1 Psychiatrist, 12 mental patients, 4,000 days of treatment and companionship.
Most people enter the hospital to leave, but the patients here are different. They come here to separate from their former selves. Some of them never want to leave after entering. This book is the true diagnosis and treatment diary of psychiatrist Chen Baiyou. It records the craziest and darkest aspects of the lives of 12 mental patients: the suicide plan that lasted for 60 years hides the most affectionate secret of a family; a disease that even doctors are afraid of, but He was cured by a mentally ill roommate; a female patient who liked hide-and-seek married a policeman and was taken home even if she hid in a foreign country... They gathered in this small space sealed by layers of iron doors, seemingly receiving treatment, but in fact they were repairing their fragmented lives.
Through the inner world of mentally ill patients, have you also seen your own shadow, the despair and uneasiness deep in the hearts of us "normal people"? If you are overwhelmed by reality and can't breathe, don't be afraid, don't panic, who hasn't had a "sick" moment?
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Use a compassionate tone to vividly describe the encounter with "pathetic" and "lovable" patients in a mental hospital.
I can feel that the behavior of some patients in this book will definitely be changed into film and television works.
In that mysterious small building, there is a group of people who are ignored by the mainstream group. They are called "mental patients". Only the author bravely explains that they may be suffering from the disease for the times, because the derailment of the times has crushed them, because of the contemptuous tone of society towards them, and because of more people's misunderstanding of them.
Looking for Prozac is not as good as looking for love. There are some people who are not sick, they just encounter difficulties and problems, and no one is willing to understand and help them.
"Most people need someone to talk to."
"Love and hate are both strong emotions."
What moved me was the never-ending old lady in "Suicide in Sixty Years". She was not at all impatient with her lover's extreme thoughts. It was so difficult to love someone who wanted to die for sixty years.
There is also Xiaoqian's police husband in "Wandering with Mom". Xiaoqian has to hide herself every time her relationship with the police heats up, and every time the police will use criminal investigation methods to find her back. He said, "No matter where you go, I can find you back."
And the last chapter of this article "Let's Get Married" is a story of two-way tolerance and two-way choice, but because of a deception and a mental illness, the life that should have been happy was broken.
The most regrettable thing and the one with the greatest stamina is the smart, capable and good-looking woman in "Beautiful Idiot". The woman who was always afraid of losing and arrogant finally came out of the old relationship and the state of depression. She met the person she loved and finally spent her life happily, but she got sick... And she finally decided to live! Just as a new flame of hope was ignited, ruthless physical illness took away her life.
Some of these patients were loved and healed, some were abandoned, and some only wanted to get their dignity and justice but were not understood by everyone. The world abandoned her, and she took revenge on the world in an extreme way.
They're all looking for their own Prozac... And so are we.
The personalities of most adults are incomplete, and we all make wrong choices out of fear of loss.
After reading the whole book, I felt a sense of relief. My mother was also schizophrenic, but she has recovered. She has not relapsed for more than ten years after giving birth to me. One year, she suddenly relapsed and took away a personality. This book describes the situation of mentally ill patients and how to deal with them, as well as dialectical thinking. It can give readers a deep understanding of mental patients. They are not born. Everyone has different tolerances and you don't know what happened to him. This book made me learn a lot and feel emotional about all the things I have gained and experienced. I highly recommend reading it.
2024.5.26
Your existence itself is the best answer.
Every character is vivid and vivid, and every story is touching. The mental patients in it are all people with traumatized souls, which makes us think again about the importance of family education and the care of relatives.
Each article is a story from a patient's perspective.
[Almost crying] Every article makes me cry. As a doctor, your abilities are limited. Niu Wei, who returned to his hometown for treatment due to financial reasons, and Lu Wei, who was repeatedly discharged from the hospital and hospitalized. Duan Huilai stayed in the hospital and watched others coming and going. Telling the story of everyone in the hospital...
Although the hospital has been demolished, life still needs to go on...
It's really beautiful! [Crying] This article focuses on telling stories rather than analyzing their illness. Because I have never come into contact with such people in my life, through this book, I can learn about their stories.
A very heart-warming book. The author shared many touching stories. Two of the most impressive ones are: Why can't Uncle Zhang, who committed suicide for 60 years, die? His wife shocked him with her meticulous care and constant protection and companionship. It is really an incredible plot and power... And Wang Na, who is silly and sweet in love, was cheated by her ex-boyfriend countless times and tasted the bitter pill. After all the hardships, she finally came out of the sea of mental suffering. Finally... A book worth reading.
After reading this book, I have the urge to work in a psychiatric hospital. I feel that I can find my true self there, a self that is different from "normal people" and incompatible with "normal society" [I'm about to cry]
I listened to it yesterday, but I just remembered to comment today.
As a child of a patient with a mental illness, I have been getting along with my schizophrenic mother since I was young. I may have been in a loving family atmosphere, and I have never had a feeling of inferiority since I was a child. Maybe when I was very young, I still cared about others looking at my mother strangely. The older she gets, the more she will understand her mother, and she will also be able to enlighten her when she is in a bad mood. Therefore, I feel that personal psychological quality is very important. There are many difficult moments in life. You must learn to educate yourself and not be so serious. It's hard to pass through.
2025.4.18.8.00
The life of every mental patient is different. This is the world. We are all independent people, and the diseases we suffer from are similar. And then the treatment model is basically the same. But the causes are strange and very different. Every patient is not sick because of his or her supervisor's wishes, but because of reasons such as life, family, parents, relatives, work, etc. Those who can go to the hospital for treatment are already considered good. Think about the others who have no way to go to the hospital. What about the patients who can only be kept in the countryside or locked at home?
After reading so many stories with humanistic narratives, I'm used to it. I am used to this kind of world, and I know that only indifference and independence are the only things I can rely on. Good book. You can take a look.
After reading this book, I felt a little sad...
Through this book, I learned more about the group of mental patients and the profession of psychiatrists.
I have been interested in psychology for a long time. The deeper I understand, the more I discover that this is not simple.
I understand and admire this doctor's rationality and sensibility when facing these mental patients.
After reading it, I saw that the doctor himself was depressed... That part was really uncomfortable... To save others, you must save yourself first...
All in all, I highly recommend this book! ! !
I saw a manic-depressive patient curing a closed girl, but neither of them was cured later. The condition relapsed and relapsed, but it was difficult to cure each other and their behaviors could be imitated. Long-lasting true love is hard to replicate, and the normal state of the world is mostly helplessness; seeing a rough man who relies on alcohol gradually calming down with the healing of a kitten. After the kitten is taken away, the condition relapses, and the return of another kitten calms down the mood, and even learns to love his daughter; and then the grandfather and grandma's way of getting along with each other, which is almost morbid in the eyes of ordinary people, has become the meaning of their lives. The author has a super gentle heart, which instantly soothes the irritable mood in this irritable world. It turns out that not curing depression will be another kind of salvation, and it also makes me, a person over 30, begin to think about the meaning of life for the first time. How many times have we used the unswerving opinions we have received from this world to treat things beyond our understanding in a different light. The pain of childhood takes a lifetime to heal, but it may not be healed in this lifetime. There is always a gentle person or something that becomes the light in life. Learn to reconcile with yourself and treat the world gently. I used to think that life was the capital of revolution, but now I feel that emotions dominate how a person treats life and determines the splendor of life.
It's a pretty good book that helped me understand more about the world of mental patients. Some of the words in it are very meaningful and worth reading again and again.
I really like books written by psychiatrists. I have always felt that I am also a patient with depression and on the verge of collapse, so every time I read similar books on psychiatry, the conditions of those patients make me particularly touched. If psychiatry is like what is described in the book, I also hope to escape from this world and go to this only quiet place to grow old.
This is a beautiful and sad book! The author sincerely tells the life stories of various mental illnesses. The author makes us feel an unusual life experience from the perspective of doctors, patients and bystanders.
The author is emotionally delicate, kind and compassionate. There are thoughts on life and reminders to the world. I hope more people can read this book!
In real society, mental patients are a group of people whose cognition is different from that of most people, or who are unable to comfort themselves after being hit by reality. The mental hospital is another small world separated from the public world.
It took me five hours to read this book. I want to find some ways to get rid of sadness from the book and make myself more cheerful. The title of the book attracted me. Indeed, in the face of deep despair and uneasiness in the heart, who hasn't felt sick? Some of the patients described in the book may have inherited the disease in their families, but most of them got the disease because they were exposed to external stimuli and suffered many blows. I lament how difficult it is to live a healthy, safe and smooth life.
When I was in junior high school, there was a grandfather who lived in the alley. He liked to use a small chair and draw with a ballpoint pen at the entrance of the alley. He talked to himself while drawing. Neighbors said that he was a "literary lunatic" and they didn't want to have much contact with him. At that time, I didn't understand that he was just sitting there painting. What danger could there be? He doesn't sit and draw every day. He disappears from time to time for a period of time. His parents said that he probably went to a mental hospital for treatment again. I don't know why he got sick. I usually pass by him after school and just watch his paintings for a while, but I don't dare to talk to him.
Everyone has encountered different blows in life to some extent. Some people get sick after a collapse, some recover on their own after a collapse, and some get sick without knowing it. In all life situations, there is no optimal solution, and there is no Prozac. You can only use some methods to make yourself happier and not let yourself drag down the family around you.
Mental health is often not as intuitive as physical health, and it is easily overlooked. Most people think of it as two types: normal and mentally ill. In fact, as the book says, there is a big fuzzy zone in between, and many people are in it without knowing it. Lucky people can have the care of family and friends, self-regulation, and smooth fortunes, while unfortunate people gradually sink until they can't escape.
This book is a mental health maintenance, a mental health vaccine, simple narrative, clear analysis, opening the book is like a spring breeze, closing the book is like a long aftertaste, like a ray of sunshine passing through the fog, escorting mental health.
Thanks to the author, not only gave me a pleasant reading, but also a spiritual cleansing.
What a true book. I also face several psychiatric patients for examination every day at work. I am always on guard when they come, fearing that they will get sick during the examination. Some are quiet and obedient, and some are manic and shouting. I stay away from them and try not to provoke them. But now that I have read this book and learned a lot about their stories, I am no longer afraid. I will be more patient and tolerant, and treat them with equal respect. Maybe it's like what the author wrote, that being hospitalized by a nurse is really a kind of protection. It's very dangerous to put them in this society. Not everyone is kind-hearted.
It is real, shocking and tender, and life is accompanied by joy and sorrow. Through "their" stories, we can feel the impermanence and helplessness of fate, and at the same time, we can also feel the greatness of life from "their" stories. Life is full of joys and sorrows, so it is better to live well in the moment than to be anxious and uneasy all day long.
I only wish there was a medicine in the world that could really solve all kinds of worries.
Defects are not an obstacle to love. On the contrary, they can also become a stable cornerstone of love. Only by understanding and tolerating each other can both parties go forward and go further.
After listening to it, I gained something. After watching Baiwei Life, I felt that I had a better understanding of the human spiritual world, and also learned about the causes of some pathologies👍🏻It was very real and I was moved by the warmth.
It was well written and very in-depth. It really made me understand what mental illness looks like and changed my impression of it. In fact, in this book, I felt how deeply childhood experiences have a profound impact on a person. I hope that each of us has a wonderful childhood.
The writing is very objective and true, somewhat similar to "The Genius is on the Left and the Madman is on the Right". It is a short story a day. After reading it, you can reflect on it and feel emotional. It is a story that you can think about and bring some different feelings to your life.
A plain and gentle book
First of all, I would like to express my special thanks to the author for bringing me this book, which allows me to understand the inner world of mental patients and the real world from a professional perspective. Originally, I thought that all mental patients are probably the same, but after reading this book, it seems like the author described it. Half of them are angels, pure and kind, and the other half do have a lot of unknown darkness. I hope that in this stressful society, we can all let ourselves go and live happily every day.
I read it in two hours in four days. Compared with pure psychological counseling stories, I feel that sometimes mental illness-related stories are really hard to understand. But that's right. It's really difficult for ordinary people to understand when someone is mentally ill. However, the good thing about this book is that the chapters are divided according to characters. The unit model is still clear. The later stories are easier to empathize with than the previous ones. Compared with the previous book with the same theme, "The Genius is on the Left and the Madman on the Right", I still recommend this book. The proportion of fabricated elements in this book is too large. I personally think that what is more terrifying about mental illness than simple depression is the double physical and psychological torture. This "madness" is different from ordinary somatization symptoms, because sometimes the somatization is perceptible by oneself, while some "madness" in the eyes of ordinary people is not controlled at all. After reading this book, including the ones I have read before, I feel that most of the causes are due to the stupid self-righteousness and self-impression of parents and family members. This has a damn familiar and suffocating feeling, so I really don't advise patients with mental illness to stop thinking. Is that something I can control?
After reading this book, I feel empty in my heart, as if I have said goodbye to all the characters in this book. Every time I read this book, I feel very peaceful inside. Just like the author said, after staying in a mental hospital for a long time, you will feel that it is quiet, calm, and simple inside, which makes people calm down, while the outside world is always so noisy and changeable, making people restless.
Use a compassionate tone to vividly describe the encounter with "pathetic" and "lovable" patients in a mental hospital. I can feel that the behavior of some patients in this book will definitely be changed into film and television works. In that mysterious small building, there is a group of people who are ignored by the mainstream group. They are called "mental patients". Only the author bravely explains that they may be suffering from the disease for the times, because the derailment of the times has crushed them, because of the contemptuous tone of society towards them, and because of more people's misunderstanding of them.
Looking for Prozac is not as good as looking for love. There are some people who are not sick, they just encounter difficulties and problems, and no one is willing to understand and help them. "Most people need someone to talk to." "Love and hate are both strong emotions."
What moved me was the never-ending old lady in "Suicide in Sixty Years". She was not at all impatient with her lover's extreme thoughts. It was so difficult to love someone who wanted to die for sixty years. There is also Xiaoqian's police husband in "Wandering with Mom". Xiaoqian has to hide herself every time her relationship with the police heats up, and every time the police will use criminal investigation methods to find her back. He said, "No matter where you go, I can find you back." And the last chapter of this article "Let's Get Married" is a story of two-way tolerance and two-way choice, but because of a deception and a mental illness, the life that should have been happy was broken. The most regrettable thing and the one with the greatest stamina is the smart, capable and good-looking woman in "Beautiful Idiot". The woman who was always afraid of losing and arrogant finally came out of the old relationship and the state of depression. She met the person she loved and finally spent her life happily, but she got sick... And she finally decided to live! Just as a new flame of hope was ignited, ruthless physical illness took away her life. Some of these patients were loved and healed, some were abandoned, and some only wanted to get their dignity and justice but were not understood by everyone. The world abandoned her, and she took revenge on the world in an extreme way. They're all looking for their own Prozac... And so are we. The personalities of most adults are incomplete, and we all make wrong choices out of fear of loss.
After reading the whole book, I felt a sense of relief. My mother was also schizophrenic, but she has recovered. She has not relapsed for more than ten years after giving birth to me. One year, she suddenly relapsed and took away a personality. This book describes the situation of mentally ill patients and how to deal with them, as well as dialectical thinking. It can give readers a deep understanding of mental patients. They are not born. Everyone has different tolerances and you don't know what happened to him. This book made me learn a lot and feel emotional about all the things I have gained and experienced. I highly recommend reading it.
2024.5.26 Your existence itself is the best answer.
Every character is vivid and vivid, and every story is touching. The mental patients in it are all people with traumatized souls, which makes us think again about the importance of family education and the care of relatives.
Each article is a story from a patient's perspective. [Almost crying] Every article makes me cry. As a doctor, your abilities are limited. Niu Wei, who returned to his hometown for treatment due to financial reasons, and Lu Wei, who was repeatedly discharged from the hospital and hospitalized. Duan Huilai stayed in the hospital and watched others coming and going. Telling the story of everyone in the hospital... Although the hospital has been demolished, life still needs to go on... It's really beautiful! [Crying] This article focuses on telling stories rather than analyzing their illness. Because I have never come into contact with such people in my life, through this book, I can learn about their stories.
A very heart-warming book. The author shared many touching stories. Two of the most impressive ones are: Why can't Uncle Zhang, who committed suicide for 60 years, die? His wife shocked him with her meticulous care and constant protection and companionship. It is really an incredible plot and power... And Wang Na, who is silly and sweet in love, was cheated by her ex-boyfriend countless times and tasted the bitter pill. After all the hardships, she finally came out of the sea of mental suffering. Finally... A book worth reading.
After reading this book, I have the urge to work in a psychiatric hospital. I feel that I can find my true self there, a self that is different from "normal people" and incompatible with "normal society" [I'm about to cry] I listened to it yesterday, but I just remembered to comment today.
As a child of a patient with a mental illness, I have been getting along with my schizophrenic mother since I was young. I may have been in a loving family atmosphere, and I have never had a feeling of inferiority since I was a child. Maybe when I was very young, I still cared about others looking at my mother strangely. The older she gets, the more she will understand her mother, and she will also be able to enlighten her when she is in a bad mood. Therefore, I feel that personal psychological quality is very important. There are many difficult moments in life. You must learn to educate yourself and not be so serious. It's hard to pass through.
2025.4.18.8.00 The life of every mental patient is different. This is the world. We are all independent people, and the diseases we suffer from are similar. And then the treatment model is basically the same. But the causes are strange and very different. Every patient is not sick because of his or her supervisor's wishes, but because of reasons such as life, family, parents, relatives, work, etc. Those who can go to the hospital for treatment are already considered good. Think about the others who have no way to go to the hospital. What about the patients who can only be kept in the countryside or locked at home? After reading so many stories with humanistic narratives, I'm used to it. I am used to this kind of world, and I know that only indifference and independence are the only things I can rely on. Good book. You can take a look.
After reading this book, I felt a little sad... Through this book, I learned more about the group of mental patients and the profession of psychiatrists. I have been interested in psychology for a long time. The deeper I understand, the more I discover that this is not simple. I understand and admire this doctor's rationality and sensibility when facing these mental patients. After reading it, I saw that the doctor himself was depressed... That part was really uncomfortable... To save others, you must save yourself first... All in all, I highly recommend this book! ! !
I saw a manic-depressive patient curing a closed girl, but neither of them was cured later. The condition relapsed and relapsed, but it was difficult to cure each other and their behaviors could be imitated. Long-lasting true love is hard to replicate, and the normal state of the world is mostly helplessness; seeing a rough man who relies on alcohol gradually calming down with the healing of a kitten. After the kitten is taken away, the condition relapses, and the return of another kitten calms down the mood, and even learns to love his daughter; and then the grandfather and grandma's way of getting along with each other, which is almost morbid in the eyes of ordinary people, has become the meaning of their lives. The author has a super gentle heart, which instantly soothes the irritable mood in this irritable world. It turns out that not curing depression will be another kind of salvation, and it also makes me, a person over 30, begin to think about the meaning of life for the first time. How many times have we used the unswerving opinions we have received from this world to treat things beyond our understanding in a different light. The pain of childhood takes a lifetime to heal, but it may not be healed in this lifetime. There is always a gentle person or something that becomes the light in life. Learn to reconcile with yourself and treat the world gently. I used to think that life was the capital of revolution, but now I feel that emotions dominate how a person treats life and determines the splendor of life.
It's a pretty good book that helped me understand more about the world of mental patients. Some of the words in it are very meaningful and worth reading again and again.
I really like books written by psychiatrists. I have always felt that I am also a patient with depression and on the verge of collapse, so every time I read similar books on psychiatry, the conditions of those patients make me particularly touched. If psychiatry is like what is described in the book, I also hope to escape from this world and go to this only quiet place to grow old.
This is a beautiful and sad book! The author sincerely tells the life stories of various mental illnesses. The author makes us feel an unusual life experience from the perspective of doctors, patients and bystanders. The author is emotionally delicate, kind and compassionate. There are thoughts on life and reminders to the world. I hope more people can read this book!
In real society, mental patients are a group of people whose cognition is different from that of most people, or who are unable to comfort themselves after being hit by reality. The mental hospital is another small world separated from the public world.
It took me five hours to read this book. I want to find some ways to get rid of sadness from the book and make myself more cheerful. The title of the book attracted me. Indeed, in the face of deep despair and uneasiness in the heart, who hasn't felt sick? Some of the patients described in the book may have inherited the disease in their families, but most of them got the disease because they were exposed to external stimuli and suffered many blows. I lament how difficult it is to live a healthy, safe and smooth life. When I was in junior high school, there was a grandfather who lived in the alley. He liked to use a small chair and draw with a ballpoint pen at the entrance of the alley. He talked to himself while drawing. Neighbors said that he was a "literary lunatic" and they didn't want to have much contact with him. At that time, I didn't understand that he was just sitting there painting. What danger could there be? He doesn't sit and draw every day. He disappears from time to time for a period of time. His parents said that he probably went to a mental hospital for treatment again. I don't know why he got sick. I usually pass by him after school and just watch his paintings for a while, but I don't dare to talk to him. Everyone has encountered different blows in life to some extent. Some people get sick after a collapse, some recover on their own after a collapse, and some get sick without knowing it. In all life situations, there is no optimal solution, and there is no Prozac. You can only use some methods to make yourself happier and not let yourself drag down the family around you.
Mental health is often not as intuitive as physical health, and it is easily overlooked. Most people think of it as two types: normal and mentally ill. In fact, as the book says, there is a big fuzzy zone in between, and many people are in it without knowing it. Lucky people can have the care of family and friends, self-regulation, and smooth fortunes, while unfortunate people gradually sink until they can't escape. This book is a mental health maintenance, a mental health vaccine, simple narrative, clear analysis, opening the book is like a spring breeze, closing the book is like a long aftertaste, like a ray of sunshine passing through the fog, escorting mental health. Thanks to the author, not only gave me a pleasant reading, but also a spiritual cleansing.
What a true book. I also face several psychiatric patients for examination every day at work. I am always on guard when they come, fearing that they will get sick during the examination. Some are quiet and obedient, and some are manic and shouting. I stay away from them and try not to provoke them. But now that I have read this book and learned a lot about their stories, I am no longer afraid. I will be more patient and tolerant, and treat them with equal respect. Maybe it's like what the author wrote, that being hospitalized by a nurse is really a kind of protection. It's very dangerous to put them in this society. Not everyone is kind-hearted.
It is real, shocking and tender, and life is accompanied by joy and sorrow. Through "their" stories, we can feel the impermanence and helplessness of fate, and at the same time, we can also feel the greatness of life from "their" stories. Life is full of joys and sorrows, so it is better to live well in the moment than to be anxious and uneasy all day long.
I only wish there was a medicine in the world that could really solve all kinds of worries.
Defects are not an obstacle to love. On the contrary, they can also become a stable cornerstone of love. Only by understanding and tolerating each other can both parties go forward and go further.
After listening to it, I gained something. After watching Baiwei Life, I felt that I had a better understanding of the human spiritual world, and also learned about the causes of some pathologies👍🏻It was very real and I was moved by the warmth.
It was well written and very in-depth. It really made me understand what mental illness looks like and changed my impression of it. In fact, in this book, I felt how deeply childhood experiences have a profound impact on a person. I hope that each of us has a wonderful childhood.
The writing is very objective and true, somewhat similar to "The Genius is on the Left and the Madman is on the Right". It is a short story a day. After reading it, you can reflect on it and feel emotional. It is a story that you can think about and bring some different feelings to your life.
A plain and gentle book
First of all, I would like to express my special thanks to the author for bringing me this book, which allows me to understand the inner world of mental patients and the real world from a professional perspective. Originally, I thought that all mental patients are probably the same, but after reading this book, it seems like the author described it. Half of them are angels, pure and kind, and the other half do have a lot of unknown darkness. I hope that in this stressful society, we can all let ourselves go and live happily every day.
I read it in two hours in four days. Compared with pure psychological counseling stories, I feel that sometimes mental illness-related stories are really hard to understand. But that's right. It's really difficult for ordinary people to understand when someone is mentally ill. However, the good thing about this book is that the chapters are divided according to characters. The unit model is still clear. The later stories are easier to empathize with than the previous ones. Compared with the previous book with the same theme, "The Genius is on the Left and the Madman on the Right", I still recommend this book. The proportion of fabricated elements in this book is too large. I personally think that what is more terrifying about mental illness than simple depression is the double physical and psychological torture. This "madness" is different from ordinary somatization symptoms, because sometimes the somatization is perceptible by oneself, while some "madness" in the eyes of ordinary people is not controlled at all. After reading this book, including the ones I have read before, I feel that most of the causes are due to the stupid self-righteousness and self-impression of parents and family members. This has a damn familiar and suffocating feeling, so I really don't advise patients with mental illness to stop thinking. Is that something I can control?
After reading this book, I feel empty in my heart, as if I have said goodbye to all the characters in this book. Every time I read this book, I feel very peaceful inside. Just like the author said, after staying in a mental hospital for a long time, you will feel that it is quiet, calm, and simple inside, which makes people calm down, while the outside world is always so noisy and changeable, making people restless.