Mental Disorder ⁽³⁾

When yang harmony spreads its transformation, yin qi follows; the generative qi is rich and transforming, and all things flourish. —Huangdi Neijing Suwen, Wuchang Zheng Dalun (Plain Questions, Treatise on the Constant Responsive Energies) Personality disorders are social maladjustment caused by stable, distorted cognition. In…

In 1998, I had just finished the gaokao (national college entrance exam) and was spending the summer in my hometown. One evening, an elder from our village said to me: "Zhiyuan, you are the village's scholar, and there is something I need you to help…

Recently, a person with a mental disorder in Xiaowu Township, Xiaochang County, Hubei Province, attacked people with a knife during an episode, killing eight people, including his mother, in a devastating incident. The patient, a 53-year-old man surnamed Lu, was preliminarily classified as a level-3…