Many of these children have been diagnosed as “schizophrenic” at local and Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other psychiatric hospitals, and some of them have even gone through the hands of famous doctors. The diagnosis of “schizophrenia” does make sense if you look at the symptoms alone. However, after long-term use of anti-schizophrenic drugs, the effect is not obvious. Parents are often anxious about this, visiting famous doctors in the hope of finding a drug or drugs that will work for their child, so that they can get rid of the pain and return to society as soon as possible. Such children often have a common characteristic that they have experienced one or several frustrating events before the onset of the disease. The severity of the event is clearly more than the child can bear on its own. Of course, this is only superficial. A deeper cause: those with very strong internal shame. Even deeper than this cause is the family in which these children live. At least one of their parents is a very strong person, and they are overly strict with their children. Their demands on the child have become internalized in the child’s own demands, and he or she feels that “it is not enough to live on earth”. At the same time, they are overprotective of the child, taking care of the child in every aspect of clothing, food, housing, and transportation, making the child live as if he or she were in a harmless environment. I often explain the cause of these children’s illnesses to parents in terms of disfigurement. Why disfigurement? If a relative goes to the hospital on their behalf (and the child often refuses to seek help), if the doctor does not take a detailed history or is inexperienced enough to listen to the relative’s description of the condition, he or she will make a diagnosis of “schizophrenia” and order the child to take long-term antipsychotic medication, which could potentially cost the child his or her life. In fact, the reason for the child’s bizarre behavior is that he can no longer find his old sense of excellence, just like a girl who used to look good suddenly being disfigured. That kind of painful feeling can not be fully understood by those who do not experience it. It is often easy to understand the disfigured and physically disabled person, but we cannot understand the disfigured and disabled person with the ideal image inside, and often classify them as mentally abnormal. In fact, if we could get inside the heart of such children, we would know that, in fact, the child is undergoing stormy changes inside. He is re-examining himself and shaping himself, just like the metamorphosis of a butterfly. If we have enough patience to watch over our children, not to be impatient, not to tear the silk cocoon because of our own worries and anxieties before the butterfly breaks out of the cocoon, one day we will see the desired miracle happen. I agree with what one parent summarized: treat with warmth and wait for the cocoon to break out. It has been proven that whichever family does this well, the sooner the child in that family will come out and be in good shape. The paradox and difficulty is that in our overly competitive and anxious country and age, few parents are able to do this. If the metaphor of disfigurement is still used to illustrate, if the child can be convinced that he has a chance to be reshaped, he will look better afterwards than even before. And that we have connected him with a hospital and a doctor, and that the family has saved enough money for medical care, his courage to live will come uninvited.