Manhattan Reborn 1978

Island country.

Evening~

About 100 kilometers west of the Tokyo metropolitan area, at the foot of Mount Fuji.

Fire rock hot spring hotel in the northwest suburb of Fuefuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture.

In the afterglow of the setting sun.

In a spacious restaurant with floor-to-ceiling windows covering the entire west wall, Iwasaki Naokami, who was sitting at the main seat, prepared a very sumptuous dinner for David and others.

The format of the dinner is based on the traditional meal sharing system of the island country.

The small table in front of everyone was filled with eight bowls and plates of desserts.

In addition, each man has a pot of rich sake, and each woman has a pot of drinks made with cherry blossom honey and other ingredients.

After David poured himself a glass of wine, he picked up the wine glass in front of him, smelled it, and sighed to the Canes people.

“It takes at least three years for this kind of wine to have such a rich aroma!”

"It seems that we are in good luck this time!"

"Hahaha~ That's right!"

Bill glanced at Naokami Iwasaki who was sitting in the main seat, raised his glass with a smile, and spoke first.

"Naokami Iwasaki and I met through a friend in London."

"His undergraduate degree was from the School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo, and his postgraduate degree was from St. Mary's Medical School at Imperial College London. He is preparing to obtain a doctorate in psychiatry."

"Oh?" David, Little Peter, and Carnes had already made some guesses about this somewhat inarticulate master.

But none of them expected that Naokami Iwasaki was actually a psychiatrist?

The three ladies present, Manqi, Little Secretary Maggie and Brotney Mejia, were also very surprised as they looked at Iwasaki Naokami who was sitting at the main seat. They pricked up their ears and continued to listen with various thoughts.

Iwasaki glanced straight up at Nobunari Kihara, who was sitting at the end of the seat, took a deep breath in his glass, tried his best to look at everyone with calm and gentle eyes for a few seconds, and said cheerfully.

"Thank you very much Bill for accepting my invitation!"

"Thank you very much for being willing to be my guests!"

"Please forgive me for being rude..."

"I have never been like this..."

"so.."

"..." Iwasaki stood up and looked at everyone with his wine glass in his hand. He got stuck in the middle of his words. .

"Forehead..?!"

David and others, who were also holding wine glasses, looked at Bill Guseland speechlessly.

Bill obviously didn't expect such an embarrassing scene. He carefully observed Iwasaki Nagami and found that he was indeed "stuck" and couldn't speak. He could only helplessly raise his glass to a few people and drink it all in one gulp, shrugging. Shrugging and laughing.

"He had a nickname among his friends, Mr. Train."

"Because whenever you hear British people complaining about how terrible some aspects of life are, they happily talk about how the train never arrives on time."

"He also behaves like this when he is participating in everyone's chat~"

"..." Everyone followed Bill and drank all their drinks with different expressions. They all looked at Naokami Iwasaki, who was sitting on the main seat, with some curiosity.

After David put down his wine glass, he deliberately glanced at Manqi who was sitting opposite. After seeing that she had no special reaction, he threw a look at the "most unstable factor" Odis Parker.

Mr. Parker, who often has "miswired nerves", raised his eyebrows happily after receiving David's look. He stared at Iwasaki with interest, as if looking at a "rare treasure" . .

"cough~"

Just when the banquet was about to end, Bill took the initiative to pick up the chopsticks again and asked the talkative David with a smile.

"When you were working in New York, you must have met many medical students studying in various universities, right?"

"Well, I've seen it a lot." David understood in his heart that Bill wanted him to "cooperate" with him. After taking a bite of the delicious fish, he nodded.

"Before I went to work in the bar, I knew absolutely nothing about medicine."

“I figured it out when I met some graduate students at NYU School of Medicine.”

"It turns out that when people go to the hospital to make an appointment for treatment when they feel headaches, dizziness and other symptoms, many people don't know why they were transferred from the neurology department to the psychiatry department."

"Are you right?" David slowly put down his chopsticks, turned around and "threw" the question to Naokami Iwasaki, who was sitting in the main seat.

"...Yes!" Iwasaki straightened his body instantly, his hands hidden under the table slowly clenched into fists, and replied looking directly at David without avoiding David's gaze.

"When many patients who feel head discomfort go to large general hospitals for consultation, they usually make an appointment with the department corresponding to the disease."

"For example, neurology and cardiology, etc."

"After conducting a comprehensive examination of the patient, these departments will prescribe some prescription drugs and agree on a follow-up time if they feel that the patient has only mild symptoms."

"However, doctors in these departments cannot diagnose whether patients have mental illness or psychological problems."

"They will only make some judgments about the patient's condition based on their own experience~"

"If it is found that a patient's symptoms such as insomnia, headache, and dizziness are caused by psychological symptoms such as excessive anxiety and depression, they will be recommended to consult a more professional psychologist."

"If a patient is found to have a serious tendency to abuse or harm himself, the patient will be transferred to a psychiatric department."

"Therefore, most doctors will give corresponding and reasonable diagnosis and treatment plans based on the patient's different symptoms."

"The psychiatry department will only treat patients with severe and typical mental illnesses."

"Basically, patients who only have some psychological problems or psychological disorders will not be misdiagnosed as mental patients."

"..."

Everyone was even more curious and surprised when they heard Iwasaki Naokami answering David's "thrown" question very professionally in English with a very obvious London accent.

Bill glanced at Naosami Iwasaki, who had slowly entered the "state", and asked again in deliberate cooperation.

"Then according to your explanation, from a medical point of view~"

"Psychological problems are just a... symptom? Not a mental illness?"

"Yes!"

Iwasaki went straight up and wiped the sweat from his palms on his knees, breathed out a sigh of relief, and answered affirmatively.

“The biggest difference between symptoms caused by psychological problems and mental illness is that patients with mental illness cannot alleviate their condition through conventional means such as psychological intervention, psychological counseling, and taking prescription drugs. Instead, symptoms such as self-abuse, self-mutilation, mania, autism, and madness worsen. It’s getting more serious..."

After David heard this, he already understood Bill's intention and asked while eating the very delicious tuna sushi and looking at the Iwasaki paper.

"So in people's general impression, most people with mental illness are wandering between normal people and mental patients...the uncertainty zone?"