work and there is a marked dread of mental work.
  • The mental depression is extreme, and it is made worse by music; her sadness is so great that she thinks only of death and salvation.
  • Grief and vexation cause of recurrence of all her distressing mental sufferings.
  • Her moods are constantly changing; while she may recall all the events of youth, recent events are forgotten; slow of thought and weakness of mind worse in the morning; often excited, hurried and exhilarated in the evening; extremely fretful and impatient; irritable about trifles and very critical.
  • Irresolution is a marked symptom.
  • She cannot make, up her mind to do or not to do.
  • Extreme activity of mind in the evening and first half of the night, which, prevents sleep until midnight; apprehensive and distressed in the morning and excited in the evening; extreme anxiety even to desperation.
  • Vertigo in the morning on waking; in the evening; on looking upwards; on rising from stooping; compelled to lie down; with inclination to fall forward.
  • When the above general symptoms strongly predominate in any given sickness the following particulars will be cured by this remedy.
  • Hyperaemia of the brain in the evening in a warm room
; frequent moments of congestion to head and face with faint feelings
; numbness felt in whole head

; burning spot on the vertex
; drawing, pressing and tearing in forehead over the eyes
; stitching pains in the temples
; pain from temples to side of face and to shoulders
; one-sided headaches in the morning on waking
; tearing in one side of head extending to teeth and side of neck
; pressing pain on the vertex and occiput; compressing, constricting pain in occiput and back of neck
; pain as though the head were numb; violent headaches during menses.





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