the homeopathic doctor

july 12 2007


I never thought I would go "doctorshopping" outside of regular medicine.
Not that I don't believe in the many stories I've heard about miraculous changes in people, but it's financially out of reach.

Like all parents with an autistic child we've been trying this and doing that before we finally agreed with psychiatric medication: Risperdal.

He did fine for a lot of months, then at school so many things changed that he couldn't cope anymore. Talking, guiding him thorugh difficult moments...nothing helped and we were confronted with a child that was unable to be happy.
So we gave him more Risperdal, but it didn't help much.
Only taking him from school for a while gave him rest and the ability to have some control over his own emotions.

We lowered the dosage of Risperdal and when things went bad again I took the pill I saw from the corner of my eye: valerian.

He did so well, that we thought it might be worthwhile to have a good homeopathic doc have a look.

So this morning we went.
I'd mailed his history a few weeks ago, so I assumed this doc would have taken the trouble to look up what autism means.

He didn't make a good impression when we came in and he took note of the normal data like birthdate and insurance company.
I mentioned the town of our insurance company with the name.
It's done in the hospital as they immediately know where the bill needs to go.
This doc started a discussion about the fact that no matter what town I mentioned the insurance stays the same.
Hmmppffff....

An hour later he was still struggling with the list he'd made during the conversation.
He kept asking questions, waiting for me to answer, after which he started to define the question. So at times I had to modify the answer.

He clearly had no idea what to do, and after some time he told me so.
"Yes", I said. "It's always difficult when a psychiatric diagnosis clouds the person presents itself.
Some of your main diagnostic traits are those of the psychiatric disorder, so it's the question how to deal with them when you want to cure some physical and psychological problems."

He looked at me like he woke up, then dived in his cabinet and gave my son a little tiny ball: homeopathic medicine.

"Next time I'm going to put everything in the computer and see what it comes up with...", he said.

Well...give me the computerprogram and I can find out myself...

I didn't say it, ofcourse, but I thought it almost aloud.

On our way home I told my son he might observe in himself some changes, and that he might get cured from some symptoms and behaviours we don't like.

Can't have homeopathy for 110 euro without suggestion, can we?