Chapter 2805

After entering the bedroom, Schiller still didn't relax his vigilance. He still didn't speak, and didn't even write. He just gave Gordon a 'don't be impatient' look and started checking the room.

Schiller hadn't had any movements yet when he saw the eyes of the painting hanging on the wall move.

Schiller understood a bit, so he didn't choose to move the items in the room, but took out a white candle and lit it.

Soon Schiller sighed, complaining in his heart that he didn't get much consultation fee for coming once, and he thought there would be a lot.

But he still conscientiously began to look at the situation in the room, especially looking at the eyes turning wildly on the painting. Combined with previous memories, Schiller revealed an understanding expression.

The chaos shown by the hotel is a morbid state. In fact, this can be completely understood as the inner world of a mental patient. In fact, the world in the eyes of many mental patients is like this.

This doesn't refer to monsters running around, terrible bloody events, or chaotic situations that are completely unreasonable, but all these things reflect the state behind them.

Someone is feeling fear.

This hotel is almost completely a concrete manifestation of fear, a kind of sound, a type of figure, a kind of rule, a kind of feeling, all reflecting someone's deepest fear.

For example, some mental patients often react violently to some inexplicable things, and among the same type of things, they only react to one, such as not being afraid of thunder in the sky, but starting to go crazy when a pot lid falls to the ground.

Logically speaking, both are sounds, and the sound of thunder is much louder than things falling to the ground. Speaking of which, he doesn't have any grudge against the pot lid, but it was that one that triggered his onset.

But the problem is actually not the pot lid itself, nor the action of dropping things, but precisely a specific sound that triggers his fear of certain things.

Often it is difficult for ordinary people to understand the connection between the two, or to say that in essence, there is no connection, but in the hallucination system of mental patients, the two are connected.

Many mental patients have described that they have seen very terrifying monsters in the corners of the walls or in their peripheral vision. This kind of monster will be summoned by specific sounds or shadows. As long as a similar sound or figure appears, the monster will arrive as scheduled and want to kill them.

In the real world, of course, monsters don't exist, but in their personal mental world, certain sounds and figures are given special meanings that can summon monsters.

So when facing the violent reaction of mental patients to this, what needs to be done is not to explore what is special about the pot lid, or whether it is because he dropped something very important before that caused stress disorder, which is a fallacy of behaviorism going to the extreme.

In fact, the connection between the patient and this sound is very likely imagined by himself. At this time, professional psychologists will choose to care about his mental world.

Of course, first ask what happened. The patient might not be able to answer very well, but through some guiding questions, you can ask what he is afraid of, what the monster in his hallucination looks like, what the rules are, and what needs to be done to make it leave.

It sounds like it involves some feudal superstition, but this is really a scientific treatment method, including encouraging patients, letting them bravely confront the monster, and letting them strengthen their willpower, never losing to the monster.

Even if all doctors know that this monster doesn't exist at all, they must do so, because if they can't soothe the patient from the mental level and let them have the ability to confront the fearful things in the hallucination, then the next time the pot lid falls to the ground, they will still have an onset and go crazy.

The ultimate method to cure such mental illnesses is actually not to eliminate this monster, but to let the patient be able to coexist with this monster, no longer full of fear for its arrival, but summon the courage to fight it. Only by defeating it can one ignore it.

Schiller believes that this hotel is full of too many images that awaken certain people's fear, the most typical of which is that elevator bell.

This thing rings in the elevator, rings in the corridor, rings on the monster, and even rings on the alarm clock. This is clearly a kind of obsessive thinking of the patient.

Some patients, when the course of the disease develops to a very serious level, will not only react to the sound of the pot lid falling to the ground, but also have many similar sounds, and even reach the point where all sounds will be understood by him as the awakening sound of the monster.

The elevator bell is clearly like this. It will ring whenever the other party feels fear: when taking the elevator, when walking in the corridor, when lying in bed sleeping, when someone passes by the door.

At this stage, the patient is clearly harassed by a certain monster. When in a small space, the monster will appear; when walking through a corridor, the monster will appear; when closing eyes and falling into darkness, the monster will appear; when suddenly hearing movement in silence, the monster will also appear.

The restaurant goes a step further. The rules of following Western dining etiquette have been infinitely magnified. Those who follow can survive, and those who don't follow have to die, and even die without peace, having to come again and again.

This means that the appearance of the monster has begun to affect the other party's daily life, making them start to feel fear. This monster might make them lose etiquette on important occasions, break all their current life rules, and make them fall from grace and become a complete failure.

So they will have obsessive-compulsive thoughts similar to 'follow etiquette, follow rules, I must be law-abiding, absolutely can't make any mistakes', and then there will be behaviors of strengthening rules and creating cycles.

Following that, Wei En Manor is even worse. Cannot listen, cannot look, cannot speak means that the other party feels that they are being monitored, which means that the monster has fully invaded his life, and is no longer appearing in some fragments or any specific scene, but has begun to feel that it is everywhere.

From this point, it can be inferred that the other party is a person living in Wei En Manor, because generally speaking, the sign of hallucination monsters fully invading life is that even the most private space is invaded. Patients usually feel that they are being monitored in their bedrooms or bathrooms at home, which will completely destroy their sense of security.

Schiller believes that Alfred is not actually monitoring anyone, but this butler has become the embodiment of fear, similar to when patients with persecutory delusions have an onset, looking at everyone around them as if they are coming to kill themselves. And this butler who often appears in various places in the manor will clearly be the first object of suspicion for patients who have no sense of security, because he is always silent and everywhere.

Because of this, the other party imagined that Alfred was a monster, or had long been controlled by a monster, so he couldn't speak, couldn't show expressions, or even couldn't make any reactions in front of him, otherwise he would be discovered by the monster.

This is also a sign of further deterioration of the condition, from the initial appearance of hallucinations to being suspicious of people who exist in the real world, and it is only one step away from producing aggressive behavior.

This is just Schiller's analysis based on clinical psychology and psychiatry, provided that there are really no monsters in the world.

It is a pity that there are monsters in this world, and it is clear that the one the person provoked is not an ordinary monster, but that Nyarlathotep who likes to tease humans.

If nothing unexpected happens, Nyarlathotep appeared in front of the patient, but it was not in the image of a monster, at least not at first.

But later it was different. Nyarlathotep must have revealed his true face in front of the patient, and even completely turned into a monster, and constantly tracked him, following him into his life fragments.

Through the elevator bell, it can be inferred that the patient likely saw the monster's true face for the first time in the elevator, which is why the bell of the elevator arriving at the station became the condition for triggering the hallucination.

Following that, Nyarlathotep began to harass the patient more frequently, possibly in occasions where he lived, or possibly in occasions where he worked, making him make many mistakes, affecting his real life, and starting to gradually deprive the other party of their sense of security.

And if nothing unexpected happens, Nyarlathotep didn't reveal his true face in front of anyone else, only targeting the patient. In this way, no matter if he goes to see a doctor or wants to seek proof from people he is close to, he can't get any answers. In the end, there will only be one conclusion, and that is that he is crazy.

Then, the invasion of the patient's life reached the point of being everywhere, constantly monitoring, long-term peeping, and as long as the patient made some moves, such as speaking, such as looking at other things, or even thinking, the monster would appear.

Finally, making the patient feel that even the place he is most familiar with is no longer safe, letting the chaotic thoughts control the tired body, and heading toward a distant place unknown.

This has certain similarities with mental manipulation in psychology, but after all, the Outer God is a high-level life form. They don't need to do this through human means like hypnosis, but have more brilliant methods.

If Schiller didn't guess wrong, Nyarlathotep revealing his true face is not just to scare people. The appearance of the Outer God itself is a kind of pollution, so even just taking a look can cause mental confusion, so Nyarlathotep's appearance is like a punishment mechanism.

As long as you see the monster, you will feel confusion and pain, but the monster is everywhere, and no matter what you do, it will appear, and then mess up your current life. But others can't see it, and can't understand you. It can simply be called having no way to heaven and no way to enter the earth.

After inferring all this, Schiller didn't feel angry, he just felt a bit of a pity. If this patient could meet a better psychologist, perhaps things wouldn't have developed to such a serious level.

Because this kind of situation is seen too much by psychologists, a good doctor will not come up and tell the patient that you are sick, or that the monster is fake, you just need to keep clear-headed. This is a complete layman, just like telling a patient with depression to think openly.

A psychologist will very carefully ask about the monster's appearance, attributes, the details of attacking you, what reaction you had at the time, what feelings you had, and even what feelings you had in various parts of your limbs.

And it is repeated questioning, long-term questioning, using various methods to ask, including but not limited to description, drawing, brain wave control drawing, until the patient is at their wit's end and can't say anything.

A good doctor can judge what happened to the patient's spirit based on all the above.

If it were Schiller, he could completely judge that the monster is real based on these things asked, rather than a hallucination, because there is a very significant difference between the two.

Because it is completely possible to judge from various reports whether the other party is illogical, whether the consciousness is clear, and whether the reason is normal.

If the above are all normal, and only the hallucination monster is abnormal, then even if it is absurd, Schiller will believe that this monster is real, because he believes in his own judgment.

So the scene in movies where victims who encounter real monsters describe them to psychologists but the psychologists don't believe them is almost impossible to appear. Which psychologist dares not to do the above checks and make such conclusions without long-term observation? Basically, they don't want their rice bowl.

Or rather, for psychologists, from the moment the other party says there is a monster, they know their work has come.

Because such mental patients are the most dangerous. Once the sense of security is completely deprived, persecutory delusions without control are very likely to appear aggressive behavior. And once their patients get into lawsuits, they absolutely can't escape. The lightest result is also wasting time to testify in court.

Schiller sighed again, turned his head to look at Gordon, and thought about whether to tell Peter his speculation.