Who would study psychology unless they had some issues?!-Chapter 663 - 596: Bai Qinghua and Weng Pinting: The Familiar Taste of Radicalism (Part 2)

Chapter 663: Chapter 596: Bai Qinghua and Weng Pinting: The Familiar Taste of Radicalism (Part 2)

Nan Zhubin looked around. There were no outsiders; it was a closed indoor environment.

The surroundings consisted of members from the same project team, in the context of another similar case exchange environment.

After contemplating, Nan Zhubin said, "She has entered a state of Acute Stress Disorder."

Acute Stress Disorder, or ASD for short, is a severe psychological response occurring shortly after an individual experiences or witnesses extremely traumatic events. It’s a series of functional disorders and self-protection mechanisms generated by the brain and body after undergoing massive and unbearable shock.

Considering Li Lingling’s childhood trauma, it’s not hard to understand her development of ASD after re-experiencing similar scenarios.

In such a state, the individual enters a heightened state of alertness, which quickly transforms into a state of exhaustion.

Furthermore, due to Li Lingling’s underlying Borderline Personality Disorder, her acute stress reaction is even more complex. In addition to common alertness and exhaustion, she also experiences emotional dissociation, making her appear particularly numb.

"Before I arrived, she had already been enduring harm in this state for a long time. Therefore, the progress of this intervention must not be rushed. I merely established a sense of connection between her and reality, then stopped."

Nan Zhubin’s psychological intervention was like medicine, but the system was too weak to assimilate it effectively—and clearly, Li Lingling is far from being generally weak.

This is also why Nan Zhubin decisively stopped the consultation after only a modest gain today.

Bai Qinghua and Weng Pinting gave a look of agreement, pleased with Nan Zhubin’s decision to "stop when appropriate."

Chonghui and Shi Qianqian nodded thoughtfully, with expressions suggesting they seemed to understand.

Weng Pinting then asked, "What do you plan to do next? Transfer her to the rear? Alleviating the impact of this relief assignment on her may take a long time."

Weng Pinting’s intention in asking this was to hear Nan Zhubin’s follow-up intervention plan. If it didn’t work, she or Bai Qinghua could take over.

After all, considering Li Lingling’s current state, most would conclude that "Nan Zhubin’s previous efforts were in vain."

—or rather, that it was "adding insult to injury."

Li Lingling, having re-experienced trauma and faced setbacks in the disaster zone, would inevitably be worse off than before.

Facing such a situation, it was almost time for the elders to step in and support.

Chonghui and Shi Qianqian thought this was quite reasonable.

However, upon hearing Weng Pinting’s words, Nan Zhubin blinked and showed a pensive expression.

...

Seeing that look from Nan Zhubin, Weng Pinting felt a jolt in her heart.

She was too familiar with that look.

As expected, after a moment’s reflection, Nan Zhubin said, "I have an idea..."

The worry was that you’d suddenly have an idea!

Weng Pinting shouted in her heart.

But up to this day, Weng Pinting oddly found herself a bit accustomed to it.

Even Bai Qinghua was unsurprised.

Weng Pinting took a deep breath, "What idea do you have?"

Organizing his thoughts internally, Nan Zhubin said, "I think this is a rare and crucial opportunity for intervention—the flood disaster is not a good thing, nor is the trauma Li Lingling endured here."

"But now that I’m here, and Li Lingling is also here, the current environment could indeed provide a deep healing opportunity for Li Lingling."

Upon hearing this, Bai Qinghua sighed, "Just like what you did in the courtroom before, right?"

The seasoned professor understood quickly. Though their interaction time was short, Bai Qinghua seemed to adapt to Nan Zhubin’s whimsical ideas even better than Weng Pinting.

Nan Zhubin nodded, "In the consultation room, no matter how much Li Lingling trusts me, or how suppressed her defense mechanisms are, she discusses her issues as ’history’ or ’topics’—it’s far from enough."

"I used ’hypnosis’ during her consultations largely to deepen her sense of reality and experience..."

But no matter how real the experiential sense, it can’t compare to a truly real environment.

As the familiar breath of the flood resurfaces, Li Lingling will have to genuinely and wholly experience those things always lurking deep within her heart.

It’s something that can’t be achieved through simulation or hypnosis.

If Li Lingling can successfully calm a frightened child here and now, the healing effect will surpass imagining it a hundred times in the consultation room. Creating a new, successful experience with a sense of control can better cover the old, failed, and helpless traumatic memories.

Nan Zhubin spoke quickly, "By completing specific tasks in the disaster area and receiving positive feedback, Li Lingling can experience her value in reality, challenging those negative cognitions like ’I am unworthy.’

"By receiving support and acceptance within the team collaboration, experiencing being a needed and retained member of the collective, it challenges Li Lingling’s identity as ’abandoned.’

"Especially by helping other victims in the disaster area, she can transform her pain from ’Why was I the only one who survived?’ into ’I survived to help more people,’ overturning her survivor guilt."

The cognition obtained in such special environments is powerful and something Li Lingling cannot acquire in day-to-day work life.

Objectively speaking, allowing Li Lingling to continue working here is indeed a rare healing opportunity.

Indeed, another problem emerges—a very crucial question.

"Do you think Li Lingling is ready?" Bai Qinghua asked.

Nan Zhubin neither nodded nor shook his head.

"Based on our last consultation, she is ready; but after seeing her today, I’m not too sure about her current state, so further evaluation is needed," Nan Zhubin replied.

Seeing that Nan Zhubin has not become overly excited and still maintains the basic rationality of a psychological consultant, both the teacher and senior sister felt relieved.

Nan Zhubin said, "I plan to proceed like the System Desensitization Method, starting shallow and going deeper step by step, observing Li Lingling’s state in the process. If her state is off, I’ll promptly call it off."

Bai Qinghua and Weng Pinting remained silent, signaling with their eyes for Nan Zhubin to continue.

So Nan Zhubin said, "In the first phase, I plan to present a report to the person in charge outside, applying to temporarily transfer Li Lingling from front-line high-pressure medical positions to relatively stable positions, such as material management or logistics coordination. The work intensity is lower, and the interactions are mainly with relatively emotionally stable volunteers and grassroots officials."

"The core of this stage is to construct an external reality corresponding to a Safe Island."

In hypnosis, constructing a Safe Island is necessary for recalling trauma; likewise, in the disaster zone, Li Lingling needs a considerably safer place.

Exposing her continuously to high-stress front-line situations is akin to ongoing trauma exposure without adequate support.

Material management work provides a low-emotional involvement, highly structured, orderly secure space. Through completing specific, controllable tasks like counting, classifying, and registering, she can regain a sense of control over herself and her environment, which is key to countering traumatic helplessness.

Moreover, the regular daily work rhythm itself also has a stabilizing and grounding effect, helping Li Lingling’s nervous system gradually settle from a high-alert state.

Nan Zhubin said, "During this process, I will also conduct brief meetings with her regularly. The focus won’t be on discussing trauma, but rather affirming her every small achievement on the new position, strengthening her competence, and gradually restoring her self-efficacy."