Mr. K.P., age 48 years consulted on June 7, 1982, a businessman and head of a sales organisation. He mar-ried in 1962 and has three children. The very first thing he mentioned in the history was a fear of going insane.
He had been of superstitious nature from childhood. In 1975, he saw a movie which depicted a mad person and he started fearing that what might be the situation if he became like that. However he was able to brush away the thought and would become normal. In 1977, his son dropped milk on the table for which he gave him a very tight slap so much so that the son showed marks on the face for the next three days. He subsequently regretted it and started feeling that if he gets fits of anger like this he may not hurt or throw his child. However, sub-sequently he did not beat or even scold his children. In March 1982, his son then aged about 11 years slept in his room, then a fear arose in his mind that he may not hurt or beat his son or if there was a knife he may not stab him. After this incident again he started to have fears that he may not go insane. Then he started recalling of some fears that other people had told him. One patient with obsession had mentioned that he had fear someone
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is walking behind him. Then Mr. K.P. also started imagining that someone is standing behind him.
A mad relative visited their house and was there for a few hours and this upset him greatly. A Swami (religious leader) mentioned to him of someone who would see ghosts. Thereafter he would wake up at night and thoughts of seeing ghosts would arise in his mind.
Because of these thoughts his sleep was getting dis-turbed and he would wake up around 4 A.M.
At this stage he consulted a Psychiatrist who dis-missed his condition as only a superstition and advised him to do Yoga etc.
Once he had a dog-bite for which he asked the doc-tor for antirabic injections. The docdoc-tor told him that since the dog is alive after 10 days it was not necessary to have the injections. However, for years he felt the fear of rabies and would imagine fear of water.
From all these symptoms I concluded that he was highly impressionable in the direction of illnesses and hearing or seeing anything gives him the fears of that same type.
He had no cravings in food. Was smoking 4 to 5 cigarettes a day and taking alcohol in moderation one or two times a week. He was a hot patient.
Then I asked him about some of his other mentals and discovered that he had a fear of looking down from even moderately high places. "I may not fall". Had many fears as a child. Had fear of dark, storm, lightning etc.
but he did not have them after he grew up. He liked company. He had a fear of travelling alone. This had always been so. He was of an unusually passionate na-ture and sexually very easily aroused. If he went for a movie which had a "Hot scene" he would masturbate there itself. He had no sex weakness. He was prescribed
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Phosphorus 200/3 powders to be taken on the same day.
This was on June 7, 1982. He reported after a week although he had been asked to come after 15 days. He said that some days he felt very well but on other days he had the same fear. Sleep was a bit disturbed.
1982
June 28. Felt good the last two days and felt more confident.
July 7. He reiterated his fear of high places "may not fall, may not jump." Prescribed Argentum nitricum 200/2 powders, evening and bedtime.
July 17. "This medicine has helped, less fear and more self confidence." Sleep had also improved.
In August and September he reported that some fears do arise in his mind from time to time and so Argentum nitricum 200/1 powder was given on
Septem-ber 17. This did not show any remarkable effect. So on October 16, I prescribed Argentum nitricum 10 M/l powder. The result was not a remarkable and outright improvement as he said from time to time. He did get the previous disturbing thoughts. On November 12, prescribed Kali phosphoricum 200/3 powders.
1983-1987
Thereafter he was not seen regularly and in-between for some digestive and other complaints took Allopathic treatment. He had an occasional repeat of Kali phos-phoricum 200/3 powders. This was on July 4, August 24
and December 22, 1983; April 11, July 3, September 26 and December 28, 1984 and lastly on July 7, 1985.
In May 1983, he reported that confidence had been more and mostly he does not get the disturbing fears. In July 1984 he said that, "usually I remain all right and the medicine has helped a tremendous lot." Only when he
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hears of some bad news then he may have trouble briefly.
He came for a digestive upset in February 1986, and said "I have no fears as I reported originally your medicine was very effective, please keep a note of it in case I ever need it in future." The same thing he reiterated in September 1986, saying that he was plan-ning a long trip to Europe and he would take that medicine with him as it has been so very effective.