"Fantasy partners are usually not very rare mental characteristics." Schiller stood at the front of the conference room, pointing to some words on the screen and said: "Dr. Holder once mentioned in his paper that sampling surveys
Among the 8,000 people surveyed, 70% described having a fantasy partner with a very specific character set, and 90% mentioned that they would imagine a voice to comfort themselves when they felt lost."
"That's true." A red-haired doctor sitting at the front of the table tapped his pen on the table and said, "I think everyone here should have had similar experiences. We will fantasize about other people under various circumstances.
To comfort yourself by yourself, this is actually a protective mechanism of the brain."
"Then that's not the problem." An old doctor with a gray beard opposite him said: "Because of the special nature of his life experience, this young man named David will inevitably have a more turbulent childhood than others. This may have a negative impact on him.
It causes a certain amount of mental stimulation, which forces his brain to activate more self-protection mechanisms."
"But it doesn't reach the level of dissociative identity disorder at all." A female doctor wearing glasses pushed up her glasses, glanced at the case in her hand and said, "I am not involved in David's childhood experience that we know about.
See anything that could cause an irritating incident."
"That terrorist attack." A doctor reminded: "It was definitely a major trauma."
"But the time point was much later than the emergence of his childhood personality." A black doctor touched his chin and said: "This shows that David's mind was not stable before the terrorist attack, and the terrorist attack was just the last thing that broke the camel's back.
A straw."
The old doctor sighed softly, paused and then said: "We must separate all the elements in order to correctly find out the key."
All the doctors stopped to look at him. It was obvious that many doctors here were once students of this old professor.
"Fantasy partners, dissociative identity disorder, terrorist attacks, super-powered personalities, those are apparently four things."
Someone began to take notes, and the old professor continued: "Which of these four things are normal, which are abnormal, and whether there is a causal relationship with each other. Only by clarifying these two questions can we find the solution to David's problem."
The key to the spiritual world.”
"I think so too." Schiller pointed to the screen again and said: "Before I started hosting this consultation, I had printed out the details about these four issues. You can turn to the consultation materials in your hands.
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The room was even quieter with the sound of flipping books. Everyone was reading the information very carefully. It took more than ten minutes before there was any movement.
"I think most people's argument is that fantasizing about partners is completely normal, and any associations David had with people and objects in his childhood should not be classified as pathological at all." 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 the people around him that he was another person. This shows that this
Sometimes the pathological features of dissociative identity disorder are not obvious."
"But this does not mean that the development of dissociative identity disorder has not begun." The female doctor opposite him looked at the case and said: "I have done research in this area. Many patients with dissociative identity disorder do not have a clear personality in the early stages of split personality.
You will feel that you are divided and will not tell anyone about your symptoms.”
"But in fact, they have begun to have symptoms of auditory hallucinations and visual hallucinations, memory loss, loss of control of their limbs, and even symptoms of shock and coma."
"But we didn't see that in the investigative report."
"Some patients are very inconspicuous until they get sick." The female doctor continued: "Especially during the transition from children to young adults, they are usually unable to accurately describe their symptoms because they have already endured a lot of mental pressure.
Symptoms, and because he does not have complete civil capacity, he cannot seek medical treatment.”
"I support Celine's view." The black doctor said thoughtfully: "David's dissociative identity disorder will not be caused by a stimulus. I guess that he is not very mentally stable by birth. In the process of growing up, other
His parents did not pay enough attention to him, resulting in his failure to seek medical treatment in time, which worsened to the point where he could not be dealt with after the terrorist attack."
"This argument is supported by the vast majority of people and is also the most likely scenario." Schiller said: "Although it is normal to have imaginary friends to accompany you, if there are too many and you think too frequently, it will lead to
It affects normal thinking and may also support the argument that David's mental state has been unstable since childhood."
"Can we contact his relatives?" someone asked.
"Obviously not. His stepfather died in a terrorist attack. Three years after he was sent to the Mutant Research Association, his mother also died of cancer, and his biological father was not involved in his upbringing.
I don’t know anything about the process.”
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 suggested, "If he is a mutant and suffers from dissociative identity disorder, how could his mutant ability just make the separated personality have various
Superpower, what is the probability of this?"
"Very young, professor." A male doctor pinched his eyebrows and said, "My research direction is biased towards social investigation. Facts have proved that mutants are indeed more mentally unstable than ordinary people."
Schiller coughed heavily, and the black doctor clearly showed a dissatisfied expression. The male doctor who said this waved his hand and said: "Listen to me, this is not entirely their own problem. On the contrary, it is overwhelmingly the problem."
Most mutants are mentally unstable because their mutant abilities attract unfavorable looks from those around them, which causes them to be constantly on the move."
"Without a stable living environment, it is difficult to establish a stable personality and maintain a stable mental state."
The male doctor continued to express his conclusion, "Usually, an unstable mental state will cause their mutant abilities to go out of control. This is also the culprit of many mutant disasters. Therefore, I have always opposed the strict mutant isolation bill. This only
It will lead to further deterioration of the situation."
"But regardless of whether the mental state is stable or not, the mental state of mutants has no impact on the type of their mutant abilities." The male doctor looked at the information in his hand and said: "If a mutant's ability is fire, then a mental breakdown will only
It will allow his fire ability to be uncontrolled and ignite a large area, instead of suddenly turning him into an ice-controlling mutant."
"This is very reasonable." The male doctor nodded and said: "We, I mean, the mutant abilities possessed by mutants come from the X gene. When the X gene does not change, the type and intensity of the abilities usually do not.
Change."
"That excludes the fact that David suddenly had mutant abilities that gave him various personalities superpowers because he suffered from dissociative identity disorder. In other words, this is a complete coincidence." The female doctor's tone revealed confusion.
, "There happened to be a mutant whose ability was to give other personalities superpowers, and he happened to be mentally unstable and suffered from dissociative identity disorder, so it became what it is now."
"How can there be so much?" Someone immediately refuted her and said.
"I also think this is not a coincidence." The black doctor said: "As a mutant, I can responsibly say that no mutant's mutant ability is to give himself other personality abilities. This is not in line with our long-term
Since then, we have been investigating the abilities of mutants."
"I have also printed out the investigation data on the classification of mutants' mutant abilities. You can just flip through the data," Schiller said.
Everyone started to look through the information again. This time it took a little longer because the information was too complicated. After people began to study mutants, countless experts in various subjects carried out various studies.
There are several opinions on the classification of mutant abilities.
Although Schiller has quite succinctly summarized the classification methods of several mainstream schools, it is still very long and complicated.
However, the people here are not simple people. Those who were invited by Schiller for consultation are naturally experts. They quickly found the commonality of the abilities under these classification methods, that is, all variant abilities are more inclined.
To directly affect oneself or the world.
If you want to achieve a certain purpose, such as the mutant ability derived from making a place hot or cold, it must be the shortest way within the limits of the rules of the universe, such as directly igniting fire or directly creating ice, rather than
Give a mutant the ability to conjure stone and mud and let 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 of human development and then formulate the expression of a certain ability based on the degree of evolution and development. It is relatively natural.
and original.
From this point of view, 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 his personality is not David's mutant power, what is his mutant power?" Schiller asked.
Everyone began to think, because this was obviously not a question that could be easily answered. In the opinion of this group of experts, David's original ability might just be a mediocre answer such as fire control or ice control. It was not possible.
Accepted because there are no clues as to why such abilities evolved into giving so many personalities superpowers, which is illogical.
Everyone started a heated discussion, and everyone put forward what they thought was possible, 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 he still needed inspiration from professionals.
The wisdom of the crowd was indeed worthy of the name. One of the conjectures caught the attention of most people. The black doctor speculated that the large group of people might be the possessors of some kind of mental ability based on certain known mutant abilities.
Whatever this ability is, it must be very powerful and by its nature may be disturbed by mental instability, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
This coincides with Schiller's speculation. Schiller believes that David's mutant ability is likely to be unimaginable and extremely strong mental power, and because of dissociative identity disorder, his mental power is divided into several parts.