Chapter 2375: Bats Fight (XVI)

Chapter 2406 Bats Fight (XVI)

"Imaginary partners are usually not a very rare mental trait." Schiller stood at the front of the conference room, pointing to something on the screen and said: "Dr. Holder mentioned in his paper that among the 8,000 people sampled, 70% described themselves as having had a very specific imaginary partner, and 90% mentioned that they would imagine a voice to comfort themselves when they felt lost."

"Indeed." A red-haired doctor sitting in the first seat tapped the table with a pen and said: "I think everyone here should have had similar experiences. We will imagine another self to comfort ourselves in various situations. This is actually a protective mechanism of the brain."

"Then the problem is not here." An old doctor with a gray beard opposite him said: "This young man named David had a more turbulent childhood than others because of his special background, which may be to him. It caused a certain amount of mental stimulation, which forced his brain to stimulate more self-protection mechanisms. "

"But this is not at the level of dissociative identity disorder." A female doctor wearing glasses pushed her glasses, glanced at the case in her hand and said: "I didn't see any accidents that might cause stimulation in David's childhood experience that we know of."

"That terrorist attack." A doctor reminded: "It is definitely a major trauma."

"But the time point is much later than the appearance of his childhood personality." A black doctor touched his chin and said: "This shows that David's mental state was not stable before the terrorist attack, and the terrorist attack was just the last straw that broke the camel's back."

The old doctor sighed softly, paused for a moment and said: "We must separate all the elements to correctly find the key."

All the doctors stopped to look at him. Obviously, many doctors here were once students under this old professor.

"Imaginary partners, dissociative identity disorder, terrorist attacks, and superpower personality, these are obviously four things."

Some people began to take notes, and the old professor continued: "Which of these four things is normal, which is abnormal, and whether there is a causal relationship between them. Only by clarifying these two issues can we find the key to unlock David's spiritual world."

"I think so too." Schiller pointed to the screen again and said: "Before starting this consultation, I have printed out the details of these four issues. You can turn to page 6 of the consultation materials in your hands..."

The room was even quieter with the sound of flipping books. Everyone read the materials very carefully. After more than ten minutes, there was no movement.

"I think most people's argument is that imaginary partners are completely normal, and any associations David had with people, things, and objects during his childhood should not be classified as pathological." One of the doctors said.

Everyone nodded, and then another doctor said, "David did not show very obvious characteristics of dissociative identity disorder in his childhood. He never claimed to be another person to people around him, which shows that the pathological characteristics of dissociative identity disorder were not obvious at this time."

"But this does not mean that the course of dissociative identity disorder has not begun." The female doctor opposite him looked at the case and said, "I have done some research in this area. Many patients with dissociative identity disorder do not feel that they are split in the early stage of personality split, and they will not tell anyone about their symptoms."

"But in fact, they have begun to have symptoms of auditory and visual hallucinations, memory loss, uncontrolled limbs, and even shock and coma."

"But we did not see this in the investigation report."

"Some patients show very subtle symptoms until they get sick." The female doctor continued, "Especially in children In the process of transitioning to youth, they are usually unable to accurately describe their symptoms because they have been under great mental pressure, and they cannot seek medical treatment because they do not have full civil capacity. "

"I support Serin's view." The black doctor thought and said: "David's dissociative identity disorder will not be caused by a single stimulus. I guess he is not mentally stable by nature. During his growth, his parents did not pay enough attention to him, which led to his failure to seek medical treatment in time, so that he deteriorated to an unmanageable level after the terrorist attack."

"This argument is supported by the vast majority of people and is the most likely scenario." Schiller said: "Although it is normal to have imaginary friends to accompany you, if there are too many of them and they are thought about too frequently, it will affect normal thinking, which may also prove the argument that David's mental state has been unstable since childhood."

"Can his relatives be contacted?" someone asked.

"Obviously not. His stepfather died in a terrorist attack. Three years after he was sent to the Mutant Research Association, his mother died of cancer. His biological father was not involved in his growth process and knew nothing."

The doctors sighed, but continued: "Then only the most critical question remains, the relationship between dissociative identity disorder and superpower personality."

"There is a huge doubt in this." The old professor proposed, "If he is a mutant and suffers from dissociative identity disorder, how could his mutant ability just make the separated personality have various superpowers? What is the probability of this?"

"Very small, professor." A male doctor pinched his eyebrows and said, "My research direction tends to be social investigation. Facts have proved that mutants are indeed more mentally unstable than ordinary people."

Schiller coughed heavily, and the black doctor showed obvious dissatisfaction. The male doctor who said this waved his hand and said, "Listen to me, this is not entirely their own problem. On the contrary, most mutants are mentally unstable because their mutant abilities will attract the unfriendly eyes of people around them, which causes them to always be displaced."

"Without a stable living environment, it is difficult to establish a stable personality, and it is also difficult to have a stable mental state."

The male doctor continued to say his conclusion, "Usually, unstable mental state will cause their mutant abilities to get out of control, which is also the culprit of many mutant disasters, so I have always opposed strict The mutant isolation bill will only cause the situation to further deteriorate. "" But regardless of whether the mental state is stable, the mental state of the mutant has no effect on the type of mutation ability. " "Ice" "This is very reasonable." It was a complete coincidence. "The" female doctor's tone revealed doubts, "the ability to have a variant is to give other personality superpowers, and he happened to be unstable in mental state. He just suffered from separation of separation. "I also think this is not a coincidence." The black doctor said: "As a mutant, I can say responsibly that there will not be a mutant whose mutant ability gives himself other personality abilities. This does not conform to our long-term investigation of mutant abilities."

"I have also printed out the classification investigation data of mutants' mutant abilities. Everyone can just turn to the back of the data." Schiller said.

Everyone began to look through the data again. This time it took a little longer because the data was too complicated. After people began to study mutants, countless experts in various disciplines launched various studies. There are several opinions on the classification of mutant abilities alone.

Although Schiller has summarized several mainstream school classification methods quite concisely, it is still very long and complicated.

However, those present are not simple people. Those who can be invited by Schiller for consultation are naturally experts. They quickly found the common point of the abilities under these classification methods, that is, all mutant abilities tend to directly affect themselves or the world.

If you want to achieve a certain goal, such as making a place hot or cold, the mutant ability derived from it must be the shortest way within the limits of the universe's rules, such as directly lighting a fire or directly making ice, rather than giving a mutant the ability to make stones and mud and letting him build a stove.

This is also easy to understand. The X gene is a gene, not an artificial intelligence. It is impossible for it to subjectively understand the extent to which humans have developed, and then formulate a certain ability based on the degree of evolution and development. It is relatively natural and primitive.

From this perspective, it is not so scientific to produce a mutant ability that gives superpowers to its split personality, because the X gene obviously should not be able to understand what dissociative identity disorder is.

"So assuming that giving superpowers to one's own personality is not David's mutant ability, then what is his mutant ability?" Schiller asked.

Everyone started to think, because this was obviously not a question that could be answered easily. In the eyes of these experts, David's original ability might be just a mediocre answer like controlling fire or ice, which was unacceptable, because there was no clue to explain why such an ability would evolve into giving so many personality superpowers, which was illogical.

Everyone started a heated discussion, and everyone put forward their own possibilities until the atmosphere in the whole room became hotter than a hot pot.

Schiller stood in front and listened quietly. He had some guesses about David's situation, but still needed the inspiration of professionals.

And the wisdom of the crowd was indeed worthy of its name. One of the guesses attracted the attention of most people. The black doctor speculated that the group might be the owner of some kind of mental ability based on some known mutant abilities.

Whatever this ability is, it must be very powerful, and due to its nature, it will be disturbed by mental instability, especially dissociative identity disorder.

This coincides with Schiller's speculation that David's mutant ability is likely to be unimaginable and extremely strong mental power, and because of dissociative identity disorder, his mental power has been divided into several parts, becoming the superpowers of each personality.