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The client C. writes:

The restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a chronic neurological disease. It is associated with an intense, unpleasant urge to move the legs (less frequently in other parts of the body), usually accompanied by unpleasant sensations that are difficult to describe.

I am female, 63 years old and right-handed.

Every evening I fell into bed exhausted and couldn't sleep. My tingling legs didn't leave me alone. Going to the cinema was also unbearable because I had to sit still.

I had myself examined, the vascular center confirmed that everything was OK and the neurologist said that I would now be dependent on medication for "the rest of my life" - RLS was not curable, it could only be alleviated or made bearable. I didn't take the medication because I didn't want to harm myself any further. Instead, I treaded in cold water before going to sleep. I was often able to fall asleep quickly.

In 2023 I had a decisive encounter with Mayk.

More by chance we talked about my "eternal" suffering RLS, as I could not sit still that evening because of my restless legs.

He advised me that I could find the cause in my past, as it could be an unresolved story.

No sooner said than done! I started "digging in my garden". And discovered that I had the suffering since I was around 30 years old, so about 33 years ago.

In 1988 my marriage was divorced under GDR law. I was a single mother of two children (then aged 10 and 4), did not receive spousal support like in the Federal Republic of Germany, so I worked full time and the children went to school and kindergarten. We were allowed to continue living in the apartment that we had actually rented from my ex-husband's employer in the NVA (National People's Army).

In 1989, Germany was reunified: the TURNOVER - I was plagued by terrible fears about my existence! What would happen next? How would I support the children? My employer was taken over by a West German company. Would I lose my job? Would we have to live on state support? Would we be allowed to continue using the apartment that now belonged to the Federal Property Office? Or would we end up on the street?

At that time, I had to gather all my strength and courage. Despite my teenage children, I quit my job so that I could work every day in the West German company 85 km away. It was a long day at work! The eldest had to look after the youngest, and they went to school on their own because their mother had already left home. When she came home, the children had eaten lunch on their own, which their mother had cooked the evening before after a long day at work. EVERYONE helped so that we didn't have to rely on support and could even go on holiday every year. Luckily, we were allowed to stay in the apartment until we moved out of there.

The daughter became a media designer and the son studied aerospace engineering.

After researching my life, I realized after just a few weeks that I no longer have restless legs, and I still don't have them to this day!

 

Note by M. Soike

In this experience report, the client describes exactly how the neurologist "gave" her a DHS (Dirk Hamer Syndrome).

"the neurologist said that I would now be dependent on medication ‘for life’ - RLS could not be cured"

This statement caused her to suffer a "motor conflict" - "of not being able to run away" before this diagnosis. Now she had a recurring dream, she says when asked. The dreams were about group outings in which she was always afraid of being forgotten (dreams are usually to be understood in disguise).

These dreams are to be understood as "tracks" and have maintained the motor conflict.

Only by talking to her and personally recognizing the other possibility did she resolve this SBS on her own.

Another SBS is described in this experience report.

"I was plagued by terrible existential fears!"

This is an existential conflict or a conflict of feeling uncared for or poorly cared for, one could also say of feeling left all alone.

At organ level, the renal collecting ducts react with increased water retention. This means increased water retention in the body tissue and reduced urine output. The purpose of this SBS is to enable a longer survival time without water and food.

The client confirmed a rapid weight gain of 14 kg. Fortunately, no uraemia was diagnosed by conventional medicine. Thus, after the SBS was discontinued, she reacted biologically on her own and the water retention was able to recede.

P.S.

The client supported her weight loss with a diet.

If the existential conflict had not been resolved, the diet would not have been successful in this case.

 

Report translated by: Monique Hetfeld