Chapter 46 Chapter 6 The fierce bell in your heart

One day I was going to work at a psychotherapy center on Fifth Avenue, and Kathy, the receptionist at the front desk, had just gotten a call.Seeing me coming in, Casey made a face at me and said, "Do you know whose phone this is?" "Your lover's number?" I also like to joke with Kathy. "If it was my lover's call, I would have gone crazy." "why?" "This boy is making 50 calls a day to his girlfriend," Casey said through gritted teeth. "I swear to God, 50 calls. I'm going crazy." The girlfriend of the boy who frantically called was a female psychiatrist.Given her years of training in psychotherapy, the female doctor should have understood what was wrong with her boyfriend, but she tolerated her boyfriend's obsessive phone bombardment.In fact, such behavior already has the psychological violence tendency I mentioned in essence.

Psychological violence is the psychological aggression, attack, and occupation of the other party, and the other party accepts such psychological violence intentionally or unintentionally, then such a relationship constitutes a psychological sadistic-masochistic relationship.In modern society, the ubiquity of the telephone provides the most convenient attack weapon for the psychological violence maniac. Tao Le, who has just been divorced, is a computer engineer. Her job is to sit in front of the computer desk and program continuously.Her boyfriend Tim is also a computer engineer, and Tim's company is a large American company.Interestingly, even in the United States, big companies are full of big pot meals.Tim is already an experienced computer engineer in the company, so Tim can do almost whatever he wants in the company.Dorothy's company is a small company, and the manager controls every employee very tightly.

Tim started his phone attack while Dorothy was at work.Dorothy's mood is very complicated. On the one hand, she likes to hear Tim's voice; on the other hand, she also naturally realizes that it is inappropriate to make phone calls in the company. The phone is both loved and feared.Tim's phone calls were endless every time, and finally Dorothy was warned by the manager.Realizing that her job might be lost, Dorothy begged Tim not to call her at work in the future.If Tim had any reason, he should restrain himself, but Tim still went his own way. In the end, of course, Dorothy was fired from her company.Dorothy was very angry with Tim's crazy behavior, so she decided to break up with Tim.But Tim seemed to turn a blind eye to Dole's decision to break up, and he still called Dole endlessly every night.After all kinds of protests were ineffective, Dole suddenly had an idea one day to see how long Tim's obsessive phone calls could last.When she got a call from Tim, she made it clear to Tim that she would be home tonight, but she would never answer his call.

So from 6 o'clock in the evening, Tim called Dorothy every 5 minutes.It lasted until 11 p.m., and Dorothy didn't answer the phone or unplug the phone line.At eleven o'clock, Dorothy saw that Tim still hadn't stopped, so she drove to her sister's house.When Dole came back from her sister's house at two o'clock in the middle of the night, the ghostly phone still rang every five minutes.Dorothy even suspected that Tim had installed a timer on his phone and that he wasn't there.When Dole picked up the phone curiously, Tim's voice came from the other end of the phone. The moment Dole heard Tim's voice, she felt as if her whole body was numb by electricity, and she could no longer distinguish Tim. Is it out of love for her, or out of his sickness, to make such crazy phone calls.For a lonely woman who just divorced, she would rather believe that Tim's behavior was out of love for her.On that night, Dorothy was once again conquered by Tim.

Don't underestimate the psychological aggression of the phone, it is sometimes enough to make a normal person fall into fear.I remember that I once read an existential novel.The plot of the novel is very simple: a man happened to pass by a cemetery and saw a beautiful little wild flower in front of a grave, and he picked the little wild flower casually.On the way home, he threw the flowers away.When he got home, he heard the phone ring, and when he picked it up, he heard a strange voice: "Return my little flower." The person didn't care, and hung up the phone after listening.But not long after, the phone rang again.When he heard that weird voice again on the phone, he suddenly recalled the little flower he picked in front of the grave today.He felt incredible, could it be that the call was made by the ghost in the tomb?Creepy, this call comes up every day.

The protagonist of the story has no choice but to buy a bouquet of flowers and put it in front of the grave.When he got home, he felt his nerves relax.But the phone rang again, and the eerie voice came from the phone: "I want my old little flower." At the end of the story, the poor fellow was soon in his grave. Everyone can have different interpretations of what existential novels want to express.In my opinion, the psychological violence conveyed by the phone can really kill, at least psychologically destroy a person.When I was in Shanghai, one day I went to visit a sociologist who was famously handsome when he was young.Even though he is over half a century old now, he still has the charm.

After sitting down, the phone rang.To my dismay, he didn't answer that call.A few minutes later, the phone rang again, but he still didn't answer.I told him he could answer the phone.He seemed to be reluctant to answer the phone, but his expression immediately became angry: "I tell you, don't keep calling like this, okay? I'm seeing a customer." After speaking, he turned the phone Hung up with a bang. "what happened?" "It's okay, a crazy woman can't figure it out with me." Before the words fell, the phone rang again.The sociologist grabbed the phone and yelled, "You're sick, you should see a psychiatrist." With a bang, the phone fell heavily again.

Our meeting that night was interrupted by such funny phone harassment.Even a well-known sociologist would have a headache when encountering such a problem.Phones in the US have a special blocking service that blocks unwanted calls.It seems that such a service is what many modern people urgently need.