She said, "Don't... wake up, Shu Baizhu, don't..."
Ziyi yelled "No" and sat up from the bed, her forehead covered with fine beads of sweat. She gasped for breath like a fish about to suffocate, until the dim light at the head of the bed came on and someone called her, "Xiaozi."
Her panicked heart seemed to have found a home at this moment. She hugged Qin Yuhuan's waist and said, "Sister, I'm scared."
"Sister is here," Qin Yuhuan hugged Ziyi tightly, patted her back, and comforted her softly, "Xiaozi, I'm here."
"So much..." Ziyi swallowed, "So much blood, I bled a lot. I remember now, I remember going to work every day, I worked endlessly, I wanted to forget that my body was bleeding."
"I haven't always enjoyed working. I wasn't a workaholic before."
"But if I stop, I will feel so much pain. I dare not go to the hospital or see a family doctor. I threw all the sheets and quilts away, to a garbage station far away. Only I know about this, so I dare not stop."
Qin Yuhuan's expression changed again and again. She now extremely wanted Shu Baizhu to come over immediately. She couldn't wait to slap her.
Is such a person worthy of being called in love?
"I know, Xiaozi is very well behaved." Qin Yuhuan's tone was gentle, but his eyes seemed to be gathering a hurricane. "I'll sing a song for you, okay? Listen to my songs, hold my hand while you sleep, and there will only be me in your dreams. I will protect you."
Ziyi was originally in a state of half-asleep and half-awake. When the clear and pleasant singing sounded, she seemed to have entered an extremely safe environment, and soon she fell asleep again due to exhaustion.
In the dim light, innocent nursery rhymes were sung over and over again until dawn.
When Ziyi woke up, Qin Yuhuan had already gotten out of bed. Thinking about what happened last night, she felt a little unsure, "Did I have a nightmare last night?"
"Yes," Qin Yuhuan took off the clothes he had chosen and threw them to Ziyi, feeling helpless. "I sang lullabies to you all night, and you started crying the moment I stopped. If you don't reimburse me for a box of Jinshengzi today, you're being too much."
Ziyi: ...
"I... didn't..." She quickly put on her underwear and shirt. "Am I really that outrageous? I don't remember it very clearly. It seems like I had a nightmare, but I can't remember what it was about."
She had just gotten up at this moment, and she vaguely remembered that she seemed to be a little scared to the point of being cold to the bones. "So, did I tell you what I dreamed about? Was I embarrassing last night?"
"Hmm... I've been a good kid who needs to listen to music to sleep all night," Qin Yuhuan pondered for a moment, then smiled again, "That's probably it."
Ziyi: ...
"The pillar of the family is about to break down early in the morning."
"Xiaozi was very brave last night. She wanted to take me to the mountains and the sea to catch monsters." Qin Yuhuan laughed even more happily and gave a thumbs up. "You are worthy of being the pillar of my family."
Ziyi: ...
"I'm going to see a psychiatrist today. Are you coming? Do you have any announcements this afternoon?"
Qin Yuhuan shook his head: "I turned it down."
"Why would you turn it down for no reason?" Ziyi was very puzzled. She had asked her assistant to make an appointment with the doctor without telling Qin Yuhuan in advance. Qin Yuhuan was a dedicated person. She would go as long as there was a notice of a typhoon, let alone wind and thunder.
"Don't meddle in my wife's affairs." Qin Yuhuan snorted, looking as if he was not happy with Zhiyi.
Ziyi didn't think much about it and got up happily. After breakfast, the driver came and took the two of them to Ji Henian's private clinic.
It was also Qin Yuhuan's first time to come to the psychological clinic. She took a few brochures from the side and sat in the waiting area to read them. She thought it would take a long time, but Ziyi and Ji Henian came out less than fifteen minutes after the door was closed.
Qin Yuhuan:?
"You don't need to take any medicine, but you need to come here regularly." Ziyi sighed.
She didn't have enough time to begin with, and now that she's better, she has to cut out a big chunk of time to come see a psychologist.
"Let's talk in my office." Ji Henian pointed in a direction and led the two people to her office. "She does have post-traumatic stress disorder."
This can be diagnosed.
"Then, what do we need to do to cooperate with the treatment?" Qin Yuhuan had done her homework and knew some treatment measures for PTA. "Can Chinese medicine play a supporting role?"
"Ziyi's case is somewhat unique. As you can see, she has almost no discomfort," Ji Henian explained. "She's not anxious or insomniac, and her mood is stable. Medication will have little effect. The solution I proposed for her is desensitization therapy."
“By constructing scenarios, we repeatedly stimulate this psychological barrier.”
Qin Yuhuan didn't say anything, but Ziyi agreed. If she could describe her memory of that night clearly, she would remember it clearly. But if she couldn't describe it clearly, it would always feel vague. Perhaps constructing a scene could really help her desensitize herself?
"But there's one thing I want to tell you two first. I suspect Ziyi didn't experience any discomfort because her body's self-preservation mechanism was stimulated. She judged the severity of this incident to be beyond her tolerance, and so her feelings about it were blunted."
Although Ji Henian still doesn’t know what Ziyi has encountered, the degree of pain must be very high.
"I have two suggestions. A relatively conservative treatment is to come to me regularly for psychological counseling. The other is a relatively drastic desensitization therapy. I can't give a specific time limit for the former, maybe one or two months, or maybe one or two years. It's unpredictable. As for the latter..."
Ji Henian paused, as if considering what to say.
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