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Use of the Bach Flower Essences in Depression
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The Bach Flower essences
are mild, gentle, but helpful. You cannot hurt yourself with them so they are
safe to self-medicate (though as we can’t see what we don’t want to see it is
often better to have someone you trust/respect prescribe for you). | |
Agrimony | confrontations are problematic - addictive personalities. |
Aspen | unidentifiable fears, fear of death |
Century | trying to please others |
Clematis | "air head" spacey for grounding |
Crab Apple | feels unclean, perceives faults in self |
Elm | overwhelmed |
Gentian | easily discouraged |
Gorse | hopeless despair |
Heather | attention seeking |
Holly | angry |
Honeysuckle | lives in the past |
Hornbeam | burned out, but still functional |
Impatience | impatient, angry |
Larch | lack of confidence |
Mimulus | tangible fear |
Mustard | sudden gloom of unknown origin |
Olive | non-functional / no energy left |
Pine | self blame |
Rescue Remedy | acute, for short periods only in depression |
Rock Rose | more acute! |
Star of Bethlehem | traumatic on-set, chronic depression, locked in |
Vervain | closed minded |
Water Violet | withdrawn / loner / lonely |
White Chestnut | obsessive thinking, stuck circling on some thought |
Wild Oat | lost, doesn’t know what to do with ones life |
Wild Rose | indifferent / blank / dazed / unresponsive / withdrawn / apathetic |
Willow | resentful, "why me?", envious |
see also Bach Flower Rescue Remedy for a discussion of Bach Flower Remedies |