Chapter 10 42 days of mental illness

42 days of psychosis (1) Ye Zhengsheng, a farmer with ten thousand yuan in his pocket, met a thief at the train station.While fleeing, a 110 police car came.He jumped into a police car and sought protection, only to be taken straight to a mental hospital.Injections, lodging, and medication...Ye Zhengsheng always insisted that he was not sick, but he was "cured" in a mental hospital for 42 days, and the expenses were paid out of the 10,000 yuan he had with him.Is Ye Zhengsheng mentally ill?What happened in these 42 days? At 9 am on November 25, 2006, Ye Zhengsheng, a 37-year-old villager from Xiayao Village, Jiedu Town, Leping City, Jiangxi Province, was waiting for a train at Guixi Railway Station.Guixi is a transfer station, Ye Zhengsheng's destination is Yiwu, Zhejiang, and his wife Xu Jiaoying is going home. Ten months ago, the couple went to Pan'an County, Zhejiang Province to work together.The workplace is a garbage collection station. They are responsible for sorting garbage, with a monthly salary of 800 yuan, and the boss takes care of it.

A few days ago, I received a call from a relative saying that the two children who stayed at home were ill.Xu Jiaoying has no intention of working and asks her husband to go home with her.Ye Zhengsheng was a little reluctant, thinking that going home during the slack season would delay making money.He took out 1,200 yuan in cash and asked his wife to take the car home first, and he returned to Yiwu, Zhejiang with 10,000 yuan in cash, either to find friends to start a small business, or to wholesale some New Year's goods to sell at home.Unexpectedly, as soon as he took out the money to buy a ticket, he was targeted by thieves.Zimo: What happened on November 25th?

Ye Zhengsheng: I was paying my wife to buy a ticket at Guixi Railway Station, and I was targeted. Zimo: Did you run away after you found out that they were targeting you? Ye Zhengsheng: I didn’t run away at the time, but later one person came and kicked my box, and the other stretched out his hand to pull my box. I started to get scared. Zimo: What's in the box? Ye Zhengsheng: Clothes. Zimo: After the box was snatched away, what was your first reaction? Ye Zhengsheng: I want to run away, because I have the money on me, and the clothes in the box are worthless anyway.I started running desperately along the road.Three or four people chased after me and beat me.I was beaten in the left eye, with a 4 cm wide opening.

Zimo: What did you use to beat it? Ye Zhengsheng: Ironware.I couldn't see it in my left eye, so I knew it was an iron guy.At this critical moment, Ye Zhengsheng, who was running, saw a patrolling 110 police car... After being rescued, the patrolman offered to either send Ye Zhengsheng to the train station or hand him over to the police station. Ye Zhengsheng refused these requests.He was still extremely nervous and kept close to the policeman. He even hugged the policeman with both hands to prevent him from leaving. He said he had money and asked the policeman to take him back to his hometown in Leping in a police car.While entangled with Ye Zhengsheng, the patrolman thought that Ye Zhengsheng had mental problems, and lied to him that he would be sent back to his hometown in Leping, and sent him directly to the Guixi Mental Hospital after getting him in the car.Zimo: Where is the police car you saw?

Ye Zhengsheng: From Guixi. Zimo: Did you tell the police what happened? Ye Zhengsheng: I told you, there was a robbery. Zimo: Were you particularly terrified and frightened at the time? Ye Zhengsheng: The main fear is money.Money is more important than life, and life was not thought of much at the time.It wasn't to keep the money, the left eye wouldn't have been beaten so badly. Zimo: Did you behave aggressively in the police car, causing the police to think that you have mental problems, such as being particularly manic, restless, or behaving differently from ordinary people? Ye Zhengsheng: Only nervousness.

Zimo: Did the police hint that you were going to be sent to a mental hospital? Ye Zhengsheng: No.I said to take me to the Leping City Public Security Bureau. He asked me to get in the car, and after getting in the car, he sent me to the mental hospital.According to the reporter of Jiangnan Metropolis Daily who first reported on the matter, he saw the police record of the patrol brigade when he interviewed the local police: "The time of the police: 9:30 on November 25, 2006; Case location: Jianshe Avenue; brief case and on-site handling: Ye Jinsheng (real name Ye Zhengsheng) was wounded in the left eye by an unknown person with an iron rod on Jianshe Avenue, and was transferred to the Shaojishan Police Station in Guixi City; the name of the police officer: Zhang Jianxing, Wang Yonghui; leadership instructions: Tan Hongtang." In this record, there is no record of Ye Zhengsheng being sent to a mental hospital for treatment.Zimo: Have you ever asked the police whether this is in compliance with the formalities?

Jin Qihui (Jiangnan Metropolis Daily reporter): The police explained that: as the police, we have no way of judging whether Ye Zhengsheng is mentally ill or not.We only have to send him to a mental hospital and see if he is a mentally ill person through a specialist doctor.If he is mentally ill and needs treatment, he should stay in the hospital for further treatment; if he is not mentally ill, the hospital should release him in time.At around 11 a.m., Ye Zhengsheng was sent by a police car to a psychiatric hospital 2.5 kilometers away from the suburbs of Guixi.This is a private hospital with only 3 doctors, all of whom graduated from Shangrao Medical College.Except Dean Daidi who is the attending doctor, the other two doctors are quite young.Dean Dai said that when the patient arrived at the hospital, his head was bleeding and he refused to get off the police car.After the policeman forcibly took the patient out of the police car, he said that he was a mental patient who had smashed the car and asked the hospital to take him in for treatment.At that time, when the hospital asked the police to admit the patient, the police said that the patient had money.

Dean Dai said that it was very difficult for them to get the patients into the ward because the patients were very uncooperative.When I came out of the ward, I found that the police had left without leaving their names and contact numbers.Subsequently, they found the ID card and 10,100 yuan in cash on the patient.At that time, they put 9,600 yuan in cash into the computer as the treatment fee for the patient.The remaining 500 yuan was handed over to the nurse for safekeeping and used for the patient's usual pocket expenses.Patient Ye Zhengsheng was treated as a mentally ill patient for 42 days.Is he mentally ill? What happened in 42 days?Ye Zhengsheng and Dean Dai gave almost opposite answers.The two statements deduce two completely different versions.The state of Ye Zhengsheng when he entered the mental hospital

Dean Dai: When he first came here, he was stimulated and kept saying that someone killed him, and we doctors couldn't even touch him.In this case, although I can't be sure whether he is mentally ill or not, at least this person has a problem.We asked him to calm down but he hit the paramedics as soon as he got to the ward. Ye Zhengsheng: He lied! Zimo: Did you grab the medical staff by the neck? Ye Zhengsheng: How come?They gave me an injection and I lost my strength. Dean Dai: We were justified in our defense. We were afraid that he would hit someone, so we gave him a calming injection to protect him.If he had been robbed, he would have explained the matter clearly when he was in a better mood, but when he woke up, he began to sleep with a quilt covering his head and didn't eat, so we had to let him rest.

Ye Zhengsheng: After I woke up, I begged him to let me out. Zimo: Ask who? Ye Zhengsheng: I beg Dean Dai. Zimo: How do you beg him? Ye Zhengsheng: I said I'm not sick, let me out.He just beat me, saying that beating you is like beating a dog. Dean Dai: I can swear to God, he said sobbingly, someone died in my family, something serious happened, Dean please, let me go back, he said it in this tone.I would never hit a patient.Disagreement 2 Whether Ye Zhengsheng had hallucinations or auditory hallucinations Zimo: Dean Dai said that you begged him to release you because something serious happened to your family and someone in your family was going to be killed.

Ye Zhengsheng: That's his nonsense. Zimo: During the 42 days in the hospital, have you ever had this kind of thought: People in the village told you that someone is going to kill your whole family? Ye Zhengsheng: No, it's impossible. Dean Dai: On the third day, the patient started to speak, crying and saying, the doctor let me out.I asked what was it that asked us to let you out?He said something was wrong with my family.I asked what happened?He said it's none of your business.He came on the 25th, and on the 27th he said that something happened at home and someone wanted to kill him. Zimo: No one from the same village has ever spoken in your ear? Ye Zhengsheng: No. Zimo: Have you ever told Dean Dai that you have heard such words? Ye Zhengsheng: No. Zimo: Have you ever worried that someone is going to kill your family? Ye Zhengsheng: Impossible, they didn't offend anyone. Dean Dai: He said, I can hear (someone in the family was killed), but you can't hear it!As a psychiatrist, it can be seen from this speech that he has a distinct auditory hallucination. Zimo: Is it recorded in the medical record that he said these words? Dean Dai: Not recording all the medical records is our biggest mistake, but I can swear to God when I speak.Disagreement Why does Masao Mitsuba not eat or take medicine? Dean Dai: The patient will not eat or eat apples from the 30th.He said that the doctor and the villagers conspired to harm him, that the food was poisonous, and so were the apples.I forcefully fed him nasal feeding, inserted a tube from the nose into the stomach, and poured milk and medicine into it.Until he woke up and started eating. Ye Zhengsheng: I refused to eat, so he poured water into my nose. 42 days of psychosis (2) Zimo: Why don't you want to eat? Ye Zhengsheng: I think, if you don't eat, you should let me go.I'll starve to death if I don't eat, and they'll be scared. Dean Dai: Because he has been refusing to eat, he can’t starve to death, and he can’t get an injection. He has to insert a tube through his nostril into his stomach.In this case, he was forced to the ground. Zimo: Ye Zhengsheng said that he didn't want to eat because there was medicine in the food. He didn't want to take medicine because he was afraid that the medicine would hurt his brain. Dean Dai: There is medicine in rice, but is there medicine in apples?He doesn't even eat apples. Zimo: Dean Dai said that in addition to not taking medicine, you also don’t eat fruit and snacks. Ye Zhengsheng: I want to save money. Zimo: Are you worried about spending money on board and lodging inside? Ye Zhengsheng: Yes. Zimo: But Dean Dai said that you don't eat apples because you have delusions and think apples are poisonous. Ye Zhengsheng: That's impossible. Why did Dean Dai speak like that? Zimo: Then why did you eat it again? Ye Zhengsheng: No way.He bought fruit for me and credited it to my account. He said that the money was with him anyway.My 10,000 yuan is on him.What treatment and examination did Yotsuba Masao receive? Zimo: Have you done some basic examinations, such as electrocardiogram? Ye Zhengsheng: No, I only measured my blood pressure once. Dean Dai: There are more than 50 patients in the hospital. I have been engaged in psychiatric research for more than 20 years. Mental patients have certain side effects when taking medicine. I am afraid that they may make mistakes. I conduct ward rounds for each patient every day. After the examination, the doctor will issue a doctor’s order. . Zimo: Have you ever considered that maybe Dean Dai is asking you to take medicine because he thinks you are sick? Ye Zhengsheng: I thought about it, but I'm not sick. Zimo: How do you refuse to take medicine? Ye Zhengsheng: They forcibly injected my legs with injections, which made me unable to walk, so I felt something was wrong.Until now, I have taken two breaks to walk a mile. Zimo: In the past 42 days, apart from auditory hallucinations and delusions, did he have any other symptoms? Dean Dai: Nothing obvious, except rheumatism in the limbs.When he saw me, he squatted down. I said, what are you doing squatting?He said that he has rheumatoid arthritis, and now that he is suffering from it, he can only feel better if he squats down.These are all true.Why Didn't the Hospital of Divergence 5 Contact the Family Members in Time? Dean Dai: I told him not to worry, I will contact your family when you feel better in a few days.After he regained consciousness, we all treated each other with courtesy and talked politely. Ye Zhengsheng: I don't eat, and I get dizzy when I walk downstairs.Think about it, you have to eat, otherwise your body will fail. Zimo: What about the medicine? Ye Zhengsheng: I also take medicine. If I don't take it, they will put medicine in the meal. Zimo: What do you think about the most every day? Ye Zhengsheng: I want to save myself.I told the temporary worker working in the hospital, you can call me, and I will give you 1,000 yuan. Zimo: Did he fight for you? Ye Zhengsheng: I didn't know for the first ten days or so.Asked him, he said he did.Later, I had no other choice. I said, why don't you bring your mobile phone, and I will call back in person. Dean Dai: It was my biggest mistake not to notify his family in time.Because I saw that his self-control had not yet recovered, and he did not understand his illness, so I told his family members to wait until his illness improved.If he's not sick and I lock him up here, I'll lose my dignity as a human being, worse than a pig or a dog! Zimo: What would happen if the nurse didn't make this call for you? Ye Zhengsheng: That can't be helped.You can only get out with money.I know they won't let me go, the nurse said, he won't let you out until you run out of money.final conclusion Dean Dai: If I cannot even diagnose the most basic symptoms of mental illness, then I am not worthy of being a doctor or a human being. Ye Zhengsheng: I'm not sick. I was wronged and sent to a mental hospital. In the early morning of January 7, Ye Zhengsheng's relatives were very surprised when they received a call for help.They thought that Ye Zhengsheng went out to work again after he had a conflict with his wife.After discussing with relatives, they decided to send Ye Zhengsheng's uncle Yuan Weishan and his son to Guixi to rescue him.Yuan Weishan is an old Chinese doctor, and his son Yuan Changchun is an employee of Jiangxi Dongfeng Pharmaceutical Factory.Yuan's father and son immediately set off for Guixi, and then found two local friends to go to the mental hospital together.At 1:30 p.m., when a group of four arrived at Guixi Psychiatric Hospital, the hospital refused to release them, saying that Ye Zhengsheng was a patient sent by the police and that the police should come forward to release them.During the stalemate with the hospital, Yuan Weishan was also accused of being a mentally ill patient, so he called the police for help.In the absence of police from the Public Security Bureau, a group of four people walked from the suburbs to the urban area, and then took a taxi to the patrol unit of the Guixi Public Security Bureau.Later, Tan Hongtang, deputy team leader, drove a police car to the mental hospital.After negotiations with the police, the hospital handled the discharge procedures for Ye Zhengsheng.Yuan Weishan: A total of five doors were opened before I entered the hospital.After going up to the second floor, I didn't see anyone. Someone said he was taking a shower, so I went to the bathroom, but he wasn't there.I called his name, and after he agreed, I followed the voice to find the room. Outside the room, I heard a female doctor yelling at him, telling him not to talk nonsense in front of his family.After seeing him, I asked him why he didn't make a phone call for so many days?He said he couldn't get out and was locked up.He said that when he came in, he was given an injection and passed out. Four people carried him upstairs and took more than 10,000 yuan. He was slapped in the hospital for not taking medicine. Zimo: Is there any difference between the Ye Zhengsheng you saw at the time and the Ye Zhengsheng in your previous impression? Yuan Weishan: There is no difference.He told me everything about being beaten and mixing medicine in the rice.The thinking is very clear, exactly the same as that of normal people.I can guarantee that he is not mentally ill.His temper is rather irritable, and his speech is rather rough. This is true, and this is the case for uneducated people.At the time of checkout, the hospital collected a total of 3341.83 yuan for medical expenses, including 430 yuan for bed, 430 yuan for nursing, 430 yuan for psychological treatment, etc., and 549 yuan for some other expenses, and refunded the remaining 6258.17 yuan.The family members were very angry that Ye Zhengsheng was imprisoned in the psychiatric hospital for 42 days without being notified. They believed that the hospital must get Ye Zhengsheng's money to do so.Dean Dai denied this statement. He said that even if the patient does not have a penny, they still have to carry out active treatment.Zimo: How did you settle the bill? Yuan Weishan: The medical expenses and nursing expenses were more than 3,000 yuan, and the remaining 6,000 yuan was for me to issue a receipt.Everything is clear on the account, and the price of the drug is too high, such as ceftiofur sodium, which is usually 1.3 yuan a bottle, but here it is 14.7 yuan, which is extremely high.When I showed him my doctor's certificate, his face turned pale. It wasn't that high, and it was definitely more than that.Why do you say that the hospital is to make money?Because after they snatched more than 10,000 yuan, they used 9,600 yuan as treatment expenses and more than 500 yuan as pocket expenses.Why should more than 9,000 yuan be used for medical expenses?Can't it be less?And even if he is a mental patient, he doesn't have any equipment to do the examination, just rely on what he said.I asked him, how do you know that Ye Zhengsheng is mentally ill?He said, if I say he is mentally ill, he is mentally ill, and if I say he is not mentally ill, he is not mentally ill.I said did you check with the instrument?He said that so far there is no instrument in the country that can detect it, and there is no need for any inspection. Zimo: If he didn't have 10,000 yuan in cash, would you still treat him? Dean Dai: Reporter Zeng, your question is very good.In my hospital, at least 15 patients with no money are admitted every year, and they are all sent by the 110 police who saw these patients outside.Even if it is delivered at 12 o'clock at night (I will accept it), I don't believe that I can see the record.After being released from the mental hospital, Ye Zhengsheng returned to his home. He still hasn't recovered from the strange experience he had experienced in the past 40 days.But in order to fight for his own rights, he decided to seek an explanation with the help of relatives and friends. On January 11, 2007, Ye Zhengsheng conducted a judicial appraisal on whether he was mentally ill at the Changnan Psychiatric Forensic Institute in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province.The result: he is a normal person.Zimo: What do you think this result represents? Ye Zhengsheng: It means that I am normal. I am a normal person. Yuan Weishan: The commune of our village has also issued a certificate that he has no history of mental illness since he was a child. Zimo: But this judicial appraisal has no way to judge whether he was in a state of mental illness when the incident happened. Yuan Weishan: I guess I need to do a psychiatric evaluation.Xiayao Village, where Ye Zhengsheng lives, is a small village that is not rich. Most of the young and middle-aged people in the village work outside.The Ye family said that Ye Zhengsheng is the backbone of the whole family.The villagers said that Ye Zheng did not have any abnormal behavior in his life.Zimo: Did he experience any abnormality in spirit? Villager A: There is nothing wrong with it. Zimo: Does he have any delusions? Villager A: No, nothing happened. Zimo: Do ​​you think he is mentally normal? Villager A: Very normal.Zimo: How long have you known Ye Zhengsheng? Villager B: I have known him since he was born. Zimo: Is he mentally normal? 42 Psychosis (3) Villager B: It's normal. Zimo: Have you ever experienced any abnormalities, such as impatience and mania? Villager B: He has nothing to worry about. Zimo: Will he feel that someone is talking but actually not? Villager B: There is no such thing, he has always been normal.After 42 days of "treatment" at the Guixi Mental Hospital, Ye Zhengsheng's body became very weak.After walking a short distance, he had to squat down to rest, saying that the sciatic nerve in his left leg was injured due to resistance to the injection, and he would feel unbearable pain when he walked a little farther.Regarding whether Ye Zhengsheng is a mentally ill patient and the root cause of his sciatica, the relevant person in charge of the Guixi Municipal Health Bureau said that it will be determined only through forensic examination.Zimo: Speaking of Dean Dai, would you hate him? Ye Zhengsheng: Hate, I'm not sick, but he made me unable to walk. Zimo: With your professional knowledge as a psychiatrist and your conscience as a doctor, do you think that Ye Zhengsheng was 100% mentally ill at that time? Dean Dai: There are thousands of mental patients.I swear, if he is not sick, if I lock him up here, I will lose my dignity as a human being, even worse than a pig or a dog.Zimo Comments: The judicial appraisal of Ye Zhengsheng conducted by Jingdezhen Changnan Psychiatry Judicial Appraisal Institute established in Jingdezhen Fourth People’s Hospital did not draw a clear conclusion, especially regarding Ye Zhengsheng’s mental state at the time of the incident. make any judgments.As for what happened during these 42 days, Ye Zhengsheng and Guixi Psychiatric Hospital also insisted on their own opinions and confronted each other.Looking back on the whole incident, we will find that whether Ye Zhengsheng himself is a mental patient seems to have become less important. What is more important is whether Guixi City "110" and Guixi Mental Hospital have achieved procedural justice in the true sense.