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CONIFERAE FAMILY & PSCYHIATRIC DISORDERS. Thuja occidentalis. SCHIZOPHRENIA. Schizophrenia. Disturbance in thinking. Loosening of associations Neologism Autism Excitement Concrete thinking Passivity. delusions. Thought withdrawal Thought insertion Thought broadcasting.
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Disturbance in thinking • Loosening of associations • Neologism • Autism • Excitement • Concrete thinking • Passivity
delusions • Thought withdrawal • Thought insertion • Thought broadcasting
Disturbance of affect • Anhedonia • Depression • Elation • Anxiety
Disturbance of perception • Hallucinations
Motor disturbances • Waxy flexibility • Negativism
Cognitive disturbances • Impairement of • Attention • Concentration • Vigilance
SYMPTOMS OF THUJA • Swallows words at the end of the sentence. Forgetful while speaking.(hyperamnesia) • Sleeplessness at night , restlessness & tossing about • Anguish which does not allow him to sleep • Sleep full of dreams & startings(stupor)
Walks her room in a circle , inability to accomplish most simple work , dressing (motor changes) • Makes no demand for food , has to be reminded to take it(hyperamnesia) • Mental dullness with fastidiousness, no desire to work (stupor)
SYMPTOMS OF THUJA • They magnify his mistrust & the lack of affections. • Fixed ideas as if a strange person were at his side, as if soul & body were separate , as if something alive in abdomen.
He thinks • he is being persuaded • someone is walking with him • he is a criminal • He is about to die, that his time has arrived • He sees • strangers • people by his side
Sensation as if whole body were thin & delicate & could break on least attack, as if continuity of body would be dissolved • Limbs are made of glass, • As if a living animal were in abdomen • Talks about being under the influence of a superior power (Delusion of influence)
He believes to be under a superhuman control which decides for him (delusion of influence) • Overvaluation & superiority feelings make him feel possessed by a superior force , feels he is the chosen one.(delusion of exaltation or grandeur)
He thinks that he is divided into two parts , that his soul & body are apart , that his head belongs to someone else. (delusion) • He sometimes feel that something is alive in his abdomen , more concretely in his right iliac cavity and he hears voices inside these places. (Psychomotor Hallucination)
The patient doesn’t recognise his own identity . He thinks he is living in a dream , or some objects & certain unknown places seem to be familiar (Nihilistic delusion) • She can hallucinate that she is pregnant
DISORGANIZED TYPE/HEBEPHRENIC • Disorganized thoughts • Over scrupulousness about trivial things • Neologism • Grimacing • Halluciationsesp auditory • Delusions- Persecutory, hypochondriacal, religious
Symptoms of Thuja- • DISORGANISED THOUGHTS • Makes mistakes in talking , writing & looking • In reading or writing uses wrong expressions ,& omits words (impaired concentration) • Commences every sentence without ability to finish it • Cannot think talks slowly as if hunting for words, uses wrong words • Talks hastily & swallows words
Extremely scrouplous about small things • FRAGMENTARY OR CHANGEABLE DELUSIONS • As if a strange person were at his side • As if soul & body were separate • As if something alive in abdomen • As if whole body were thin & delicate & could break on least attack, as if continuity of body would be dissolved
Believes to be under a superhuman control which decides for him • He is divided into two parts , that his soul & body are apart ,that his head belongs to someone else. • Limbs are made of glass • Overvaluation & superiority feelings make him feel possessed by a superior force , feels he is the chosen one.
GRIMACING • Sulky, angry at innocent jests • Cheerful disposition with extravagance • Prolonged thoughtfulness about the merest trifle
Symptoms of anxiety disorder PSYCHOLOGICAL • Apprehension • Irritability • Worry • Fear of impending disaster • Poor concentration • Depersonalisation
SOMATIC • Palpitations • Fatigue • Tremor • Dizziness • Sweating • Diarrhoea • Frequent desire to pass urine • Chest pain • Initial insomnia • Breathlessness • Headache
Symptoms OF THUJA • APPREHENSION • Anxious apprehension respecting the failure • IRRITABILITY • Overexcited • Quarrelsome • Easily angered about trifles • Irritable
WORRY • Feels that nobody would love them if they really knew them. • Feels unattractive. • Have problems finding their identity. • Loathing of life • Exceedingly out of tune , sad & disposed to weep • Mental uneasiness , low spirited & disposing, passionate • morose • dissatisfied
FEAR OF IMPENDING DISASTER • Mental depression , after child breath , in consequence of being told that has been a slight rupture of perineum, • Is in constant anguish • Goes quiet ,thinks she cannot sleep , • Has no appetite , shuns people , doesn’t answer cant count , doesn’t care for the children or her relatives
POOR CONCENTRATION • Makes mistakes in talking , writing & looking • In reading or writing uses wrong expressions ,& omits words (impaired concentration) • Commences every sentence without ability to finish it • Cannot think, talks slowly as if hunting for words , uses wrong words • Forgetfulness
DEPERSONALISATION • As if soul & body were separate from the body • Cannot find his identity
PSYCHOLOGICAL • Depressed mood • Reduced self-esteem and Pessimism • Guilt • Loss of interest • Loss of enjoyment (anhedonia) • Suicidal thinking
Somatic • Reduced appetite • Weight change • Disturbed sleep • Fatigue • Loss of libido • Bowel disturbance • Motor retardation (slowing of activity)
DEPRESSED MOOD • Very depressed sad , irritable • Mental depression after child birth , in consequence of being told that has been a slight rupture of perineum, • Is in constant anguish • Exceedingly out of tune , sad & disposed to weep • Music causes him to weep, with trembling of feet
She cannot sleep • Goes quiet • Has no appetite , • Shuns people • Doesn’t answer • Can’t count • Doesn’t care for the children or her relatives.
REDUCED SELF-ESTEEM AND PESSIMISM • Low self-esteem. • Feelings of worthlessness. • Feels that nobody would love them if they really knew them. • Feels unattractive. • Have problems finding their identity. • Tries to fit in. Imitates the behavior of popular, successful people around them.
LOSS OF INTEREST & ENJOYMENT • Everything is troublesome and distasteful to him; he is anxious and concerned about future • Disinclined to talk , agg on waking in morning • Want of disposition to do anything , ill humour anger • Indisposition to any kind of intellectual labor • No desire to work • Makes no demand for food
SUICIDAL THINKING • He is inclined towards religious diseases & as a result of the conflict between his tendancies & guilts , strongly outcrops a desperation for the salvation of his soul. • Finally he falls , overwhelmed by failures & harassed by his conscience , he wants to die , thinking more & more about the suicidal solution.
He can then attempt suicide in sudden & uncontrollable desperation & self aggression , like throwing himself out of the window to end his miserable life • Out of mental depression she always have thoughts of suicide
GUILT • Anxiety of conscience inundates him with guilts , self reproaches & impregnates him with a latent feeling of having acted badly.
OBSCESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER • Obscessive conduct is the consequence of reiterative ideas , persistant thoughts , impulses , recurrent images , which invade the patients mind beyond his possibility of self control & which develop inevitable compulsions in him
Obsession makes him suffer from absurd events & situations which doesn’t justify his guilts. • Extremely scrouplous about small things • Sleeplessness at night , restlessness & tossing about , anguish which does not allow him to sleep , sleep full of dreams & startings
PHOBIAS of thuja • Fear of ordeals • Fear of strangers • Fear of trifles • Fear of being touched • Fear of wind • Fear of high places • Fear of insanity