"600 Wanping South Road" out of the circle
Shanghai Mental Health Center moon cakes and galleries have become popular one after another. Experts say that more and more people attach importance to mental health
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Shanghai Mental Health Center, located at 600 Wanping South Road, Shanghai, was completely on fire.
First of all, the "600 Mooncake" is hard to find. This mooncake called "Golden Inlaid Jade" is engraved with the words "Shanghai Mental Health Center". The center of the mooncake is Shanghai Mental Health. The emblem pattern in the center.
Netizens jokingly called "spiritual food" and "spiritual cakes". Some people said they would be admitted to the hospital to buy them. Some even took moon cakes and went to the Shanghai Mental Health Center to take a group photo.
Subsequently, a native art exhibition called "Lines, Colors and Stories" organized by the Shanghai Mental Health Center rushed into hot searches.
These paintings written by patients are hung in the corridors of the Mental Health Center's Day Rehabilitation Center. The reputation of the "600 Gallery" has spread like wildfire, attracting a large number of viewers.
Prior to this, people in this city were more ridiculed or joking about "600 Wanping South Road". For example, when friends joked, they would say, "You are going to be sent to 600 Wanping South Road."
Regarding the exit of "600 Wanping South Road", Xie Bin, secretary of the Party Committee and chief physician of the Shanghai Mental Health Center, said that whether it was mooncakes or galleries, it was not the mooncakes or the gallery itself that came out of the circle. Everyone is concerned about mental and psychological health.
"With the progress of society, more and more people attach importance to mental health. The color behind this is no longer mystery, terror and rejection, but the return of human nature and the call of love."
The doctor becomes the curator
The 30-year-old Chen Zhimin has a long face and naturally curly short hair. He is not tall and always likes to wear a pair of hole sandals.
The idea of holding a painting exhibition for people with mental disorders has been hidden in Chen Zhimin's heart for many years.
He remembered that during his undergraduate studies, he saw Nanjing artist Guo Haiping go to a mental hospital to conduct three-month art experiments and support patients to become artists through painting. He was thinking: artists can do something for the mentally ill. Should doctors do more?
In 2019, after becoming a psychiatric resident in the Minhang campus, Chen Zhimin felt that the time had come to conduct this "art experiment".
"Just do it." There is art rehabilitation training in the ward on weekdays. The drawings for many years of painting treatment are stored in the warehouse of the rehabilitation department. Chen Zhimin gets into the large black garbage bag in the warehouse every night after work. , Flipping through two or three thousand paintings, watching and selecting one by one repeatedly.
Within a month, Chen Zhimin picked out more than one hundred paintings from the warehouse that seemed to him to be of artistic value and beauty.
After that, Chen Zhimin bought a batch of picture frames, mounted these A4 paper-sized paintings, and taught himself to design posters for the exhibition. In his words, the "very small and very simple" painting exhibition was built like this.
The Minhang campus is located in a remote area. To get more attention for the exhibition, Chen Zhimin felt that this place must be in the main courtyard.
In the first half of this year, Chen Zhimin and Zhong Na, director of the Day Rehabilitation Center of the General Hospital, put forward this idea: they hope to hold a painting exhibition in the corridor outside the day rehabilitation center of the General Hospital, and the two hit it off.
After applying for funding from the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention Mental Health, it only took two weeks for Chen Zhimin and the staff of the Day Rehabilitation Center to complete the layout of the "600 Gallery".
On August 9, "Gallery 600" officially "opened". The light from the spotlights hit the paintings, and the lines and bright colors filled the entire corridor.
35 paintings of various shapes, or simple lines winding around, or large swaths of paint, or outline the starry sky, black holes, the universe, or depict nature, fields, ocean waves, no one in the warehouse in the past cared about The paintings are framed on the wall and turned into "art works" in the exhibition.
The gallery's out-of-circle was unexpected by Chen Zhimin.
Chen Zhimin remembered that the opening day of the gallery was during the epidemic period. Except for a few hospital leaders and a few friends invited by him, there were almost no media reporters at the scene.
However, a week after the opening of the gallery, on August 16, the media suddenly swarmed. On the 16th alone, Chen Zhimin accepted interviews from seven media.
In the next few days, "No. 600 Gallery" appeared on Weibo's hot search list.
So far, he has accepted more than 30 media interviews.
Chen Zhimin can't tell how the gallery got out of the circle.
However, in the past, no one was interested in painting exhibitions. Now some people take the subway for an hour or two to see them. Some people will stare in front of a painting for a long time, and some people will ask carefully about the creative ideas behind the paintings. Chen Zhimin feels that his efforts are not in vain.
What impressed him the most was a boy of about 20 years old. He walked around the corridor and watched several times. A gallery that could be scribbled in five minutes on weekdays. This boy watched for more than half an hour.
The windshield-sized message wall was filled with messages from visitors who watched the exhibition. Some people left a message saying, "I hope everyone will no longer fear and discriminate." Someone said, "We are all ordinary people." Others left Canadian musicians. Leonard Cohen's words: "Everything has cracks. That's where the light comes in."
"There is a kind of surprise in their evaluation. Maybe they never thought that the mental patient could draw such a great work, and be able to draw such an expressive and amazing work."
The patient story hidden in the painting
In the long and narrow corridor of Ward B1 in Minhang Hospital, there are two wooden tables near the window. The table top is covered with green checkered cloth. The table is covered with paint and drawing plates. When the weather is good, the sun will shine through the window of the ward. The carved railings are spread on the painting plate.
Chen Zhimin referred to the studio as the "engine" of the gallery: most of the paintings in the 600 gallery came from this.
Every Monday to Friday afternoon, five patients in Chen Zhimin’s B1 ward will come here to paint.
Chen Zhimin explained that painting is part of the rehabilitation treatment of patients, and it has the effect of rehabilitation from a medical point of view. The studio he opened is to let patients get rid of the past copying painting form and draw their most intuitive feelings. Come down.
The start of this "engine" was not as smooth as expected.
At the earliest, Chen Zhimin invited a group of patients to paint, but most of the patients did not like to paint, and after one visit, they no longer want to come.
There are patients who have not had the habit of expressing for a long time, and don't know what to draw when they write the pen. As time goes by, only a few interested patients stayed.
After the opening of the gallery, a painting attracted many visitors to stop and stop: a girl with butterfly wings standing on the grass, two stars and love painted on each of the wings, surrounded by colorful lines, the girl is facing He stretched out his arms against the blue sky, and the neat lettering in the lower right corner of the painting reads "Not a Dream".
Liu Jingdong (pseudonym) referred to this painting as the "primary edition" exhibited at Gallery No. 600.
The gray-haired Liu Jingdong is tall, and the hand holding the paintbrush is covered with age spots. When he walks, his back is slightly bent, and he walks carefully with broken steps-only when the newly completed drawing paper is picked up by the nurse and placed on the cabinet. Liu Jingdong will take two steps and make one step to catch up-for fear that the paint that hasn't dried out will be smeared by the nurse accidentally.
Because of the side effects caused by long-term use of drugs to treat mental disorders caused by epilepsy, Liu Jingdong's hands always tremble unconsciously.
Xiao Guang (pseudonym) is in his early thirties and is one of the few young patients in the ward.
He was not tall, with thin white skin and a small head, and his large blue and white striped suit was covering his thin body, which looked very unfit.
The work Xiaoguang exhibited in the gallery is called "Crystal".
This is a painting composed of red, blue and green, with a dark blue frame and a dark red background, with a bright green red heart crystal in the middle.
"When I was young, I had such a shape when playing games, so I can draw it now." Xiaoguang said.
Zhou Jinjing, head nurse of the Rehabilitation Department of Minhang Hospital, said that Xiaoguang was sent to Minhang Hospital for treatment after being ill five or six years ago. He was in the ward on weekdays. Xiaoguang did not say a word most of the time and always sat on his own. There is not much communication with others, and there is not much emotional expression.
And Liu Jingdong was admitted to the hospital more than 30 years ago, and lived for decades.
"Unexpectedly, they can paint like this." Zhou Jinjing said, "Usually the emotions of patients seem to be relatively indifferent, but now it seems that their inner world is also colorful."
In a painting called "Flying Birds and Swimming Fish", in addition to the flying birds and swimming fish on the screen, there is also a short text description at the bottom of the screen: "The farthest distance in the world is the distance between a flying bird and a swimming fish. In the sky, one swims deep to the bottom of the sea."
Behind the painting is a patient with bipolar disorder who is accompanied by mania. He is nearly 80 years old and has gray hair.
Chen Zhimin said that even though he had been taking medicine for many years, this patient would occasionally get sick in the ward. When he got sick, he showed a high mood and a sudden increase in speech.
On weekdays, he is also the most energetic patient in the ward. Most of the time he sits alone at the desk in the corridor and writes, sometimes copying Tang and Song poems, and sometimes writing his own new poems on a wrinkled notebook. Name the collection of poems with your own name, and list the catalog of poems.
In Chen Zhimin's view, the patient's story is hidden in the painting, without too much explanation, painting has become a unique bridge for communication in the ward.
“I didn’t even know they had such talent before. It was through the studio, through them constantly drawing great paintings, and then communicating with them in the painting, I knew that they have such a rich personality and interesting soul. ."
"Can't get out of the ward" is the biggest dilemma
In the mouth of Xu Dejun, head nurse of the Day Rehabilitation Center of Shanghai Mental Health Center, although "No. 600 Wanping South Road" was out of the circle, for a long time in the past, "No. 600 Wanping South Road" was more like a city in the city. Secret corner".
Xu Dejun remembers that when he was assigned to work in the Shanghai Mental Health Center 34 years ago, the location of "600 Wanping South Road" was still a deserted suburb. It took 40 to 50 minutes to reach here from Huaihai Road, the center of Shanghai in the past. Bus.
"At that time, people still rumored that there was a cemetery nearby. Standing at the bus stop opposite the hospital gate and waiting for the bus, the weeds on the side of the road were growing very high."
For a long time in the past, this job was not a decent thing in Xu Dejun's view.
When someone asked which hospital he worked in, Xu Dejun would answer them: "Jing Zong (abbreviation of General Hospital of Shanghai Mental Health Center)", and others would reply "Jing'an District Central Hospital, it's good." Xu Dejun would only Smile noncommittal.
With the promotion and popularization of psychiatry, hospitals are getting more and more attention. Now Xu Dejun no longer feels that this is an unspeakable job. "Many people now have mental disorders, and everyone attaches great importance to mental rehabilitation."
In the ward, patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder account for the majority. Xu Dejun said that patients with mental disorders usually show apathy and do not know how warm or cold they are. Some people may only wear a pair of plastic slippers in winter.
Patients with auditory hallucinations suddenly punched and kicked the nurse while changing their pants in the morning, and sincerely apologized to the nurse in the afternoon.
There are also patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who can't stop washing their hands.
"There are still some patients who think that the food is poisoned, and the food cannot be eaten, and the food cannot be eaten. We will put a few dishes in front of the patient and say that we will take it together. You pick one first."
Xu Dejun summarized two rules for establishing relationships with patients: "Caring about the patient's eating and drinking Lhasa", "Patients say more, and medical staff say less."
However, Xu Dejun seemed a little depressed when talking about the plight of patients with mental disorders.
She said that so far the medical community has not made a clear conclusion on the cause of the illness in patients with mental disorders, which also makes the treatment of the disease more difficult.
For most patients with mental disorders, "can't get out of the ward" is their biggest dilemma.
Once they get sick, the disease will accompany them for life.
However, most patients who have lost their social function cannot return to society normally even if their condition is stable, and some will never leave the ward for their entire lives.
Chen Zhimin said that from the perspective of symptoms, more than 95% of the patients in the ward are able to live in the society, and they are still in the ward now because various objective factors cannot return to society. Hoard it down.
He introduced that these objective reasons include the inability of family members to monitor the patients after discharge from the hospital on time to take medicines that caused the disease to relapse, the early death of parents, the overburdened siblings to take care of them, the existence of discrimination in society, and the inability to carry out normal social life.
"If the biggest problem facing cancer patients is death, then the biggest problem facing patients with mental disorders is the disconnection from the mainstream of real life."
"Let overlooking and ignoring turn into looking up and paying attention"
After the opening of the 600th Gallery, the charity organization "Thorn Bird Habitat" dedicated to mental health public education wrote this sentence in an article on the official account: "Let overlooking and neglect become a level view and attention."
Talking about the original intention of opening a gallery, Chen Zhimin explained that painting has a healing effect from a medical point of view.
In his opinion, for patients who have been hospitalized for a long time, painting is more like their career in life. For them who can't get out of the ward for a lifetime, there are works that are appreciated and loved by the public in the gallery, just like their derailed life finally There is a "shine spot".
After Gallery 600 became famous, a little change took place in the ward: the patients saw news about themselves in the news for the first time, their heads stretched out, scrambling to get in front of the computer.
After seeing Chen Zhimin, he would take the initiative to greet him and give him the calligraphy works he practiced in the ward as a gift.
The studio has also become a rare chat room in the ward. The patients who come here to paint every week will comment on a few international current affairs when they are almost finished painting.
"When everyone thinks of mental patients, the pictures in their minds may be the'Fire Cloud Cthulhu', doing nothing all day long, with weird and vicious eyes." In Chen Zhimin's view, the public usually has no chance to contact people with mental disorders, but through the opportunity of exhibitions. , You can get in touch with the paintings of patients and understand their bright and warm hearts, "This has become an opportunity for everyone to change their minds."
"People who have seen the exhibition may also tell others that he saw a great exhibition in the '600 Gallery'. It turns out that people with mental disorders can also draw great paintings. It turns out that they are not a group of lunatics, nor are they a group of lunatics. Annoying person."
"This exhibition is actually just the opening ceremony of a gallery, and there will be regular exhibitions in the near future." Chen Zhimin said that in his longer-term vision, there will be an art museum dedicated to displaying works of people with mental disorders in the future.
On the afternoon of September 15th, in the lobby of the Rehabilitation Department of Minhang Campus, when asked whether his paintings would be happy to receive attention, Xiaoguang's excitement mentioned in his throat, "I will."
At 3:30 in the afternoon, Liu Jingdong finished his new painting in the studio.
This is a human head drawn with brown lines, and a love heart shape is drawn with red paint on the upper right corner of the head.
"This is the head of an old man, his head is not empty." Liu Jingdong said as he slowly traced the path of his painting on the paper with trembling fingers, "He also has a lover, he is thinking of her, there is a love here, He pointed to the heart. "The two of them spent the whole life."
"Did you paint yourself?" Liu Jingdong smiled without answering.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Siya intern Han Meng