The genius is on the left, the lunatic is on the right

Chapter 21 The soul is out of the body

The soul is separated from the body, and the soul can leave the body?How can something that sounds miraculous happen in real life.However, Sarah had a strange nightmare, and found that the horror of the separation of soul and flesh had really happened to her...

Sarah is 29 years old this year. She likes sports and has a strong body. She rarely gets sick. Her life is full and happy. Until a severe abdominal pain, everything changed.

Initially, doctors determined she had gallstones and advised her to have her gallbladder removed.It was supposed to be a minor operation, and Sarah didn't care.A few days before the operation, Sarah was admitted to the hospital and received antibiotic injections to prevent bacteria.Sarah wasn't nervous at all, she knew it was just a routine, a necessary precaution, and it never occurred to her that any complications would arise.

Just the day before the operation, Sarah, who never liked fantasy and rarely dreamed, experienced a strange nightmare.In the dream, she was shaking violently, as if there was an earthquake, she couldn't stand still at all, it felt like she was hanging in the air, and her feet couldn't touch the floor.Her arms dangled back and forth, unable to hold anything.She was dizzy, as if her head was about to fall, and if she fell, it seemed that she would leave the earth and be thrown into a strange outer space...

There is no devil, no god of death, and no weird images or languages. Sarah is the only one in the whole dream, but this feeling is very uncomfortable, like loss, hallucination, and dizziness.

A few hours after waking up, Sarah was in great pain, her expression twisted, but she couldn't tell what was wrong with her.She couldn't describe her dream, she just kept repeating: "It's really terrible, it's terrible..."

The family noticed that she had never experienced such anxiety and brought her to see a psychiatrist. "It's the anxiety before the operation. It's normal. We've seen it a lot." The doctor said casually.

That night, Sarah didn't have the same nightmare again because the horrific scene came true.Sarah found that her feet were really unsteady, she was dangling, and she couldn't hold things with her hands.

This time, the psychiatrist was also confused, and a word popped out of his mouth after a while: "anxious hysteria," he asserted in a disdainful tone, "typical conversion disorder, such a thing Often."

During the operation the next day, Sarah's condition was even worse: she couldn't stand up at all, she could only get up by staring at her feet; Only then can the hands stop shaking.Sarah tried so hard, she tried to feed herself and either couldn't reach the food or shook it off on the floor.Sometimes, she even stuffed the food to the side of her mouth, which was outrageous.

Sarah felt that her body was out of control, and she seemed to have lost coordination. She anxiously wanted to stand up, but found that she couldn't even stand up.

Sarah collapsed there, her mood horrified, her eyes glazed over, her voice hoarse.After a while, Sarah began to mutter: "It's terrible, the nightmare happened, it happened to me... My soul and body are separated."

When she finished the last sentence, everyone was frightened, and felt that all this was so real, because Sarah even changed her voice, it was not the usual gentle female voice, but a kind, without gender characteristics, Nor soulless hollow voices...

What happened to Sarah?Soul and body separated?How is this possible? Everyone looked at her, except that her hands trembled and she couldn't stand up. She had no other symptoms.Could it be that Sarah is crazy?
The family was baffled, but more terrified, and Sarah was even worse. Her whole body collapsed. She didn't realize that her hands were moving back and forth, and she was not aware of the direction she was going.From the doctor's point of view, Sarah's voice and movement control system seemed to have completely collapsed, and the nerve endings could not receive any information.

The experts in the hospital have never seen such a phenomenon, and Sarah keeps repeating "my body and soul are separated", which not only frightens the family, but also confuses the doctors. No one can imagine Sarah What kind of mental torture is he suffering at the moment.

After the consultation, the experts finally came to the conclusion that Sarah suffered from a kind of acute polyneuritis, which is a very special kind of inflammation.When Sarah learned of all this, she asked bluntly, "Can I still get better?"

No one knows the answer, because the condition is so rare that many doctors have never even heard of it, let alone searched for an effective treatment anytime soon.

Within a month of Sarah's illness, she fell there like a puddle of mud. Her body was completely dead, as she said, "spirit and flesh were separated."This is an extremely painful feeling. I can't control my body, and I can't feel their existence. People who haven't experienced this pain of separation from the body can't feel it at all.

Through treatment, Sarah gradually recovered her basic ability to live, but the feeling of separation from body and soul could not dissipate.Sarah is living hard, but no one understands her. Every time she climbs the bus painfully and awkwardly, what she often gets is the driver's yelling: "Ma'am, are you drunk?" Sarah can say What, to explain this disease that even doctors have never seen?Tell the driver, "I'm sorry, my body and soul are separated"?Each time, Sarah endured silently, making the already gloomy life even more difficult.

Many times, Sarah would burst into tears inexplicably, not only because of people's misunderstanding, but also because of the pain of losing feeling. She often said: "If only I had feeling!" "But I forgot what it feels like... …I was just like you, a normal person then.”

Sarah cried and said that her tragic experience also made the whole family lose their laughter in the past.

The brain-burning logic of a genius or a madman
Although we have repeatedly used "separation of body and mind" to describe Sarah's patient, this is actually just a popular term. In fact, Sarah's disease should be called "sensory central neuropathy", which is a kind of neuropathy. Sexual diseases.

Despite Sarah's efforts to recover, and to some extent, her manipulation was successful.This all reflects her courage, tenacity and indomitable spirit.However, she is also a failure, because she has completely lost the only "sixth sense" that can make her feel the existence of her own body.

Although she can mechanically complete the action steps required for daily life, this is done with the assistance of external forces, just like designing a certain program for a computer, and the computer will execute it step by step step by step. emotional color.Sarah was like that, she didn't feel these things, she just knew she had to get it done.

For example, when she got up in the morning, she worked hard to put on the clothes that her family had put on the bedside. She needed to concentrate on staring at the clothes, and then mobilized her hands to unfold the clothes, prop them up, and put them on the head with great effort.But these mechanical things can't arouse her feeling at all, she can neither feel that the clothes are close to her head, nor can she feel whether the clothes are tight or loose.

The only moments that made her feel at ease were when she was driving in a convertible, and she could slightly feel the breeze on her face, cooling her skin a little.This kind of detail that ordinary people would not pay attention to has become Sarah's most extravagant enjoyment.

After years of research, doctors have found that vitamin B6 can damage the sensory central nerve endings, causing neuroinflammation and neuropathy.After Sarah, more and more patients with this kind of "separation of spirit and body" appeared, and most of them were women.And they all have a common feature, they like to take vitamin pills instead of normal diet.These so-called "health experts" were eventually harmed by their own "health".

Unlike Sarah, most of these patients experienced improvement in their separation symptoms after they stopped taking vitamin B6.

(End of this chapter)