After four years and a whole lot more remedies, I think I've finally reached the core of pretty much everything that ails me. It's a worst case scenario deal. I ALWAYS find the worst possible outcome to everything.

It should have dawned on me when a friend smiled at me one day and said "Why is it whenever you talk about something you always imagine how awful it's going to be?" And so it goes, with everything.

Case in point: I have a trip to the dentist tomorrow, with cavities and a crown required to be dealt with, and I'm shaking like a leaf now. Fears? Pain, lots of it. Blood all over the place. The stories I hear about people who go in for dental work and die in the chair.

It affects me in almost everything I do, and results me in not doing a whole lot, and that includes living. So I stay closed up in my hovel, never venturing out lest the sky fall on my head.

I've been through several remedies, the last being a 10M shot of Sulphur that did help. Any suggestions on which way to go forward?

Calc c 200 one dose.

[This message has been edited by GM (edited 20 October 2000).]

Also think of Gels as the main remedy for cowardice (no insult intended) and Psorinum as the great pessimist (also intensely anxious, and complementary to Sulph).

There is a small remedy called Populus Tremula which apparantly has some use in people with great apprehension when faced with everyday activities.

What lies under this feeling though? Why do you think everything will go wrong? Can you go any deeper into the feeling? When did it start?

[This message has been edited by Djkempson (edited 20 October 2000).]

going to the denstist, is not a everyday affere, as you try to imply here, and calc c, calc ph has fear of the dentist, dont you have a repertorie?
By the way, calc is the complementary of sulp..in first grade,the most often follower of sulphur, fear of blood, is alumina.
gelsmemium, has nothing to do with this type of fear at all.Nor psorinum.

PS, and this fear of the dentist, or of blood, may be from wrong use of remedies, it is then a fake disease, and it has to be antidoted..dep on what remedies is used , if nmany different supressers..classical supressers, then china is the remedie to antidote.
Considder this, intead of fantasying about gelsemium or other remedies.

His fears and anxieties are not just about the dentist. It is about everything, everyday activities, as he has said in his post. The dentist is just an example.

Anticipation before going to the dentist or the physician - calc, gels(2),mag-c,phos(2), tub(2).

Perhaps you need to brush up on your repetory/materia medica yourself.

Gelsemium

The patient has a feeling of inability which paralyzes him whenever he must confront any challenge.

Ailments from the anticpation of any unusal ordeal. (Herings Guiding symptoms)

Dj is correct. I was just using the current situation. Whatever the situation facing me, I imagine the worst possible outcome, usually including me suffering badly for it.

A hint Andy: GM is the homoeopath chosen by homoeopaths

I've been around here enough to know that. I was just agreeing with DJ that it's a overall thing, not just dental. But yeah, I am particularly scare of the dentist. They ended up not treating me because they took so long to get me in, but even turning the rudamentary exam, when the pick was stuck in my mouth, I winced with every touch. God I hate dentistry.

I'm not sure I agree with the Gelsemium, only because it has mental sluggishness as a major keynote and that's not me. I don't sleep well, thanks to intense dreams (the Sulphur proving). One thing I'm not is dopey. I wish I was. Then I wouldn't be so overimaginative.

Calc follows Sulph [almost] like night follows day...