30.4% of the freshmen in Peking University dislike learning because they suffer from "hollow disease"?

I am a psychiatrist, a school counselor and a doctor of clinical psychology.

In addition to providing advisory services to students, my most important job in Colleges and universities is suicide prevention and crisis intervention. So my next topic may be a bit heavy.

This is a case that I have met before. A very good student, with his intelligence, personality and emotional intelligence, can be an excellent scientist and scholar.

But after four years of hard work with his parents and all his teachers, we failed to make him really better.

Such cases, I have experienced a lot in the past three or four years, and more and more, let me think of a word, called "hollow disease".

Somatosensory Music Therapy for Psychosomatic Decompression

People's perception and experience of music is not only a physiological process, but also a psychological process. Music can cause changes in people's moods. Music therapy can alleviate various physical and mental symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety and depression, and gastrointestinal dysfunction. It is a psychotherapy worthy of attention.

Origin of Music Therapy

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Modern medicine makes people begin to understand that music can cure people's diseases is Richtendahl. Because he found that the influence of music on diseases can be adopted by medical circles and applied to clinical treatment, he put forward a pioneering and revolutionary viewpoint - Music doctor. It is this viewpoint that made the whole world in the 1990s. The era played a musical note for the treatment of diseases by music.

Modern medicine holds that music can cause physiological changes, partly through nerve transmission. The auditory nerve fibers act like resonators, receiving different sounds and converting them into nerve impulses that are transmitted to the brain. After brain analysis, the human body reacts differently.

A large number of experimental studies have proved that the center of music perception, integration and analysis is in the right hemisphere of the brain, responsible for non-verbal forms and psychological functions. Such as the perception of music melody, music memory and tone regulation, but also promote the activation of the right hemisphere of the brain.

Those beautiful and pleasant music, which accords with the physiological rhythm of the human body, act on the brain system through sensory pathway, can regulate the excitability of the whole body cells, thus play the role of restoring the balance of the body through nerve and humoral regulation.

What does hollow disease mean?

With the consent of some typical case visitors, I wrote them to me and read them to you.

"I feel like I'm on a fragmented island, I don't know what I'm doing, what I want, and I feel fear from time to time. For 19 years, I have never lived for myself or for myself.

A top student in the college entrance examination said after an attempt to commit suicide: "Good study and good work are the basic requirements. If I study well and my work is not good enough, I can't live. But it's not that I'm happy because I study well and work well. I don't know why I want to live. I'm always not satisfied with myself. I always want to do better in all aspects, but this kind of life seems to be headless.

This is another student's description. There are many more such examples:

"My world is a misty lawn. There are wells on the lawn, but I don't know where they are. So maybe I fell in when I was walking. I broke my leg and shouted desperately at the bottom of the dark well. I feel I have no self at all. It's all very difficult."

Their common characteristics, as they told me:

I don't know who I am. I don't know where I am. I don't know where I am. I don't think I've ever been to this world. I've been living for other people for the past 19 or 20 years. I don't know what kind of person I want to be.

What is hollow disease?

"Hollow disease" is a relatively vivid term, perhaps I can call it "psychological barriers caused by value deficiencies."

Hollow disease looks like depression, depression, loss of interest, lack of pleasure. If you go to a psychiatric hospital, you will be diagnosed and treated with depression, but the problem is that all drugs are ineffective.

Looking at the main manifestations of "hollow disease", it can not be regarded as a very strict diagnostic criterion, but it is the common characteristic that I have constantly summed up through contacting such students in the past three or four years.

They are often very good children, or "good children" in people's eyes.

1. Symptoms may be consistent with the diagnosis of depression.

It can be characterized by depression, loss of interest and lack of pleasure. But unlike typical depression, all of these symptoms are not very serious and prominent, so they may not look different from other classmates or most other people.

2. They will have a strong sense of loneliness and meaninglessness.

This sense of loneliness comes from the fact that there is no real connection with the world and the people around it, and all the connections become very illusory.

More importantly, they do not know why to live, nor do they know the value and significance of living.

They have achieved excellent results and achievements, which seem to be an addiction, a drug. They seem to spend a lot of time living, studying and working hard to achieve a sense of achievement.

But when he finds that all those things are available, his heart is still empty and he has a strong sense of meaninglessness.

3. Usually interpersonal relationships are good.

They are very concerned about other people's views on themselves, need to maintain a good self-image in the eyes of others, need to be a good child, a good student, a good husband, a good wife.

But it seems that all this is done for others, so it is very hard and exhausted.

4. It is insensitive to or even ineffective to biological therapy.

We have many cases, in the best psychiatric hospital in China, treated with all the drugs, even with electroconvulsive therapy, once, twice, three times, but no effect, that is to say, it seems that biological factors are not the main cause of their problems.

5. Strong suicidal thoughts.

This suicidal ideation is not due to the difficulties, pains and setbacks in reality.

In their words, "I don't want to die that much, but I don't know why I want to live. I have no idea what the value of my life is. Every day I live like a corpse. If so, I might as well finish it earlier.

So they tend to end themselves in less painful and tragic ways, such as burning charcoal, hanging themselves and taking medicine.

6. It is not a day or two for these visitors to have such problems.

Maybe from junior high school, high school, or even earlier, he began to have such confusion. Maybe he had tried suicide before.

7. Finally, the effect of traditional psychotherapy is not good.

Their problems may not be solved by changing their negative perceptions, or even by studying their native families, or by early trauma - you will find that they have a good relationship with their parents, although there are conflicts of one kind or another, but in general they are not the typical parents who divorce early. The problem of period attachment and early foster care.

As a psychiatrist, we have a good killer's mace, that is, any depressive patients can recover quickly in a short time if treated with electric convulsion, but electric convulsion treatment is useless for hollow disease.

They have a strong sense of loneliness and meaninglessness, they are the best students, the best students, they also need to be praised by others. But they have strong suicidal ideas, not suicide, they just don't know why to live, what is the value and significance of living.

So they will do it in a gentle way, and give us a chance to save him.