08/01/2024
A wedding portrait of Queen Victoria caught my eye this morning (no pun intended), but brought to mind the customary mourning periods (1800's to present) to be observed and when does that cross into mental health & physical health issues. Because, that's my profession, analysis of the 🧠. Treat the mind and the body will follow.
In war time, there is no mourning periods, there's only war. Because everyone is mourning.
In Homeopathy we address Emotional Crisis & Depression as early broad indicators of additional underlying issues. Taking into account the stages of grief, there's also contributing factors that should be addressed by a professional if observed by friends and loved ones that appear to experience a lengthy suffering.
As a professional, I wouldn't wait, I'd inquire about contributing factors immediately. Some of those include - chronic fatigue, toxic syndromes, migraines, seizures, me**es and menopause.
Asa Hershoff, ND suggest ⅔ of people suffering from depression, also suffer from arthritis, hypertension, coronary artery disease, diabetes, chronic back pain, etc. Deficiencies in various vitamins & minerals. Including chemicals, pollutants, heavy metals and pharmaceutical drugs that are toxic to the nervous system.
IGNATIA AMARA
St. Ignatius Bean
(See link)
The top Homeopathic Remedy I'd encourage researching is Ignatia, for acute loss accompanied by denial, attempting to keep emotions contained and under control. But, not the only remedy to consider, the case must be matched to the unique symptoms of the patient. I'm just showing a methodology.
More about Ingatia -
Some of the other symptoms include:
● (Symptoms) Shame, silent grief, alternating moods, irritable, held back emotions, sighing, sobbing.
● (Causes) Acute loss, grief, broken heart, shock, fright, upset, anger.
It's my experience, if the above mitigating factors are addressed and the correct remedy selected / administered, duration of symptoms have been reduced over night in many cases or within hours. Almost like a light switch in some cases, in the clinic I'd get a call from a patient sitting in their car. "What was it you gave me?", I've also got symptoms I didn't think related are disappearing".
Back story & History
"... Queen Victoria photobombed her son's wedding photo by sitting between them, wearing a full mourning dress and staring at a bust of her dead husband; she blamed her son for Albert's death. (Attached)
After the death of her husband, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria wore mourning attire for the rest of her life and often isolated herself, deeply grieving.
She did, in fact, blame Edward partially for Albert's death, believing that the stress Albert endured from dealing with Edward's scandalous behavior contributed to his decline in health.
Etiquette books recommended that mothers mourn a child for one year, a child mourn a parent for one year, and siblings mourn for six months.
Widowers mourned for only three months by wearing armbands, badges, or rosettes of black fabric.
Widows, however, were expected to respect a minimum two and a half years in mourning.
Most Civil War soldiers were buried on the fields where they had died. Despite the staggering numbers of dead, during the war elite and middle-class Southern women frequently tried to mitigate the impersonal and anonymous burials of Confederate soldiers by attending services, writing letters to soldiers’ families, and placing flowers on military graves.
The frequency with which Confederate women performed funeral rites for their nation’s dead helps to explain the enormous popularity of the William D. Washington’s painting The Burial of Latané (1864) (attached), which illustrated white women, slaves, and children performing the burial service of a cavalry officer killed during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862. ..."
In Summary, mourning periods are more like Guidelines - Pirates ☠️ Morgan & Bartholomew 🏴☠️
*Sources Various Open Source
*Not intended to treat cure or diagnosis a disease
*For Academic purposes only
*For entertainment purposes only, and all that jazz
http://www.homeoint.org/books/boericmm/i/ign.htm
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/mourning-during-the-civil-war/ #:~:text=Etiquette%20books%20recommended%20that%20mothers,or%20rosettes%20of%20black%20fabric.
