The WFH/Working Life

Now, before anyone gets in a tizzy, I'll be the first to say that any parent that stays at home with the kiddos all day probably works just as hard, if not harder than those of us who step out of the house for 8+ hours. I did want to address something that we don't often talk about, the out of home parent or caregiver is usually the one I never see, UNTIL RECENTLY.

Since the strike of the pandemic, being home wasn't much of an option for most, work from home has now turned into a hashtag and depending on where you are in the world, it may not be changing much, any time soon. However, it has meant that I have had the opportunity to help some pretty amazing people, people who more often than not aren't around during my office hours and never thought that a complimentary medicine such as Homeopathy would or could actually help them.

Including being able to take lunch breaks with their families, my NEW and yes skeptical patients have all thanked me this year. I have even had the opportunity to explain the use of Homeopathy to a farmer, who now swears by it for his sheep! Oh, how I wish I could practice veterinary homeopathy! What I mean to talk about, before I run off on a tangent, is that I have helped many non-patients become patients and get healthy during this very stressful time.

Watching their children become healthier day by day, with the use of these non-toxic, safe and effective remedies, because they were home, meant they gave it a try.

And boy oh boy did we see some magic happen.

So, I wanted to share with you a perfect short and sweet case (with permission of course), along with some remedies that are great for those of us that travel into the corporate world more often than not, in a series I am going to call The WFH/Working Life. While some of us are working from home and others are heading out there, into the big wide world, how we work has changed a ton so I want to be sure to cover different types of work and different situations.

Lets meet John in "A case of Anxiety"

John is a 45 year old father of two in a great but very intense sales job for a major corporation.

He was under a lot of stress when the pandemic hit, often worrying about whether or not he was going to make his targets and keep his job. He had been at the company for years and was also worried he would be part of the first lay offs because of his tenure. As time passed his projects moved along well, and all of his clients stuck with him.

Yet his worry remained and shifted a bit.

He stopped worry about his family and their financial stability, although it was at the back of his mind. And, instead started having anxiety before his online video conferences. He said that they were much more intense than meeting with his clients in person and going over numbers with his higher ups.

In his words;

I started noticing that I feel the worst when I sit outside with my kids and watch them play.

My mornings are mostly helping get the kids fed and ready for their day with my wife then prepping for my first meeting which is usually around 9:30am or 10am and that's when it starts.

I begin sweating heavily and have to run to the bathroom.

During my meeting I get a lump in my throat and have to drink something, but its as if I can't swallow.

Then at night I can't sleep worrying about whether or not I will feel the same way tomorrow but I'm so tired!

He also began getting headaches which he had in high school, they sat over his eyes and were accompanied by dizziness and double vision which he said was probably from being in front of the computer for too long, much longer than he was used to. He described his headaches as pressure headaches, which he used to get when he was studying for exams.

His appetite has always been good and hasn't changed much but he can only eat a little at a time, the same with water, he can only drink a bit at a time.

I prescribed Gelsemium in a 200ch, 3 pellets dry to be taken in the morning, after one dose he didn't run to the bathroom, after his second dose 2 weeks later he didn't have any sweating before his meeting and had returned to eating normal amount of food. By his 3rd dose 6 weeks after his initial he was back to himself, sleeping well and enjoying sitting outside watching his kids play.

Let me know what you think below if whether you're a student , homeopathy or a lay person, would you have gone a different route.

No More Anxiety John