Crazy Psychologist

Chapter 465 Make One Body Look at Another Body

After Hu Peng left, Mu Chun leaned back in her chair and watched Little Watermelon's news for a while. Recently, she has been busy with public welfare hiking, and hardly posted any other news.

Mu Chun looked at it and laughed, thinking that this smile is really interesting, even if it is another personality who loves public welfare so much and is so caring.

It's just that Xiao Xigua looks more cheerful and lively than Mu Xiao.

This is a bit strange. There should be a big difference between the two personalities in dual personality. Usually, one is more depressive and the other is the opposite—cheerful, lively and even overly cheerful and lively, so that there will be some impulsive behavior.

In the first two encounters with Xiao Xigua, Mu Chun didn't notice that she was overly lively and cheerful.

Maybe it's because the time is too short, maybe it's still impossible to understand the personality traits of the real little watermelon just by meeting briefly and through the Internet.

Finally, he stopped from his busy schedule, and Mu Chun called Zhang Wenwen back.

As a result, no one answered the call.

Just as he was about to put his phone away and start reading Pan Guangshen's records, Mu Chun found that Mu Xiao had left him a message, "Call me back when you are free."

So Mu Chun called Mu Xiao back, and it happened that Mu Xiao had no patients at this time.

"It's the case of Zhang Wenwen's patient. I came to the outpatient clinic once, and I've seen this case before." Mu Xiao said calmly.

This is a case of doppelgangers, where a patient reports seeing another self and a second or even a third self.

It can be said that this is not a rare plot in human literature, especially some famous authors seem to have a very strong and romantic interest in creating a work about doppelgangers.

Whether it is the outstanding horror novelist Edgar Allan Poe, or the short stories of Maupassant, and the Argentine writer Borges, there have been a hero who meets another self.

Poe's hero stabs his doppelgänger only to discover that it was he who was wounded.Borges chases another Borges and finally realizes maybe this is a person.

The poet Eliot also wrote a similar poem about the third person who is by his side in "The Wasteland".

The poet Heine even created poems about doubles.

If writers like doppelgängers, then from a medical point of view, this second self is a kind of "illusion", and more specifically it should be called "out-of-body experience".

Many literary and film works and even legends will use a perspective floating in the air to express this out-of-body experience. When people describe some near-death states, they will also say, "I feel that I have left my body, and I see that I am lying on the ground. There, the doctors were busy around me. They nervously looked at the monitor and treated me nervously. I should be in pain, but I couldn't speak, and I couldn't feel anything.

But the other me looked at everything that happened to me with ease, I was so helpless.I want to go into my body, I want to merge with myself, but no, I can only look at the other me on the outside, that's it, two identical me. "

This kind of thing has been circulated in human culture more than once.

Zhang Wenwen's patients may be influenced by such cultural works, or they may be obsessed with thinking about the dualism of body and mind, or they may be in a state of dissociation. For example, patients with schizophrenia may also experience similar hallucinations.

If it is not, or in other words, it should be differentially diagnosed at the beginning of the examination what is going on with this [illusion].Why can't the brain integrate this state, why does it build a complete body consciousness outside of itself.

Often, this extra body awareness can be frightening to people and incomprehensible to those around them.

From a theoretical point of view, almost every part of the body can have a "phantom part", but the brain will not have it, that is, the "phantom brain" will not appear, because the brain is where the phantom part appears.

Combined with the situation of BIID patients, the double body situation will be more interesting. BIID patients will feel that they have an extra arm, and that arm is not their own. It is almost similar to a [Cthulhu]-style existence. Odd, idiosyncratic, unimaginable and hostile.

No matter how complete it looks, whether or not that arm is articulated, well-skeletal, or even clean-skinned, even if it is flexible, it looks weird and intolerable to BIID patients, who hoard tourniquets and use Dry ice, they're always imagining themselves with an extra arm - how bad is this thing, how could it be on me.

Even if they are very resistant to a part of the body structure, the consciousness of BIID patients still remains in their own body, and they are conscious even if they don’t appear in that arm, or part of my consciousness is also in the arm.

One is a state of isolation, and the other, it seems, is a complete copy. The latter feels that he is inhabiting a body outside his body, and that body is complete.

"Mu Chun, are you listening?" Mu Xiao asked softly on the other end of the phone.

"I'm listening, so is it a hallucination?" Mu Chun asked.

"There is a problem with convulsions. I didn't tell Zhang Wenwen about this at the beginning." Mu Xiao said.

"Have you checked his medical records?" Mu Chun felt that she was asking the question knowingly. It was obvious that either the patient had a convulsion in the Department of Psychology, or Mu Xiao must have learned from the patient that he had a convulsion. The simplest The path should be medical records.

Mu Chun asked the age of the first convulsion, and Mu Xiao said that there was only the time of the most recent convulsion in the medical records, which was a month ago.

Considering that the patient is an adult, and there is no hypokalemia and sodium, and excluding convulsive reactions caused by high fever, Mu Xiao believes that intracranial infection or intracranial space-occupying lesions should be considered.

"But there was no relapse within a month." Mu Chun walked to the window sill and said while looking at Pinellia.

"Yes, I asked the patient if he had another convulsion in the past month, and the patient denied it." Mu Xiao's voice hesitated a little at this point.

Mu Chun helped her speak out, "Then we have to consider space-occupying lesions in the brain."

"Well, yes, do you remember that case? We used to learn in class, a 22-year-old young man, saw his body sitting in an office desk and typing on a computer, and he wanted to stand up and leave the seat by himself. , but he couldn’t sit still, he was almost crazy, no matter whether he wanted to get back into that body or move that body, he couldn’t sit still, it was a state of complete panic and out of control, I remember what was said in the book .”

(End of this chapter)