“I agree with you Dr.Rose, there is such a possibility also.” Viswanadh nodded his head and his face was with full anxiousness. “What should we do now Dr.Rose? How long she has to suffer like this?”
“I can answer these questions only after talking with your wife and proper diagnosis of her sir.” Rose said. “I am thinking now is the time to talk with her. One more thing!” Rose paused for a second “It is better that you should not be with us while I am talking with her.”
“You can talk with her all alone if you want it to be so Dr.Rose.” Viswanadh took his cell phone into his hands and dialled a number. “You may please come into my room. Dr.Rose wants to talk with you.” Rose heard Viswanadh’s saying so into that phone.
It took just two minutes or so to Evalla to enter into that room. Rose’s mind already pictured Evalla as a beautiful girl as she was a movie actress and could make a very rich person like Viswanadh to marry her. But when she saw Evalla, it was indeed like a shock to Rose just because she was not only a beautiful girl but there was a striking attraction in her also. She did not feel surprise at all that Viswanadh has chosen to marry her.
“I am Dr.Rose. I have come......” Rose got off from the chair she sat and went near to Evalla and extended her right hand for a hand shake.
“I know that you are Dr.Rose. I know that also why you are here on this day.” Evalla’s smile also was as much charming as her. She took Rose’s right hand into her both hands and squeezed it gently. “I thought that you may be a middle aged lady. But you are appearing as much young as I am.” Suddenly there was surprise in the face of Evalla.
“Its not so.....” Rose’s cheeks were blushed on hearing that and Viswanadh interfered and said.
“You both do have a little chitchat. I shall come here in half an hour or so.”
“Viswa, is it is not better that you do also stay with me now?” looking into the face of Viswanadh, Evalla asked him.
“Dr.Rose wants to talk with you all alone dear.” Viswanadh put his right hand around the shoulders of Evalla and squeezed.
“And you will be hundred percent safe with me. I assure you no harm or damage.” Rose laughed.
“Its alright then.” Evalla said with a smile on her lips.
Then Viswanadh went out of that room leaving them both in it.
***
“Now ask me whatever you do want to ask Dr.Rose.” after making herself comfortable in the chair in which Viswanadh sat before, Evalla said. “I am feeling a sort of pleasure to be with you.”
“I am flattered.” Rose laughed on hearing that. But it was not just that Evalla made that remark. She heard it from number of her patients and their relatives also. Charles particularly said that Rose’s charming personality itself shall have enough influence on the psyches of her patients. “But I have imagined and pictured you in a wrong way.”
“What is that doctor?” frowns gathered on the forehead of Evalla.
“After hearing everything about you from your husband and I think he said everything to me that he knows about you” Rose paused for a second “I thought you would be a shy and modest girl. But you are appearing free talking and active!”
“I don’t know what to say.” Evalla laughed on hearing that. “But it is quite good to hear you so.”
“Alright” Rose nodded her head and suddenly she became serious. “Do you agree that you have been suffering from a psychological disorder?”
“Of course, doctor!” Evalla nodded her head and leaned back in the chair. “That was why I did not say ‘no’ when Viswa suggested to call you home to see me.”
“Why you are thinking that you are psychologically ill?”
Deep frowns gathered on the forehead of Evalla and stooped forward in the chair. “Sometimes I am becoming completely out of control. In such situations I just don’t know what I am saying or doing.”
“And in such situations you are saying that your name is Okatho.”
“I don’t know about that. But Viswa said that I have been saying like that whenever I have become so.” There was some discomfort in the face of Evalla and she once again leaned back in the chair.
“And you said to Viswa, your husband, that you not only never have seen that Okatho but you never even have heard that name.”
“Exactly that Dr.Rose.” with firmness in her voice Evalla said. “I don’t know even whether that Okatho is male or female.”
“Its alright.” Rose nodded her head. “When the first time these psychological spells started happening in you?”
“On one day I went to the orphanage where I have grown up doctor. The proprietor of it is woman and we both are good friends. I talk with her occasionally and meet her also. The trip was quite successful! But from the moment I have returned from there I started behaving like that.”
“I heard the proprietor of it is a man.”
“Yes, used to be.” Evalla nodded her head. “But he died six months back. As he has not married and did not have any children, all his properties including this orphanage were inherited by his niece who is his only relative. That old proprietor and I also were used to be very good friends in fact.”
“I see.” Rose nodded her head. “Anything specific has taken place while you have been going there, staying there or while returning from that place?”
“No nothing specific and particular has taken place on the whole of that day except my behaving like that after returning from that place.” With firmness in her face Evalla said.
“Please concentrate and tell me. Even it was a very minor happening also. Nothing specific has taken place in your trip on that day?”
That question once again caused frowns on the face of Evalla and she took her lower lip between her teeth-frames and started chewing on that. In that posture she appeared even more impressive and beautiful to Rose.
“One small incident doctor. While we were returning from that place, the car had gotten into repair at some place. The driver went away from that place to bring a mechanic and it took some twenty minutes or so. I was all alone in the car at that time.”
“What you did while you were all alone in that car?”
“As soon as the driver left that place I fell asleep and I woke up when he returned. I would have been asleep not more than ten minutes I think.”
“I see” Rose nodded her head. “Do you remember anything about your childhood? When you have been put into that orphanage and who has taken you there?”
Suddenly there was some discomfort in her face “When I have knowledge of myself I was in that orphanage. Fortunately there were children of my age also. There was not much to say about my childhood it was just like that of a child who has grown up in an orphanage. You can imagine that.”
“Your husband said that you have no friends at all.” it was surprising to Rose that a talkative and amicable girl like Evalla has no friends at all.
“I can be friendly with anyone but cannot make friendship. From scratch I have been just like that.” Evalla’s mellifluous laughter was good to Rose to hear. “Viswa is right. I have no friends at all.”
“Any unusual, unfortunate and strange incidents in your life Evalla? From the day you got knowledge of yourself and till date. Think carefully and tell me.”
“I have no relations and I have no close friendship with anyone either. In fact I did not feel intimacy and closeness with anyone until I marry Viswa. So there is no chance of losing the people I do like more. No unfortunate incidents of that sort. No unusual or strange incidents also except the incidents which have been taking place recently in my life.” There was no confusion either in her face or voice while Evalla was saying that.
“Do you have no knowledge of yourself while you are in that psychological bout Evalla? You don’t have any knowledge at all what you are doing and why you are doing that?”
“Exactly so.” Suddenly once again frowns gathered on the face of Evalla. “I just don’t know any knowledge of myself while I am behaving like that. It is just like I am under deep sleep at that time.”
“One important question!” Rose stooped forward in the chair. “Can you say that day was the very first day you behaved like that? You never behaved in such a way, in that orphanage or anywhere else? Just try to remember carefully and tell me.”
Suddenly Evalla’s forehead was creased with frowns and an uneasy expression came into her face. “The other problem I am facing Dr.Rose, I cannot remember much about my life in that orphanage and in any other place. I would have behaved like that but I just cannot remember now.”
Rose sighed heavily, leaned back in the chair and closed her eyes. This was also something she has suspected.
“Is it is something serious doctor? Can I ever be cured from it completely? Or is it is going to be even more serious and dangerous?” now Evalla’s voice was with full of anxiousness and it reflected in her face also.
“Have you heard about split personalities or about dissuasive personality disorder or about multiple personalities?” Rose opened her eyes, stooped forward in the chair and balanced her arms on the table in between them both.
“Yes, I heard.” Evalla nodded her head. “I saw movies which are based on split personalities. And sometime back I read a fiction of Sidney Sheldon but I forgot the name of it. In it also there is about split personalities and multiple personalities.”
“That book’s name is Tell Me Your Dreams.” Rose laughed and said. “It is mainly about multiple personalities. Anyhow you have the habit of reading fiction also.”
“Of course, I have the habit of reading fiction.” With a smile on her lips Evalla said. “I read lot of fiction of all writers and I am still reading.”
“That is indeed nice.” Rose nodded her head with a smile. “Especially your having an idea on split –personalities. I am afraid that a split personality is developing in you and that split personality’s name is Okatho.”
“My god! Why? Why a split personality like that should develop in me? What’s wrong with me?” once again Evalla’s face was with full of anxiousness.
“Mind is a very complex thing Evalla we just cannot say why things like that do take place in it.” Rose leaned back in the chair sighed heavily and said “It needs some more diagnosis but my primary opinion is you have been suffering from a split personality disorder.”
“Whatever it may be doctor, I want to be cured from it forever and that too as fast as possible. I just don’t want Viswa to feel unhappy just because of me. I never want him to feel that he did a mistake by marrying me.” Evalla said with agitation.
“I can assure you one thing here Evalla.” Rose said. “In the short time I have talked with him, I understood one thing! Whatever you may become, he never regrets marrying you. He is thinking that it is the best thing happened in his life. He himself does not know how it has become possible but he loves you that much.”
“How fortunate I am!” suddenly there was a gleam in her eyes and happiness in her face. “Such a good person should never be unhappy because of me. Please doctor! Make me my usual self as fast as possible.”
“I certainly do it like that. You don’t worry. Your acknowledging yourself that you have been suffering from a psychological disorder and agreeing for the treatment in this way made the thing more than half easy. You just be relaxed and I make a plan to turn you perfectly normal again as fast as possible.”
“Thank you, thank you very much doctor.” Evalla took Rose’s both hands into her hands and squeezed them gently.
“Now I have to talk with your husband again. Please phone to him and tell him our session is over.” Rose said releasing her hands from Evalla’s hands.
Then Evalla phoned to Viswanadh’s number from the landline there and after talking in it for few seconds she cradled it.
“I am sorry doctor. He went out on an important work and cannot be available to you to talk with now.” Looking into the face of Rose, Evalla said.
“There is no problem. I talk with him later.” Saying so Rose went out of that room.
(……….to be continued)
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