Chapter 31: Extra

Hu Yi is a senior psychologist.
Recently, he had a particularly difficult case. The patient suffered from dissociative amnesia for many years, accompanied by severe depression. He has a prominent identity, like most wealthy and powerful upper-class people, he is very resistant to psychotherapy.
Delayed to the point where they have to seek medical treatment, the patient's physical and psychological conditions are already so bad that they can endanger their lives at any time. The team tried to treat him with drugs, but the effect was not good; the doctor had many psychological interviews with him, and it was still difficult to diagnose the cause.
The patient was transferred to Hu Yi's side and was advised to undergo hypnotherapy.
At first, the patient did not approve of this treatment plan. Hypnosis requires mutual trust between the hypnotized and hypnotized, and the hypnotized maintains cooperation throughout the process. The patient showed a variety of negative psychological defense mechanisms in psychological interviews, which also showed that he may not be suitable for hypnosis.
But hypnosis is not a backup treatment option given to him by the hospital. He is sick to this extent, and other treatment methods are not effective. Hypnosis is currently the only way to break the bottleneck.
The doctor has not determined the cause, and the cause is the key to treatment.
Hu Yi explained to the patient:
Cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma therapy, psychoanalysis, etc. that can be applied to diseases are all causal treatment methods. In other words, we have to know the cause in order to solve the result of the cause.

After careful consideration, the patient was shaken: "The cause...So, things that I can't remember, can I find them through hypnosis?"
Hu Yi nodded: "Hypnosis is to enter your subconscious dimension. The real things you don't remember are because the disease is covered with a veil. Although you can't remember the real things, those things will stay in your subconscious world. "
"After hypnosis, can you and I go to the subconscious world and ask all the things I forgot?"
"It's not that simple," Hu Yi didn't dare to say too full. "First of all, the subconsciousness is the existence that has not reached the state of perception. Even if hypnosis is successful, your subconsciousness is active in that dimension, and you don't know that. I am being hypnotized; in reality, you and I cannot have a direct dialogue with "him". How much effective information can be obtained and what kind of therapeutic effect can be achieved are currently not preset in advance. Secondly, there are unsuccessful hypnosis Circumstances, sudden conditions in the subconscious world..."
The patient interrupted him: "How unsuccessful is more successful?"
"Based on the hospital's current evaluation of you, yes. Therefore, it is up to you to accept hypnotherapy in the end."
Seeing his hesitation, Hu Yi couldn't help but say another word to persuade him.
"The purpose of hypnosis is not only to find the crux of the disease, but through memory backtracking, I also have the opportunity to help you dilute the traumatic memory, strengthen the happy part, and reduce depression."
This conversation is over.
Hu Yi said goodbye to the patient, emphasizing: "See you next time."
He sincerely hopes that he can receive treatment.
The two knew that if he gave up treatment, his condition also meant that he had decided to give up his life.
A week later.
The patient came to the hospital again and told Hu Yi that he was willing to be hypnotized.
Thus, treatment officially began.
The subconscious mind is extremely mysterious.
Some people say that dreams are connected to the subconscious, while others say that the human soul is connected to the subconscious.
The hypnotist uses hypnosis to open a path to the subconscious world for the patient. The patient's soul, or "consciousness", is in the subconscious world, which he chooses.
That consciousness can be guided by a hypnotist, just like he is holding a rope to guide the outside world.
However, the rope is not 100% strong, and consciousness may break free from the control of the hypnotist.
In order to avoid the patient's loss of consciousness, Hu Yi and him developed two wake-up methods that represent the end of hypnosis in the early stage of hypnosis.
Method one, awakening by strong light, when he feels the strong light in the subconscious world, it means the end of hypnosis. This is their regular wake-up method.
The second method is special awakening. When the conventional awakening does not work, Hu Yi left a back door in his subconscious. He will guide the patient to the safe house in the subconscious world, which is the last safe haven he constructed and named, and the hypnotist will put their treatment materials there.
When "consciousness" sees the information, he will realize the truth of the world and wake up. It's like, a person is lost in a strange nightmare, and is suddenly awakened. This is a dream, and all the entangled puzzles become clear in an instant.
This treatment was more difficult than any previous treatment Hu Yi has dealt with.
The patient's course of illness was too long, and his subconscious world was treacherous. Even if he was successfully hypnotized, he could not find effective information.
If traumatic memories do not exist on the subconscious level, to retrieve them requires a deeper level, the unconscious world.
This will undoubtedly make hypnotherapy more complicated.
Real patients and therapists are in reality. On the subconscious level, the hypnotized patient is tied with an invisible thread to connect with the therapist on the outer layer. When his direction is confused, the therapist can pull it slightly by pulling the thread.
The unconscious level is like a long distance, the line is no longer reachable, and the therapist can intervene almost zero, and it depends on the patient himself.
The greater the risk, the greater the difficulty.
The patient chose to trust him and receive treatment, so Hu Yi did not give up.
He spent a long time analyzing the blank memories and suspected traumatic experiences of patients through psychological interviews.
With Hu Yi's help, they were sorted and divided, forming "houses" of different forms in the patient's subconscious world.
Unfortunately, this has new problems.
The patient's form in the subconscious world is a rabbit. The rabbit refused to approach the room with the traumatic experience. He believed that all the rooms were "locked."
Hu Yi tried to construct a guide to lead the rabbit. But the rabbit cannot trust his virtual guide. This distrustful rejection has interrupted hypnosis several times, not to mention taking him to a deeper room.
There is no hope of progress until the treatment has progressed.
He saw the patient's illness getting worse.
The miracle appeared in the 23rd hypnotherapy. Hu Yi was surprised to find that the patient had constructed a new guide by himself.
The new guide is out of control and will not respond to his instructions, and the patient's consciousness is guided by the new guide. Hu Yi immediately realized that this was extremely dangerous, so he stopped hypnosis and awakened the patient with bright light.
The waking patient recalled the experience of hypnosis, and his feeling was "relaxation and pleasure."
Hypnosis stays at the subconscious level. Although he cannot describe what his consciousness sees in that world, the evaluation of this hypnosis has never been better.
With positive feedback, treatment is necessary.
Hu Yi carried out the next hypnosis with a fluke mentality, and never expected something serious.
The patient's consciousness was brought into the room by the new guide. He no longer responded to the therapist's instructions, as Hu Yi had expected. But never thought that his non-response lasted for a whole week.
Consciousness wanders on the unconscious level, and the body relies on the bottle to maintain nutrition... According to popular words, he has become a living dead, his brain is active, and he loses control of the body.
That week, Hu Yi was under great mental pressure.
He had never encountered a similar case in his career, and he couldn't even think of the terrible consequences it would cause.
A comatose patient may die at any time due to brain death or physical impairment.
He has a serious mental illness, has lost the guidance of a hypnotist, and has no way to avoid subconscious and unconscious trauma. Even if you wake up, there is a high probability that you will fall into complete mental confusion.
What Hu Yi can do is to wake up with strong light regularly every day, looking forward to the patient's response.
Both he and the patient are lucky.
On the eighth day, he was awakened by strong light.
This awakening has nothing to do with Hu Yi's medical skills. It just so happens that the patient's consciousness stays at the subconscious level, so the awakening works.
The sequelae that Hu Yi was worried about did not happen.
Psychological interviews after the patient was awake showed that the therapeutic effect of hypnosis was achieved. He can recall the unpleasant memories of childhood, childhood, and youth. Also, happy memories are strengthened, and his trauma is diluted.
He offered to continue treatment.
Hu Yi decided that the risk was too great and strongly did not recommend it, but he still insisted.
In order to ensure the safety of the patient, this hypnosis Hu Yi first set his sights on the new guide.
The strange thing is that at first, he entered the subconscious mind. According to the feedback from "Rabbit", the new guide was not in his world. The rabbit alone, as before, was unwilling to touch the remaining two houses.
Before Hu Yi planned to end the hypnosis, the guide suddenly appeared.
Before he could give instructions, the guide's sudden behavior aroused the pain of the patient.
He was sitting on a chair in the consulting room, his upper limbs twitching violently.
At this time, the patient's consciousness hadn't reached unconsciousness, and Hu Yi immediately communicated with him to appease.
"Adjust your breath, take a deep breath. No matter what you see, stop."
The patient's hand was holding something, and the word "photo" was muttered.
"Repeat my words and start executing," he told him: "Take a deep breath and take the picture away."
The patient stopped trembling after adjusting his breath three times back and forth according to his words.
Hu Yi immediately activated the strong light wakeup, but it didn't work.
This means that the patient has once again entered the unconscious world.
For the first time, Hu Yi realized that the new guide is not necessarily "good".
The patient's subconscious self-constructed characters are both good and evil. The new guide he previously judged has always been biased towards "good" because it always brings good results.
But this time the patient’s stress response gave it the possibility of "evil".
Hu Yi constantly wakes up with strong light.
The problem is more serious.
A few hours later, he noticed that the patient was responding to his instructions, but the bright light failed to wake him up.
This shows that he returned to his subconscious mind, felt unusually confused, and was on the boundary of being lost. The new guide was more likely to be "evil".
So he asked: "Who is the person next to you?"
The patient shook his head and closed his mouth tightly.
"Relax, feel and judge whether it is kind and malicious to you."
He seemed to be wary of something.
Hu Yi said slowly: "Yin Xian, don't have to talk to it, you answer me."
"It is kind and not malicious." The patient replied.
"Are you sure?"
The patient said: "I'm sure."
Urgently, Hu Yi wants to get him out of hypnosis.
"You have to leave Little Rabbit Island as soon as possible."
"I can't help you, you have to rely on yourself. If you don't go out, you won't be able to get out, and your consciousness will always go to the subconscious."
The final alternative wake-up plan, he explained to him word by word.
"Remember what we promised. If you dream of a nightmare that you can't wake up, go to the safe house and find the paper you left there."
The patient vaguely called a girl's name, probably calling the suspicious new guide.
Hu Yi recorded those three words and awakened him quickly.
"You hide it, go to the safe house, and remember not to give her the paper from the safe house."
For some reason, his instructions exacerbated the patient's stress.
He convulsed and no longer responds to arousal and commands.
Once again, he fell into the unconscious world.