CONIFERAE FAMILY PSCYHIATRIC DISORDERS THUJA OCCIDENTALIS Schizophrenia Anxiety

CONIFERAE FAMILY & PSCYHIATRIC DISORDERS

THUJA OCCIDENTALIS Schizophrenia Anxiety disorders Maniac Depressive Psychosis Obscessive Compulsive Disorders Phobias

SCHIZOPHRENIA

SCHIZOPHRENIA Disturbance in thinking Delusions Disturbance in affect Disturbance of perception Motor disturbances Cognitive

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

TYPES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA CATATONIC PARANOID HEBEPHRENIC/DISORGANIZED

CATATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA Profound Changes In Motor Activity • Waxy flexibility • Rigidity • Posturing Echolalia Or Echopraxia (Verbal ejaculation) Negativism, Hyperamnesia stupor

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)

PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA Delusion of persecution Delusion of grandiose Jealousy

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 Halluciations esp auditory Delusions- Persecutory, hypochondriacal, religious

SYMPTOMS OF THUJADISORGANISED 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

ANXIETY DISORDERS

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

MOOD DISORDERS

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 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

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

Fear of losing self control Fear of apoplexy Fear of impending disease Fear of doctors Fear of evil Fear of approaching others Fear of examinations Fear of misfortune

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