Chapter 15: Xiaoxiao's Mental Illness

Back home, Sun Qin looked at Gu Yue, who was curled up in the sofa and asleep, and wanted to step forward to wake her up.

Gu Fan stopped his mother and made a silent gesture and whispered, "She was frightened today, and I pressed her sleeping hole to make her fall asleep." ”

Thinking of the murder that happened in the community today, Sun Qin looked at her sleeping daughter's daughter, sighed, and tears rolled down her cheeks.

Gu Feng couldn't help but feel sad when he saw his wife crying, and stepped forward to hug his wife to comfort, "It's okay, it's okay." Everything will be fine, don't you see my son coming back to us!"

Gu Fan looked at his sister with his parents' sad eyes, and couldn't help but think of what his sister said to him during the day, it seemed that things were not as simple as Gu Yue said, or there were some things she hadn't told herself.

"Did Xiaoxiao only tell me about the situation when she met the victim during the day, and what happened later?" asked Gu Fan with a frown.

Looking at his son's puzzled gaze, he turned his head to look at Gu Yue, Gu Feng pointed to the study, "Go to the study and say, don't affect your sister's rest"

The three of them came to the study, sat in front of the computer desk, and Sun Qin gave each of them a glass of boiled water.

Gu Feng opened the drawer and took out a case bag, "A month ago, Xiaoxiao met the victim who died in front of her, and she was scared into a coma. When we arrived at the hospital, the police took some simple notes and left. Since that day, Xiaoxiao's spirit has not been very good, sometimes I have nightmares in the middle of the night, I am short-tempered and don't communicate with people, and sometimes I sit there in a daze, and I don't think about tea and dinner. ”

Gu Fan took the case bag handed over by his father and opened it, Psychological traumatic syndrome Seeing this term, Gu Fan secretly said in his heart that what he didn't want to happen still happened.

Psychological trauma syndrome is a psychological illness caused by irresistible effects and stimuli from the outside world. The disease manifests differently depending on the person. Some are short-tempered, some are depressed, and some are autistic. This kind of mental illness is difficult to treat, and drugs can only alleviate the patient's condition, and taking psychotropic drugs for a long time can make the patient become drug dependent. It is possible to recover with the long-term assistance of a psychologist and the comfort of the family, but even if the patient recovers in a short period of time, seeing or hearing the same things in life may induce the recurrence of the patient's condition.

Sun Qin wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a piece of paper, and said sadly, "When we rushed to the hospital that day, Xiaoxiao kept washing these hands and arms, and kept saying that there was blood on her body, and the skin on her arms was washed away, but she still said that there was blood, there was blood!" Thinking of the scene that day, Sun Qin's body trembled unconsciously, and continued in a nasal voice, "In the past, she liked red or similar colors the most, but since that incident, she has unconsciously trembled when she saw red, and even had a short temper and wanted to destroy all the red things around her." ”

Watching his mother cry, worried about Gu Yue. Gu Fan handed over a piece of paper and patted his mother's back, "Mom, relax, relax, it's just temporary!" Gu Fan said while patting his mother's back to calm his mother's emotions.

Gu Feng leaned back in the chair, took out a cigarette and lit it, took a hard puff, slowly exhaled the smoke in his lungs, and rotated back and forth with the cigarette butt in one hand, "Later, after a friend's introduction, we went to the hospital with a smile for a psychological examination, and you also read the examination report." The doctor prescribed Xiaoxiao some psychosis-relieving drugs, and after two weeks of psychological counseling treatment, Xiaoxiao's condition was relieved. On the advice of the doctor, we put down all the work at hand during that time and concentrated on being by her side. No matter what Xiaoxiao wants to do or eat, we try our best to satisfy her. ”

Gu Fan rubbed his eyebrows when he heard his parents' narration.

If it was really like what her parents said, in such a short period of time, she would experience the same scene again, and when Xiaoxiao woke up, her condition would recur again, and even the onset would be more serious than before. Autism, isolation, and even hallucinations are not what a young girl should experience.

Gu Fan kept thinking of ways in his mind, rubbed his hands on his face a few times, and gently pressed his thumbs on his temples to keep his thoughts from drifting.

After thinking of many methods, Gu Fan repeatedly denied that psychological comfort treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and medication will produce drug dependence, and so on, maybe Xiaoxiao can be treated with hypnosis. Thinking of psychological hypnosis, Gu Fan told his parents what he thought.

"Psychic hypnosis?" Sun Qin looked at her son, "Isn't psychological hypnosis just about helping people fall asleep?"

"Mom, that's the simplest psychological hypnosis, psychological hypnosis is divided into many kinds, and psychological hypnosis has been widely used in mental illness. We often see in movies that someone is hypnotized by a psychiatrist and asked to kill someone, which is just too much of an exaggeration. Gu Fan leaned forward, crossed his hands on his knees, and stared at the case on the coffee table. "But psychological hypnosis does control human movement and speech. ”

Gu Feng couldn't quite understand what Gu Fan wanted to express, "Wait, do you mean to control Xiaoxiao's words and deeds through psychological hypnosis?"

Gu Fan shook his head, "How can that work, doesn't that make Xiaoxiao lose her original nature?" Looking at her anxious parents, "You guys listen to me, it has been scientifically proven that normal people's memories will gradually be forgotten over time, or they will be sealed, and these sealed memories will not be displayed if they are not read like the data in the computer hard drive." And human memories are not deliberately guided or deliberately recalled, and this memory will not appear in their own minds. I can use psychological suggestion to make Xiaoxiao think that what she experienced a month ago was just a dream, so that I can effectively achieve the effect of treating Xiaoxiao's mental illness. ”

Sun Qin frowned, "You just said that a human brain is like a computer hard drive, can you delete this memory forever?"

Gu Fan smiled bitterly, his mother thought things too simply, and shook her head, "The human brain is only less than ten percent developed, and some data show that it is only 1 percent." The human brain has about 86 billion neurons and the 100 trillion interconnections that connect them, each with more than 1,000 proteins at the junction of neurons, and it can store 5 billion books, 50 times the size of the Library of Congress. At the same time, these neurons and interconnected objects are like antivirus software in computers, which have a certain filtering effect on external information, which is the meaning of self-protection in psychology. The first condition of psychological hypnosis is not to violate the subjective consciousness that is being hypnotized, and the deletion of information is precisely against the subjective consciousness of the brain, so it is impossible, or it is impossible in the knowledge and cognition that I have been exposed to. ”

Gu Feng hugged his wife when he heard Gu Fan's words, "This is already very good." ”

Sun Qin asked worriedly, "Is this method feasible?"

Gu Fan looked at Sun Qin's expectant and worried eyes, "This method works, people sometimes experience some painful things, and they will choose to avoid it." We use this kind of escape as a basis to induce laughter, and what happened a month ago was a dream. I will implant a directive in Xiaoxiao's mind, even if someone deliberately guides or mentions what happened a month ago in front of her, as long as she can't find the instruction, she will think that the other party is a psychopath, and what she said has nothing to do with her. Even if Xiaoxiao encounters a similar event in the future, the brain will associate it with the dream, making him think that the encounter is similar to what happened in the dream. ”

Gu Fan spoke in great detail, so detailed that as two laymen in psychology, they could understand what Gu Fan meant.

Gu Feng and Sun Qin also breathed a sigh of relief when they heard their son's affirmative answer. They have been really worried and scared for a month. Now that there is a solution, a big stone of psychology has finally been put down. Looking at Gu Fan sitting in front of him, he was also proud in his heart, they were proud and proud to have such a son.

Gu Feng crushed the cigarette butt in the ashtray, "When will the treatment begin?"

Gu Fan took a sip of water to calm his mood, "Xiaoxiao will have to undergo psychological treatment when he wakes up, the longer the condition drags on, this memory will deepen, and the more difficult it is to seal the memory." ”

Hearing Gu Fan say that the longer the time, the possibility of his daughter's cure at the end of the month, Sun Qin immediately stood up and pulled Gu Fan to wake up Xiaoxiao.

Seeing his mother holding his hand, Gu Fan smiled bitterly, "Mom, Xiaoxiao's mood is not very stable now, and there will be rejection after waking up, we need to use medicine to calm her down, so that it can be better"

Gu Feng stood up when he heard that he needed to buy medicine, and picked up the mobile phone next to him, "What medicine do you need, I'll buy it now." ”

Gu Fan shook his head, his parents were in a hurry, how could he not be in a hurry to treat his sister, "The drugs that soothe the patient's emotions are all prescription drugs, and they need to be prescribed by a doctor." ”

Hearing Gu Fan's words, Gu Feng stopped and frowned, "I'll call my friend and see if I can prescribe some of the medicines you need." ”

Gu Fan looked at his watch, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, less than an hour after Xiaoxiao woke up. "I'll figure it out!"

Seeing his son stand up, Sun Qin stood up and kept rubbing her hands, "You just returned to China, are you sure you can get it?"

Gu Fan nodded comfortingly at his parents and smiled, "There should be no problem." ”

The husband and wife looked at each other and finally nodded.

Before going out, Gu Fan looked at his sleeping sister and took out a stick of sandalwood from his backpack and lit it. Watching the curling green smoke rise, Gu Fan smiled and turned to leave.

Sandalwood relaxes the mood, soothes impatience, tension and calmness, helps to sleep better, and can effectively delay the time for Gu Yue to wake up.