Im fine, leave me alone

Life as a Trauma
Delusion: its a Life or Death Situation
Bruised
Shock, Numbness, pretends Im okay
Take Charge, If Im in control, Im okay
Dictatorial, Are you with me or not?


1. Dont want to be touched, jarred
2. Better lying down
3. Bruised, sore feeling, I feel bruised, sore
4. The bed is too hard, restless in sleep, moving to find better po-
sition
5. Desire to be alone, Dont speak to me, Dont touch me, irritable
about it
6. Thinks they are well when arent, sends doctor away, Im
okay
7. History of traumatic injuries, accidents, rape, assault, fell on
head
8. Bleed easily, blood w/cough, nosebleeds, easy bruising
9. Cold and chills on body, heat on head

(Val comments)
All out effort to do whatever they can
Disconnected
They are not in their body
No big deal, just put the nose back
Sinuses problem is result of the trauma
Drawn to trauma
Fights

(J A) Expect to see
Client always falling down stairs
Always stepping on glass, breaking bones
I have this huge bruise on hip and I dont even know where it came from

(MM) (Group: Compositae)
DD: Arnicaeven more evident then arnica to negate their suffering
In arnica there is a progression in the difficulty with coping with suffering
They will be sore and keep suffering on superficial part of their body
As gets de-compensated, then can see how fragile inside

In Bellis: from a paradox of nothing at all to something that is a disaster
For Arnicaany elimination is amel, stool or perspiration, saliva, to spit, discharging is a good sensa-
tion, this means my body is a working machine
Arnica montana Psoric, Acute Compositea family
(Bellis and Arnica are kinds of loners)


Case (Sankaran Weds Lectures, T26)
Migraine headaches
With headaches, eye becomes blood red
Feel like banging my head or hitting my head with
a hammer
Blood red eye almost as if injured
Worried they might have an emergency
What do you mean by this emergency?
Might black out and fall
Worried someone might come when husband out
of town
Afraid they might come and hit me
Bang me on the head with something
I like music
Not hard music but soft music

Everything sudden and scary and nothing you can do about it (Acute)
Remedy Arnica



Case: Man
Workaholic
Riding horse, drinking wine and taking on phone
Do anything to make it work with wife
Likes the challenge, competitive
Restless
Irritable
Always congestion
A passion for money
Owns all these boats, snowmobiles
He feels so much pressure in face (sinuses)
Goes for whatever he wants without stopping
So focused on money



Arnica montana Psoric, Acute Compositea family
Arnica Mental State
Bruised
Beaten, Sore
I feel bruised
Everything feels too hard

Dont come too close
Dont want to be touched
Dont want to be jarred
Or jostled
Tense
Trauma
like being in a burning building
Life as a Trauma
All out effort in everything they do
Every situation becomes a state that
requires super human effort to get
thru
A Profession
EMT, Firefighter
Deployed in Iraq
Best when engaged in life
Requires all out effort

Delusion
Its a Life of Death Situation
Even if it isnt

Do you know what it feels like to
be alive?
Clear Ediology
A Trauma
Birth Trauma
Life and Death Situation
Accident
Pregnant mother developed arthri-
tis
Fears
Its hard to make this kind of ef-
fort

Fear theyre not going to make it
Rigid

Are you with me or not?

Focused on the Goal
A Ragging River to Cross
Im the chief river crosser

Youre either coming with me or Im
leaving you behind
Dictatorial
Im okay
If Im in control Im okay
I have to be focused
I dont want to be jostled

State of Shock
Suppression of Feeling
Numbness
Dont Feel Anything Immediately
Need to get themselves out first
Fell in mountains, got herself down the
mountain without help

Im okay
Wills themselves not to feel any-
thing
The way to withstand abuse

Im not going to see this psychologist
if Ive been abused because it would
upset things