"I didn't take it seriously at first, thinking he was too deep into the play and couldn't get out of the role!" Lin Jiayi continued.
Seeing Han Cheng's puzzled expression, Lin Jiayi explained, "Oh, it's like this. Although my boyfriend is the boss, sometimes when there is not enough manpower, he also has to go into the haunted house to play the role of zombies and so on. !”
"What happened to him then?" Han Cheng asked, taking a sip of coffee.
"Then he just became obsessed. He said that his body would soon rot, and every day when he got home, he would wipe his whole body with formalin."
"And I have to wear a shroud to sleep every day. Han Cheng, you can imagine that I sleep in the same bed with a person wearing a shroud every day. How terrifying that scene is! How much mental pressure I have!"
Lin Jiayi said as she took a sip of coffee to calm down.
"Have you ever taken him to a psychiatrist?" Han Cheng asked.
"No! He refused to go. He said he was not mentally ill!"
"Actually, apart from saying that he is a living dead, there seems to be nothing wrong with him. He can drive normally, go to work in the store normally, and his logical thinking seems to be quite normal!"
"Your boyfriend might have a disease called living dead syndrome!" Han Cheng frowned.
"Is there such a disease? What kind of disease is this?" Lin Jiayi looked horrified.
"This is a rare form of mental delusion. The main symptom displayed by the patient is that he believes that his body and the organs in the body have changed. For example, he may feel that his lungs, heart, and intestines are rotten. I even felt like my whole body had rotted away and disappeared.”
"Yes, yes! He has symptoms like this. One moment he says his lungs are rotten, and the next he says his intestines are rotten! It's scary to hear!"
"However, I'm not sure whether your boyfriend really has Living Dead Syndrome. This requires expert identification. I have a friend who is an expert in psychiatric identification. Maybe she can give some professional advice!"
"Then can you ask that expert to help look at my boyfriend?"
"no problem!"
"Han Cheng, thank you so much!"
The expert Han Cheng was talking about was Yu Shan.
Yu Shan is a gifted psychologist. She has been doing research on psychiatric identification topics before. She has a strong learning ability and has been involved in various mental illnesses. These studies have won her many awards. It has also been recognized by many people in the industry.
Now that Han Cheng is on a long vacation, the backlog team has returned to their original positions for the time being.
When Han Cheng told Yu Shan that his high school classmate's boyfriend might have living dead syndrome.
Yu Shan was very excited because this disease is so rare and of great research value.
She immediately dropped everything and went to Lin Jiayi's home with Han Cheng.
As soon as they entered the house, they smelled a strong and pungent smell of formalin.
This smell was very familiar to Han Cheng. He could smell it often in the forensic room.
The component of formalin is formaldehyde. Formaldehyde can kill microorganisms and prevent them from decomposing the body. In order to preserve the body longer, forensic doctors sometimes use formalin to soak the body.
After Lin Jiayi welcomed Han Cheng and Yu Shan into the house, her boyfriend Zuo Jun came out of the bedroom.
His face was expressionless and pale, and he walked slowly, like a zombie. He looked scary.
"Zuo Jun, this is my high school classmate Han Cheng, and this is his friend!" Lin Jiayi introduced Zuo Jun.
"Hello! My name is Yu Shan, and I do psychology research!" Yu Shan stretched out her hand to shake Zuo Jun's hand.
"My hand is rotten, you'd better not hold it!" Zuo Jun said in a calm tone with his expression still dull.
"Zuo Jun, what are you talking about again! Aren't your hands fine? Why do you always say such scary things!" Lin Jiayi was a little angry. She had heard Zuo Jun say these words countless times.
"Let's sit down and talk first!" Yu Shan took her hand back and said.
She has seen many mental patients with different symptoms. Some are in a trance and talking nonsense, some are violent and self-inflicted...
So, she was already used to it.
Zuo Jun's situation is considered good and he can still communicate with others normally.
"I know you all think I am mentally ill, but I know very well that I am not mentally ill! None of you can understand how I feel!"
After the four people sat down, Zuo Jun said.
"I believe you! Then you can tell me why you feel like you are dead?" Yu Shan asked with a smile.
"I don't know why, but suddenly one day I felt a sting in my throat, as if I had been cut by a knife, and then my breathing slowly stopped. I felt like I was dead, and then the pain in my body The organs began to rot little by little, and I can no longer feel their existence. My body is already full of maggots..."
"Zuo Jun, please stop talking! Do you know that I'm really under a lot of pressure recently? Our store's business is getting worse day by day, and you keep saying these invasive things all day long. I can't stand it... "
Lin Jiayi was holding her hair and crying in pain.
"Jiayi, I'm sorry, I really don't want to be like this, and I don't know what's wrong with me! Maybe I'm really sick..."
Zuo Jun lowered his head, looking in pain.
