The 36-year-old man suffers from a burnout syndrome. Because he has no energy left, he cannot work; he just sits there, stares into space or sleeps.
He used to be a bundle of energy and worked a lot. Now he is confused and does not know what is happening to him. He has a large family and is professionally very satisfied. He studied, but is also very skilled with his hands and founded his own company. He is very popular with his employees and treats them well. He exudes a natural authority and does not allow himself to be exploited.
Motorbikes are his great hobby; he even founded his own motorbike club. He loves the feeling of freedom when he is on his bike.
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He is from Hungary and proud of his nationality. It bothers him that the area where he lives is no longer part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. He finds it unjust and refuses to acknowledge it. He would prefer to light a campfire on the former Polish–Hungarian border together with a Polish friend. He believes he has the right to preserve this tradition because of his Hungarian nationality. He has no problems with the Slovaks and has many Slovak friends, but he likes the Poles more because of their spirituality. In addition, they have been better able to protect their borders. Hungary and Poland have always respected each other. In his opinion, the Slovaks are far too 'peaceful'.
Despite the fact that I am Slovak and he is Hungarian, a very pleasant and friendly conversation develops. He is an intelligent man and knows how to listen to others. He wants to understand things in depth. I tell him that spiritual strength can also be expressed as peacefulness and give the example of Mahatma Gandhi. He concedes that he may have underestimated the Slovaks.
I ask him why the Austro-Hungarian Empire is so important to him and why he feels it is unjust that it no longer exists. After all, it was a long time ago.
He replies: "I do it for myself and my children. I have to prove to them that we live in Austro-Hungary."
His wife told me that her husband is much closer to his friends than to his own family. It bothers her a lot. She feels she is not important to him. He barely takes part in raising their children.
Analysis
The most interesting aspect of this case is the patient's desire to retain an outdated and obsolete world order. He is absolutely sure he is right, but he does not express this openly. We only spoke about it because his wife had asked him to address the subject. He becomes nostalgic when he thinks about the world as it once was. This corresponds to stage 13. He is very self-confident, which points to the stages of the peak (7–13).
The patient is a very sensitive, receptive and deep-thinking person who wants to find the right path in life for himself. He wants to really understand things and enjoys profound conversations. He has a liberal attitude and follows his own convictions. Although he completed a degree, he is also skilled with his hands and needs to be independent and free. For this reason I choose a lanthanide.
The lanthanide in column 13, i.e. the 'nostalgic' stage, is holmium.
The patient's friendly nature and his desire for friendship indicate phosphorus.
Prescription: Holmium phosphoricum C200.
Follow-ups
Three weeks later
His wife sends me an e-mail: "He is very weak and nervous. It is hard to get along with him."
Three months later
He left the motorbike club, explaining that he no longer got on with the other members and wanted to spend more time with his family. He really did spend more time with his children and also gave his wife more recognition, which made her very happy. He stopped going on about the former empire; he had realised it made no sense. He also cancelled the planned campfire on the old Polish–Hungarian border. He has much more energy and enjoys his work again.
Eight months later his old Hungarian friends came to see me. They had broken off contact with him because of his chauvinistic views. Now they were surprised at what the homeopathic remedy had done for their friend. He had visited them after taking his remedy and apologised. He said he had been foolish and wanted to ask for forgiveness. Since then the friendship has been on a solid footing again.
The initial consultation was three years ago. Today the patient is doing very well physically and mentally. His health has improved by 90% and he feels the effect is still lasting. He no longer needs to sleep during the day. He is also coming to terms with the idea that his children may attend a school where instruction is given in Slovak. He now wants his children to learn the language of the country in which he lives. He is still proud to be Hungarian, but he can now also appreciate Slovakia because he feels at home here.
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Flag of Hungary painted on a young man's face; Karol Kowloski
Category: Cases
Keywords: burnout syndrome, maintaining the old world order, nostalgia, liberal
Remedy: Holmium phosphoricum
Original article: Interhomeopathy.org
