Psychological Factor in Schizophrenia
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Ginza, for the first time he met a woman named Yoko. Kawashima fell in love with her. Shortly, a year and eight months after their first meeting in Ginza, they
decided to get married and finally have a baby named Little Rie. After short introductory about Kawashima’s family, the story began with
Kawashima taking bath with his baby. After they finished taking a bath, Yoko usually dries his baby, and when Yoko was drying Little Rie, Kawashima saw
Yoko murmuring something to Rie. After he saw his wife murmuring something to Rie, he felt something burning inside him and it made him anxious. Since then,
he became suspicious and wanted to stab his daughter. Every time his anxiety came, he became sweating, then continue by smelt something weird like a
pungent whiff of something organic burning, and so on. Every time Kawashima tried to stab his baby, there was a doubt in him. In
one side he realized that he was Rie’s father but on the other side he felt that he must stab her because he thought that the baby was a threat for him. Since that
night, he could not sleep, so he decided to go outside. He thought that he would rather enjoy the cold than staying at home. When he was enjoying night, he
suddenly stopped at a shop to buy some diapers and when he already in, he suddenly saw his other self standing before the shelves two or three paces ahead
of him. It pointed to the picture of a baby on the package and grinned at Kawashima. No longer after that, it told him that the only way to overcome his
fear and anxiety is by finding a way to stab someone else with an ice pick.
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