Chapter 23 disoriented person

Some people sign their names in the corner because they can't bear the fear that they might get lost in the open. There is a large mental hospital in Germany that houses soldiers who suffered brain injuries during World War II.The director of the hospital, Goldstein, found that the imagination of these patients was severely damaged and restricted. They all placed things in a fixed and rigid way. For example, shoes were always placed in the same place, and shirts were always hung on a certain place. Location.They seem to be unable to make new attempts and arrangements for the details of their lives.

If they were asked to write their names on a piece of white paper, these brain-injured patients would write their names in a corner on the side, rather than in the middle, because they could not bear to be in the open space. The fear of getting lost.They lose their inner sense of direction and fall into the danger and fear of total isolation. Many mental patients also have this phenomenon.In psychiatric wards, it is often seen that some patients walk against the wall, because the wall can give them a direction, so that they will not lose their sense of direction and limitation in the external world.For a person who lacks an inner sense of direction and limitation, as long as there is something in the outer world that gives them direction and limitation, they will cling to it like a treasure.

Although normal people are not completely devoid of inner sense of direction like these poor brain injury or mental patients, but in this vast world, many people will attach to some external things, such as fortune-telling, etc., to gain a sense of direction. When they make this kind of attachment, it is usually the moment when they feel that they have lost their ground in life. Everyone will have a certain inner sense of direction. The reason why a person feels lost is that apart from the external rebellion, the most important thing is that he dare not listen to his inner voice. The voices of others overwhelm and replace your own.