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As a general quality, Orchid
remedies are also important for patients who are in situations and
relationships that involve sexual or physical abuse and violence.
And in a more moderate society, this leads to many Orchid patients being
in jobs that exist in the midst of conflict or even violent confrontation and
threats, incl. lawyers
or law clerks, social workers or counselors. Their
approach is friendlier and more enthusiastic than is the norm, offering calm, cheer,
and solace, yet at the same time they remain somewhat detached from the
situation. In a comparable manner, this theme may appear as the Orchid patient
being the partner of someone with a shadowy and difficult, even abusive
personality. The Orchid patient compensates, putting on a brave or cheerful
face but, like Lac delphinum, can also attempt to hide the problems
or abuse of the other person. A further way it may manifest is someone
who marries into a family, where the previous spouse of their new partner has
just died and they
are the outsider who, through their elegant and joyful demeanor, helps heal the family s grief. Another way of
expressing the preceding theme is adaptability within conflict. Many stories
about orchids, and especially narratives about the search for these exotic
plants, involve this theme. Orchids are widespread throughout the world,
primarily
in warmer climates, but species do exist even in very cold climates. The
Orchid patient is adaptable and makes any conflict around them much more livable. Such adaptation can also be an internal process.
The patient needing an Orchid remedy can adapt to serious limitations and
challenges in their health including such challenges as multiple sclerosis,
neurological problems, paralysis, and weakness. They may keep a joyful
countenance in the face of any great physical or emotional challenge. And as
mentioned
in the beginning of this section, they may disengage and focus on more
superficial, self-gratifying elements in their reality. Since they grow on dead
matter, the issue of
death and dying is important in Fungal remedies. Dreams of death and the
impression of death are also prominent in many of the Orchid provings and clinical cases.
I have also seen this theme manifested in a number of Orchid cases where
a patient cannot conceive and has multiple miscarriages. These are also
remedies for individuals
who may have suffered the death of parents or other caregiver at a young
age. As well as heightened awareness, anxiety, or fear of death, it may also be
contemplated calmly or joyfully.
[Louis Klein]
Orchids have anger about specific issues, which
are usually related to some particular internal sensitivity or weakness for
which they need to compensate.
They can be acutely aware of criticism,
betrayal, and rejection, and those who are gossiping about them. They often
need space to deal with their emotional wounds in
the attempt to transform these wounds or the
emotional wounds of others. They are sensitive to, and may become paralyzed by
baser emotions, resulting in feeling shame.
To avoid this, they may partake in these baser
expressions or become deceptive themselves. In some of the provings
and patients I have seen, there is clairvoyance and
clairaudience showing how strong the exquisite
sensitivity can get. They can pick up, and be quite sensitive to the psychic
forces around them. The Outsider and Issues
of Support Although some Orchid patients may be
quite gregarious (= gesellig), the opposite polarity
of extreme and exquisite sensitivity towards the physical or emotional
environment can lead to them cutting off from
their surroundings. They can become isolated and disconnected as outsiders and
eventually there can be a complete
compensatory disengagement as we see in Asperger s syndromes and autism. Patients with deep
pathology of this type need a lot of care and attention. In less extreme cases,
there is less severe but still debilitating
ADD, ADHD, and other types of neurobehavioral disorders that affect communication,
with a tendency to withdraw.
They may feel alone, like a castaway, and
experience either resentment or resignation as a result. They can have
difficulty connecting to purpose or meaning in life or work,
preferring to freeload and make demands on others.
In some cases, as indicated in the description of Phalaenopsis
gigantea, withdrawal is combined with resentful
frustration
at communication difficulties. They may derive
strength from other people and need social assistance (esp. in the epiphytic
and lithophytic Orchid types), sometimes to the
extent that a whole family is on chronic
welfare. Even though they may be lovingly embraced by a group of people or a
new family or relationship, they may have underlying
feelings that they will be rejected or that
they are the outsider in the group. On the other hand, they may be in a
situation where they care for a relative requiring continuous,
substantial financial and emotional support.
The needy individual may be someone who is physically, mentally, or emotionally
challenged (someone treated as an outcast).
This could be a child with autism or Down
syndrome or a sibling or parent who is drug addicted or in some way disabled.
As a general quality, Orchid remedies are also important for patients
who are in situations and relationships that involve sexual or physical abuse
and violence. And in a more moderate society, this leads to many Orchid
patients being in jobs that exist in the midst of conflict or even violent
confrontation and threats, including lawyers or law clerks, social workers or counselors. Their approach is friendlier and more
enthusiastic than is the norm, offering calm, cheer, and solace, yet at the
same time they remain somewhat detached from the situation. In a comparable
manner, this theme may appear as the Orchid patient being the partner of
someone with a shadowy and difficult, even abusive personality. The Orchid
patient compensates, putting on a brave or cheerful face but, like Lac delphinum, can also attempt to hide the problems or abuse
of the other person.
A further way it may manifest is someone who marries into a family,
where the previous spouse of their new partner has just died and they are the
outsider who, through their elegant and joyful demeanor,
helps heal the family s grief. Another way of expressing the preceding theme is
adaptability within conflict. Many stories about orchids, and especially
narratives about the search for these exotic plants, involve this theme.
Orchids are widespread throughout the world, primarily in warmer climates, but
species do exist even in very cold climates. The Orchid patient is adaptable
and makes any conflict around them much more livable.
Such adaptation can also be an internal process. The patient needing an Orchid
remedy can adapt to serious limitations and challenges in their health
including such challenges as multiple sclerosis, neurological problems,
paralysis, and weakness. They may keep a joyful countenance in the face of any
great physical or emotional challenge. And as mentioned in the beginning of
this section, they may disengage and focus on more superficial, self-gratifying
elements in their reality. Since they grow on dead matter, the issue of death and
dying is important in Fungal remedies. Dreams of death and the impression of
death are also prominent in many of the Orchid provings
and clinical cases. I have also seen this theme manifested in a number of
Orchid cases where a patient cannot conceive and has multiple miscarriages.
These are also remedies for individuals who may have suffered the death of
parents or other caregiver at a young age. As well as heightened awareness,
anxiety, or fear of death, it may also be contemplated calmly or joyfully. In
the proving of Trichoceros antennifer
there was the idea of taking
In spite of Orchids being the
largest plant family in the world, only 4 orchids were partially described and
indicated in the classical homeopathic literature.
•Corallorrhiza
odontorhiza–Allen has a very brief description
•Cypripedium pubescens–introduced
by Hale
•Spiranthes
autumnalis–more information on this orchid, various
classical materia medicas
•Vanilla Aromatica–Boericke describes the effect of smelling the extract
•With this modern introduction of
more homeopathically prepared Orchids, they have
become important remedies for homeopaths treating individuals with
various problems.
Discovery of Orchids Usefulness in Autism and Neuro-behavioral
Disorders by Louis Klein FSHom
Cypripedium:
•Case of a 4 year old child •In 2003
Cypripedium pubescens, described in the classical
literature, was successfully given for a 4 year old child with autism.
Prior to age 2 she was progressing
very well but then
•The child’s condition started after
frequent episodes of waking at night wanting to play and being joyful with
active laughing
•After a period of months the
child’s speech stopped developing and she began to stim,
be out of touch with those around her and stopped developing
mentally/emotionally
•She came into the interview and
stood off by herself, she would at times squeal and have a blissful expression
while shaking her hands She is very sensitive to certain foods like milk and
wheat
•She hit her chin with a strong
bruise a few weeks prior.•After Cyprepidium200c a
number of doses over a period of times she started to progress to the point
where
she would have a conversation
•Clarke Materia
Medica:
“It is indicated in the
brain-hyperesthesia of children who wake in the night lively and full of play.”
•Choudhuri:
“Little babies are often seen to wake up in the middle of the night and laugh
and gambol in the bright light; if this continues night after night, the
parents should take warning, as often such functional irritability and cerebral
hyperaesthesia end in convulsions...
In respect of sleeplessness it
compares well with Coffee and Scutellaria.”
•Hale: “Profound indifference to
everything, even to his studies duties, and the common courtesies of life.”
•anxiety from slight discomfort
•needs everything comfortable and
joyful
•Distraught- Severe anxiety from
slight stomach upset
•Rhus
poisoning
•Convulsions, laughing before or
after
•ailments from teething; convulsions
•cerebral inflammation during teething
•post influenza prostration
•severe weakness after influenza
•weakness from slight cause
•high blood pressure
•attraction through sensuality
•over affectionate
•happy children who masturbate
constantly (oreganon,
bufo)
•sexual eroticism
•may be in a profession where
helping people with sexual problems
< 9PM- 5AM•Drinking ameliorates
•Skin: Lipoma
•Sleeplessness
•Weakness from sleeplessness
•Pain stomach after eating small
amounts
•Tickling cough at 3 h.
Distinctive Elements of Plants in Orchidaceae-(Orchid Plant Family)
•1.The presence of a gynostemium. (The central reproductive stalk which consists
of a stamen and pistil fused together).
•2.The flower is bilaterally
symmetric.
•3.The pollen is glued together on
filaments.
•4.The seeds of most orchids are
microscopic and lacking food reserves (endosperm). The most exceptional is the
seeds of the Vanilla orchid.
•5.The seeds under natural
circumstances can only germinate in symbiosis with a certain fungi.
Orchid Proving: Vanilla planifolia
Main Mind Theme from the Proving of
Vanilla Planifolia:
–Intoxication by sensuality texture,
color, bathing, sexuality, luxury,
–Material world and struggle with
it-being specific (perfect) about the kind of material things
–gentle, soft, perfectly elegant–Wanting to
shop for clothing, shoes and material goods
–Cashmere, new dishrags become beautiful,
making home beautiful, design, renovations and a specific weakness or material
craving was accentuated; (fetishes for shoes, expensive materials and clothing
etc.)
–Bringing elegant order to disorder
–Protecting others
–Cleansing evil
–making things “vanilla”, faceless silhouettes
–Bees and wasps
–Blue and orange colors
–Time goes slowly
–Strong dreams and many more mental/emotional
symptoms
Some quotes from the Vanilla Provers:
•“feet planted on the ground”
•“clay feet ”
•“While shopping had to exercise great
restraint to keep from buying pottery that was a beautiful teal blue
contrasting with the warm orange-redness of the terracotta. I had a very
intense feeling of attraction to these colors.”
•A different prover:
“I spend my time looking at dishcloths instead of buying the things I need. I
examine each of the colors and the different types
and marvel at the texture of the weave of the cloth.
Physicals
•Apis-like symptoms (meliponabee pollinates the Vanilla plant)-such as reddish
swellings
•Hormonal issues, cramping during menses
•Many symptoms related to flushes of heat
-especially in the face
•Also hypotension and faintness
•Headaches with pressing and shooting pains
•Foot, ankle and hand pains and
symptoms-sprains, fractures, stitching pains, feet
A Case of a Severe Foot Injury
A Letter from a Prover
with a history of a severe foot injury:“ Lou, I want to thank you for the
proving that our class did in Toronto over2 years ago. It was Vanilla and I was
reluctant to do the proving because I thought my injuries of broken bones and
fatigue from a previous car accident would interfere with the data. I chose to
do the proving out of curiosity for the experience and a huge desire to
participate in a proving. My recollection of the first two days after taking
the remedy are indelible.
I got headaches when going into the hot tub and
at night my right foot which had 5 pins to hold the calcaneum
together (from the accident) hurt like hell.
My foot hurt so much the first 2 nights. I
experienced shooting pain, spasms and sharp, boring pain where the drill had
made the hole in my ankle.
I was accustomed to pain at night especially if
the weather changed. In some ways, my foot pain was my weather barometer and I
could predict rain and snow with precision. When the docs at the hospital, in
Toronto, look at my X-rays of my right ankle, I can hear an audible whistle
from their reactions. They become a little more kinder because they are
expecting me to be begging for pain killers and anything to address the damage
seen on the films. It’s been 3 years now since the Vanilla proving and I have
not had another single episode of pain since the proving. The weather does not
affect my foot anymore and I am virtually pain-free (if I take care
in walking on flat surfaces).Lou, I am so
grateful. When we did the meeting to discuss the proving in class, it was too
soon to know how the remedy would be for me. Now, I know that the Vanilla
proving was curative for my arthritic pains in my broken ankle [and
foot].”[Update now 13years after Vanilla planifolia
-“The Vanilla is still working! I have a taken
a few doses over the years and have not had any considerable foot pain since
the proving.“
Vanilla planifolia
for Injuries to Feet or Hands
•Consider Vanilla planifolia
and other orchids for injuries to or conditions of the foot and hands where the
disposition (mental/emotion) agrees
•First aid for injuries to the foot especially
•Pains are worse from damp or wet weather
•Pains aching in spots, strong, shooting
•Healing broken bones and sprains in the foot
and ankle
•Coldness in feet with heat in injured area
•Painful conditions of the feet including
Morton’s neuroma-pain in spots in heels or soles
Two Important Aspects of Orchids and Orchid
Remedies
•1. Mycorrhizal-A mycorrhizais a symbiotic association between a fungus and
the roots of a vascular host plant.(Greek: μυκός,
mykós, "fungus", and ρίζα,
riza, "root”, pl. mycorrhizaeor
mycorrhizas)
-Wikipedia
•2. Adaptation and Mimicking the Specific
Element, Animal or Insect that Helps with Pollination
Orchid Mycorrhizal
•All orchid plants need a fungus for the seed
to germinate and that is the meaning of “mycorrhizal”
•This is the most important aspect of Orchids
which differentiates them from other plant families
•It reflects in the mind and disposition themes
•Fungus grows best on rotting or decaying
matter
•The dark, death, destructive, battle-like,
war-like elements of fungus (such as in Agaricus)
gives forth to the beautiful elements of an Orchid- like in the movie-
“A Beautiful Life”
•Joy in the Midst of Conflict, Death and
Destruction
•From Calypso bulbosa
Orchid Proving: “...the juxtaposition of suffering with innocence. I saw
butterflies entertaining children at the fence of Auschwitz.”
1. Orchids Transform the Fungus
How This Forms Individual Dispositional
Indications for Orchid Homeopathic Remedies
•The disposition of individual orchids can
reflect how they handle the fungus or attempt to heal the fungus energy
•Orchids transform the dark fungus to positive
growth in the light
•So a statement of the mind disposition theme
can begin with: “In the midst of...” and end with some dark or fungus like
situation
For example-
•Dendrobium lasianthera- “In the midst of being prisoners of war or in
the midst of violent conflict”
•Trichoceros antennifer- “In the midst of toxic sexuality”
•Sobralia macrophylla- “In the midst of dying, burial and death”
1. ‘Fungus Tranformation’
Example:
Sobralia macrophylla
•Large leaved orchid from Panama or Costa Rica
•Homeopathic Proving in Panama-Master Prover- MatildeFlores
•In this proving much about death, funerals and
burials came up for the provers
•Theme of this orchid therefore is: ‘In the
midst of dying, burial, funerals, the meaning of death”
•Patient may be focused on death, yet have some
other orchid themes
•Additional Themes: Meditating, constant
thoughts on death and dying, dying alone with dignity and peace, chronic
depression and perseveration on death, ancestors, family memories, violence and
gore, clothing, hysterical laughing
•Physical: disorientation, confusion,
difficulty concentration, yawning, pain right ear, pain neck face, right shoulder,
sunburn, soreness joints
2. Adaptation
Over Time, Many Orchids Have Adapted and Mimic
the Specific Element, Animal or Insect that Help with Pollination
•Either through appearance or smell
•Some insects actually copulate with the
orchid-a kind of sexual trickery by the orchid plant
•The flowers can be quite sexually expressive
or expressive of an animal or insect
•Flirtatiousness, high sexuality etc. can
be reflected in the disposition of some
patients who need orchid homeopathic remedies
•Many homeopathic orchids have symptoms of the
insect that pollinate them such as in Apis-like
symptoms in Vanilla planifolia and the meliponabee.
2. Adaptation Example:
Trichoceros Antennifer-
Fly Orchid
•Remarkable adaptation to the fly of the Paragymnomma genus that pollinates it-flower looks like a
fly
TrichocerosAntennifer - = Fly Orchid
•HahnemannianProving
led by Master ProverLouis Klein FS Homin Vancouver, Canada
•Some symptoms similar to the proving of Musca Domestica, the fly also
published on the web site www.homeopathycourses.com
•Full proving text of the Fly Orchid is
available in the book, Orchids in Homeopathy
Brief Summary
•Fly Orchid
•“In the midst” of toxic sexuality
•acceptance of the fragility of life and being
in the midst of death; desire for fast motion; joyful communication, keeping
everyone uplifted when a relative is suicidal
•herpes; greasy skin; vesicular eruptions on
the face; eruption on tips of fingers; migraines left side; muscle pains (similar to Musca domestica)
Orchis Simia
•Monkey Orchid
•Proving in Portland, Maine-
•Master Prover- Nancy
Frederick, Sally Williams •Consultant Louis Klein
•‘In the midst of’ smart people who do foolish
things
•‘In the midst of’ war, destruction and holding
on and covering up
•Movie: Life is Beautiful
•animal-like stimming;
escape from danger; reacting to anger, violence, war
•sudden and severe exhaustion; frequent colds
and influenza; throat and ear problems worse swallowing; bronchitis, pleurisy; Raynaud's phenomena; hormonal; easy miscarriage - for
holding onto the baby; motion sickness; effects of vaccination, autism, monkey
like behaviour
•Provers had lengthy
and very long, detailed dreams •Many Dreams of stairs, room to room etc.
Phalenopsis gigantea
•Proving – Master ProverSally
Williams RS Hom, Consultant Louis Klein
•Elephant Ear Orchid, Gigantic Phalaenopsis, Giant-leaved Moth Orchid
•The most widely-grown orchids in the world are
from the genus Phalaenopsis, -including hybrids. This
particular species is native to forests up to 400m in parts of Indonesia and
Malaysia including Borneo, Sabah, and Sarawak, described in 1909.
•‘In the midst of’ hypercritical persons or
group; explosive behavior
•Very good for ADD, ADHD; especially where
there is difficulty in communicating,
•Depression, frustration, < learning and
school problems, < being misunderstood, < misunderstanding.
•Delusion: trapped, inability to escape; being
lost, without direction.
•Problems with comprehension, focus, memory and
communication;
•Malaria maism
•Acid reflux; spasmodic pains in stomach and
abdomen; hormonal, pregnancy issues; dizziness; •herpes
Phalenopsis Gigantea
More Proving and Clinical
•One prover remarks:
“I was not able to listen and remember –almost like I cannot hear... My
concentration is lacking; I have a dopey feeling all the time.”
Another prover
records: “Letters on the computer screen made no sense at all; I had to read
[them] over and over.”
•The frustration over the inability to
communicate creates social embarrassment. There is a feeling of being trapped
by what they perceive as an overpowering disability – a disability that must be
hidden; this is experienced as both a desire and an inability to escape.
•These will be patients who have great
difficulty in reading and will avoid reading books, instead watching
television, videos, or movies.
Orchidaceae Mind and Disposition
General Themes
Mind and Disposition Themes Naturally
Disengaged, Unencumbered-single patients who like a free life style
Or patients who have children at a late age Patients of immature very young
parent(s) Redeeming a disengaged person or group
Heaven on Earth, Spirituality,and/or
Hedonism Exquisite spirituality ‘Heavenly bubble’ Enlightened joy and
playfulness
Exuberance and charm, Desire to party Escaping
responsibility Enchanted, Beautiful Sensuality Style Inordinate focus on
puppies, kittens and cute things
Perfection of Materialism The best of material
and sensual pleasure Elegant and “fine” possessions Fashionable clothing Perfection
of Food Desire for perfect food Preparation and eating Connoisseur and refined
tastes Chefs
China: Liebe, Schönheit, junges Mädchen; Orchideen in der Vase: Eintracht
[Louis Klein]
As a general quality, Orchid
remedies are also important for patients who are in situations and
relationships that involve sexual or physical abuse and violence
And in a more moderate society, this
leads to many Orchid patients being in jobs that exist in the midst of conflict
or even violent confrontation and threats, including
lawyers or law clerks, social
workers or counselors
Their approach is friendlier and
more enthusiastic than is the norm, offering calm, cheer, and solace, yet at
the same time they remain somewhat detached from the
situation
In a comparable manner, this theme
may appear as the Orchid patient being the partner of someone with a shadowy
and difficult, even abusive personality.
The Orchid patient compensates,
putting on a brave or cheerful face but, like Lac-del., can also attempt to hide
the problems or abuse of the other
person
A further way it may manifest is
someone who marries into a family, where the previous spouse of their new partner has just died and they are
the outsider who,
through their elegant and joyful demeanor, helps heal the family’s grief.
Another way of expressing the
preceding theme is “adaptability within conflict.”
Many stories about orchids, and
especially narratives about the search for these exotic plants, involve this
theme.
Orchids are widespread throughout
the world, primarily in warmer climates, but species do exist even in very cold
climates.
The Orchid patient is adaptable and
makes any conflict around them much more livable.
Such adaptation can also be an internal process.
The patient needing an Orchid remedy
can adapt to serious limitations and challenges in their health (multiple
sclerosis, neurological problems, paralysis, and weakness).
They may keep a joyful countenance
in the face of any great physical or
emotional challenge.
And as mentioned in the beginning
of this section, they may disengage and
focus on more superficial, self-gratifying elements in their reality.
Since they grow on dead matter, the
issue of death and dying is important in Fungal remedies.
Dreams of death and the impression of death are also prominent in many of the Orchid provings
and clinical cases.
I have also seen this theme
manifested in a number of Orchid cases
where a patient cannot conceive and has multiple miscarriages.
These are also remedies for
individuals who may have suffered the death of parents or other caregiver at a
young age.
As well as heightened awareness,
anxiety, or fear of death, it may also
be contemplated calmly or joyfully.
In the proving of [Louis Klein] Trichoceros antennifer there was
the idea of taking Sect I on 2
The orchid Group: new Homeopathy
Perspectives care of someone who wishes
to die and is suicidal.
In Vanilla, there is a feeling
of death and evil surrounding the
individual and a need for protection from it.
So you could say that many Orchids
are “in the midst of death, dying and
suffering,” whether this involves a close friend or relative, or a wider
societal situation
where there is much violence and
death.
The parasitic and dependent qualities
of Fungi
are also shared by Orchids.
In many of the Orchid remedies there are themes of helplessness yet cooperation.
Related issues of how Orchids give
and demand care and support are discussed further below.
Heightened Senses and extreme
Sensitivity
In the Orchid provings,
the senses were accentuated. There can be hypersensitivity in one type of sense or in various senses.
Particularly profound was the sense
of sight, with light playing an
important role. Touch was also heightened and refined.
We can also see the seemingly
opposite situation - where the senses are overwhelmed, and therefore blocked,
and expression is stultified, even apparently impossible
(as is seen in many neurobehavioral
disorders and autism). You could say that the problem is more to do with
expression than with the actual experience of
the senses.
In other words, the sensual
experience may be increased but with little ability for outward release.
This sensitivity is also why we may
see such a strong interest in their material environment.
In the case of autistic or Asperger’s
children it may be that they have an attachment to, or an aversion to the way
certain things feel, smell, or look.
They may desire to feel or even
smell objects around them repetitively.
Orchid patients may also be
artistically sensitive with an acute awareness of the environment around them and a desire to
work with it or depict it in an elevated,
aesthetic way. In other instances, there
may be a great environmental sensitivity to smells and chemicals.
They may have strong allergies to
chemicals, smells, perfumes, dust, or other substances.
This is a theme of patients needing remedies from the whole
plant order of the Asparagales, of which the
family Orchidaceae is a part.
I have also seen homeopathic Orchids
being useful for patients with sensitivity to electromagnetic emanations.
Such sensitivity can also be on an
emotional level.
Injustice can easily anger them and
they are particularly reactive to others invading their space or what they are
attached to. This can even extend to their country’s
space and identity. Specific orchids
have anger about specific issues, which are usually related to some particular
internal sensitivity or weakness for which they need
to compensate.
They can be acutely aware of criticism, betrayal, and rejection, and those
who are gossiping about them.
They often need “space” to deal with
their emotional wounds in the attempt to transform these wounds or the
emotional wounds of others.
They are sensitive to, and may
become paralyzed by baser emotions, resulting in feeling shame.
To avoid this, they may partake in
these baser expressions or become deceptive themselves.
In some of the provings and
patients I have seen, there is clairvoyance and clairaudience showing how
strong the exquisite sensitivity can get.
They can pick up, and be quite
sensitive to the psychic forces around them.
The Outsider and Issues of Support
Although some Orchid patients may be
quite gregarious, the opposite polarity of extreme and exquisite sensitivity
towards the physical or emotional environment
can lead to them cutting off from their surroundings.
They can become isolated and
disconnected as outsiders and eventually there can be a complete compensatory
disengagement as we see in Asperger’s syndromes
and autism. Patients with deep
pathology of this type need a lot
of care and attention.
In less extreme cases, there is less
severe but still debilitating ADD, ADHD, and other types of neurobehavioral disorders that affect
communication, with
a tendency to withdraw.
They may feel alone, like a
castaway, and experience either resentment or resignation as a result.
They can have difficulty connecting
to purpose or meaning in life or work, preferring to freeload and make demands
on others.
In some cases, as indicated in the
description of Phalaenopsis
gigantea,
withdrawal is combined with resentful frustration at communication
difficulties.
They may derive strength from other
people and need social assistance (in the epiphytic and lithophytic
Orchid types), sometimes to the extent that a whole family is
on chronic welfare. Even though they
may be lovingly embraced by a group of
people or a new family or relationship, they may have underlying
feelings that they
will be rejected or that they are
the outsider in the group.
On the other hand, they may be in a
situation where they care for a relative who requires continuous, substantial
financial and emotional support. The needy individual
may be someone who is physically,
mentally, or emotionally challenged, including someone who is treated as an outcast.
This could be a child with autism or
Down syndrome or a sibling or parent who is drug addicted or is in some way disablied.
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