They were in consultation with Dr. Abello, again in Gesell's chamber, the students of the specialty in psychiatry every day, they found more interesting things in the case of patient 13, Dr. Abello had decided not to reveal the name of said patient out of professional ethics, but wanted her students to see her case.
Tell me thirteen, how are you feeling today? - Abello asked kindly to the woman who was sitting in front of him- the woman when hearing the voice of the doctor looked up, but did not focus on him, if not on someone invisible, smiled at that something, and turned to see the man who had questioned her before.
Very well, I always feel very well, I told her that my mother came to visit me, well she came and told me about the stupid ex-boyfriend, - the woman saw that invisible something, that made her signs that she will not speak, that It was better to remain silent, thirteen nodded to that character who was in front of her to remain silent again.
The students wrote down each of the movements of thirteen, she was a fascinating woman, it was heard by her vocabulary that she was an educated woman, even from a good family, those words of her mother, this was the second time she mentioned her, now she mentioned her another person to a boyfriend, but now, which of those two characters that I mention was a real person. Her mother or her boyfriend?
Abello kept talking to thirteen, he wanted to know more about his mother, and he was willing to get it in that session, even if thirteen refused to speak.
Tell me thirteen, what did your mother tell you? -Now Abello's tone was no longer friendly, there was a tone of order in her voice-the man waited for the woman's reaction, but she was undaunted, she made no sign of having heard him.
"The person who was looking at thirteen was not Dr. Abello, but his mother, who made gestures for him not to respond and said: don't say anything, if you say something, it will make you worse, so keep quiet, will you? Do you hear? If you say something, I will not let you sleep, and at night you will have a bad time ”the voice was imposing, the mother of thirteen had always been like that since she was little, so she better kept quiet and said nothing, but something happened In a part of her mind, what if she spoke a bit with the Doctor? She would not say anything that would compromise her, and she would not make her mother angry either, so both beings who were looking at her would be happy, and leave her alone for a few moments, that this was really what he needed.
Okay, Doctor, I'll tell you something, you see my childhood was a bit hard, I was an only child, I lived in my grandparents' house, my parents always worked day and night, they only came until dinner time, so I spent it Alone with my grandfather, this was an older man- began to relate thirteen to Abello, who was surprised, the woman was talking about her life, although it was mixed with fantasy and reality, you just had to unravel between these two.
The students quickly began to take notes, except for one who was sitting almost in front of the camera, he dedicated himself to memorizing the movements of the woman, he clearly noted that he was not looking at his teacher, but at another ethereal figure who was not She was there at those times, as if asking permission to continue talking about the subject, at times she kept quiet and continued slowly. But she was only talking about the house of her grandparents, that if there were 3 bedrooms, that if the grandfather's cat, the grandmother fed him when he returned from school, things of no apparent importance.
The woman continued to speak mechanically, the figure of her mother telling her where to stop or continue, and this she did, the time came when thirteen would repeat the same thing over and over again.
I ALREADY SAID EVERYTHING! LEAVE ME ALONE !, she, she - she said pointing to her disembodied mother, she will not let me say anything else- she said as she threw herself on the floor in a fetal position and pulled her hair, the nurses immediately entered to lift her out of it. , and to take her to her ward, she needed her evening medications, so the session for the day was concluded.
Dr. Abelló stayed in the camera and turned on the lights to see his students, he sighed as he removed his glasses, he squeezed his eyes with his thumb and index fingers, taking a deep breath, he put them back, before beginning to speak with your students.
Today we could see a clear example of lucidity, but now I want you to think a bit, was it lucidity or the deception of a mastermind?
HOUSE OF DOCTOR SAMANIEGO.
It was Sunday at 3:00 pm in the afternoon, it had been an extremely quiet day for Dr. Samaniego, it was his day of rest, the week had been quite busy, between meetings, consultations, and other things that his position implied, towards days when I had restless dreams, it had to be the effect of work.
He remembered some sessions with the patient 1903, they were exhausting, the woman did not speak, or if she spoke.
It seemed as if he had known him for years, but he knew that it was not like that, he began to remember his last consultation with the woman.
Good afternoon, I hope that today we can talk, and you want to tell me about yourself and how you got to the hospital- I ask in a calm and relaxing voice for the woman, who upon hearing the tone of the voice, was stunned, so I got up the look.
In 1903 he gave her the deepest and saddest look she had ever felt, and when the woman stared at her she began to sob and mutter, her voice was slow and inaudible.
I didn't want to do it, really, I didn't want to do it, I only see blood, now I only see blood- she said with a pitiful and painful tone.
What was it she didn't want to do? - Samaniego questioned, paying attention to the woman, with a hard look, that woman was a wonderful manipulator, the latter thought.
No, I did not want to, every day there is more blood and she was silent when she saw the face of the man who was in front of her, it seemed that she had recognized something in him that forced her to keep quiet, seeing that face made her feel bad and remember something that hurt him deeply.
Samaniego read the notes he had taken, apparently in that month of sessions with him, the woman advanced more than she could have advanced in years, that made him really happy, but it still puzzled him, why did that woman look at him like that ? He was beginning to ache her head, if when he thought about her his head hurt and he could really smell her blood, if that metallic smell characteristic of the latter.
The phone rang on the nightstand next to him. It was Dr. Ángeles who asked him something about the call for the new Doctors, he had to review it before approving it, and other things about the hospital, unconsciously he smiled when he saw the Message from his coworker, that woman reminded him of something, he did not know that, the same as 1903, except that with Angeles it was different.
Samaniego's girlfriend had just arrived at the apartment after a long morning day at the restaurant, she saw her boyfriend lying on the bed with his cell phone in his hand, he saw the cell phone smiling, he began to feel that his blood was boiling, and without thinking about it, she went over to her boyfriend,
She well knew that the only explanation for him to smile that way had to be a woman and was specifically that woman, Lanah Angeles.
The man was caught off guard, his girlfriend had beaten and scratched him, he tried to protect his face and did not succeed, a large scratch crossed his left cheek, causing a little blood to come out, the burning at the wound made him push the woman who fell under the bed, to which she gave a cry of pain, had fallen on top of her left hand.
My hand fell on my hand- she cried taking her hand with the other and shouting insults at the man who tried to help her- you are an idiot, Manuel, apart from the fact that she caught you cheating on me, you hit me.
Mar, darling- the man helped her up-let me check you, I don't think there is a fracture, and I was not cheating on you, I was reviewing some messages, we must launch the call for new doctors, and they sent it to me, it reminded me when I entered in the service here- Samaniego said lying to his girlfriend, he didn't know the reason why Mar hated Dra. Angeles so much, and the truth was he didn't want to find out.
When the woman heard that she calmed down, but she still felt anger against him, she did not know why, something inside her told her that Manuel would deceive her, and if she did that, she would be able to kill him, she thought to herself whether to kill him, slowly and painfully, She looked at him and smiled at her boyfriend, but said nothing.
Manuel stared at Mar, something in her was not right, he knew he loved her, but it also caused him fear, something he had never felt before, there was no point in explaining it, all these feelings came since he saw 1903 for the first time.
It was something inexplicable, but that headache would not go away until he spoke again or saw her in 1903
In 1903 she was in the hospital garden for the first time; This was the occasion that she had waited so long for, she was ten years old in that place, the smell of flowers, trees, the air itself, all that filled her senses and perception. Dr. Samaniego gave the authorization to let her go out for a few minutes, all this due to her good behavior in the last sessions.Dr. Lanah watched the woman from the window overlooking the gardens, many patients were in the place; But the one who stood out the most was she, that woman who from the moment she arrived at Fray Bernardino could never touch that space until that moment when she walked among the rose bushes, looked at her scrutinizingly, she was not deceived, 1903 was manipulative and dangerous .Dr. Samaniego approached the woman; I was doing a tour of the facilities, I did not have a fixed day to do that tour and supervise that all things were running normally, I did it that way, both in wards
Thirteen was in the dining room, it was very few times that she ate together with all the inmates in the area, she had been in the psychiatric hospital for more than two years, since she saw his whole life collapse, his mind played bad Past, this day was quiet, her mother had not visited her in days, since the day she spoke with the kind Dr. Abello, if he was a kind man, he reminded her of her biological father, if she remembered him.One of the students who witnessed the sessions with her, worked in the area as a resident, observed the woman from a distance, produced a sensation of pain every time he observed her, for her case, the antecedents they marked, the signs and symptoms He did not want to make a prognosis, but he was one hundred percent sure that thirteen, if patient thirteen would never leave the fantasy world that lived in her head, although on some occasions she was lucid on others not so much.That day Dr. Abelló had con
“sometimes I dream of a love distant and vaporous like the schizophrenia of a perfume” -Emil Cioran- 1911 -1995
It was a rainy morning in Mexico City; she looked gray because of the smog covering her, it was her first day
Dr. Samaniego arrived at work that day, the place was quite chaotic, he still had a consultation to give, not because he was the director, he was not exempt from not having patients; But he still had to talk to Dr. Lanah, about patient 1903. That number told him something, but he didn't remember any more, it was his second day at work, he had prepared for it so he would take it forward.SOMEWHERE ELSE ...A group of students found themselves in practices, at that time they were in Gessell's chamber, they had a class with Dr. Abelló, they were going to have a session with a schizophrenic patient, many of them were studying psychiatry.Dr. Abello entered and with him two men who were leading a woman, she had her short hair, which was light brown, her eyes were lost, she did not know at what moment they were.They were in a regression, suffering from catatonic schizophrenia, there were times when he stayed in one position.
Dr. Abelló's class, the group was discussing the case of patient 13, that's what he called himself, the Doctor did not give them the name of the woman yet, the chair of the day could not be in Gesell since patient 13 she had suffered from a seizure of epilepsy the day before and was in the hospital at the time, and had a neurological monitoring.Okay guys, what have you investigated about our patient 13's symptoms ?; I await her hypothesis, her possible symptoms and her theories about her.Andrea Santos, one of the doctor's best students, raised her hand to ask for a word --- from what we can identify, she has strong traits of paranoid schizophrenia and there are also schizoid traits; but the strangest thing is that in the last consultation she had coherent language- Santos term.That's right, Santos- said Abello sometimes returns to reality, but not all, let's continue with the case and a bit of the girl's story ...&nb