Chapter 0117 The Reason for Washing Your Hair
Chen Ge didn’t understand Dr. Gao’s text message, “How is washing your hair related to self-protection?”
”The prerequisite for traumatic stress disorder is having suffered some kind of harm, Men Nan repeated washing his hair many times in reality, most likely to get rid of some kind of psychological shadow, which might have something to do with his former experiences.”
”A former experience?”
”That’s right, the encounters he once had left him with a strong psychological impact, whenever he thinks back on it or encounters something similar or sees something similar, his body will react, and in order to alleviate the pain, he will instinctively look for ways to appease himself. As things stand now, that method is washing his hair.” Dr. Gao sent another text message after a while, “When I first enrolled in school, I had asked Men Nan why he chose to major in psychology, and the answer the boy gave was that he wanted to cure a person. Come to think of it, the person he was talking about should be himself.”
”It seems that the root of the problem still lies in what happened to Men Nan in his early childhood, I feel the need to talk to him clearly, only when we know the causes and consequences can we help him.”
”If my surmise is true, it is all the more important that he should not be questioned. He’s been doing his best to avoid that incident, and now that he’s been allowed to recall a little bit of it, I’m afraid he won’t be able to take the stimulus and break down completely.”
”Then let’s contact his family, it’s too unreasonable that the parents don’t care when the child is suffering like this.” Chen Ge was eager to take a photo of Men Nan’s current appearance and send it to his parents so that they could take a look.
”I’ve already asked when I called a while ago, Men Nan has had a quirk of washing his hair since he was a child, and his parents are already used to it and don’t think it’s such a serious matter.”
”They didn’t say what caused this fetish to arise?”
”No. When Mennan was very young, his parents took him to a psychiatrist and the diagnosis at the time was obsessive-compulsive disorder. It was very rare at the age he was at the time, and given the child’s young age, there was no appropriate medication, the doctor just encouraged his parents to give him more company.”
”Obviously his parents didn’t listen to the doctor.” Chen Ge returned without thinking, if Men Nan’s parents really cared about him, their attitude wouldn’t be so cold.
”Mild obsessive-compulsive disorder doesn’t affect life, so his parents haven’t cared. In addition, I learned after careful questioning that Men Nan’s real mother was killed when he was five or six years old, and then his father reorganized his family, and Men Nan has a younger brother.”
”His real mother was killed? There’s this?” Chen Ge felt that the path that had been blocked had a new exit.
”His real parents had a bad relationship, the father was always away and the mother led the child alone. One day thieves entered their house, and then what happened later Men Nan’s current parents are not sure, only know that it was the day after the crime that the neighbors called the police.”
”The day after the crime?” Chen Ge’s heart thumped: “Then where was Men Nan at the time of the crime?”
”I don’t know where Men Nan was at the time of the crime, but I know that Men Nan was at the scene of the crime when the neighbors called the police, and he was the first person to find the mother.”
Looking at the text message sent by Dr. Gao, Chen Ge felt a chill slowly rising up his spine, “That means Men Nan and his mother stayed at the crime scene for a day and a night? They weren’t discovered until the next day, right?”
”It can be interpreted this way, perhaps the robbers spared Men Nan, or perhaps he happened to be out of the house at the time, in short, Men Nan got away with it. But at a young age, he saw this scene, it must have a great impact on the psyche, I suspect that the emergence of obsessive-compulsive disorder, as well as his current offenses are related to this murder when he was a child. I just can’t figure out why he keeps going to wash his hair, is there any connection between washing his hair and the murder?”
The doubts that came out in Dr. Gao’s text message were exactly what Chen Ge wanted to know as he stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself in it.
”Hair washing? Self-behavioral protection?”
The scene when he imitated Men Nan just now flashed in his mind, Chen Ge touched the back of his neck and suddenly thought of something: “Water droplets!”
He immediately sent a text message to Dr. Gao: “The crime scene, where was Men Nan’s mother’s body found?”
”After the culprits accidentally killed Men Nan’s mother, they removed the vapor barrier at the top of the bathroom and stuffed it in. If it wasn’t for the fact that the neighbor’s child and Mennan often went to school together and the two families were very close, they wouldn’t have noticed the problem so quickly.”
”The vapor barrier at the top of the bathroom?” Chen Ge tilted his head and looked at the bathroom he was in, the apartment building had a very low floor height and it was very depressing to live in, “I think I understand why Men Nan has a compulsion to wash his hair.”
He took out his cell phone and texted Dr. Gao back, “Do you see a situation where a thief enters a room and both mother and son discover the thief. The mother told Men Nan to hide and secretly called the police herself, only to be discovered by the thief.”
”That’s a possibility, but what does it have to do with washing your hair?”
”Mennan watched his mother being murdered and hiding her body, and he went looking for her after the thieves left. When he came to the bathroom, his mother’s blood dripped right on top of his head.” Chen Ge’s heart was also a bit hard as he typed out these words, “So all the way up to now, whenever there is liquid dripping on Men Nan’s head or when he thinks back to the scene at that time, he goes to wash his hair over and over again, trying to put those memories out of his mind. Dr. Gao, what you said before was so right, Men Nan this is definitely not ordinary OCD!”
After sending these words, Chen Ge looked towards the outside of the house, Dr. Gao in the bedroom had a shocked expression and also looked towards Chen Ge in the bathroom at the same time, and the two of them looked at each other with a tacit understanding.
”The cause of the disease has been found!” Dr. Gao directly put away his cell phone and walked towards Chen Ge, “I’ll take him away for the corresponding trauma disorder treatment.”
”I’m afraid that’s not possible.” Chen Ge looked at Men Nan, who was standing in place, and shook his head slightly, “In that dream that Men Nan kept repeating, washing his head wasn’t scary, what really frightened him was the man who was getting closer and closer. To help Mennan, we need to find out everything about that man and drive it out of Mennan’s dream world.”
”Get the thing out of the dream?” Dr. Gao’s face looked odd as he glanced at Chen Ge and then back at Men Nan who was standing in a weird position, rather like when he first entered the mental hospital, “You’re not kidding me?”
”I already have a rough guess, and it will be verified tonight!” Chen Ge connected all the clues together, and he had a 60% certainty in his mind, “There are indeed three ‘people’ in this room, and the identities of two of the ‘people’ can be determined, as long as we can find the other one. “