Real Cthulhu Running Game

  Chapter 1231 American Mental Illness (Part 2)

"Uh, what does this book "The Globalization of American Mental Illness" talk about? Is this mental illness still divided into American and European styles? Shouldn't it be a set of standards for the world?" Koukawa asked with a puzzled face .

Facing Xiaofu Guchuan's question, Liu Xing shook his head and said, "Xiaofu, you are not a medical student, so you don't know the history of some medical terms. Take the post-traumatic stress disorder that Sakai Changzhi just mentioned, or Let’s take the more familiar PTSD as an example. The time when this term appeared is not far from us; after the end of the South Vietnam War decades ago, the country on the top of the mountain on the other side of the sea suffered a big loss again, because Talking trees make their soldiers very hard to guard against, so some soldiers have some mental problems because of this, and these problems are simply and rudely summarized by PTSD."

"PTSD, in simple terms, is that a person is stimulated for various reasons, so if there is a similar type of stimulation after that, even if this stimulation is insignificant compared to the stimulation he received before, this People will also do all kinds of irrational behaviors, and even use violent means; it must be admitted that the generalization of PTSD is actually very accurate. Those veteran soldiers will indeed suffer from the explosions and scattered flesh on the battlefield. The sudden loud noise had a bad reaction to the medium rare steak."

"It is precisely because the accuracy of PTSD's generalization is very high that it has been recognized by the vast majority of people... To use an analogy that may not be accurate here, PTSD is like a meme on the Internet. Staying on your own one-third of an acre of land, only those who really come into contact with it will say something casually, but as it spreads faster and faster on the Internet, more and more people don’t even see it. Its original source will also start to use it when they think it is right; but in the end, this stalk may completely break the circle, as long as you can get along with this stalk, or even a derivative of this stalk, you will be You can see the existence of this meme.”

"The development of PTSD is like this. Originally, it only referred to the mental problems of those retired soldiers, but intentionally or unintentionally, the concept of PTSD covers a variety of groups until it refers to the whole world. Humans so far... Although there are some people who think that animals and even plants can get PTSD; as the saying goes, where there are people, there will be business, and to use a less scientific analogy, PTSD is a blue ocean market, and Everywhere you see are big fish and small fish, so as a fisherman, what should you do now?"

   "Then it goes without saying, just go out to sea to fish!"

Looking at Makoto Yamamoto who cooperated with him, Liu Xing said with a smile: "Yes, the capital that smelled the smell rushed up like sharks, and quickly divided this blue ocean into a clean, big and small piece. Psychological clinics have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, and various drugs for the treatment of mental diseases have also appeared wisely, but eating cakes is always faster than making cakes, so soon this blue ocean market has become a red ocean market, so the choice in front of everyone is There are only two - either make the cake smaller or make the cake bigger."

"If you choose the former, everyone will fight with real swords and real guns, and both parties will bear certain losses, but more importantly, it is not the two parties here, but the ten parties, and the forces of the hundred parties are sitting on a table. Therefore, so many forces are really getting angry, then the table is likely to be unable to hold; so their choice can only be to make a big cake, but there are so many retired soldiers with problems, you can't say Do all retired soldiers have problems?"

"Expand the scope of?"

   Koukawa Xiaofu suddenly said: "As long as the definition of PTSD is expanded, the number of people with PTSD will naturally increase."

Liu Xing looked at Guchuan Xiaofu with some surprise, and said seriously: "Fortunately Xiaofu, you joined us, otherwise I think you may be hung from the street lamp after more than 20 years; yes, since Coca-Cola It’s Fat House Happy Water, so Pepsi, which is a direct competitor, is naturally Fat House Happy Water. Going down, Sprite and Fanta, which are both soft drinks, can also be regarded as Fat House Happy Water, followed by orange juice and iced black tea, which are flavored beverages. It can also be regarded as the happy water of the fat house... In the end, the boiled water is also the happy water of the fat house!"

"After the main tone is set, then these capitals have to start working. After all, you can't tell passersby that you are sick, right? So you have to do something to convince passers-by that you are sick, so it's overwhelming. Propaganda started, but it didn't work very well at first, because you couldn't come up with a good example of how everyone in this room could be sick; at this time, a tsunami swept across South Asia, to many There was a severe impact in one country, and then a lot of international volunteers went into the disaster area."

Speaking of this, Liu Xing couldn't help but snorted coldly, "Guess what, a large number of psychiatrists among these volunteers ran to the disaster area without bringing anything, and then saw a disaster victim and said you had PTSD and needed them to come. Treatment... Of course, what I say may be a bit extreme, but in fact, in the past two decades, as long as there have been large-scale natural and man-made disasters, keywords such as PTSD and psychiatrist will be rampant, even if All the victims need is all kinds of material assistance, and those capital will force them to obtain psychological help, or stab them."

"Yes, Western psychologists have a concept - psychological abscess, in simple terms, if a person holds bad things or emotions in his heart, then there will be abscesses in the person's psychology, and finally All kinds of mental illnesses naturally form, so Western psychologists like to ask patients to tell their painful past. This is why there are many psychological mutual aid societies in the West, bringing together a group of people with the same problem. Open the scars."

Sakai Changzhi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "During the earthquake and tsunami a few years ago, I also became a volunteer as a medical student, and then the volunteer who lived in the same tent as me was a psychologist from Europe and the United States. Doctor, because I could assist him in his work as a translator, on the first day I worked with him, I just quit the job... The reason is very simple, his first 'patient' was an eight-year-old who lost his parents Child, and the first sentence he asked me to translate—your mother is gone, the second—your father is gone, and the third—your family is gone.”

   "Wang Defa, Sakai Changzhi, didn't you beat this guy?!" Gu Chuan Xiaofu couldn't help saying.

  Sarah Masachi shrugged and said helplessly: "No, because this is indeed the standard routine of those psychiatrists in Europe and America, even if it sounds a little uncomfortable."

   "People who didn't have any psychological shadows would have problems after asking such a question."

Liu Xing said with a sneer: "Anyway, they are just volunteers, they can leave after staying in the disaster area for ten days and a half months. Before my introduction, I added a sentence that I have participated in the rescue of a certain country, and capital is constantly promoting them, and has a subtle influence on ordinary people, making people mistakenly think that psychological intervention is a necessary rescue in the disaster area... If it sounds bad, I personally think that those psychiatrists who go to the disaster area will do more harm than good to the local area."

"Returning to the previous topic, in addition to the practice of brushing up the presence to influence the public's cognition subtly, some capitals also directly invite internationally renowned psychology experts in the name of the conference, so that the experts can eat, drink and live. OK, then let's discuss whether the behavior of XX is a form of PTSD? OK, since everyone thinks it is, then we will treat people with this behavior as PTSD patients! In this way, a large number of experts I have also started to contribute my part so that more people can get PTSD.”

   Liu Xing paused, looked at the people in the car and said, "Now, if the four of us go to a psychological clinic in Europe and America for diagnosis, at least two of them will become mentally ill."

   "I will definitely have PTSD."

Sakai Changzhi raised his hand and said: "To be exact, it's not that I have it, but the psychiatrist thinks I should have it, because you have suffered such a big change, how can you pretend that nothing happened? Science."

Liu Xing nodded and said seriously: "Creating a concept, spreading it, and obtaining benefits is essentially the set of communication logic used by Degun Goebbels during World War II. If a lie is repeated a hundred times in front of a person, there is a high probability that this person will think this sentence is true. If there is still a reputable organization to stand for this sentence at this time, then it may only be necessary to Fifty times can make people believe it; this is the so-called Goebbels effect, and the reason why European and American countries regard 'propaganda' as a derogatory term is also inseparable from this Goebbels."

"Unfortunately, what European and American countries like to do the most is double standards. They are not using the Goebbels effect to expand the scope of application of certain diseases or drugs, or simply create some new diseases, because new diseases represent Compared with common diseases, mental illness is very subjective, because it has no significant characteristics and exact indicators, so now if you judge whether a person has mental illness, except for a psychiatrist In addition to asking questions, it is to take a set of test papers and let the patient answer the questions, and the number of points scored is considered sick."

   "Uh, it seems to be the case. Except for those severely ill patients, it is indeed difficult to tell whether a person has a mental illness or not." Koukawa Xiaofu nodded and said.

Liu Xing smiled and continued: "So Xiaofu, you can look at the reports in recent years, and you can find that the number of patients suffering from mental illness is increasing year by year, and the main growth points are anxiety disorders and depression. The most subjective mental illness, and most of them are mild... For these mild patients, many psychiatrists are adhering to the attitude that you are willing to get it, then I am also willing to diagnose, and they will not refuse."

"As a result, many of these mildly ill patients deliberately label themselves, because it will make them profit in some ways, such as some public figures who want to whitewash themselves, they will take themselves to have depression or Anxiety to talk about things, prove that they are introspective, or suffered serious cyber violence."

Sakai Changzhi sighed and said depressedly: "I don't know what's going on now, even mental illness can become a trend, this is a kind of backstab for real patients, because the fake is the real one. Both true and false."

Sakai Masachi's words made Yamamoto really couldn't help sighing: "Yeah, I used to have a friend who got depression, but everyone around him thought he was pretending, so he was forced in the end. I can only choose to self-destruct; but then again, although those evil capitals change the world for their own benefit, there should be no big problem with PTSD on Guya, right? Unless he is really hypnotized."

"wrong."

   Liu Xing said without hesitation: "I don't think Gu Ya was hypnotized, nor did he have PTSD, because he may be... I have to ask first, do you believe in the existence of ghosts and gods?"

"Believe."

   "I don't believe it."

Yamamoto, who didn't believe it or not, looked at Sakai Masachi with a little surprise, and Sakai Masachi said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I may have involved you in a, uh, how to say, supernatural incident. ?"

  Because he has personally entered the mirror world, Sakai Masachi has already corrected his mentality.

   "Wang Defa?! What the **** is a supernatural event?"

   Yamamoto said with a bewildered expression: "Aren't we going to use guns? Why are we going to use magic now?"

   "Congratulations, you guessed it right."

Gu Chuan Xiaofu stretched his waist and said: "Friend, you have to prepare yourself mentally now. If we are lucky, we only need to fight with people. If we are not lucky, it will be a showdown between gunpowder and magic. As for If the luck is really bad, then we will be ready to run, because the power of the pistol is not enough to pierce the skin of those monsters."

   "Monster?!"

   Yamamoto really parked the car on the side of the road and said incredulously: "Is there really a monster in this world, don't lie to me, I went to college."

   "I also went to college, but monsters do exist."

Koukawa Xiaofu took out his mobile phone and handed it to Yamamoto, and said with a smile: "I repeat, I hope you can be mentally prepared, because it is normal for ordinary people not to be scared when they see a real monster for the first time. "

   (end of this chapter)