The Homeopathic Treatment of Depression and Anxiety Judyth Reichenberg Ullman Robert Ullman.09574 1

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Reichenberg-Ullman / UllmanThe Homeopathic Treatment of Depression and

Anxiety

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CONTENTS

Contents

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Acknowledgmens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Inroducion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

PART I: Prevalence and Conventional Treatment ofDepression, Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder

1. A Sociey o Menal and Emoional Imbalance. . . . . . . . . . 2

2. Anidepressans, Ani-Anxiey Medicaions,Anipsychoics and Mood Sabilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3. Designer Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184. A Mater o Personal Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

PART II: Homeopathy: An Effective Answer for Depression

5. Wha Is Homeopahy and How Does I Work? . . . . . . . . . 36

6. Differen Medicines or Differen People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497. Why Choose Homeopahy o rea Depression? . . . . . . . 53

8. How Is Homeopahy Differen rom ConvenionalMedicine? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

9. Wha You Need o Know Abou Homeopahic


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16. Worthless and Without Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

17. Te Challenges of Growing Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

PART IV: Homeopathic Treatment of Other Mental andEmotional Problems

18. Nervous, Sleepless and Full of Worry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

19. Te error of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14120. Living on a Seesaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

21. Way Up and Way Down. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

22. Everything in Its Place. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

23. A Separate Reality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

24. Painful Memories Tat Wont Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197

25. A Case of Mistaken Identity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

26. Te Wild World of Hormones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

PART V: Now That You Know About Homeopathy

27. Te Questions People Most Commonly Ask AboutHomeopathic reatment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226

28. Homeopathy: Medicine for the Millennium . . . . . . . . . . 231

Appendix:


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FOREWORD

Foreword

Tis revised ediion oProzac-Freeis indeed a mos welcome andneeded addiion o he growing number o homeopahic bookspublished in recen years. Prozac-Free and Ritalin-Free Kids, heUllmans previous besseller, are among he bes books ha ocus

exclusively on he psychiaric applicaions o homeopahy.Judyh Reichenberg-Ullman and Rober Ullman are he perecpeople o wrie his book. Licensed nauropahic physicians board-cerified in homeopahic medicine, hey bring o heir readers overhiry years o experience as homeopahs, as well as over hiry-

five years as menal healh proessionals. I me Judyh and Robera he beginning o heir careers in homeopahy and a he sameime ha hey me each oher. Since hen hey have become amonghe bes known and respeced auhors and eachers in he Norh

American homeopahic communiy. Tey have a special alen orsharing heir knowledge and love o homeopahy in a down-o-

earh, easy-o-undersand syle. Te Ullmans mission is o makehomeopahy accessible, comprehensible and available o he gen-eral public and he proessional communiy as well as o raise hesandards o homeopahic educaion and pracice.

I am a psychiaris and homeopah. I am called ofen by hose


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presened may seem implausibly miraculous. Resuls like hese

wih harmless, highly dilue medicines? Yes. I we could ask oherwell-rained, experienced homeopahs i hey also see hese kindso resuls, every one o hem would say, Yes, his is wha happens

when you give he correc homeopahic medicine. In my hiryyears as a psychiaris I have ound over and over again ha noh-

ing can mach homeopahy in efficacy or reaing menal andemoional illness when he provider o homeopahic reamen is awell-rained and compeen classical homeopah.

Why has i aken so long or homeopahy o break ou o heringes o medicine ino he mainsream in he Unied Saes

when i is already an acknowledged medical ar in Europe, LainAmerica and India? Te reasons are undoubedly complex. Onemigh say ha no movemen can ener he culural mainsream

which is isel no compaible wih he spiri o he imes, he Zei-geis. An excessively srong maerialisic bias in American scienceand medicine has been a big acor. Te weakening o he deah-grip which mechanisic maerialism has had on he scienific andinellecual communiy coupled wih he growing populariy o

vialisic ideas has allowed homeopahy o come ou o isolaion.And, incredibly, a he same ime homeopahy has been blessed byhe world-wide emergence o brillian eachers. Tis has allowed


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based on wha one hears and sees. Te paiens suffering mus be

ranslaed ino he language o homeopahy in order o find a cor-rec medicine. Te homeopah mus honor he paiens uniqueexpression o sel. Doing oherwise is o flir wih ailure.

Alhough homeopahy can produce dramaic resuls wih manypsychiaric paiens, les no oss ou he baby wih he bah waer.

As a medical docor, psychiaris and homeopah, I haven hrownaway my prescripion pad. Psychopharmaceuical drugs remainindispensable in many siuaions. Tough my preerence is o usehomeopahy or every paien, he concurren, coninued use oprescripion medicaions may be necessary, a leas emporarily

and someimes permanenly. Even in hose cases where we cannoake he paien off psychiaric drugs, we usually can reduce hedosage and hereby decrease uncomorable side effecs, while ahe same ime producing real improvemens in uncioning.

Homeopahic reamen o menal and emoional disorders char-

acerisically resuls in an increase in vialiy, sel-percepion, sel-knowledge and eelings o well-being. Homeopahy, i pracised ona wide scale, has grea promise as a social psychiary. I pracised inhe prison sysem, recidivism could be grealy decreased. Perpe-raors and vicims o domesic violence respond well o homeo-pahic reamen. Te anisocial behaviors o hose adolescens


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workers and oher psychoherapiss may discover an alernaive

o convenional drugs or hose o heir clienele who need medi-caion. Homeopahic reamen does no replace psychoherapy.Psychoherapiss who reer o homeopahs will no only be ason-ished by he relie o disress afforded by homeopahic reamen

bu pleased by he enhancemen o herapy. Homeo-pahy resuls

in increased sel-percepion and deeper insigh which enables her-apy o progress ar more rapidly and effecively. Tese remarkablemedicines seem o break he resisance o herapy. Homeopahicreamen removes depression, anxiey, delusions, dissociaion andoher sympoms so ha herapy can do wha i really does bes:promoe growh and developmen hrough sel knowledge.

Homeopahy is a gif or hose who wish o undersand hemselvesmore deeply, remove negaiviy, and live more expansively in loveand creaiviy. Homeopahy, exquisiely genle ye incredibly pow-erul, is or hose who undersand ha he golden hammer openshe iron door.

Michael K. Glass, M.D.

Ithaca, New York


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Acknowledgments

We hank our eachers, paricularly Dr. Rajan Sankaran, who hasinormed, inspired, and revialized our homeopahic pracice since

we began sudying wih him in 1993. I is hanks o his brillianguidance ha we have been able o prescribe medicines we had

never considered, or even known o, wih such dramaic resuls.


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Introduction

A Better Answer for a Happier World

We do no live in a happy sociey. An asounding number o indi-viduals rely on prescripion medicaion, as you will see as you

read urher in our book, o keep heir houghs posiive and heirmoods sable. Conemporary, highly echnological lie is complex,as-moving, quickly changing and highly unpredicable. Te com-mon wisdom is ha i is necessary, simply a mater o course, oake pharmaceuical uppers, downers, or whaever is needed oremain on an even keel. Wha i we old you ha here is anoherype o medicine, one ha is sae, long-lasing, deep-acing, highlyaffecive, and has he poenial o alleviae your physical problemsas well as your depression? A medicine ha is inexpensive, individ-ualized o your unique sympoms, and one which you need o akeonly inrequenly. One ha produces significan posiive changes

wih more requency han Prozac or oher convenional medica-ions. And wha i we shared wih you he rue experiences o oh-ers who were depressed bu who now eel very well hanks o hismedicine? Would you consider a differen alernaive? We hope so!Tis is our reason or wriing his book and has been he career o

which we have dedicaed ourselves over he pas hiry years.


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became convinced ha here mus be a genler and more effecive

soluion o menal illness. Each o us came o his realizaion adecade beore we ever me each oher.

As you can see rom he many paiens we have reaed successullywhose cases we recoun in our book, we believe we have ound ananswer ha can ransorm he lives o many people. We presen

hese real, bu anonymous, cases rom our pracice and ask you odraw your own conclusions abou he effeciveness o homeopahy.

Vals Success with Homeopathic Treatment forDepression

Le us share wih you he sory o Val, one o housands o paienswih menal and emoional problems ha we have reaed overhe pas fifeen years. A compuer programmer rom Easern

Washingon, Val was 38 years old when she firs came o our clinicnine years ago. Discouraged and disappoined, afer having pu on

hiry exra pounds, Val simply waned o eel beter. A sarvaiondie hrough a weigh loss clinic and our mile a day walks five daysa week had no been enough o shed he excess weigh.

Val suffered grea annoyance rom her environmenal and oodallergies, which caused a myriad o sympoms including dizziness,


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I ake afer my moher who was on anidepressans or hiry years.

Val had no realized her dream o wriing childrens books. She hadconemplaed relocaing o a differen ciy, a career change, movingo a differen aparmen.

Nohing she ried, including years o psychoherapy ocusingon her dysuncional amily, had really made a difference. Val

described her aher as responsible bu absen and her moher asa yran. A quie child, she coped by becoming los in a dream

world wih a cas o housands. A sensiive peacemaker, Val provedhersel by achieving sraigh As, being he class valedicorian, and

by compleing wo graduae degrees. As a loner egghead, riend-

ships did no come easily. Nor did inimae relaionships excepwhen she anasized abou movie sars and guiar heroes. Despieher quick wi, vivid imaginaion, and pleasan personaliy, Val wasunable o make deep connecions wih ohers.

Val had a nervous sreak, even as an adolescen. In college her wor-

ries escalaed ino ull-blown anxiey atacks. Uncomorable inigh places, she preerred o wai or an empy elevaor.

Val benefited considerably rom Aurum sulphuricum (goldsulfide). Her moods, allergies, hearburn, headaches, abdominaldisress, dizziness, ahlees oo, explosive diarrhea, eczema, sinus-


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As homeopahs do, we coninually ried o delve more deeply ino

Vals sae. Par o my problem in defining mysel, she shared,is ha I don know wha I eel. In childhood I learned no eveno hink. I didn really develop an ideniy unil I was in college.She also menioned her errible consipaion as a child. Tis ledo finely une he medicine even urher oAluminum sulphuricum

(aluminum sulae), which has been repeaed our imes over hepas 14 monhs. An excellen medicine or people who lack a clearsense o sel and sel-conrol, ofen as a resul o being raised by adominan paren who suppressed he childs will and individualiy,his medicine also mached Vals physical sympoms very well.

Val has coninued o eel progressively beter. She now ownsa home, which allows her o eel comorable and secure, and ismore saisfied wih her work. Generally even-empered and on aneven keel, she coninues o eel quie well raher han los in herough as she did prior o homeopahic reamen. She is spend-ing more creaive ime on her wriing and sill hopes o publish her

work. Val coninues o work on hersel and, alhough her lie is noperec, i is dramaically improved rom when we sared work-ing ogeher and she has no needed o resor o anidepressans.

Yes, here ishappiness and well-being wihou drugs. You will readmany sories in our book abou people who, like Val, have experi-


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poenially be placed. I you can be pigeonholed ino a diagnos-

ic box, hen your docor can find he medicine or medicines hacorrespond.

Te problem, o our way o hinking and our clinical experience,is ha his approach misses enirely he inheren uniqueness andindividualiy o each human being. By rying o find commonali-

ies in people and sympoms, you migh be able o narrow hemdown o hal a dozen or ewer possible medicaions. Te problemis ha he more specialized convenional medicine has become,he more you are likely o be evaluaed in pieces raher han as a

whole, inegraed human being.

A homeopahic praciioner, o he conrary, ries o discover juswha makes you ick and why you became depressed in he firsplace. We do no ry o fi people ino a narrow range o diagnosiccaegories in order o prescribe one o a handul o medicines. Welisen o your sory, undersanding ha, in is own way, i is unlike

any sory we have every heard beore, hen we prescribe or you asan individual, one o nearly wo housand sae and naural homeo-pahic medicines.

Some o you may be perecly saisfied aking anidepressans buwe know ha many o you chose o read his book because you


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I you choose o pursue homeopahy or yoursel or your loved

ones, do no even consider prescribing or yoursel. Find a prac-iioner who is well-rained, highly-qualified and experienced as ahomeopah, as well as seasoned in reaing paiens wih menaland emoional issues, o help you. Ten, you will be more likely oexperience he posiive resuls ha we discuss in our book. Regard-

less o which pah you choose, we wish you he very bes wih heal-ing and hope ha you find happiness and peace.


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LIFE ISJUSTTOOMUCH TOHANDLE!

14 Life Is Just Too Much to Handle!

Lightening the Load of a Hectic Life

We live in a busy, as-paced, complex sociey bearing heresponsibiliies o amily, home and job. Te simple lie o he 40sand 50s is gone. Our highly echnological world has led o more

choices and decisions, ofen spli-second. Paying he bills, keep-ing up wih phone calls, beeper calls, axes and e-mail. Living rompaycheck o paycheck. Or, or some, having so much money hahey don know how o spend i. We are sruck by how sressulhe lives o children are oday. Ofen gone rom morning ill nigh,carrying beepers so hey won miss ou on anyhing, playing videogames as as as possible. Tey barely have ime o grow up! oomuch work, oo litle enjoymen and no enough hearel connec-ion wih oher people. Tis is a prescripion or unhappiness.

A Half-Empty Kind of Guy

Max, ory, was burned ou. A elephone-cable repair supervisorrom S. Louis, he was jus plain exhaused, no o menion dis-couraged wih his lie and his job requiring long hours on he road.He described himsel as a simple, down-o-earh man in a husle-

busle world. Bored and overwhelmed wih his job o welve years,


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el he had a ghos o a chance o being hired elsewhere. Te ruh

was ha Maxs employers placed a lo o value on his experise, buhe never believed i. He described himsel as a hal-empy kindo guy.

Te produc o a ypical Midwesern arm amily, Max el unjuslypunished by his aher. I go he message ha I couldn do any-

hing righ, and i suck wih me. Like glue. Maxs eelings abouhis lie were hose o oal loss, ailure and helplessness. When heel wors, he was gripped by a igh eeling in his ches and a losso appeie. Raher han look a wha he could change in his envi-ronmen or wha role ohers played in his disappoinmens, Maxpoined he finger a himsel, jus as his aher had done o him. Hisinner dialogue wen like his: Wha can I do o improve mysel?I hough I was rying, bu I guess Im no doing i well enough.

Ulimaely Max el quie desperae and anxious, as well as cluelessabou how o remedy his lie. He called himsel a deeais bu couldno figure ou how o pull himsel ou o he pi. He lamened, Iveailed in so many ways, made so many supid decisions in my lie.I mull hings over o deah, araid o making he wrong decision.Everyone is dissaisfied wih me. Is oo much o bear. When weasked wha was unusual abou him, he answered, Im a nobody.I know has a prety sad saemen bu has how I eel. Wrung


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medicine or depressed, discouraged individuals who eel suck and

unable o move. Tough heir ideals may be high and hey may bequie capable, hey never eel ha way. Teir perormance anxieyis grea because hey suffer rom such remendous sel-doub andreproach. Tis meal is acually used in elephone cables, so i isineresing ha Max, who worked wih he cables or many years,needed his paricular subsance. Perhaps his sae was brough on

by he coninual exposure o he subsance.

Six weeks afer aking he Cadmium sulphuricum, Max el less des-perae. Whereas he acknowledged eeling beside himsel prioro he homeopahy, now he enjoyed more periods o being a ease.Im no so ocused on he problems a hand. I eel more able ocome up wih a soluion. Ive seen some possibiliies o ge ou omy siuaion. My oulook is moving orward.

Over he nex six and a hal monhs Max coninued o improve.He acually changed jobs and his spiris improved. He and his girl-riend were geting along beter. Im no a all depressed. Im acu-ally pleasanly surprised when I sep ouside mysel and look in.Seven monhs afer he original dose o he Cadmium sulphuricum,Max el ha he was slipping when los o pressure came up in hisnew job. Te sel-blame had begun o creep back. We repeaed hemedicine a ha ime.


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