I am looking for this theme/feeling

Feeling as if I know nothing/little (when he actually knows a lot)

Any rubric/medicine suggestions??

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Perhaps: feeling of emptiness in head - Ignatia
Luzie

Me again:
feeling of mental emptiness
COCC, IGN, PULS, SEP, STANNUM, Gels, Olnd, Plat, Sulph, am-c, asar, calad, cann-i, germ, kali-c, mur-ac, sars, stry zing

delusion that he can't think
Chel, onos

feeling of internal emptiness
aur

feels as if loosing capacity to think
ars, ign

Hello Luzie, Dr. B,

Could this be "confidence, lacking"? As in Lycopodium, for instance?

Snoopy

Hi Snoopy,

yes the feeling is similar to that of lacking confidence but has come on very strangely in a very confident and successful person. Its effect is wider. The person has more knowledge than most of his contemprories in his field (and he knows that), and yet he feels he knows nothing. He is professionaly very sucessful at a very young age, but has started feeling he is not doing well enough. He may need to change his work. And this has devloped without any apparent reason. And the person is still confident enough for me to use that rubric.
The person became sucessful by focussing on what he does not have (qualitatively) and working to get it. I think he has focussed on self-improvemnt a bit too much. Keeps looking on his negative side instead of the positive side. Always feels 'dwarfish' in presence of people of similar caliber.
I have not been able to put this all together in some word/rubric/symptom that can say it all. I will use fragmented rubrics if I cant find the one that fits perfectly. But still searching ...

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Dr Bhatia

If 'feeling dwarfish' were your patient's words then I think you should look at Baryta Carb.
It has many mind rubrics relating to self doubt issues.

I am not going to look for the symptoms, but the topics that can be related to this sensation. I hope that him it is of help.

-Lac - f. he believes that the man cannot know in essence, then any knowledge that has, it seems to him that it is not a real knowledge.

-Crot-h. He believes that he does not have right to the knowledge, though it is his desire to look for it. It has topic with this.

-For Sarsaparrilla, the reality of the things is not it seems to what it is perceived, for this reason, him that nothing knows, since his perception is not the reality.

- something similar happens to him to Kali-c that pushes back the knowledge that comes across the senses, since he wanted to know for the substance.

-to know it is necessary to receive, this it is Am-c's experience.

-Colchicum has an analytical thought and his suffering is that has that aprehender the reality for his own(proper) senses, to manage to know her, and it cannot do only by means of the intellect or the logic.
Then, his(its) sensation is that does not know.

-Lyss. He identifies with what wants to know.

-Anacardium cannot assimilate what comes from him itself, needs of his senses, even of his body, to know.

- Ph. Acidum wanted to have the aptitude to know without having to compare or look for the response, to the way that alone God knows. It has intolerance to what it is known completely, says that it is not satisfactory, if the response that is given to yes same disappoints him. His suffering has relation in spite of wanting to foresee the future, since it wanted the safety of the total knowledge, which is impossible. Of there that can manage to feel that he does not know anything.

-Calc-p. also it wanted to know for lighting and not to the human way, for the logical process.

- Calcarea and all his insecurity with regard to the future, has this topic in the shape of the idea of that cannot be foreseen, without knowing the future. The knowledge of the future is the only real knowledge, but it is a knowledge that he does not achieve to reach.

Finally Oleander has this topic in several forms, for example, later I transcribe the synthesis of the study of this remedy, led to end for the AFADH:

" It would seem that OLEANDER was representing the man after the fall, which has lost the knowledge, the comprehension of the harmony of the creation, of God's plan on the universe, of the big questions that it makes to himself the man and his brain it was unable to solve these big problems. His thought turns in roundly, the more he thinks, the less he understands, as the philosophers that they cannot rest on the Revelation. He expresses the lamentable condition of the humanity, who does not have any more than the thought to understand what penetrates the thought, which is of an order superior to the thought.

Then one shelters in the dream of a health constructed by his mind and therefore ineffectively. It is A MAZE, who it falls ill in his labyrinth and dreams of flying and relapses into the water exhausted. He sees the light that attracts him, but it does not have any more than intellectual constructions to come, which is ineffective. It would seem that his intellectual effort is the sycosis to meet again the knowledge, but this sycosis fails and one shelters in the ensoñación luética, instead of accepting the redemption for the work that God asks him: " by force of pain, your you will extract the substance of the land every day of your life ". He does not support the scorn because he sits down despicable; it has fallen down in a condition despicable, unable to acquire the Knowledge by which it becomes and to which he aspires: it is his punishment. It becomes furious before the verification of his impotence and immediately he is sorry his rage, understanding that everything is a product of his lack(mistake).

His psora is the lack of knowledge. What he would like is the knowledge and takes it badly. It is in a blind alley. "
(I equip of Puy).

Since one sees, there are several remedies to study.
Regards

Thanks Luzie, hoppit and opium.
opium your descriptions have been quite enriching. Can I know the source?

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Hi Dr. Bhatia,
Just another view. You said in your post to Snoopy:
The person became sucessful by focussing on what he does not have (qualitatively) and working to get it. I think he has focussed on self-improvemnt a bit too much. Keeps looking on his negative side instead of the positive side.

IT appears to be deeper than the feeling that he knows nothing. I was wondering if you found this in other aspects of his life as well. In that case, this think you culd even consider a rubric like "Reproaches Self" or one of its Cross References.

MIND; REPROACHES; himself (K71, SI-832, G57) (Anguish) (Anger; tendency; mistakes, over his) (Anxiety; conscience of) (Contemptuous; self) (Delirium; blames) (Delusions; crime - neglected - reproach - right - wrong) (Discontented; himself) (Quarrelsomeness; herself, with) (Remorse): acon., ambr., anac., ars., aur., aur-ar., calc-p., cand-a., cob., con., cupr., cycl., dig., germ., gink., hell., hura, hydrog., hyos., ign., lach., lap-c-b., lyc., m-arct., med., merc., myric., nat-ar., nat-m., op., ph-ac., plb., puls., sarr., sil., stram., sulph., thuj., verat.

Othewise as David said the first thought would be a Baryta Salt.

Dear Opium - as usual wonderful input, thanks. It will take a bit of time to assimilate.

doctorleela

[ 03. March 2003, 07:56: Message edited by: doctorleela ]

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Sources: The studies of the materia medical led to end for the AFADH (Association Francaise pour l´Approfondissement de la Doctrine Hahnemannienne); (French Association for the Advancement of Hahnemannian Homeopathy) To that I belong. Oleander's text between inverted commas, is literal of the equipment of Puy, also of the AFADH.
Regards.