Chapter 466 Let One Body Look at Another Body

After Hu Peng left, Mu Chun leaned back in the chair and looked at Xiao Xigua's updates for a while. She had been busy with charity hiking recently and had hardly posted any other updates.

Mu Chun laughed as she watched, thinking that Xiao Xiao was really interesting. Even with another personality, she was so passionate about charity and so loving.

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

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

The first two times she met Xiao Xigua, Mu Chun did not notice that she was overly lively and cheerful.

Maybe it was because the time was too short, or maybe it was just a short encounter and the Internet still couldn't understand what kind of personality traits the real Xiao Xigua had.

Finally, Mu Chun paused a little from the continuous busyness and called Zhang Wenwen back.

As a result, the phone prompt was no one answered.

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 that time.

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

This is a case about a doppelganger. A patient said that he saw another self and a second or even a third self.

It can be said that this is not an uncommon plot in human literary works, 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, Maupassant's short stories, or the Argentine writer Borges, there has been a protagonist who met another self.

The protagonist in Edgar Allan Poe stabbed his doppelganger but found that he was the one who was injured. Borges chased another Borges and finally found that maybe this was the same person.

The poet Eliot also wrote similar poems about a third person following him in "The Waste Land".

The poet Heine even created a poem about the doppelganger.

If writers like literary materials such as doppelgangers, then from a medical perspective, this second self is a kind of [hallucination], more specifically, it should be called [out-of-body experience].

Many literary and film works and even legends 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. I see myself lying there. The doctors are busy around me. They are nervously watching the monitor and treating me nervously. I should be in pain, but I can't speak, and I can't feel anything.

But the other me is watching everything happening to me in front of me with ease. I am so helpless. I want to enter my body, I want to merge with myself, but it's not right. I can only look at the other me from the outside. That's it, two completely 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 fascinated by the thinking of body-mind dualism, or they may be in a state of dissociation. For example, schizophrenia patients may also have similar hallucinations.

If none of them is true, or in other words, the diagnosis of what exactly is this [hallucination] at the beginning of the examination should be made. Why can't the brain integrate this state, and why does it construct a complete body consciousness outside of itself.

Generally speaking, this extra body consciousness will make people feel scared, and people around them will find it incomprehensible.

Theoretically, almost every part of the body can have a [phantom part], but the brain will not have it, that is, there will be no [phantom brain], because the brain is where the phantom part appears.

Combined with the situation of BIID patients, the situation of double body will be more interesting. BIID patients will feel that they have an extra arm, and that arm is not their own. It is almost like a [Cthulhu]-like existence, full of weirdness, heterogeneity, unimaginable and hostility.

No matter how complete it looks, no matter whether the arm has flexible joints, complete bones, or even neat skin, even if it is flexible and free, in the eyes of BIID patients, this is weird and unbearable. They will hoard tourniquets and use dry ice. They always imagine that they have an extra arm-how bad this thing is, how could it appear on me.

Even if they are very resistant to a part of their body structure, the consciousness of BIID patients is still retained in their own body. They will not think that the arm also has consciousness, or that part of my consciousness is also in the arm.

One is an isolated state, and the other seems to be a complete copy. The latter feels that they live in a body outside the body, and that body is complete.

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

"I am listening, so is it an illusion?" Mu Chun asked.

"With convulsions, this was not told to Zhang Wenwen at the beginning." Mu Xiao said.

"Did you check his medical records?" Mu Chun felt that he was asking a question knowing the answer. It was obvious that either the patient had a seizure while in the psychosomatic department, or Mu Xiao must have learned from the patient that he had a seizure. The easiest way should be the medical records.

Mu Chun asked about the age of the first seizure, and Mu Xiao said that the only time the medical record showed the most recent seizure was a month ago.

Considering that the patient is an adult and has not had hypokalemia or hyponatremia, and that seizures caused by high fever have been ruled out, Mu Xiao believes that intracranial infection or intracranial space-occupying lesions should be considered.

"But there have been no recurrences in a month." Mu Chun walked to the windowsill and said while looking at Banxia.

"Yes, I asked the patient if he had another seizure in this month, and the patient denied it." Mu Xiao's voice was a little hesitant when he said this.

Mu Chun helped her out, "Then we have to consider intracranial space-occupying lesions."

"Yes, do you remember that case? We learned about it in class before. A 22-year-old young man saw his body sitting in an office, working on a computer. He wanted to stand up and leave the seat, but he couldn't. He almost went crazy. Whether he wanted to return to that body or move it, he couldn't sit down. He was completely panicked and out of control. I remember that's what the book said."