My homeopath is now out of commission for I don't know how long. Her infant daughter is very sick and I'm stuck for an answer which I was supposed to be getting this week.

My daughter is 17. She was on Lac Caninum 12 ch for approximately 3 months daily. Eventually she got an urgency/incontinence problem so she was told to stop the Lac and wait. She hasn't had a remedy since about the beginning of July. Incontinence went, but big urgency to pee is still there, though she drinks large amounts of water at one time, 3 to 4 times a day (ie maybe 26 to 32 oz each time).

The rest of her problem still is this:

She was anorexic from last March 1998 til Apr 99 until she decided that she wanted her life back (which I partly attribute to the fact that I had given her some Lac Caninum during that time and also partly due to the very good hospital program she was in). It's all been very scary for her on the road to recovery, but now she has started to eat regularly scheduled meals and snacks - but according to a plan, not according to true hunger - because she doesn't know when she's hungry or full.

Her bowels are very slow - never returned to normal after her anorexia, though I don't think she was ever very regular in the first place.

She still has OCD, though much, much, much less. However, she still has to have clean clothes (won't wear anything twice), has to have a shower every day (though that seems normal to many people - it's because she "HAS" to not because of a normal kind of need. She is being helped very much by a cognitive behavioural psychologist. Contrast this to having to wash her hands 60 times a day, having to have me dress her, having someone have to open every door and light switch for her for fear of getting dirty, (just got over the doors and lights in the past two weeks - she wouldn't tie her shoes because I had once tied them for her after having chocolate - for fear the calories would go into her). Her thoughts are still fairly obsessive.


The thing that worries me most now is this:

She feels like she has not got herself back. She is very vulnerable. She won't speak up for herself if someone says something she doesn't like about herself or anyone else - she always was the first to do that. She feels so low about herself. Like she can't do anything, like she's so stupid, like she is fat and ugly, like she's very selfish, like no one likes her. This is all so highly contrasting to the way she was before the anorexia took over. She had this huge self-confidence, no negative thoughts, she was sure of herself and everything was fun. She had a terrific outlook on life.

There has been this negative voice which she called "Jack" which she is now starting to think of as herself (which I see as a healthy sign). Still the negativity, whether it's Jack's or her own internal voice, is very much with her all the time and is making life miserable for her.

My homeopath said she wanted to wait but she was going to decide this week what (I guess if anything) to do next.

So I'm wondering whether she should be taking anything or waiting more.

I know it's hard to jump in in the middle, but are there any ideas?

I'm sure I'll think of other things I've missed later. She is on three medications now: one fairly high dose anti-depressant, one very low-dose anti-psychotic and a digestive aid. Eventually I want her to be off of these, but it won't be right yet.

Thanks.

Suzi