Mental and emotional symptoms are highly important in homeopathic remedy selection. They represent the person's character and individuality. These symptoms include all emotions, temperaments, disturbances of the will and understanding, as well as dreams, delusions, fears, embarrassment, forgetfulness, laziness, and social needs. Some symptoms are part of the constitutional temperament, while others may be transient responses to disease. It is important that mental and emotional symptoms clearly limit the person, not just represent character traits, in order to be useful for repertorization and finding the correct remedy. The vital force expresses these symptoms uniquely for each individual.