SUICIDAL TENDENCY

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(Sec also IMPULSES) Anacardium. By shooting and by no other means. Wants to commit suicide but too timid to carry it out. Give in IM dilution. Rhus Tox. Wants to drown himself or throw himself through the window and yet fears death. Wants to drown himself, if near the water; on entering kitchen also endeavors to get into the stove and burn to death. The patient is in constant motion and lamentation.Calcarea Carb. Wants to commit suicide by stabbing himself.Capsicum. Persistent thoughts to commit suicide but does not want to kill himself and resists the thoughts. (He has no desire to commit suicide. When there is a desire to commit suicide, select other remedies, it is not Capsicum.) Alumina. A low spirited patient. He doubts, if he is himself. Evil ideas come to him and he wants to make short of his intolerable existence by cutting his throat.Suicidal tendency on seeing knife or blood. Agnus Castus. Suicidal tendency with aversion to her husband, babe and to sexual intercourse. Aurum Met. Sovereign remedy for insanity with suicidal ideas. He wants to shoot himself or throw himself from a height. Wants to commit suicide by drowning, as she is of no use in this world, All this is do to brooding silently and not telling any body his worries. Antim Crud. In sentimental insanity. From non-gratified crav- ing the patient gets gloomy and peevish and wants to end his miseries by shooting and drowning himself. Natrum Sulph. Another great remedy for suicidal mania. He is in constant need of restraint lest he might do himself bodily harm. He dreads music which will make him melan- choly. This suicidal tendency is generally because of an injury on head. Impulse to self-destruction yet he fears it, as he does not want to die. Ustilago. Tendency to commit suicide by drowning in water. Ignatia. Wants to end sufferings by eating phosphorus from matches after business embarrassment. Zincum Met. Suicidal thoughts with depression and melancholy. Too timid to commit suicide. Desire to torment someone. Give in 1 M dilution. Cannabis Sat. Hears hissing whisper to kill thyself. This is an order from the Most High Command. Argentum Nit. Strange thoughts when on a height. In crossing a bridge he thinks that he might kill himself by jumping into the water or when looking out of high window he thinks it will be awful to jump out of it. Sometimes these impulses actually pursuade him to jump out. Gelsemum. Wants to commit suicide by throwing himself through a window. Helleborus Nig. Tendency to commit suicide as a result of having been accused of theft etc. by some persons. He takes the accusation to heart and ends his lire. Iodine. Wants to kill himself without any cause but he resists it. Lac Vacc. Defl. Loss of memory, listlessness and aversion to mental work; sadness, desires death and meditates upon the easiest method of self-destruction. Natrum Sul. Anxiety and loathing of life with suicidal impulse, must use all self control to prevent taking his life. Aversion to company, dullness of mind, does not want to speak or to be spoken to. Medorrhinum. Tendency to commit suicide; gets up and takes his pistol but is prevented by inner will.