Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Inside Albarran Bail’s freelance office.

Albarran Bail spent two days watching those videos of Paula Rouco talking to herself, after a three-hour conversation with Severo Laris.

Her love for Severo Laris, her hatred for Severo Laris, her dependence on Severo Laris.

She even committed suicide by slitting her wrists in revenge and cursing Severo Laris for abandoning her.

After watching these videos, Albarran Bail is not surprised that Paula Rouco suffers from major depression and now has such a severe string tuning disorder.

Paula Rouco’s relationship with Severo Laris is rather a bundle.

Resolute and morbid to the extreme.

Albarran Bail sat back in the padded chair in his office, exhaled deeply and clicked on the video of Paula Rouco lying in the bathtub and slitting her wrists, repeatedly studying Paula Rouco’s character and the finality of her actions.

This case is really interesting and complex and difficult to deal with.

Prior to this, Albarran Bail had not encountered one as serious as Paula Rouco’s, although he had met many patients who had developed mental illnesses due to emotional problems.

But in that three-hour conversation with Severo Laris, Albarran Bail confirmed his suspicions.

It was Paula Rouco who was mentally ill, but Severo Laris was also mentally ill, and it is probably people like Severo Laris who are often described as paranoid and neurotic.

But Severo Laris showed no clinical signs of mental disorder, he was normal, he was just paranoid.

Only the paranoid and defective Severo Laris could have accepted such a morbid and overwhelming affection for Paula Rouco.

A paranoid psychopath, a psychopath.

Heh, a perfect combination.

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Senior Expert Seminar.

Albarran Bail opened the PowerPoint presentation and said, “We now have a clear picture of Paula Rouco’s condition and there are two main lines of treatment: one is to treat the severe depression she had for many years and the other is to treat her psychosis. Have you all seen the video of the patient? Any conclusions or comments?”

“Dr. Bail, I think Professor Laris needs to be treated together.”

Albarran Bail frowned slightly, “Why? Reason.”

“After watching those thousand videos, and learning the whole history of their relationship, I discovered that they were bondage finds and that their relationship was sick in the first place, they were overly dependent on each other, which is a disease that does not normally occur in couples and lovers. If this relationship does not change, it is not impossible that Paula Rouco will have another suicide situation in the future, unless Paula Rouco and Professor Laris never separate again.”

Albarran Bail didn’t think so and raised an eyebrow, somewhat derisively, “Doesn’t Dr. Dante know that they are already planning to get married?”

Dr. Dante frowned, “But you can still get divorced now that you’re married.”

Albarran Bail: “It is true that their relationship is more dependent and bonded than that of a normal couple, but I don’t think Severo Laris needs treatment, Severo Laris does not have any symptoms of clinical mental illness, he is a normal person and the feelings he conveys to Paula Rouco, even if they are more pathological, still do not fall into the category of mental illness.”

Dr. Dante disapproved and became agitated, “Dr. Bail, don’t you think their relationship is very much like that of the domestics and the domesticated? What is the difference between their excessive dependency and enslavement and Stockholm Syndrome?”Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

Albarran Bail laughs, “But Severo Laris is not the abuser, he is not the aggressor and he is not the perpetrator, so it is not the so-called Stockholm Syndrome between them.”

Dr. Dante wants to argue, “But …”

Albarran Bail interrupted him directly and replied sharply, “Has Dr. Dante ever known love? Does he know what it is to fall in love with someone?”

“I am married.”

Albarran Bail laughed derisively and said calmly, “Marriage has nothing to do with love, to love someone is to want to give them the best of the whole world, even the best of the world, that’s how Severo Laris felt about Paula Rouco, he simply loved her too much, it has nothing to do with mental illness. Dr. Dante, surely you don’t think there is a love more important than life in this world, do you?”

Dr. Dante was speechless.

The other senior experts present made no further comparative comments.

Albarran Bail picked up the topic and said, “The product of the visions and hallucinations Paula Rouco seems to have are related to her miscarriage seven years ago. And the character she fantasizes appearing with, Little Bean, is the son she lost through miscarriage seven years ago.”

“Because he was miscarried seven years ago, the little bean that the patient sees visually is exactly seven years old.”

Dr. Chiu frowned and asked, “But in Paula Rouco’s medical records, the hallucinations occurred a few months earlier, so why didn’t she have any hallucinations during those seven long years when she had a miscarriage seven years ago?”

Albarran Bail reflects, “Because it took seven years for Paula Rouco to be reunited with her former lover, Severo Laris. I speculate that Paula Rouco’s happiness at being reunited with Severo Laris has provoked a subconscious feeling of guilt for the son she lost seven years ago. The happier she is, the more guilt she feels, and under the weight of these two extremes, the little bean emerges, and Paula Rouco’s tendency to self-injure becomes more frequent.”

“Why would Dr. Bail speculate that?”

Albarran Bail: “Because Paula Rouco first saw the small bean sprouts at Imperial University, which is where her relationship with Severo Laris began, it’s not surprising that in such a maudlin place as that, visions of small bean sprouts would be created.”

“And subsequently, Paula Rouco saw frequent sightings of the little bean sprouts near the ImperialImperial subdivision where they used to live, and determined that the little bean sprouts lived in the subdivision near the Imperial subdivision, and that the little bean sprouts lived in the exact same building and door number as the Severos. ”

“The house in the Imperial and Imperial University neighborhood is the place that carried all the emotions of Paula Rouco and Severo Laris seven years ago, which is why the little bean sprouts frequent that neighborhood.”

“And the real reason for the appearance of the little bean sprout is a product of a vision created by Paula Rouco to alleviate the guilt she felt inside.”

Albarran Bail paused, his voice inexorably deep, and continued, “In other words, Paula Rouco has survived all this time because of the presence of the little bean. as Paula Rouco bent over backwards to protect the little bean and self-inflicted harm, she received relief from her guilt.”

“And the last car accident before she was admitted to the hospital was a suicide carried out by Paula Rouco’s subconscious self-direction. She wanted to get complete relief by dying to protect the little bean.”

“As to why it was a car accident and not a suicide death … presumably the patient thought the family would not blame themselves or grieve too much if she died in an accidental car accident.”

Albarran Bail, who had finished speculating about everything, gave a long contemplative sigh and was slightly out of breath.