The Third Mental Illness Rehabilitation Center was built 23 years ago and is one of the earliest private mental illness treatment institutions in Hanjiang.
As can be seen from the name, they are not a regular mental illness hospital, but a rehabilitation center.
There are three wards in the rehabilitation center. The first ward is much cheaper than the regular hospital, but the accommodation environment is extremely poor.
The fee for the second ward is one-fifth higher than that of a regular hospital, and it is equipped with special care and a doctor on duty.
The third ward is dedicated to serving a small number of patients, and the fees are extremely high, which are several times that of ordinary wards.
From the notes left by the dean, it can be seen that when the rehabilitation center was first established, it was completely different from later. At that time, the third ward was not only a closed restricted area, but also the place with the highest fees and the best environment in the entire rehabilitation center.
In this way, for about three months, the rehabilitation center welcomed a special patient.
The dean recorded the scene in detail, and in his mind, that day should be a turning point.
A car with a license plate from another province drove into the hospital, and two men dragged out a delicate and beautiful pregnant woman from the back seat of the car.
The dean received them personally, and only after inquiring did he find out that the woman suffered from a serious mental illness.
Out of consideration for the physical safety of pregnant women, the dean rejected the other party.
The man didn't care, he paid ten times the hospitalization fee of the senior ward, and told the dean that he would pay half a year's fee in advance.
Looking at the cash on the table, the dean and several doctors were a little tempted. After the rehabilitation center opened, the general ward was full of people, but most of the rooms in the third ward were still empty. After all, most patients who are not short of money will still choose regular hospitals for treatment.
Under the persuasion of the doctor, the dean went through the hospitalization procedures for the pregnant woman and arranged her in the third room of the third ward.
After confirming that the pregnant woman moved in safely, the man left his phone number to the doctor, claiming that he was the husband of the pregnant woman, but when the dean wanted to see the marriage certificate of the two, the man could not show it.
After receiving the money, the matter is a foregone conclusion, even if the dean wants to go back, all he can do is take good care of the pregnant woman.
After the doctor's diagnosis, the pregnant woman does suffer from mental illness, which is a typical symptom of bipolar disorder. She never communicates with others, sometimes crying alone, sometimes getting angry, smashing everything she sees, and even hurting herself.
In order to protect her, the hospital specially wrapped the furniture in Room 3 with thick cotton cloth.
The woman's condition is very unstable, and because she is pregnant with a child, most of the medicines cannot be used, so doctors can only take turns to give her psychological counseling.
After more than three months, as the due date approached, the dean specially hired a few nurses to guard the ward 24 hours a day.
I don't know if it's because the baby is about to be born, awakening the motherhood of the crazy woman, or the doctor's treatment has an effect.
Pregnant women are no longer crazy, and most of the time they don’t let people approach them, they just touch their stomachs, and sit alone on a low hospital bed and talk to themselves.
Four months later, the baby was born, and the pregnant woman's condition improved markedly.
The director and the doctor of the rehabilitation center were relieved. They called the pregnant woman's husband on the same day, but they called several times in a row, but no one answered.
They had a bad premonition in their hearts, and went to check the man's ID card, but found that all the documents were fake.
After deliberation with the doctor, the dean and the doctor decided that when the prepaid money was spent, if the man hadn't come over, they would call the police. Considering the woman's condition, they did not tell the woman about it.
The pregnant woman did not know the news. After the birth of the child, she seemed to have regained hope in life and began to actively cooperate with the treatment. From time to time, she would take the initiative to ask her husband for information. After she felt that she was cured, her husband would come to pick her up. she.
But after waiting for half a year, all the prepaid hospital expenses were spent, and the man seemed to have disappeared and never appeared again.
Different voices gradually emerged in the hospital. Some doctors and nurses suggested that the pregnant woman should be sent away, and it took time and effort to take care of one large and one small.
Dean Yu Xin couldn't bear to wait any longer, but the nurse who took care of the woman's daily life inadvertently missed the point.
The woman took the initiative to ask her husband to speak on the phone. There was a cold mechanical synthetic voice on the microphone, and the number had been suspended.
Before sending the woman to the rehabilitation center for treatment, the woman seemed to have reached an agreement with the man, and now the agreement has been torn up, and the situation has become even worse for the woman who is already ill.
She began to be hostile to the people around her, as if she was lost in a dark labyrinth and could not get out.
To prevent the sick woman from harming the newborn, doctors separate her from the baby.
The woman is crazy, unable to communicate, and the baby is still small, so the hospital has no choice but to raise it on her behalf.
They are also actively treating women, and want to get the man's information through the woman, so that he can make up for the follow-up treatment and hospitalization expenses.
No one could have imagined that the treatment was three years, the woman's child grew up in a mental hospital, and in this hospital full of lunatics, learned to speak and walk.
The period from zero to three years old is called infancy. It is the most efficient period of learning in one's life, and it is also a critical period for the formation of basic cognition of things.
It is in this twisted and morbid environment that a woman's child has experienced the most important three years.
The prepaid money has long been spent, and the doctors and nurses are now obliged to take care of them. One or two days is fine. As time goes by, more and more people begin to complain, and even the eyes that look at the child have become complicated.
The crazy mother lives in the ward. One of the things the child has done the most in the past three years is to be picked up by doctors and nurses, and look at the woman inside through the door panel along the window on the door of Ward No. 3.
After a long time, after the child learned to walk, he would sometimes run outside the third ward by himself, looking at the door of the ward several times his height.
Day by day, children of the same age are accompanied by their families, and the world is full of colors.
The world in the eyes of this child is somewhat deformed, and the cold white tone occupies most of the memory, and gradually he shows some behaviors that are different from ordinary children.
Chen Ge unknowingly turned to the end, and the content on the white paper was like the dean's personal diary: "This child is even more terrifying than my childhood experience."
He thought it was too much to play with human head models and dismantle plastic bones when he was a child, but he didn't expect to be more miserable than himself.
Putting down the blank paper, Chen Ge looked at the unsent letters.
There is no stamp or signature on the envelope. It looks yellow and worn. It should have been written many years ago and has never been sent.
In chronological order, Chen Ge opened several letters one by one.
The first letter was written twenty years ago, when the woman's child was only two years old.
"Dr. Chen, this is the first time I have seen such a smart child. I can't imagine that he can learn everything so fast."
"Born in a place ignored by the normal world and living in a sick environment, should I send him away?"
"This kid will definitely be a genius when he grows up, but what he's doing now makes me feel uneasy."
"He's been talking to himself since he learned to talk, just like his mother. No, it feels more like he's communicating with something we can't see."
"The doctor and the nurse on duty are very busy. No one has taught him to speak except me, but I can always hear some unfamiliar words from his mouth."
"Did he learn it himself by overhearing doctors talking to patients? Or is there something teaching him?"
"I'm a materialist, but what happened to this child made me a little shaken. It is rumored that children can see things that adults can't see when they are babies. Are these true?"