One day I run into a man who draw my attention, because his right hand hung limp. It was unusually thin and the muscles were atrophied. The right side of his face didn’t look quiet normal. The right eye was smaller than the left and his eyes expressed a lot of sadness. In our conversation he told me that several years ago he had an accident and had went thought several surgical operations. In opinion of the medical experts his right hand couldn’t be restored. Beside that, he had been suffering from a deep depression for a long time. He had no appetite and smoked a lot. He had bad dreams and he couldn’t sleep past 5am and he hardly ate. To add insult to injury he had issues with his sexual performance.

He didn’t work, because he had a disability. I wanted to try to help this man and I suggested that he come and see me.

My patient, a 50-year old women, works in the stock market industry and holds a very responsible position.

As part of her job, she is required to make extremely quick decisions, and act before she had a chance to think. Recently this demanding situations hasn’t been working too well, and as a result some mistakes were made. That and not being able to have time to think to avoid similar mistakes in the future led to even more pressure and inability to perform well at this demanding job.

This constant stress resulted in quarrels at home and conflicts with her colleagues on work. She complained of having bad dreams, dominated by a very bright high frequency color.

Even at nights she couldn’t rest and her head continued to work. Obviously in the morning she gets up tired and nervous. Not a good way to start her days at her highly stressful job.

My patient came to me with her 14-year old daughter. The girl had been suffering from epigastric pain for a year. (“Epigastric pain” means pain in the stomach area.) During the epigastric pain sometimes there was a headache. At age of 12 the girl had the Gall Bladder removal operation. Her mom recalls that in her early childhood the girl often expressed anger and used to be very irritable.

The girl was very worried before the first treatment and refused to do acupuncture.

Her mom thought that some of the medicine her daughter took could have been the cause of the pain, but she couldn’t figure which one if any was at fault.

Here is the letter which I’ve recently received from a 45 year old woman, who is a patient of mine.

Reasons for Seeking Treatment

I started a new job as an office manager in a hospital. This meant a big change in the work environment for me, as I had worked in a high-tech company before. I wanted to work in an organization that helps people but I was not emotionally prepared for the daily close encounter with disease and suffering. I had to go through an emotional adjustment process. My boss was a senior physician, nervous and tired, frustrated and disappointed with his own life. He was extremely difficult to work with: Screaming at everyone all day long, constantly complaining about everything: From the poor professional performance of his employees to the uncivilized behavior of the human kind at this day and age. When it came to administrative skills he was absent minded, unorganized and inefficient. He gave me a lot of work, which I was prepared to do, but disrupted my work constantly by calling me in to his office for every little thing, sometimes twenty times an hour. The negative energy he projected was destructive for me. Writing these lines makes me wonder why I didn’t leave the job right away?..