For many people, returning home for the New Year is really a torment.
Fearful Lao Li
Lao Li bought a ticket without a seat. After getting on the bus, he looked a little panicked, causing people around him to take a look at it.
What is more exaggerated is that in the middle of the night, he firmly hugged the thigh of the conductor who passed by and shouted incoherently: “Comrade police, please protect me. Everyone on the bus knows that I have money and want to rob it!” ]
Lao Li is a Sichuan native who works at a construction site in Beijing. Because of his low educational level, he does not know how to save money in the bank or how to buy tickets online. As the year approaches, he can only queue up with several villagers day and night. Finally, he bought a station ticket and set foot on his way home with more than 30,000 cash in his arms.
The conductor looked at the people around him, looked at him again, and calmly took him to the dining car with fewer people for detailed inquiries.
Lao Li said that within a few hours of getting on the bus, he found that the atmosphere inside the car was wrong. There were always people looking at him. When he looked back, they quickly turned their heads away. Those people must be in the same group. They wanted to hit the cash in his arms, and their eyes showed [murderous look].
As a result, he did not dare to sleep all the time, intending to fight with anyone who dared to rush over and rob him of his money.
The conductor laughed [I have seen more] and asked the conductor to take turns to look at Lao Li. Lao Li’s mood is much more stable after resting in the dining car for a few hours.
What’s wrong with Lao Li?
Before Lao Li set out, his heart was nervous. Over the years, he was running everywhere in the east, west, north and south. Although he had not personally experienced being stolen or robbed, it was not uncommon.
Under the condition of high mental stress, Lao Li was in a closed, crowded and dirty environment, believing that someone wanted to harm him and take away his hard-earned money. After he rested for a period of time in the well-ventilated and less crowded carriage for dining, his symptoms disappeared.
In fact, this is not the first time that such a thing has happened to Lao Li. As long as the journey is longer, Lao Li will always feel that someone on the bus wants to steal his money.
In view of Lao Li’s performance and recovery, he is likely to suffer from [travel psychosis].
This disease is a kind of acute transient mental disorder, which is characterized by rapid onset and recovery.
Who is easy to get [traveling psychosis]?
Speaking, there are still a lot of people [at risk]. As long as one of the following factors is met, they may suffer from [travel psychosis]. However, these factors are often found in a few people, so we don’t have much chance to see such patients on crowded trains.
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The basis for the existence of mental diseases: there has been a history of mental diseases, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, hysteria, etc.
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Personality factors: having susceptible personality, such as introversion or paranoia, manifested as silence, loneliness, pessimism and hostility to others.
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Psychological factors: high mental stress, encounter various stress events, such as lovelorn, unemployment, etc.
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Physical factors: lack of adequate sleep, excessive physical fatigue, chronic hypoxia, poor adaptability, lack of nutrition and water, etc.
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Environmental factors: Closed environment, crowded crowd, dirty air and noisy sound are all one of the important causes of travel psychosis.
What are the manifestations of travel psychosis?
[Travel Psychosis] Among the patients, some may suffer from consciousness disorder, which is manifested by a blank face, unrealistic feeling about themselves and their surroundings, and feeling as if they were in a dream. Their orientation, understanding and judgment may also drop sharply, specifically, he may not know the current time and where he is. Ask him how much 100 minus 7 equals and how much more minus 7 equals. If you keep asking, he may be ridiculously wrong. This calculation test is one of the simple ways psychiatrists often use to judge whether a person’s intelligence is normal.
There are also some people who, like Lao Li, may have psychotic symptoms. The more common one is [delusion of murder], believing that someone wants to harm him.
As a result, patients will attack, escape, escape, jump out of the car and other behaviors without warning. Some people will also have behavioral disorders, such as stripping their clothes in the car and talking to themselves in the car.
In case of these situations, we need to contact the flight attendants in time to control the patients in time to prevent them from hurting people and destroying things.
Can travel psychosis be cured?
The difference between travel psychosis and most psychosis is that its symptoms may disappear completely soon. Unlike mental diseases such as schizophrenia, the disease will become more and more serious as the course of the disease prolongs, and many patients have to take medicine for a lifetime.
Generally speaking, the patient can relieve himself within a few hours to one week after leaving the environment at that time and having sufficient rest.
Of course, there are also some patients who still have hallucinations, delusions, behavioral disorders and other symptoms after getting off the bus.
In this case, in order to control the disease condition and prevent it from hurting people or self-injury, doctors will use drugs to calm the patient down and give supportive psychological treatment at the same time. The prognosis of the patient is generally good.
However, it should be noted that if the symptoms last for 3 to 5 days, the patient may get schizophrenia, hysteria and other mental diseases. At this time, further diagnosis and treatment by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals or general hospitals is needed.
How to prevent travel psychosis?
Research shows that the vast majority of people suffering from [travel psychosis] have to go through a long journey, with seats mostly hard seats or no seats. Hard-seat carriages are extremely crowded during the Spring Festival, which will bring additional mental stress.
For the above-mentioned high-risk groups prone to [travel psychosis], if conditions permit, try to choose sleepers, or fly or take high-speed trains, while avoiding travel peaks as much as possible.
If you really can’t avoid the rush hour and can’t afford a more comfortable means of transportation, it’s better to find a companion to go home together. Two or several people can take care of each other and pass the time, and you can feel more secure psychologically.
In addition, poor physical condition is also one of the causes of the disease, so one must eat well, drink well and sleep well before going out. In fact, in normal life, people with poor physical condition and poor rest are also more likely to have consciousness disorders or illusions than ordinary people, not to mention on the journey when there is a lot of environmental information and people often maintain a high concentration of spirit.
Finally, in order to relieve the psychological pressure, it is better not to carry large amounts of money or valuables as far as possible-don’t be like Lao Li, because he is worried about the theft of hard-earned money and has been in a state of fear.
At the end of the day, in case you find yourself suffering from similar symptoms, it is recommended to go to a place with good ventilation and fewer people to have a rest as soon as possible. If it cannot be relieved, get off the bus in time and stop the journey. In case it becomes serious, there will be serious consequences such as wounding or self-injury, which is really not worth it.