All
patients are different, and so are all stories: the patientese has
then no fixed rules. What has led me to define it a language is the
collective stamp suggested by the words which are repeated much more
frequently than other ones.
Here
are some of them:
- BALL:
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-
-
it
is expressed in phrases such as "I feel as a ball"
or "I've got a little nut, a little ball". It can
be referred either to a sensation or a neoformation, as a cyst,
a tumour, a swollen lymph node, etc. It is often related to a sexual
problem.
- CROSSING,
OVERLAPPING, SQUASHING:
-
-
they
too have a sexual meaning. I have found it in the expressions
"I feel a muscle strained", "I see things
overlap", "I feel pain when I cross my legs"
and so on.
- LEANING:
-
- by this word it is expressed the lack of an economic, moral and
emotional support that one has for a void caused by an affective loss
or a disease on points of support such as buttocks, elbows, heels,
nape, knees, etc.
- CONSTRAINT:
- analogous to this word is the sensation of a vicelike grip, a pressure,
a compression: it is related to the feeling of being under the authority
of someone.
- ITCHING
:
- referred to the fact that someone is longing to get rid of somebody
or of an unpleasant situation s/he can not stand.
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