Chapter Ninety-Four: Psychological Surgery
"You've been through many, many things, time has taken them far, far away, and you often think back to that day, where the sounds, the smells, or the people, they remain in your sensory memory, and you try to extract them, listen to my voice......"
At this time, Jiang Shiyun's self-consciousness is sleeping, and it is the subconscious mind that dominates, listening to Yuan Jia's words, she naturally reveals a focused expression.
"Recall in the way that suits you best, the sounds, pictures, and feelings of that day, they are getting clearer and clearer, the pictures are getting more and more detailed, and with your imagination, you are back to that place. ”
The words fell gently, and Yuan Jia could immediately clearly see the change in Jiang Shiyun's expression.
His brow furrowed tightly, his eyeballs twitched in his eyelids, and his mouth trembled, looking very frightened and sad.
"What do you see?"
"Mom..."
"How is she?"
"She's soaked in water... Dead for a long time... The corpses floated on the shore ... My uncle... Neighbor... And a whole bunch of people... They're watching... It's gray..."
Yuan Jia didn't miss any subtle changes in her expression, he knew that this was Jiang Shiyun's dream, because when her mother died, she was not there, and she only learned about it when she returned to her hometown after wandering outside for a few years.
Jiang Shiyun's mother is a bipolar patient, and the ending of her mother's suicide planted a seed in her heart, and she was afraid that she would be like her mother, so she desperately wanted to live.
This nightmare impressed her even more than what she had experienced herself, in terms of behavioral results, the effect of this nightmare was positive, but from an emotional point of view, the effect was negative, bringing fear and uneasiness to Jiang Shiyun, and even more emotions.
At the beginning, there was a tricky picture, which Yuan Jia didn't expect, but fortunately, there was a 'safety island' as a way out, and in any case that could not be handled, Yuan Jia could guide Jiang Shiyun back to the safety island.
Yuan Jia thought about it, and still planned to try to get rid of the negative emotions caused by the nightmare.
"What is the most eye-catching part of the picture?"
"They're looking at mom in the water..."
"Can you see their faces?"
"It's cold..."
"Nobody cares about your mother's death, does it?"
"Yes..."
In Jiang Shiyun's nightmare, to a large extent, she is related to her mother, and she subconsciously compares herself to her mother, because both of them are 'mentally ill' in other people's mouths
In other words, the person lying dead in the water in her nightmare is actually herself.
Yuanjia found a breakthrough and continued to guide her.
"How does your mother feel when you're lying in the water?"
"It's pathetic... Very helpless... It's painful... I'm scared... I'm scared..."
"They don't care, do they?"
"Yes..."
"Do you care?"
“... I care. ”
"Can you help her?"
"I can..."
Guided by this process, Yuanjia successfully implanted the concept of 'no one else cares, but I care about myself' into her subconscious.
"You pulled her out of the water, can you imagine what it would be like for her to sleep peacefully? She slept forever, without pain. ”
"Yes..."
"What color dress is she wearing?"
"Gray..."
"Do you want to say anything to her?"
“... Don't want to. ”
"Don't you have anything to say to her?"
"She's not the same person she used to be..."
"You want to talk to her in the past, you don't want to talk to her now, right?"
"Hmm..."
"What do you want to say to her in the past?"
Jiang Shiyun was silent for a few seconds, and choked up: "All the years I lived with you... I'm tired... Very tired..."
She didn't cry, but tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Do you still hate her?"
"I don't hate..."
"She's dead, gone forever with memories of you. ”
"Mom......"
Jiang Shiyun listened to Yuan Jia's words, her tears couldn't be stopped anymore, and she cried.
It was only now that she had a genuine, positive view of her mother's death.
She is dead, no matter how bad she was at the beginning, she will forever carry that memory of her daughter, and leave this world and never come back.
"She's lying in front of you, can you say a few words to her now? I'll read it, you follow me. ”
"Yes..."
"Thank you for giving me life, I leave the good memories between us, and the bad memories you take away. ”
"Thank you for giving me life... I keep the fond memories between us... Bad memories you take away..."
Like last time, don't underestimate the energy of this sentence, Jiang Shiyun's mother has passed away, but she still has a lot of negative memories about her mother, and it can be said that her depression is largely caused by her mother.
Of course, Jiang Shiyun will not lose her memory, and the bad memories are still in her brain, but after this sentence is implanted in the subconscious, whenever she recalls these bad memories, her subconscious will remind her that these negative memories have been taken away with the death of her mother.
Gradually, her sense of self will slowly fade the effects of these negative memories, and years later, it will only be like a dream.
On the contrary, she kept the good memories in this sentence, so that this part of the memory will continue to be deepened and have a positive effect as it appears again and again.
After doing this, the guidance about this scene is almost over, and Yuan Jia has not forgotten a very important point before: the 'don't care' of the onlookers in the nightmare
This is the most direct reaction of Jiang Shiyun's subconscious emotions, as she has frequently mentioned before, 'everything is fine, only I am bad, I am a broken machine, no one cares about my feelings'
If this negative anchor is not removed, then she will be tormented by it all the time in her daily interpersonal interactions.
"Come back to your unique beach, where you are calm, peaceful, free and relaxed. ”
Yuanjia was not in a hurry, and first guided her back to the safety island to rest for a while.
Her mood changed violently just now, and after returning to the safety island, it was obvious that Jiang Shiyun's expression was relaxed, and her breathing slowly became even.
This process can be very effective in reinforcing the anchor of the 'safety island'.
"Back to the terrible dream, do you remember the expressions of the people at the edge of the reservoir?"
"It's cold... Nobody cares..."
"They don't care, do they?"
"Yes..."
"Is there a person or event in your memory that makes you feel this way?"
"Yes..."
"Can you elaborate?"
"When I was in elementary school..."
Jiang Shiyun slowly told the events of that time, she is twenty-five years old this year, and the events of elementary school have been more than ten years ago, but in the state of hypnosis, all the long-term memories have been awakened, and she can recall every detail clearly.
"On a spring outing in the third grade, the teacher took us to the suburbs to play, and there was a single-plank bridge at that time, and if we want to go to the other side, the single-plank bridge is the closest..."
"But the bridge is very narrow and narrow, the wood looks very old, everyone feels very scared, the teacher cheers everyone up, and no one dares to take the lead to walk..."
"I squatted on the shore and watched the water, it was just a small ditch, I liked the teacher very much, I didn't want to embarrass her, so I stood up and said, I'll go, and then you follow me, everybody says okay. ”
"I walked over, and a person waited on the opposite side for a long time, and they all looked at me and didn't take a step. ”
"The teacher said, Li Shuangting, we plan to take a long detour, can you walk back?"
"I was feeling very uncomfortable... Particularly uncomfortable... I can't say how it feels..."
"I walked back, slipped and fell off the bridge into the ditch, my clothes were wet, and I got a lot of mud on my face and hair..."
"They're all laughing... Laugh out loud... The teacher is laughing too..."
"Nobody cares about me... Nobody cares how I feel... The water is cold in the spring... I'm shaking... I cried... The teacher took me home to change my clothes... The spring outing was canceled... They all blame me... I saw the disgusted expressions on everyone's faces... It's cold... When I got home... Mom scolded me too..."
"I really don't want that... Why doesn't anyone care how I feel... Nobody cares about me......"
Looking at the facial features on Jiang Shiyun's face that seemed to be pulled together, Yuan Jia also frowned.
He finally knew how Jiang Shiyun's nightmare scene came about, her mother was soaked in the water, but the crowd of onlookers in the scene was actually a reflection of those classmates in the incident when she was a child.
When she fell into the ditch, her classmates, like the crowd of onlookers, were indifferent, indifferent, and even laughed out loud.
"When mom is lying in the water, when everyone doesn't care about her, you care, right?" Yuan Jia deepened the previous hint.
"I care... I care about her......"
"Can you imagine you coming to your childhood self?"
"I can..."
"Can you hug her?"
Jiang Shiyun didn't speak, in her imagination, she hugged her childhood self tightly, so Yuan Jia saw that her tears slipped from the corners of her eyes again.
"Hug you... Don't cry... I'll hug you......"
She muttered to herself, not knowing whether she felt sorry for her when she was a child, or if she felt sorry for herself now.
"Say to her, I care about you, I know you're cold, I can hold you, at least I care about you. ”
"I care about you... I care about you......"
Jiang Shiyun choked up as she spoke, and subconsciously curled up her body, like a baby, tightly curled up into a ball.
"Back to a safe place, that unique beach that belongs to you, where you are calm, peaceful, free and relaxed. ”
Yuan Jia once again guided her back to the safety island, and at this point, the anchor of the safety island was very solid.
Almost when Yuan Jiacai issued the command 'Return to a safe place', Jiang Shiyun's movements and expressions could change significantly.
After nearly half an hour of 'removing negative triggers' treatment, Yuan Jia successfully removed two important triggers that caused Jiang Shiyun's depression.
Of course, Jiang Shiyun has been depressed for many years, and there are many negative triggers, and Yuan Jia can't get rid of them one by one for the time being.
The hypnosis should not be too long, and he is ready to move on to the final step.
It is also the most critical step.
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