Suicide or Suicidal Thinking is the act of purposely ending one’s own life. How societies view suicide varies widely according to culture and religion. For example, many Western cultures, as well as mainstream Judaism, Islam, and Christianity tend to view killing oneself as quite negative. One myth about suicide that may be the result of this view is considering suicide (suicidal ideation) to always be the result of a mental illness.

Some societies also treat a suicide attempt as if it were a crime. However, suicides are sometimes seen as understandable or even honorable in certain circumstances, as in protest to persecution (for example, a hunger strike), as part of battle or resistance (for example, suicide pilots of World War II, suicide bombers), or as a way of preserving the honor of a dishonored person (for example, killing oneself to preserve the honor or safety of family members).

More than 900,000 people worldwide committed suicide in 2022, with many more suicide attempts annually. That translates into someone dying by suicide every 40 seconds somewhere in the world. The true number of suicides is likely higher because some deaths that were thought to be an accident, like a single-car accident, overdose, or shooting, are not recognized as being a suicide. The higher frequency of completed suicides in males versus females is consistent across the life span, but the ratio of men to women who complete suicide decreases from 3:1 in wealthier countries to closer to 1.5:1 in less wealthy countries. In the Europe, United States, Japan and in India, boys 10-14 years of age commit suicide twice as often as their female peers. Teenage boys 15-19 years of age complete suicide five times as often as girls their age, and men 20-24 years of age commit suicide 10 times as often as women their age. Gay, lesbian, transgender, and other sexual minority youth are more at risk for thinking about and attempting suicide than heterosexual teens.

The rates of suicide can vary with the time of year, as well as with the time of day. For example, the number of suicides by train tends to peak soon after sunset and about 10 hours earlier each day. Although professionals like police officers, manual laborers who work in isolation, physicians, nurses, and dentists are thought to be more vulnerable to suicide than others, these findings seem to vary.

As opposed to suicidal behavior, self-mutilation is defined as deliberately hurting oneself without meaning to cause one’s own death. Examples of self-mutilating behaviors include cutting any part of the body, usually of the wrists. Many people also cut themselves in places that are less visible, like on their thighs or abdomen.

Self-tattooing is also considered self-mutilation. Other self-injurious behaviors include self-burning, head banging, pinching, and scratching.

Physician-assisted suicide is defined as ending the life of a person who is terminally ill in a way that is either painless or minimally painful for the purpose of ending suffering of the individual. It is also called euthanasia and mercy killing.

Physician-assisted suicide seems to be less offensive to people compared to assisted suicide that is done by a non physician, although the acceptability of both means to end life tends to increase as people age and with the severity of medical illness and the number of times the person who desires their own death repeatedly asks for such assistance.

Warning signs that an individual is imminently planning to kill themselves may include the person making a will, otherwise getting his or her affairs in order, suddenly visiting friends or family members (one last time), buying instruments of suicide like a gun, hose, rope, pills, or other forms of medications, a sudden and significant decline or improvement in mood, or writing a suicide note. Contrary to popular belief, many people who complete suicide do not tell their therapist or any other mental health professional they plan to kill themselves in the months before they do so. If they communicate their plan to anyone, it is more likely to be someone with whom they are personally close, like a friend or family member.

Individuals who take their lives tend to suffer from severe anxiety or depression, symptoms of which may include moderate alcohol abuse, insomnia, severe agitation, loss of interest in activities they used to enjoy (anhedonia), hopelessness, and persistent thoughts about the possibility of something bad happening. Since suicidal behaviors are often quite impulsive, removing guns, medications, knives, and other instruments people often use to kill themselves from the immediate environment can allow the individual time to think more clearly and perhaps choose a more rational way of coping with their pain. It can also allow the person’s caregivers or loved ones time to intervene.

The risk assessment for suicidal thoughts and behaviors performed by mental health professionals often involves an evaluation of the presence, frequency, severity, and duration of suicidal feelings in the individuals they treat as part of a comprehensive evaluation of the person’s mental health. Therefore, in addition to asking questions about family mental health history and about the symptoms of a variety of emotional problems (for example, anxiety, depression, mood swings, bizarre thoughts, substance abuse, eating disorders, and any history of being traumatized), practitioners frequently ask the people they evaluate about any past or present suicidal thoughts (ideations), dreams, intent, and plans. If the individual has ever attempted suicide, information about the circumstances surrounding the attempt, as well as the level of dangerousness of the method and the outcome of the attempt, may be explored. Any other history of violent behavior might be evaluated. The person’s current circumstances, like recent stressors (for example, end of a relationship, losing a job, family problems), sources of support, and accessibility of weapons are often probed. What treatment the person may be receiving and how he or she has responded to treatment recently and in the past, are other issues mental health professionals tend to explore during an evaluation.

Sometimes professionals assess suicide risk by using an assessment scale. One such scale is called the SAD PERSONS Scale, which identifies risk factors for suicide as follows:

• Sex (male)
• Age younger than 19 or older than 45 years of age
• Depression (severe enough to be considered clinically significant)
• Previous suicide attempt or received mental health services of any kind
• Excessive alcohol or other drug use
• Rational thinking lost
• Separated, divorced, or widowed (or other ending of significant relationship)
• Organized suicide plan or serious attempt
• No or little social support
• Sickness or chronic medical illness

Those who treat people who attempt suicide tend to adapt immediate treatment to the person’s individual needs. Those who have a responsive and intact family, good friendships, generally good social supports, and who have a history of being hopeful and have a desire to resolve conflicts may need only a brief crisis-oriented intervention.

However, those who have made previous suicide attempts, have shown a high degree of intent to kill themselves, seem to be suffering from either severe depression or other mental illness, are abusing alcohol or other drugs, have trouble controlling their impulses, or have families who are unable or unwilling to commit to counseling are at higher risk and may need psychiatric hospitalization to prevent a repeat attempt in the days following the most recent attempt by providing close monitoring (for example, suicide watch) and long-term outpatient mental health services to achieve recovery from their suicidal thoughts or actions.

Talk therapy (psychotherapy) that focuses on helping the person understand how their thoughts and behaviors affect each other (cognitive behavioral therapy) has been found to be an effective treatment for many people who struggle with thoughts of harming themselves.

School intervention programs in which teens are given support and educated about the risk factors, symptoms, and ways to manage suicidal thoughts in themselves and how to engage adults when they or a peer expresses suicidal thinking have been found to decrease the number of times adolescents report attempting suicide.

Although it is now confirmed that antidepressant medications increase the frequency of suicide attempts, mental health professionals try to put those concerns in the context of the need to treat the severe emotional problems that are usually associated with attempting suicide and the fact that the number of suicides that are completed by mentally ill individuals seems to decrease with treatment. While many youths who are treated with antidepressant medication may also respond to a sugar pill (placebo), this age group of individuals get better when they take an antidepressant medication, particularly when medication is combined with psychotherapy.

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Homeopathic treatment for Suicidal thoughts and depression

Homeopathy offers best, short and lifelong treatment. There are many medicines in Homeopathy for anxiety, stress, depression and tension for example:

Aconitum Napellus

A state of fear, anxiety, emotional and physical mental tension; anguish of mind and body. Physical and mental restlessness, fright. Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever.

Does not want to be touched. Sudden and great sinking of strength. Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air; intense, sudden anxiety, panic, or fear. Panic could be connected to past trauma. Symptoms of this type of panic include dry skin, dry mouth, and tachycardia (fast heartbeat).

Passiflora Incarnata

Morphine habit. Delirium tremens. Convulsions in children; neuralgia. Has a quieting effect on the nervous system. Insomnia. Hysteria; puerperal convulsions. Painful diarrheas. Acute mania. Epilepsy. Sleep restless and wakeful, resulting from exhaustion. Mentally worried, and overworked, with tendency to convulsions.

Bacopa

Bacopa increase certain brain chemicals that are involved in thinking, learning, and memory. It also protect brain cells from chemicals involved in Alzheimer disease.

Bacopa is commonly used for Alzheimer disease, memory and thinking skills, anxiety, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),

Argentum Nitricum

Patient thinks his/her understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous. Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes slowly. Memory weak. Errors of perception. Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry. Peculiar mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions.

Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi cranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion. Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemi cranial bones feel as if separated.

Anxiety that is due to uncertainty like claustrophobia, hypochondria, fear of heights, or fear of everyday things. Uncertainty-based anxiety could be accompanied with digestive disturbance, like diarrhea, and sweets cravings.

Arsenicum album

Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone. Great fear, with cold sweat. Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him/her from place to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. General sensibility increased. Sensitive to disorder and confusion.

Headaches relives by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin. Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness. Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair.

Borax

Great anxiety, especially when riding in transport, from descending a mountain. Dread of downward motion; child has anxious countenance when laid in cot, or carried downstairs. Easily frightened and startled with least noise. Before stool irritable, cheerful and happy after.

Fear of being infected by some contagious disease. Strong tendency to be frightened. Irritability. Disposition to be angry, with ill humor and passion. Becomes vehement and swears. Does not wish to do anything. Dread of labor.

Fits of vertigo, with fainting, with fullness in the head, especially when going upstairs, or to any elevation whatever. Headache, with shootings in the ears. Headache (all over, with trembling of the body), with nausea and inclination to vomit, mostly in the morning.

Fullness in the head, and pressure above the eyes. Aching and drawing pains in the forehead, and as far as the root of the nose and the nape of the neck, increased by writing, by reading, and by stooping. Successive drawing pains in the forehead, with nausea, and acute drawing pains in the eyes.

Shootings in the head, especially above the eyes and the temples. Congestion in the head, especially in the occiput, with pulsating pains. Sensibility of the teguments of the head to cold and to bad weather. Hair entangled, as in plica polonica; is rough and frowsy, splits; sticks together.

Calceria Carbonica

Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseases. Forgetful, confused, low-spirited. Anxiety with palpitation. Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head. Averse to work or exertion.

Sense of weight on top of head. Headache, with cold hands and feet. Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head. Headache from over lifting, from mental exertion, with nausea. Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face. Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially right side. Open fontanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow. Itching of the scalp. Scratches head on waking.

Anxiety worsens when plans are changed, and they show difficulty in “going with the flow.”

Gelsemium for Depression Stress and Anxiety

Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless. “Discerning are lethargies. ” Apathy regarding his/her illness. Absolute lack of fear. Delirious on falling to sleep. Emotional excitement, fear, etc, lead to bodily ailments. Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news. Stage fright. Child starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling.

Vertigo, heaviness of head; band-feeling around and occipital headache. Dull, heavy ache, with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression and lying with head high.

Pain in temple, extending into ear and wing of nose, chin. Headache, with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders. Headache preceded by blindness; better, profuse urination. Scalp sore to touch. Delirious on falling asleep. Wants to have head raised on pillow.

Patients with this type of anxiety are often timid and shaky. They may experience agoraphobia, avoid crowds or public speaking, and be vulnerable to fainting. They often also desire solitude and avoid insistent pressure from other people.

Ignatia

Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. Aftershocks, grief, disappointment.

Feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root of nose. Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward. Very sensitive and prone to mood swings, moving from laughter to tears.

Kali Arsenicosum

Scolding, morose, retired, quarrelsome, and discontented, jealous, indifferent to everything, scarcely answered questions addressed to her/him, or replied to them in a peevish tone; eyes had a fixed look, face looked frightened and anxious; feels better every third day. Nervous depression and great nervousness.

Thought her/his head felt larger, headache in left parietal bone, as if it was sore and pressed upon by a hand; behaves like a crazy person. Constricted feeling in head, as if there was a wound on parietal bone which was being scratched; the place feels hot. Crusta lactea.

Hypochondria, excessive grooming, and even fear of heart attacks. People with health-based anxiety may have racing thoughts and difficulty sleeping. They may also fear of death or dying; prone to feeling cold and vulnerable to panic attacks.

Kalium phosphoricum for Depression Stress and Anxiety

Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy, indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse.

Occipital headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, from lying, on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward. Cerebral anemia. Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach.

Morose, irritable; tearful; averse to be talked to; everything is too much; depression. Lethargy. Cannot recall names or words; mind sluggish, but will act if aroused. Extreme lassitude and depression; apprehensive. Exhaustion after moderate mental effort. Flies into a passion and can hardly articulate; tongue feels thick. Restless. Nervous; starting. Perverted affections; cruel to husband; to baby. Indifferent and captious.

Giddy when out of doors but feels better when facing sun. Seasick without nausea. Occipital headache, lasting all night; frequent waking, woke with pains in occiput and loins, feels better lying on back, passed off after rising. Sensation of a band round forehead just above eyes.

Lycopodium for Depression Stress and Anxiety

Silent, melancholy, and peevish humor; despair of eternal salvation. Desponding, grieving mood. Sadness when hearing distant music. Anguish especially in epigastrium, with melancholy and disposition to weep especially after a fit of anger or on the approach/presence of other person(s). Sensitive disposition.

Dread of men; desires to be alone, or else aversion to solitude. Must laugh if any one looks at her/him to say anything serious. Inclined to laugh and cry at same time. Irritability and susceptibility, with tears. Irascibility. Obstinacy. Estrangement and frenzy, which manifest themselves by envy, reproaches, arrogance, and overbearing conduct. Disposition to be very haughty when sick; mistrustful; does not understand anything one says to them; memory weak.

Avaricious. Character, mild and submissive. Complete indifference. Aversion to speaking. Fatigue from intellectual exertion, and incapability of devotion to mental labor. Giddiness. Inability to express oneself correctly; misapplication of words and syllables. Confused speech. Confusion about everyday things, but rational talking on abstract subjects. Inability to remember what is read, stupefaction, dullness, fear speaking in public and have stage fright, they hide it well. They might cover it up with talking loudly or too frequently.

Phosphorus

Affections of the mind in general; amativeness; dizziness, nymphomania, melancholy and sadness, sometimes with violent weeping, or interrupted by fits of involuntary laughter. Laughs at serious things. Stupor, low, muttering delirium; loquacious. Thinks she/he is several pieces, and cannot adjust the fragments. Stupor from which she/he could be aroused for a moment only to lapse back into a muttering lethargy; and forgetfulness.

Great apathy; very sluggish; dislike to talk; answers slowly or not at all. Anguish and uneasiness, especially when alone, in stormy weather, principally in evening, with timorousness and fright. Anguish respecting the future; or respecting the issue of the disease. Susceptibility to fright. Fear in evening, fear of darkness; of specters; of things creeping out of corners.

Hypochondriacal sadness. Disgust to life. Apathy alternating with angry words and acts. Becomes easily vexed and angry, which makes him exceedingly vehement, from which she/he suffers afterwards. Any lively impression = heat, as if dipped in hot water. Great irascibility, anger, passion, and violence. Involuntary and spasmodic weeping and laughter. Misanthropy. Repugnance to labor. Shamelessness, approaching insanity. Great indifference to everything, and even to patient’s own family. Great forgetfulness, especially in morning. Great flow of ill-assorted ideas.

Zoomantic condition; state of clairvoyance. Ecstasy. When anxious or vexed, their thoughts get scattered and they have a difficult time focusing or getting things done. Their anxiety may be tied to a need for approval in social circles or from romantic partners.

Pulsatilla

This remedy is particularly applicable for complaints which are found to occur in patients of a mild, yielding, or good-natured disposition; also in those who by, their sickness, or naturally, are very easily excited to tears-they are very apt to burst into tears whenever spoken to, or when they attempt to speak, as in giving their symptoms, & c.

Affections of the mind in general; covetous; mistrustful; absent-minded; low-spirited. Melancholy with sadness, tears, great uneasiness respecting one’s affairs or about the health; fear of death (tremulous anguish, as if death were near), care and grief.

Involuntary laughter and weeping. Great anguish and inquietude, mostly in precordial region, sometimes with inclination to commit suicide, palpitation of heart, heat, and necessity to loosen the dress, trembling of hands, and inclination to vomit.

Fits of anxiety, with fear of death, or of an apoplectic attack, with buzzing in ears, shivering and convulsive movements of fingers. Apprehension, anthropophobia, fear of ghosts at night or in evening, with an impulse to hide or to run away, mistrust and suspicion. Covetousness. Taciturn madness; with sullen, cold, and wandering air, sighs, often seated with the hands joined, but without uttering any complaint. Despair of eternal happiness, with continual praying. Discouragement, indecision, dread of occupation, and obstructed respiration. Disposition envious, discontented, and covetous, exhibiting itself in a wish to appropriate everything. Caprice, with desire at one time for one thing, at another time for something else, either being rejected as soon as obtained.

Hysterical laughter after meals. Hypochondriacal humor and moroseness, feels better to evening, often with repugnance to conversation, great sensitiveness, choleric disposition, cries, and weeping. Ill Humor, sometimes with a dread of labor, and disgust or contempt for everything. Inadvertence, precipitation, and absence of mind. Difficulty in expressing thoughts correctly when speaking, and tendency to omit letters when writing. Giddiness; patient neither knows where he is nor what he does. Great flow of very changeful ideas. Nocturnal raving; violent delirium and loss of consciousness. Frightful visions. Weakness of memory. Fixed ideas. Stupidity.

Silica for Depression Stress and Anxiety

Despondency, melancholy, and disposition to weep. Nostalgia. Anxiety and agitation; yielding, anxious mood. Taciturnity; concentration in self. Inquietude and ill humor on the least provocation, arising from excessive nervous debility. Scruples of conscience (about trifles). Restless and fidgety; great liability to be frightened, especially by least noise.

Discouragement. Moroseness, ill humor, and despair, with intense weariness of life. Wishes to drown herself/himself. Disposition to fly into a rage, obstinacy, and great irritability. The child becomes obstinate and headstrong; cries when kindly spoken to. Excitement with easy orgasm of blood. Repugnance to labor. Apathy and indifference. Weakness of memory. Incapacity for reflection. Great distraction. Tendency to misapply words in speaking. Fixed ideas; the patient thinks only of pins, fears them, searches for them, and counts them carefully.

Patients who fear experiencing new things, talking in front of people, and getting a lot of attention. They tend to become workaholics to soothe their fears.

Stramonium

Young people who are sometimes hysterical, praying and singing devoutly, beseeching, entreating, & c. Young women with suppressed menses may be affected in this manner, patients can’t bear solitude or darkness, if they are left alone or are in a dark room, the mental affections are very much by any sort of drink.

Paralysis of pharynx and esophagus. Contracting, tearing in throat; sensation as if a ball were lodged in throat. Twitching of pomum Adami, up and down movement as in swallowing. Spasm of esophagus. night terrors, nightmares, or dark thoughts while awake. People with this type of anxiety are often scared of the dark or being alone and are especially scared by thoughts of monsters or mysterious figures. Their imaginations tend to worsen their anxiety.

Lilium Tigrinum

Tormented about her/his salvation. Consolation aggravates. Profound depression of spirits. Constant inclination to weep. Anxious; fears some organic and incurable disease. Disposed to curse, strike, think obscene things. Aimless, hurried manner; must keep busy. Head hot, dull, heavy. Faint in warm room. Wild feeling in head.

Aurum Metalicum

Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness. Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of committing suicide. Great fear of death. Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Cannot do things fast enough. Over Sensitiveness to noise, excitement, confusion.

Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure. Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead. Pain in bones extending to face. Congestion to head. Boils on scalp.

Staphysagria

Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, sad. Very sensitive as to what others say about her/him. Dwells on sexual matters; prefers solitude. Peevish. Child cries for many things, and refuses them when offered.

Stupefying headache; passes off with yawning. Brain feels squeezed. Sensation of a ball of lead in forehead. Itching eruption above and behind ears.

Oleander

Memory weak; slow perception. Melancholy, with obstinate constipation. Vertigo and diplopia, when looking down. Vertigo, when looking fixedly at an object, and on rising in bed. Pain in brain, as if head would burst. Numb feeling. Dull, unable to think. Indolence. Eruption on scalp. Humid, fetid spots behind ears and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots in front. Corrosive itching on forehead and edge of hair; worse, heat.

Coffea Cruda

Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses acute. Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions. Full of ideas, quick to act. Tossing about in anguish.

Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, narcotics. Seems as if brain were torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head. Worse in open air. Sensitive hearing.

Nux Vomica

Very irritable, sensitive to all impressions. Ugly, malicious. Cannot bear noises, odors, light, etc. Does not want to be touched. Time passes too slowly. Even the least ailment affects her greatly. Disposed to reproach others. Sullen, fault-finding.

Headache in occiput or over eyes, with vertigo; brain feels turning in a circle. Over sensitiveness. Vertigo, with momentary loss of consciousness. Intoxicated feeling; worse, morning, mental exertion, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, open air. Pressing pain on vertex, as if a nail driven in. Vertigo in morning and after dinner. Scalp sensitive. Frontal headache, with desire to press the head against something. Congestive headache, associated with hemorrhoids. Headache in the sunshine. Feels distended and sore within, after a debauch.

Natrum Muriaticum

Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief, fright, anger, etc. Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases. Consolation aggravates. Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles. Awkward, hasty. Wants to be alone to cry. Tears with laughter.

Throbs. Blinding headache. Aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awakening, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset. Feels too large; cold. Anemic headache of school-girls; nervous, discouraged, broken down. Chronic headache, semi-lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eye strain; menstrual. Before attack, numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose, relieved by sleep. Frontal sinus inflammation.

Amra Gresia

Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do anything in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily. Music causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people. Dwells upon unpleasant things.

Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental depression. Tearing pain in upper half of brain. Senile dizziness. Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. Hearing impaired. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from teeth. Hair falls out.

Natrum Carbonicum

Unable to think; difficult, slow comprehension. Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather. Anxious and restless during thunderstorm; worse from music. Marked gayety. Sensitive to presence of certain individuals.

Aches from slightest mental exertion, worse from sun or working under gas-light, Feels too large. Oversensitive of hearing. Headaches with return of hot weather. Vertigo from exposure to sun.

Sepia Officinalis

Indifferent to those loved best. Averse to occupation, to family. Irritable; easily offended. Dreads to be alone. Very sad. Weeps when telling symptoms. Miserly. Anxious toward evening; indolent.

Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling rounds in head. Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy. Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side.

Jerking of head backwards and forwards. Coldness of vertex. Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow. Hair falls out. Open fontanelles. Roots of hair sensitive. Pimples on forehead near hair.

Glonoinum

Recent German proving of Glonoine: very marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms, congestive headaches.

Cannabis Indica

Exaltation of spirit, with excessive loquacity. Full of fun and mischief, and laughs immoderately. Hallucinations and imaginations innumerable. Anguish, accompanied by great oppression: worse in the open air. Constant fear of becoming insane. Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of space; seconds seem ages, a few rods an immense distance.

Horror of darkness. Fear of approaching death. Inability to recall any thought or event, on account of different thoughts crowding on his brain. Sudden loss of speech; begins a sentence but cannot finish it. Stammering and stuttering. Exaltation of spirits, with excessive loquacity. Very absent minded. Every few minutes he/she would lose him/herself, and then wake up, as it were, to those around him. Constantly theorizing. Clairvoyance. Delirium tremens; trembling; hallucinations; tendency to become furious; nausea; unquenchable thirst. Laughs at merest trifle. Sudden loss of memory.

Hepar sulphuris calcareum for Depression Stress and Anxiety

Vertigo on moving the head, as well as from the motion of a carriage, or in the evening, with nausea. Sense of swashing in the head. Vertigo, with loss of intellectual power, and obscuration of sight. Headache in the morning, excited by the slightest shock (feels better from every contusion). Headache at night, on moving the eyes; the forehead seems about to be torn asunder.

Pressure in the head, semi-lateral, as from a plug or dull nail, at night and when waking in the morning; Pressure on the temples and on the vertex, with palpitation of the heart in the evening. Falling off of the hair, with very sore, painful pimples and large bald spots on the scalp; sensitiveness of the scalp to contact, with burning and itching in the morning after rising (after abuse of Mercury).

Cold sweat on the head. Cold, clammy perspiration, smelling sour, principally on the head and face, with aversion to be uncovered.