Severe mood swings...

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Hi everyone!

I would like to have your advices about one of my patients.

 

She is 33 and has quite severe mood changes.

When she is very down, she won't be able to concentrate, will be very tired,

very negative, very very sad, cries a lot or be completely indifferent to

everything around her, her memory would be very bad, she will get forgetful.

Then suddenly she would have bouts of extreme anger.

 

She has a history of some sort of abuse as a child, but hasn't really talked

about it in any details;

Her mood change, are related to some memories from the past but not only.

 

She often lies in bed unable to fall asleep for a long time. (though that is

nearly gone after 3 acupuncture sessions)

She often is constipated (3-4 days without bowel movement, and recently that

comes back to normal for 2 days after the acupuncture session and stops

again);

Apart from that she suffers often from hemorrhoids and candida infections.

 

Her tongue has very marked tooth-marks, but isn't really very swollen.

 

 

As I said I have seen her 3 times. She always feels well for about 2 days

after each treatment; and then goes down again.

 

Some of the points I have been using are Liv2 through to liv 3, P6, Ht 7. St

36 (+ moxa), Sp 6, Yin tang, GB 20, Du 20 (+ moxa), some Ren channel points,

mainly with some variations.

 

She is refusing to take herbs as decoction as she says I once made her

really unwell; so I have been giving her Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang is the morning

and She Gan Wan at midday and evening as tablets.

 

The problem is that by feeling better for a couple of days when she then

feels bad again the disappointment is hard to take for her.

 

Any advice?

 

Thanks

 

May