Chapter 17: Psychological Shock
Xu Jiannan looked at Fan Dong's wheelchair and legs, and instead began to ask him about the cause of his paralysis.
"Since when did you start standing up?" asked Xu Jianan.
Fan Dong laboriously grabbed the trouser leg of his thigh and said: "I don't remember, at the beginning, it was more serious than now, it was completely paralyzed in bed, like a complete waste." At that time, I thought that it was better to die than to live like that, and it was better to die in the process of carrying out the mission. ”
It seems that this paralyzed experience is also within the scope of Fan Dong's "forgetting".
"Is it completely unconscious?" Xu Jiannan asked again.
Fan Dong raised his hands with some trembling and said, "Doctor Xu, you see, at this moment, my hands are still useful." Sometimes, however, these hands become completely useless. My back occasionally tingles, but it's numb. I didn't feel any pain in my legs, and during the process of going to the hospital for treatment, I didn't do a lot of tests, even if I couldn't find the cause, and I couldn't recover. ”
Listening to Fan Dong say this, it means that the main parts of his paralysis are his legs. This is followed by the back, and finally the hands. According to the psychological reasoning of traumatic stimuli, the biggest causative stimulus should start from the legs.
So, Xu Jianan asked tentatively: "Before this, did you have an injury to your leg?"
"What do you mean? Training for a task all year round, bumps and bumps are inevitable. Fan Dong was really cooperative, for fear that his answer would not be detailed enough.
Xu Jiannan said: "It's the kind of more serious, whether it's physical pain or psychological pain, it's a little difficult to bear. For example, have you ever broken your leg in an accident or suffered a worse injury?"
When he said this, Fan Dong's expression was dazed for a moment, he didn't seem to know what he remembered, and his expression at that moment was a little flustered. Xu Jiannan observed carefully, his expression was tangled and uneasy, as if he was trying to remember one thing, but he seemed to be trying to forget one thing.
"Something big happened, didn't it?" Xu Jiannan seized the opportunity and didn't give him the opportunity to choose. Because the brain consciousness will "consciously" avoid harm.
Fan Dong came back to his senses, as calm as he did before, but his undulating chest could not hide the strong fluctuations in his mood at the moment.
"Yes, my legs...... Injured a few years ago. It was a big earthquake, and we were sent to the earthquake area to rescue, but the aftershocks did not stop, and in the process of rescuing people, the collapsed beam fell on me. Since then, I've been recuperating completely. Fan Dong said deliberately lightly.
Xu Jiannan instantly grasped the key point. She had already imagined that natural disasters would be more powerful than man-made disasters. A person like Fan Dong, who has good training and quality, is less likely to have a mental breakdown caused by personal emotions and cause mental illness. Unless, unless, it's some powerful force he can't resist. For example, natural disasters.
But to say that such a tough guy was scared by an earthquake and a broken bone is too far-fetched. Xu Jiannan can think that although all this seems to be related to the earthquake and the injury, it is not the direct cause. It must have been in the process of saving someone, or in the process of his injury, something unknown happened.
It is never easy to induce a traumatized person to recall and describe the traumatic experience in detail, and people will try to bury or forget the pain in their hearts out of self-preservation, as if nothing had happened.
Therefore, Xu Jiannan did not dare to ask directly what special things happened at that time. Instead, he went around the bend and talked about the earthquake, so that Fan Dong could accept it a little bit.
"Ah, it's the earthquake. I think it was three or four years ago, I think it was very serious, the location was relatively remote, and the surrounding environment was changed because of the earthquake. Xu Jiannan was like a chatting friend, and there was no doctor's tone in his tone. In this way, Fan Dong's normal desire to communicate can be aroused.
Fan Dong nodded and said, "Yes, it's in the middle of nowhere, but the scenery is beautiful. When the earthquake struck, there were many tourists who traveled there. A small town, almost completely destroyed. ”
"When nature is angry, it never gives humans a chance to rebel. But fortunately, there are heroes like you, at least, to win some people a chance to resist. Xu Jiannan expressed this from the bottom of his heart. At the same time, it also gave Fan Dong some confidence and strength.
Sure enough, Fan Dong smiled with a little relief and said, "You're right, Doctor Xu, it's just a small group of people. When we arrived, the whole city looked like it had been bombed during World War II! The terrain was so special that it was completely different from the disaster that happened to our city. Landslides, rubble rolling, these can bring secondary disasters to disasters. When we first arrived, we thought that we couldn't save anyone, a ruin......" Fan Dong's emotions were driven by memories, at this time, the inexplicable unstable forgetting seemed to be gone, the process of recalling was very smooth and clear, and the meaning expressed was also very clear and accurate. Xu Jiannan did not interrupt him, but looked at him seriously with both eyes, and was a sincere listener.
Fan Dong seemed to have forgotten what he was here for, and he recalled very energetically: "We have never been to that place before. When you get there, it's almost like a fly without a head, and can you imagine that the search is almost entirely done by police dogs! The people who survived have been evacuated from the earthquake zone, and there will be a small aftershock every few hours. At that time, I remember that the sky was full of dust, the whole sky was earthy yellow, and there was not a single inhabitant of the city, it was empty, like a dead city. Our task is to find as many living people as possible in this dead city. ”
Xu Jiannan listened to Fan Dong's description, as if he was there, and his delicate eyebrows couldn't help frowning slightly.
At this time, Fan Dong asked in a mocking tone: "Do you think the pictures are acceptable after the disaster reports you have watched on TV? But in fact, you can't imagine it at all." In a real earthquake, a dead person can be stepped on in the middle of the ruins almost a few steps. At first, no one was adaptable, some of them were too young to move, and some tried to get around with respect for the dead. After all, the living are racing against time, so how can they have time to take care of the emotions of the dead! In this way, the team I belonged to rescued 34 people in three days, and we all felt very excited, and 34 lives were lost! Every time we heard a faint cry for help, no matter how tired we were, we would be in high spirits! At that moment, what we wanted to hear most was probably the barking of the police dog, ha, because that proved that we had found another person!
Fan Dong's expression was happy and sad, heroic for a while, sad and desolate for a while. But these Xu Jianans can understand it, because his psychological condition is not stable enough. Let him clearly recall the past, like a test on a crumbling embankment, he must be careful, control his emotions and consciousness at all times, the slightest deviation and mistake will lead to the bursting of the embankment.
In the river of human spiritual consciousness, a steady gradual progression is the most stable state. Even if there is an occasional small rock splash, it will immediately calm down. But once the river is no longer stable and bursts its banks, the monstrous waves will completely crush a person's spiritual world. That is, what the public calls the real - psychopaths.
It is helpless to let Fan Dong take risks to recall the disaster, Xu Jiannan must know his cause in order to be able to help him. And Fan Dong is too rational, this is the most direct and effective method, although there is a little bit of risk.
When Fan Dong tried to take a break and reminisce, Xu Jiannan poured Fan Dong a glass of water, and tried his best to calm his emotions and said: "You don't have to worry about everything, where you think, we will talk." That memory must be a memory that will last a lifetime, even if you have already shown signs of amnesia, but you still remember it clearly. Drink saliva, let's take our time. ”
Fan Dong took the water gratefully, but his hands were still shaking. I took a sip of water and calmed down a little.
Looking at Fan Dong's trembling hands, Xu Jiannan was diagnosing his paralysis in his heart.
This is the same as He Jie's previous case, but it is not exactly the same. In the same way, they are all numb and unconscious in a part of their bodies psychologically after experiencing a huge emotional shock. The difference between them is that He Jie's emotional impact comes from a person, she at least has good memories to immerse in, and her mother as the motivation she must live. She has to work hard and live a normal life in order to take care of her family, so her numbness and very "rationality" are limited to her left hand. Yes, for right-handed people, numbing the left hand doesn't seem to get in the way too much.
But Fan Dong's situation is different, his psychological impact comes from the big environment and injuries, and in the face of natural disasters, it is like a battlefield. How many people who have been on the battlefield or have been in war zones all year round will have some psychological problems to a greater or lesser extent.
There was a case of an officer bending down on the battlefield to pick up a grenade thrown by the enemy, but before his hand could touch it, the bomb exploded. He wasn't hurt, but at that moment, his mouth was wide open because of the sudden explosion, which was a natural reaction to fear. But after a few minutes, his mouth was closed and his tongue retracted, but he could no longer speak.
Can it be said that the bomb didn't hurt him in the slightest, but it blew him up? Of course not. He is paralyzed in ecstasy, but the paralysis is on the tongue.