Chapter 271: Extra
Linchuan City Mental Health Center, Third Psychological Treatment Room.
A young college student sat in front of a large desk, surveying the layout of the treatment room.
Not long after, the treatment room door opened.
A female doctor in a white coat, wearing black high heels, entered and sat behind the desk, looking at the young college student.
"Name."
"Ji You—"
"You're a college student, right?"
"A current student in the Philosophy Department at Linchuan University."
The female doctor picked up a paper cup, filled it with water from the dispenser, and handed it to him: "The fire scene at 04 Xing'an Street already had firefighters arrive, so why did you still break in?"
Ji You looked up at her: "There was a boy trapped in a room on the fourth floor. I heard his shouts and wanted to go up and save him."
"Then last month, when a child climbed out of a window at Hongxing Garden, a young man appeared below, reaching out to catch him. Was that person also you?"
"It was me."
"Do you know that if the firefighters hadn't arrived in time, you would have been crushed to death?"
Ji You thought for a moment: "Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda."
The female doctor was silent for a long time before speaking: "You are a kind-hearted person, and I can understand all these things, but why did you run onto the lightning rod of the TV tower to livestream on March 8th last year?"
"A child from my hometown was critically ill, and I went to livestream to raise funds."
"Ji You, do you know that you have a mental illness?"
Upon hearing this, Ji You looked up at her: "Doctor, speak as you like, but don't insult people."
"To be precise, it's one type of mental illness," the female doctor looked at him, "You have depression, and have had it for a long time." "Impossible, I've always been very optimistic, how could I have depression?"
"Optimism doesn't mean you're not sick, just as a smile isn't our standard for evaluating patients."
The female doctor looked at him: "Actually, you might not be aware, but I've known you for a long time. In 2005, there was a case of collective drowning of children at an orphanage, where eight children died. You were the sole survivor, correct?"
Ji You's smile faded: "Was there?"
"The person who provided you with psychological counseling back then was my teacher. Your case, my teacher told us about it. He had a deep impression of you, saying you were the most stubborn child he had ever met."
"Does that have anything to do with what I'm doing?"
The female doctor pursed her lips: "In that drowning case back then, you ran back very quickly to call for help, but why do you still feel it was your fault even now?"
Ji You shook his head: "Doctor, you might have misunderstood. I don't feel it was my fault."
"Your school informed me that if you don't actively accept treatment, you won't be able to return to class."
"What I'm doing is good."
"But for the school, you doing this all the time has too much of an impact."
Ji You was silent for a long time, then looked at the case file in the female doctor's hand: "Um, can I see that?"
The female doctor hesitated for a moment, then reached out and handed him the case file.
After taking the case file, Ji You looked through it for a long time: "At that time, my younger siblings came to me and asked me to take them to play in the river."
The female doctor looked at him: "And then?"
"The key to the orphanage gate was stolen by me from the director's office, and I was the one who opened the door for them with my own hands, and I was the one who led the way."
"But after the incident, you also went back very promptly to find people. Although the outcome wasn't good, you did what you were supposed to do."
Ji You looked up: "The police said that Qiqi finally grabbed a tree branch, and if it hadn't broken, she might have survived. So I shouldn't have run back at that time, but instead gone to save her. But I was terrified, and I ran back not to call for help at all—"
"But have you ever considered that you were also a child at the time? If you had really gone to save them, you might have drowned yourself."
"A true older brother should die on the way to saving his younger siblings, not survive himself."
The female doctor looked at him: "Listen to me, Ji You, it's not like that. Most people facing your situation would make a similar choice."
Ji You looked up at her: "Like me, be a disgusting coward?"
"That is where your illness lies."
"This is also called an illness?"
"I retrieved your case files from various psychological clinics and read them all night. You were later sponsored by a local wealthy family to attend university, your academic performance is excellent, and your classmates speak very highly of you, saying you are positive and sunny."
The female doctor paused here: "But you have always wanted to die while saving children. You feel that you should die in such a place. If this continues, you will be very dangerous."
Ji You was silent for a moment: "I don't think it's that serious."
"Promise me, you will come every day during the summer vacation. Do not resist treatment. If you can resolve this emotional knot during this time, you can definitely go back to class."
"Can I wait for a while?"
"What do you want to do?"
"It's almost summer vacation, and I have some things I need to do. I can promise you that after I finish this, I will come back for treatment."
Hearing this, the female doctor thought for a long time before nodding.
In fact, for some patients, the most challenging aspect of treatment is that they themselves do not believe they have psychological problems, and they resist every time they are asked. Ji You did not resist, which indicates that he himself actually knows he has some issues. Under these circumstances, the female doctor did not want to go against his wishes; she wanted to use this matter to gain his trust so that he could open up—
