mtl008 Chapter 4066 MU Superbody Major Event (146)
Chapter 4066 MU Superbody Major Event (146)
Chapter 4066 MU: The Superbody Incident (146)
Emma couldn't help but laugh, then realized how impolite she was, but still couldn't resist laughing again. It wasn't until Charles's helpless voice echoed in the room:
“Schiller, I’m not losing my hair because of a fight with Eric. There’s no scientific basis for that.”
"Yes, it's just that there's no scientific basis for it."
After Schiller finished speaking, he looked at Emma's face and said, "In the field of psychiatry, propranolol is usually used to relieve somatic symptoms of depression or anxiety, commonly manifested as arrhythmia or high blood pressure, indicating that it is a coping medication. That is to say, it can only reduce physical reactions, but cannot treat mental symptoms, and may even lead to drug dependence. So, out of responsibility to the patient, I cannot prescribe it for you."
"But what you call psychogenic arrhythmia is complete nonsense. I know very well whether I have any psychological problems. Besides, Professor Xavier has never said that I have any psychological problems. Even if you don't believe me, you have to believe him, right?"
“Just because you had no problems before doesn’t mean you don’t have problems now,” Schiller said. “When did your symptoms of arrhythmia begin to appear?”
“It was probably a few days before the war started,” Emma said, pursing her lips. “I don’t remember the exact date, but I’ve been having this almost every other day lately. I even wake up in the middle of the night with tachycardia.”
"So you want to buy some medicine?"
"Yes, but it just so happens that Earth is flying away, and I can't abandon my post to chase after it. The results of the examination at the field hospital told me that there was no problem, and the drug application report I wrote was returned three times. The last time it was transferred to you. In any case, I must get the medicine today."
"Okay, calm down, ma'am. This does seem a bit complicated. I'm not sure if you understand what I'm saying: I prescribed you medication today. You take it every time your heart rate rises, and it will calm your heart. But if you develop other somatic symptoms besides a high heart rate and then come to me for treatment, your recent medication history will seriously interfere with my judgment, making it impossible for me to determine whether it's a side effect of the medication or if you actually have a problem. The same applies to other psychiatrists besides me. Every time you violate the medication rule, you are hindering your truly successful treatment, and no doctor would advise you to do that."
“Please, it’s just medication to lower my heart rate, not drugs,” Emma said. “The hospital can’t find anything wrong with it. I just want to feel better, is that not allowed?”
"If you want to feel better, you should undergo further psychological evaluation to determine if this is a somatic symptom caused by a mental problem. If it is, psychiatric medication may make you feel better."
Emma looked impatient. She reached out and flipped through the psychological evaluation report on Schiller's desk, then said, "I've filled out this thing before, haven't you? You didn't see anything wrong with it, did you?"
"Just because I said there were no problems before doesn't mean there aren't any problems now. Besides, I don't completely trust any psychological evaluation process that isn't conducted in front of me. If you really want to solve the problem, then fill it out again."
“Okay,” Emma waved her hand and said, “Where’s the form? Fill it out quickly and get me the medicine!”
Schiller took a form, and Emma began to fill it out. After a while, she slowly frowned, and her filling speed slowed down considerably. Finally, after a long time, she finished filling it out and let out a long sigh of relief.
Schiller took the book and frowned as soon as he looked at it. He turned the page, and his frown deepened. He turned the page again and began to shake his head and sigh. He even asked the air, "Charles, what do you think?"
Emma suddenly became nervous. She thought she had filled it out perfectly, so why did it feel like she had a terminal illness?
She felt her heart race whenever she got nervous. She took deep breaths, trying to calm herself, but she could still clearly feel discomfort in her heart.
After a moment, Schiller put down the form and said, "Do you have a history of anxiety, ma'am?"
“I… was never diagnosed,” Emma said. “Back then, if you said you had anxiety, people would think you were crazy. My father would immediately send me to a mental hospital, just like he did to my brother.”
"Okay, since you put it that way, it's highly likely that you have severe anxiety disorder. Now I have some bad news for you: your anxiety disorder may have relapsed, and the arrhythmia is very likely a somatization symptom caused by a mental problem."
“That’s ridiculous,” Emma said. “I’m not that little girl anymore. What in this world could possibly make me anxious?”
"Really not? According to you, these symptoms appeared a few days before the war began, which may be due to anxiety caused by the change in environment."
"You're making me sound like the kind of kid who cries their eyes out a few days before moving, but that's not true. Even Professor Xavier can't shake my mental abilities, and no one can hurt me. What do I have to be anxious about?"
How is your brother?
"what?"
"You said your older brother was sent to a mental hospital. Is he alright?"
“I don’t know. If any mental hospital could really cure homosexuality, he would probably have been discharged by now; if not, then he’s still there.”
Schiller sighed. He said, “Who put him in there? Your father? Just because he’s gay?”
"Also, because after he put us under house arrest, Christian decided to commit suicide. However, he failed, which was seen as a very shameful act, so he was sent to prison."
"Okay, do you have any other relatives?"
"It was my sister Adrian who told my father that my brother was gay. She also secretly took photos of me kissing my first boyfriend and then got my father to fire him."
"Besides this?"
“My mother is a mentally ill woman with a history of abusing psychiatric drugs. When she found out that my father was having an affair, she decided to forgive him without hesitation because that way she could ask him for money to buy drugs.”
Do you have any friends or anything?
“I used to have a teacher who was very kind to me, but after I went to college, I found out that he was dating my roommate and was hitting her. After I confessed to this teacher that I was a mutant, he broke off all contact with me.”
How are your love life? Do you have a boyfriend or girlfriend?
"After my first love was fired by my dad, I fell in love with a gangster, but he fought a group of kidnappers for me and was killed by them. Later, I met someone who also had psychic abilities, but he manipulated my friends, teachers, and classmates to attack me. After joining the Hellfire Club, I had some contact with Cyclops Scott. He was a good guy, and I thought I could develop a romantic relationship with him, but later I found out that his girlfriend was one of the few mutants in the world that I couldn't beat."
Schiller couldn't help but open his mouth, then said, "Madam, I have to ask, why are you so convinced that you absolutely do not have any psychological problems?"
“Because even after all that, I haven’t gone crazy. I don’t think anything in this world can break me,” Emma said, shaking her head.
Schiller sighed again, and before he could speak, Emma interrupted him, saying, "I know you're going to say that the damage these things have done to me is irreparable and that it might drive me crazy someday, but I don't think that when all this damage comes out at once, the only thing it will do to me is cause my heart to pound, so that's definitely not the reason."
Schiller was somewhat speechless. He could only say, "Haven't you seen a psychiatrist either?"
"If I had to name one, Professor Xavier would be one, but he never provided me with any psychological treatment. Going back further, there were probably those doctors my dad went to who claimed they could cure mutants into normal people."
"What impact do you think your mother's history of drug abuse has had on you?"
"The biggest influence my mother had on me was that she fell for my father and had four children with him. Nothing else."
Schiller scribbled and drew for a while, then said, "How about this, I'll prescribe some anti-anxiety medication for you first, and see if it works. If not, then we'll try anti-somatization medication. This prescription lists the specific instructions for use. Be sure to follow the doctor's orders for the first time, okay?"
Emma took the prescription and stared at it, her eyes widening in disbelief. "You said you couldn't prescribe medication to regulate my heart rhythm, but you can prescribe four different medications? Is this some kind of cocktail therapy?"
"Only one of them is a traditional anti-anxiety medication; the rest are 'magic drugs' used to regulate the body's energy balance. Recently, many patients have been experiencing hormonal imbalances due to energy imbalances. I suspect you have similar symptoms, so you can try taking these first."
Emma looked displeased. Schiller continued, "Being mentally ill isn't a bad thing, and being a normal person who takes medication on time isn't shameful. If you think that undergoing psychotherapy will lower your prestige in the Hellfire Club, then I advise you to leave this anti-intellectual club as soon as possible; it's better for everyone."
Emma sighed softly and said, "That's not what I'm worried about. Never mind, I'll go ask the professor."
She took the form and left. After she left, Charles's voice rang in Schiller's ears again: "Thank you, doctor. If it weren't for your and Gray Mist's help, we wouldn't have been able to get Emma to see a doctor. Her condition really couldn't be delayed any longer."
“I swear this is the last time I’ll do something like this.” Schiller crossed himself and said, “It’s really absurd that such a powerful psychic would have an irregular heartbeat due to psychological problems. Next time, let’s try a different symptom.”
“But this is the safest option,” Charles said. “If you actually cause her to develop some mental symptoms that lead to an unleashed power, that would be much more troublesome.”
Just then, there was another knock on the door. Qin, with her slightly messy red hair, poked her head in: "Doctor, you don't have any patients right now, do you?"
"It's alright, please come in, ma'am. What have you been doing here?"
"Uh, I wanted to chase after Earth, but I didn't catch up." Qin smiled a little embarrassedly, then said, "Actually, I just wanted to go back to get my medical report, but I just finished a full medical checkup. They said there was nothing wrong with my body, so they suspect my arrhythmia might be caused by psychological factors. Have you seen my medical report, doctor?"
Schiller picked up a report from the fax machine next to him, glanced at it pretending to look at it, and then said, "It does seem to be fine. Sit down and fill out this assessment form to see if the somatization symptoms are indeed caused by psychological factors."
Qin walked over, sat down, and began filling in the report. After a while, Schiller took the report, frowning and sighing, and said to Charles, who was still in mid-air, "What do you think, Professor?"