Chapter Eighty-Three: The Hidden Trauma of Childhood
As if seeing Xia Lichen's uneasiness, the psychiatrist changed to a more gentle tone.
"I ...... I don't remember anything, I was happy when I was a kid, but my parents were still ......."
"Yes, this is it! Think about it further. ”
Regarding the absence of Xia Lichen's parents, in fact, she never mentioned it to the doctor, and he had doubted today's judgment before, but at that time, she was emotionally unstable, so she thought about conservative treatment to control what was in front of her first.
However, over the years, her condition has not improved, but has worsened.
"I forgot about the doctor, I just knew that my parents were gone, so I was very sad, I wanted to see them, but my brother told me they would never come back to me!"
When I think of my memories after I was ten years old, my headache was relieved because I had just taken the medicine, but now it seems to be hurting again.
But this time, the doctor did not relent, but continued.
"You should have had hysteria once when you were a child, but it wasn't serious, was there anything else besides the ones you don't remember?"
"No, something happened at home again, I was sad for a while, and I went to the hospital to see it, but the people there just told me that I was too stressed, and I was prescribed some soothing medicine and then there was no follow-up.
She held her head a little helplessly, and inadvertently recalled that Shaohua had told herself that they had met when they were children, but she had forgotten her.
Was that then?
"I'm going to tell you an unfortunate news, although I was afraid that you would be frightened before, and I thought that the conservative treatment should be well controlled in the early stage, but recently your situation has not been as slowly improving as you thought."
The doctor began to patiently explain her condition, and Xia Lichen's mood seemed to have fallen into an ice cave.
"Sometimes it's just because of the stimulation brought by something, which causes changes in the brain, and makes you feel that you don't need to take medicine for a while, but in fact, there are already a lot of holes inside, but there is just a lack of a point to cause an explosion."
Anyway, he has also been a psychiatrist for Xia Lichen for two years, and he regrets her changes, but after living for most of his life, he can only bear it again and again, and try to save it again and again.
He has seen too many people, who are obviously fine one day and are either crazy the next day, or jump off the building to end their lives, and there is no room for any recovery.
And now Xia Lichen has entered such a stage, but there seems to be something that invisibly supports her full sobriety, so she can barely look like a normal person.
"But doctor, what if...... Will I be fine the moment my heart knot is really completely opened? My boyfriend doesn't remember me now so I'm always sad, I want him to remember who I am, is that if he remembers my words, everything will be back to normal? ”
Her heart was scared, she was trembling, but what could she do but listen to the doctor's mind?
"The cause is not so easy to eliminate, maybe you can try not to make yourself so tired, maybe two years ago, you could still live in society like a normal person, but your current situation is no longer suitable."
Looking at the tiredness and redness in the corners of Xia Lichen's eyes, even if he didn't have to guess, he had already guessed that she was a person who worked very hard and was full of expectations for the future.
Allow yourself to pause for a while? She turned her eyes to other places at a loss, and at that moment she broke down and cried.
"I'm just not reconciled! I don't want to be reconciled, why fate always treats me like this...... When I was a child, I cruelly took away my parents, and when I grew up, my brother abandoned me and my brother, and later even my boyfriend was unfortunately ...... But when I knew he was still alive, and I thought fate had finally favored me, he forgot about me. ”
The psychiatrist just sat on the other side and watched calmly, and during the treatment process, the emotions of some conditions will be out of control at any time.
"Am I not destined to be happy? But those who hurt me have not received any substantial retribution. ”
Maybe there is another way, that is, she just forgets about Chen Shaohua, so that she will change back to the former self, who has never met him.
Although she will still be sad because of her brother's affairs, she will never be as painful as she is now.
"You're not alone, kid, do you want to hear my story?"
After Xia Lichen was tired of crying, the doctor slowly opened his mouth and said to her with a smile.
"Although I am a very prestigious psychiatrist in the eyes of everyone in this hospital, I am ...... My daughter was born with a mental illness, but she was not born to me, but to other mentally ill children that I adopted in the hospital. ”
Probably everyone has an unspeakable memory, but in the doctor's mouth, he is so relaxed, like the owner of a cake shop.
"Dr. Lin, why are you telling me these ......?"
This is the first time, Xia Lichen took the initiative to call the other party's surname, but she was so puzzled.
"Because I want to tell you, at least not everyone in this world is so happy, even though my daughter is not related to me by blood, but for her I have never been married, and when I adopted her, I saw that she was really pitiful, and I did not know that she had a hereditary mental illness, and she left me forever when she was ten years old."
As she said this, she could clearly see a slight reddish sign in the doctor's eyes.
"I lost my parents when I was 10 years old."
These are not intended to be two tragedies that will be difficult to let go.
Lin sighed and continued: "So every time I see a girl as big as you, I can't help but think of my daughter, if she is still alive, if I can check the gas valve again when I go out that day......"
It seemed that she was a little touched by the scene, and she suddenly became sad.
There is a child born with mental illness in the family, and her world does not have any view of right and wrong, and she does not know that it is dangerous and safe, so she does not even have the most basic cognition, so how can she live like a normal person?
But it is clear that Dr. Lim is still unmarried, and all of them are ashamed of her daughter.
So usually when she comes to the hospital, when she sees that she doesn't have to finish eating, or doesn't care about her body, he will have a blameful tone, it turns out that she thinks of her daughter.
"I'm not intimidating you, it's just that in less than three months, you will really be like my daughter, a child with an IQ of only two years old, or completely crazy."
Thinking back to Dr. Lin's words, on the way back, she didn't even look at the message sent to her by the garage.
She also solemnly thanked the other party for comforting herself, but some things are destined not to be so easy to unravel.
The streets were deserted, because she couldn't keep replying to messages, and when she learned that her car couldn't be repaired tonight and would have to wait until tomorrow, she could only tell the people in the garage that she was not in a hurry and let them repair it slowly.
After hanging up the phone, she didn't choose to take a taxi home, but wanted to walk on the street alone, anyway, Sister Yu Tong would definitely keep her own food.
But I don't know if it's a coincidence, when she was about to walk to the bus stop in front, she saw a drunk man on the side of the road.
Originally, she didn't want to care, but when the person muttered to herself, she still endured the smell of alcohol on the other party's body for instinct, and slowly approached him.
"Gu Jingrui, it's really you!"
When she carefully lifted the man's chin with her hand covered with tissues, who could that familiar face be if it wasn't Gu Jingrui?
His car was still left aside, as if he regarded it as his home, but after getting out of the car, he fell to the ground unconscious because of drunkenness.
"Leave me alone, I'm fine."
She thought that the other party would answer vaguely, but who knew that although he was drunk, his voice was still normal, just with a flushed handsome face, which was really funny at this time.
"Hey! Anyway, you can't sleep on the side of the road, can you? ”
In fact, it stands to reason that this is none of her business, but no matter how you know each other, and the surroundings are empty, if he encounters any danger because of drunkenness, it is really inappropriate for him to act like this.
Thinking of this, Xia Lichen could only bend down, struggled to lift his arm, found the car key from his pocket, opened the car door and threw him in.
"I'm unlucky to be caught by you!"
Obviously, she wasn't very comfortable, but she still had to drive him to the hotel, but she just wanted to find a place for the other party to rest, so she couldn't take it to her own home, right? So the hotel is actually the most suitable.
I saw that in the hotel lobby late at night, after the room was opened, Xia Lichen's thin figure walked upstairs with difficulty with Gu Jingrui's arm.
And she didn't know that the other party deliberately did it from time to time, her head always leaned into her neck, and she used her hand to pull it away several times, but it was useless.
Finally threw the other party onto the big bed in the hotel, she sighed deeply, casually took a bottle of pure water from the table and took two sips.
"This is where you sleep today."
As she spoke, she put Gu Jingrui's bag and car keys on the bedside table, so that the other party could wake up the next day and see that his important belongings were not missing.
But just as Xia Lichen was about to turn around and leave, a body held her tightly in her arms from behind, and the heavy smell of wine lingered in her nose.
Xia Lichen...... Why are you avoiding me! Why be so nice to that man......"
He was in a daze, and all he could say was these two short sentences.
didn't say anything polite to the other party, she directly broke free from the other party's embrace and let him get rid of it again.
In fact, she didn't think about calling Gu Yan and picking up Gu Jingrui, but considering that it was so late, the other party must have fallen asleep a long time ago, so she had to give up.
But obviously, this result made him embarrassed, and if he hadn't seen him drunk, he would have really wanted to slap him twice.