Management of Generalized Anxiety disorder with Individualized Homoeopathic Medicine Calcarea Carbonica in 50 Millesimal Potency: A Case Report

Abstract

Generalized Anxiety disorder is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, which involves persistent anxiety lasting for several months, characterized by general apprehension or excessive worry about everyday issues like family, health, or work. A 24-year-old male, who came with the complaints of, reduced concentration in studies, reduced self-confidence, shivering while giving interview for job, and was confirmed by consultant psychiatrist as GAD, as per ICD-10 guidelines. This case was successfully treated with individualized homoeopathic medicine Calcarea carbonica in 50 millesimal (LM) potency and followed up for 2 years. Hamilton anxiety rating scale showed reduction of scores after homoeopathic medicine from ‘moderate to mild severity’ to ‘mild severity’ within 3^rd month after initiation of treatment and score of 19 at baseline to score of zero within 12^th month and without relapse. MONARCH Criteria show score of 9 in this case which indicates the definite causal relation between Individualized Homoeopathic Medicine (IHM) and the treatment outcome.