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Case of a Sexually Abused Woman Who Hates Herself (4): Followup at One Month

In this article we will follow Janice’s case which I previously introduced in 3 parts (case transcript, analysis, and prescription), reviewing her progress one month after her initial appointment.

The purpose of homeopathic followup appointments, in addition to the guidance and advice that is part-and-parcel of the healing relationship, is to compare the patient’s present state to his or her initial state. Below is Janice’s report of her condition a month after she took 3 consecutive daily doses of Anacardium 200c. In order to refresh your memory about Janice’s initial state please refer to the case transcript).

How are you doing?

Overall fairly well. Stopping Cipralex [antidepressant] worked this time — a few weeks before [when I tried to stop it] I had entered into depression right away, this time this didn’t happen. I cry a lot without the medication but I am not depressed. I have returned to being more vulnerable, but I don’t have the depression, the monster in the chest and the abdomen. Easy to get up in the morning.

 

Experience of getting up in the morning before?

Something paralyzed in the body, pain in the chest, every motion hurts, hard to breath, horrible tiredness, inability to straighten the body, lack of desire to get up and function. Everything else I could handle but not this sensation, which is like wanting to die.

 

How are your mornings now?

I get up easily, lightly, good mood, desire to start the day. On the other hand I am depressed now: physical illness for the past few days, like an irritated bowel. This morning woke up with migraine, headache, vomiting… Attacks of crying: maybe it’s good: it replaces the typical angry, raging response. I feel anger but not like some animal, just appropriate anger. Not like a monster that’s living inside me.

What Janice has reported up until now is already sufficient to establish that a positive change is taking place. What remains to be determined is the nature and pace of this change, as I will explain below.

Presently Janice proceeded to draw two sketches illustrating her ‘before’ and ‘after’ states. These represent in visual form the essence of her spiritual shift:

Before		After
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Tell me about the monster?

I think that there is a change: less hatred, less rejection, more acceptance. There are still times when I neglect myself (due to her energy [the inner monster, depicted as the scribble at the bottom of the first sketch]) but now we are in a dialogue, I see her as a part of me, we are more connected. Something has shifted… Maybe my rage is directed in the right direction: I exploded at my mom who indeed hurts me all the time. For the first time in a relationship I feel that I can encompass the sense of separateness of the other person — this started before the remedy (due to the Cipralex) but now without the medication I feel capable of things that I wasn’t capable before previously.

Being weak and vulnerable in a relationship doesn’t permit for a normal relationship. A few days ago my boyfriend returned home late at night, the night before he didn’t try to sleep with me, then that day I just got up and told him I was going home; eventually kissed and hugged me until I fell asleep. Once in such a situation I would become a monster, I would lose control of my body… rage. But this time I didn’t feel my body torn, falling apart, like I should be shot. I’ve always responded to separations with fear: now I am overwhelmingly sad.

 

What do you see now in the little girl?

Something frightening to say, as I’m afraid it will change back: Before I would see her as outside me, like in the corner of a room. Now she is like a shadow within my body: like a smaller version of me embedded within my body, not quite a part of me but like an enclave within me. In the past there had been moments of approaching her and hugging her, but she was always external, not like now.

What we see here is a shift in one of the main themes in Janice’s case: the sense that within her lives a ‘monster’, the deranged alter-ego whom constantly battles is being replaced by a sense of harmony between the previously antagonistic parts of herself (which Janice depicts visually as a body-within-a-body). This is the sort of deep shift that rarely occurs spontaneously in people’s lives. The homeopathic remedy is thus acting to assist Janice in battling her Anacardium disturbance. As the sidelined monster within transforms into an integral part of her being, Janice’s animalistic rage is turning into more appropriate human grief.

Upper-back pain has become worse. Sharper, affects my sleep. My skin is worse, never had it like that.

The exacerbation of superficial physical symptoms (skin, mucous membranes, connective tissue, etc.), and especially the appearance of skin problems, is known in homeopathy as an excellent prognostic sign when coupled with clear improvement on the deeper, spiritual level. Despite the discomfort involved, it is crucial not to suppress these symptoms — as I describe in the following homeopathic case — in order not to interfere with the body’s natural healing process.

Janice’s prognosis

Is Janice’s healing mostly complete already? Not at all: this is a momentous early step in a long healing process that typically takes several years. Because a person’s history is forever carried within, it takes time to re-integrate the painful past into a harmonious present and promising future. For example, Janice might have to overcome many months of grief over the now-dying monster that has defined her existence thus far.

At this stage there are two possible treatment strategies: to wait before giving any further doses of the homeopathic remedy, or to repeat the same remedy and potency as before in order to provide a repeated stimulus of the sort that produced the desired result. In this case I chose to repeat Anacardium 200c once.

In the next article we will track Janice’s progress at the time of her second followup appointment.

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