Mental health

The better we know ourselves, the better our lives will be.
—Irvin D. Yalom

Mental health is on everyone's lips.

I would like to make an active contribution to this and show by my own example that alternative medicine – and above all homeopathy – can very well play an important role in the field of mental health.

I myself was a child of mentally ill parents and grandparents, I know depression, borderline, schizophrenia, addictive behavior and suicidality.
I have experienced emotional violence, know isolation and loneliness.
I was a "young carer."
And today – because of all this – I am a trauma expert by experience.

In my homeopathic practice in Bosnia, I once said without thinking: "I claim to have gone through war as well. Different from the people here, but the circumstances are comparable, because I also know absolute unpredictability, fear of death, hunger and loneliness."

The stays in Bosnia were my catalyst and part of my healing journey, because it was only in the war-torn country that I realized, through my own testimony, that I myself at the time sufferd from post-traumatic stress disorder. All those years before, I had wondered why I always felt bad, depressed, sad and sleepless.

That I have not lost myself completely, I owe to homeopathy! I came to it at the age of 25 after a traffic accident, and was at first simply amazed to see how quickly I was physically better again. But what fascinated me even more was the fact that at the same time I also began to feel better psychologically – and I found both sleep and my laughter again.

Today I am practicing homeopathy for decades and work as a homeopath and therapist myself, the homeopathic view on health and illness has become my life's orientation: illness is a normal reaction to abnormal circumstances.

Based on both my personal and professional experience, I would like to encourage people to consider a holistic approach in addition to medical and psychiatric help — as additional support on the path to mental healing. I am convinced that when it comes to mental health issues, it is essential to understand and learn to appreciate the connections in one's own history, because no one is born mentally ill.