I have a very close friend who is suffering from this right now. A big attack of it came on suddenly when he was very, very angry at someone - a clerk at a 7-11 that he didn't like who kind of threw his dollar bill down on the counter at him when giving him is change and then moved on to the next customer.

My friend was so infuriated at this (becuase he didn't say anything back to the clerk, if he had said something back to the clerk then he wouldn't have felt so mad and angry and woulnd't have obsessed about and would have let it go)

But he was so angry and he was sitting at this desk just going over it over again and then all of a sudden he felt it. He said to himself, "Oh no..oh no.. here it comes...here it comes.. and he was lost in the obsessiveness of not being able to think of anything else but getting the clerk back - not being able to even go out without it penetrating hi being so much that he couldn't even get gas for the car without being in EXTREME torture and mental anguish.

He couldn't let it go without having the get the clerk back. But really not getting the clerk back but just somehow having done something - like telling the clerk how he felt about it.

Finally, eventually he did go back to the store and tell the clerk that he felt a insulted at the dollar beign thrown down at him, and the clerk didn't even remember.

My friend had even written a letter to the manager of the store about the clerk's behavior in an attempt to "TO MAKE IT RIGHT IN HIS MIND, MAKE IT BALANCED SO THAT HE COULD LET IT GO."

So finally he let the incident with the clerk go. Then that same night that he professed to the clerk how he felt and thought it was all over, he started obsessing about someone who had insulted him, got the best of him, over 7 years earlier! Someone he hadn't seen in over 7 years.
He even called tried calling this person so that he could just say, "I always thought you were an a--hol-." So that if he at least said this, it would be over because he DID something about the abuse he took without defending himself or insulting back.

My friend can't have a good time or have a single thought of happiness because he wont let himself release it until he "DOES SOMETHING BACK TO THE PERSON WHO DID SOMETHING TO HIM"

He tried to Staph. 200C every half hour for 2 hours - a homeopath prescribed this for him, but it really didn't work.

My friend also tried other remedies like Sach alb. and things started to get a little better that afternoon (But My friend is also a COMPULSIVE OVEREATER TO A VERY HIGH DEGREE) and the minute he started feeling a touch better, he went and ate sugar - a lot and a whole bunch of other things.

My freind also triec Carcinosinum and Germanium to get him out of his mental prison - all under the advice of a homeopath.

Even tried Calcarea Carbonica which the homeopath thought was his original rememdy to change his life completely BEFORE this thing happened at the 7-11.

How ironic it all is that the HOMEOPATH took is case only 3 days before the incident at the 7-11 happened. Ironic because the homeopath said, "your life is going to change now, I firmly believe because I have found your remedy and I am 100% confident in it."

The reason my friend didn't take the Calc. THAT DAY is that the homeopath insist that my friend order it from Hahnemann Labs - and the remedy hadn't arrived yet - because ironically, if my friend did take the remedy the day the homeopath prescribed it, he would of just bought it at the local pharmacy (BOIRON) and taken it that day and would not have gone into the 7-11 that day to buy COCA-COLA AND M&M's because he would have been on the remedy and would have abstained from those procucts he went in to buy. (this paragraph was my friend's take on it the whole ironicity of it).

I think maybe my friend lies in Argentrum Nitricum or Thuya or maybe even as simple as Nux Vomica.

My friend eats a lot of sugar and eats a bad diet. He does not go to the bathroom well. He is canstantly angry becease he has EXTREME anger towards his mother - who he lives with and supports in a two room apartment 1 mile away from me.

He says his symptoms lie all around and with his stomach. Everything he tells me is stomach related. He was always been overweight. Since his earliest memories of childhood. He eats when he's not hungry. He just eats all the time. It seems that no matter what type of pain he is in from the food, he eats more anyway. He would eat when he was happy, sad, whatever.

He also suffers from phimosis where the head of his penis will not come out of his foreskin and any type of coition is just very painful so he doesn't even go with woman. He just masturbates and he is a very sexual being. I think this maybe a big deal in his problems. He wants to be with woman but does not because of this problem. I told him that allopathic avenues can change his penile through circumcision, etc... but he fears the medical profession with great zeal. He really doesn't trust them at all and is scared of them.
I have known him for 24 years. My friend since early, early childhood. I really want to help him but I am not yet skilled enough to really take his case.
Please tell me what you need to know for this one.

I know a lot about him and he knows I am getting help for him - I don't know how he would feel about knowing that I am posting about him.

He has a use of very, very hard marijuana use in his teens and early twenties. He thinks this is definitely a part of it - and a Homeopath precreibed Canni about years ago and his sensitivety to light diminished overnight. But that's about all he can remember from that.

He is about 31 now.

Low self-esteem which, I think, is still imprinted in his cells, even though he sees how great of person he is.

Here is the etioligy of all his problems:

It was April of 1991. He was of course, living with his mother, who controlled him, his food, told him all his life he was a nothing and that because he was fat he was basically a piece of sh-t.He fantacized about getting away from his mother, bout not living with her but he has SUPPORTED her for so long and she also blames him for EVERYTHING in her life gone bad and in his life gone bad. And always tells him he's nothing because all his life he has sat around and eaten and that's why is not a movie star....

Anyway, back to the second that his life changed forever. It was April of 1991, he was 21 years old sitting in front of the TV. He was coming down of being stoned, he had the munchies going.
His stomach was distended from all he's eaten. He went into the kitchen to find something to eat, ANYTHING to eat. He found some spaghetti sauce and found some cooked rice, so he started pouring the spaghetti sauce into the rice to heat it up together. His mother was there. And she started yelling at him in a big way. "Look at you, look at you!!! Can't you ever stop??!! Won't you ever stop???!! Look at you, you are like are blown up like bloated pig!!!!" etc...

And all of a sudden, my friend something he had never felt before. He couldn't breathe, he coudn't talk. He started feeling this blackness surround him. He started feeling this feeling that he absolutely going to die. He ran outside and started walking very fast thinking, "Oh my God, Oh My God.."

And the more he walked, the more he felt a tiny but better and then he felt better again. He was so relieved he looked up and thanked God.
He thought it was over. But it had just begun. His life changed completely and forever at that one second in the kitchen. After that point, his anxiety level increased 10,000% fold. All of a sudden he needed to have his room meticulously clean and in order.

When he used to leave the windows in his car down overnight, now they had to be up.

He started having ticks and twitches after this. He would have to have certain rituals to keep things and people safe, etc...

If he thought certain bad thoughts he have to think other thoughts to counter them and make those thoughts benign so that they wouldn't come true, etc...

I think what has happened with him, is that his nerves have affected. He keeps describing that on that night in the kitchen with his mother, something "broke"

He has always, of course, had repressed rage against his mother. She is also the one who taught him: You must always where a cross around your neck at all times, never sing at night, never look at yourself in the mirror at night, never walk under a latter, always make the sign of the cross when passing a church, when taking a trip on a plane always keep looking back on the way to the airport so that you "make it back safely", never fight - always be nice etc.. and the list goes on and on.

That's why they used to pummel him on the school grounds all his life. He was the biggest most powerful of them all and it was this icredible thing that everyone would beat the hell out of him and abuse him and he wouldn't raise a finger to fight back and prtoect himself, he would just take it. It was a spectacle that other students would come around to watch.

His mother never decided to leard the english language. She has been in the United States over 25 years and spoke like she had been there only several months.

So he always had to take care of everything. the bills, the linguistics of everything, since his mother never understood anything.

His father was 70 years old when he was born! ANd died when he was 9. His father was beaten in the street by four men. Almost beaten to death in an alley behind the apartment building where he lived. So he managed to get from his beating and actually make his way to the apartment that my frind lived in and his father walked in the door beaten to death, his nose hanging of this face in pieces, his face covered in a bloodbath never even seen in horror movies of any kind. My friend was a very sensitive child and he saw this scene at 9 years old. His horror was unperceivable.

And his father eventaully died in a hospital as a result of that beating. His father died only 5 minutes after my friend had kissed him on the cheek one last time in the intensive care unit.

His mother, installed in him, the lowest self-esteem picture possible. She never told him he was strong and big and powerful, only that he was FAT and that's it!

Please help me help him. Ask any questions you want and I will answer them. If I don't know the answer I will call him.

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Hallo smiles
Usually I don’t prescribe on the net, but maybe this little advice will bring you closer to a well selected remedy:

--Anger with vexation, with chill and coldness of the body: BRY
--Anger with indignation (throwing away whatever he holds in his hands): STAPH
--Anger causing internal or concealed vexation, grief or shame: IGN
--Anger with wrath, violence and heat: CHAM

There are the main remedies for the acute situation.
Whatever comes after should be left to the homeopath to treat.

Hans Weitbrecht
Homeopath

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Dear smiles,
Staphysagria 200 will do all that is requird-
avps

Dear AVPS,

Do you really think so? I mean should I really consider having him take a 200C dose and tell him to avoid all sugar and carbs and just let the Staph. ride for a few months and see what happens??

Are you a 100% sure?????

I really want to help him.

Let me know.

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Dear Smiles,

I hope the homeopath didn't prescribe Calc-carb because your friend is fat and desires sweets!

Here's another remedy that is obese and desires sweets. I found it originally while looking up:
"Mind, fear, suffocation, of, walk about, must".

There was, to my great astonishment, only one remedy listed! So naturally, I was compelled to learn about it. The remedy is Ammonium Brom. Here is what I found out about the Ammoniums in the book Homeopathy and the Minerals:

"Rancour has two sides to it. The first is anger, aggression or hate. Ammonium
has a lot of anger. The repertory has many rubrics relating to this, such as
morose, hatred, malicious. One way in which we see this aggression is in the
suppressed anger. This makes them very critical. It may seem that they are
just very precise and unprejudiced, but when we look more closely we see that
there is nothing that escapes their criticism. This criticism may eventually
lead to extreme cynicism, whereby they take everything to pieces to destroy
it.
The second side of rancour is holding things in. The anger is kept inside.
The reservedness of the Ammoniums is also present in the Natrums, but in the
Natrums the grudge is absent: they dont really have this type of anger. The
difference between the two is very clear when we compare Nat-c with Am-c.
Nat-c is usually refined and dignified, whilst Am-c can be very blunt and
resentful.
...

The disappointment is caused by too much idealism. In their imagination
everything is always much nicer than it is in reality. They are so keen to
have everything perfect that they are inclined to overlook the negative
sides. At least, this is how it is in the beginning. Later on this attitude
changes and they become over-critical. The biggest problem of the Ammoniums
is that their idealised picture of the world is totally out of proportion
with the reality."

Smiles, I liked the part that went, "They are so keen to have everything perfect...." It fit in with what you said about his fastidiousness.

It may be a long-shot, in the sense that little is known about Am-br., but sometimes you're led to a rare remedy by a strange, rare and peculiar symptom in a patient.

Meanwhile, there's been some pretty wild prescribing in this case! Staphysagria was a good prescription, but to give a 200C every half hour is ridiculous. In terms of Kentian prescribing, the 200 would have been given once, and then you would have waited a month to evaluate the results.

You did a good job of reporting this case. I liked your idea of Argent-nit. It's really quite unbelievable! The mother is like something out of a Dickens novel!

I hope others give their suggestions as well.

Snoopy

P.S. Your friend doesn't have to avoid carbohydrates for the remedy to work--only for his health, if he wants to and can.

Snoopy

Snoopy,

Thank you very much for your time in this matter and your reply. Yes it seems as though the prescription of Staph. 200C every 30 minutes was a much. I even had a chance to talk to that homeopath about that.

His reasoning was that he was prescribing acutely.

But somehow my gut feeling is that it was just WRONG. I mean, I am not a homeopath yet. I still just really in my first year here. But that did not sound right.

This is important: I remember my friend telling me that one morning after he was taking the Staph, he woke with a the feeling that, "I can get over this, I float my own boat, my thoughts are my own and nobody elses." Then he took the Staph again! 200C and went right back into the mentally weak state of not being able to put any of this past him!

Snoopy, do you think that the Staph (overly repeating the doses) may have messed him up a bit????? And if so, how do I get him back from that????

Or do you think maybe any negative effects of that, it was over a month ago, would have worn off by now???

Let me know what you think, Snoopy.

The remedy you have put on the table sounds very, very good! He does have to get up and walk around for fear of suffocation at times! And also, he feels as though the thoughts of having to get verbal revenge and not being able to get them out of his mind are very suffacting to him!

What harm can be done if I can get him to take it, and do you think, at this point, I SHOULD get him maybe to take it. Perhaps I can have the antidote around in case he reacts negatively???

Or am I way off base???

Let me know.

Thank you......

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smiles

this is my fourth try at posting - my comp is having issues. This started out as a much much longer post but now I am tired so will post more tomorrow.

First, please tell your friend he isn't alone there are many of us out there with similar stories and similar OCD issues. Pleaseget him in a support group, even if only online, just so he can know others have the same problems.

You know, almost everyone's story starts the same. Always between the ages of 17-21 and the OCD begins with one major panic attack that makes the person think they are either gonna die or go insane and from that moment on (we alwasy remember the exact hour it all started too)the persons life is changed. Even after the panic attack passes, something horrible remains.

I think more questions need to be answered to get the right remedy but please give ARSENICUM a look.

I have a book to recommend but need to check the title.

Warmly
barb

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Dear Barb and Smiles,

The MOTHER certainly sounds like an Arsenicum!!!!
Sometimes the mother's state is passed on to the child.

Smiles, did you say he was doing great on Staph. until he took the next dose? Do you know what happened? The next dose antidoted the one that was working!!! I've said it a million times on the BB: Put the remedy in water if you're going to repeat it and succuss 10 times before each dose so you don't antidote the dose that's working. Smiles, it means that Staph. was the right remedy and that idiot of a so-called homeopath stepped on his own foot and antidoted his own prescription!

The solution is for your friend to take Staph. 200C, ONE Dose, in water, stir vigorously, and drink the whole cup. This will be a slightly higher potency than the dry dose he took and should hopefully work. If it doesn't, order a 1M.

Keep in touch,

Snoopy

Snoopy Thanx,

I will have him take the Staph. 200C. And I will let you know what happens.

And yes, Snoopy, I am new to this board (only a week or so in) but I HAVE seen your posts all over the place about succussing the following doses so that you are not taking the exact same dose!!!

If only he's known!!!!!

I will let you know the progress, Snoopy.

I will try to see him tomorrow.

Thanx...

And thank you Barb for your imput and support. It's amazing to read what you wrote about the OCD starting after a VERY strssful episode and in one's life. He will be amazed to hear this. That it is a known thing!

I will let him know this....

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