lauramcgraw: August 21, 2020, 4:14pm
I haven’t shared a case in a long time, loving the Sa’am Rocks theme, so here’s a good one!
Male 45 with severe PTSD, he’s a veteran who saw horrific things in combat in the late 90’s, then 2 years ago was
present with his family when a shooter open fired on a crowd and has never come back out of the trauma that
incident triggered.
Severe anxiety and bouts of depression, lots of heavy drug use in past. Anxiety is panic, heart racing, feels clammy
and warm,wants to hide in a room and shut out the world.
Eyes not bright but like a deer in the headlights look. His wife brought him in for the appointment, she has been
trying for a year to get him to come in( I treat the whole family). I know from family that he has no anger issues, he
just shuts down.
One look at him and could see how vulnerable he is, but could see he swings between SJ and Liver. I also put
bladder on the list for future use.
Yesterday I suppl. Liver on the right side and after the 4th needle went in he said… Shit, that’s pretty F**ing cool,
he smiled and closed his eyes.
After he came out of the treatment room he immediately tells his wife, when can I come back?!!
So great!
Sa’am Rocks!
michaelmax: August 22, 2020, 3:55am
Sweet.
And thanks for pointing out how there can be swings between the poles of a pair like between SJ and LV. I think
I’ve seen people that swing between GB and PC too. They can be cool characters that are scary, cause they could
quickly got to that explosive GB anger.
I doubt we’d see this with something more physical like the SP and LI. Maybe we can Toby to weigh in on this.
I suspect this SJ/LV dynamic with PTSD shows up frequently. I’ll keep my eyes open for it.
Daniel: August 22, 2020, 12:03pm
michaelmax:
cause they could quickly got to that explosive GB anger12/01/2024, 12:24PTSD patient finally gets a SA’Am tx! – Qiological Community
https://forum.qiological.com/t/ptsd-patient-finally-gets-a-saam-tx/1235/print2/2
Just had a new patient yesterday – she is a book editor!! – of course, immediately even before talking, I thought –
‘great, this is going to be a PC – librarian slam dunk’ . . . not so. Just didn’t get that librarian vibe from her. During
the intake, she recounted that she is typically ‘calm and patient’ up to a point, but if that point / threshold gets
breached, look out, she can explode (‘just like my father’) – and its funny, I felt that quite clearly from her overall
vibe – this calm but brooding volcano.
Interestingly, her main complaint was chronic right subcostal ‘gall bladder’ , particularly on eating any fatty food
(but other times too) that typically radiates to a tightness and anxious feeling in her left chest. Sounds like quite the
PC-GB pendulum even manifesting in her body.
She has very bad PMS for a good long week before each period- and her cycle is typically 5 weeks long.
But her first treatment was Liver supplementation . . . she had bright wide open eyes, accentuated by huge
eyebrows, is very detail oriented (book editor kind of has to be), and easily gets overwhelmed if too many stimuli
are coming at her simultaneously. Also very light in her body and a bit flushy / flashy in her cheeks. (I felt nervous
that her PC-GB axis was so ‘pendular’, either treatment could yield an ‘off the rails’ result!)