CONIFERAE FAMILY & PSCYHIATRIC DISORDERS

THUJA OCCIDENTALISSchizophrenia

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 SCHIZOPHRENIAProfound Changes In Motor Activity• Waxy

flexibility• Rigidity• Posturing

Negativism,

Echolalia Or Echopraxia

(Verbal ejaculation)

Hyperamnesiastupor

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 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

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 THUJAAPPREHENSION

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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