Father's Death 父亲去世 At this point Ellen's father developed acute diverticulitis. He remained at home for nearly a week and was finally taken to a hospital and operated on for a ruptured diverticulum. Ellen volunteered to perform the special nursing duties during his postoperative recuperation. On the third postoperative day, the father suffered a heart attack and died. The effect on Ellen was catastrophic. She began to decompensate again. Her outbursts of temper and angry attacks became more frequent. She became violent, hostile, and highly suspicious of her family and other people she came in contact with. She became increasingly difficult to control and her behavior was highly provocative and destructively hostile. As an example, the familydecided to move out of the family house after the father's death. When her older brother started to load the furniture onto the car, he came back to find that Ellen had taken all the furniture off and had thrown it on the ground or smashed some of it against the car. 这时，埃伦的父亲得了急性憩室炎。他在家里呆了将近一个星期，最后被送往医院，因憩室破裂接受手术。埃伦自愿在他术后恢复期间履行特殊护理职责。术后第三天，父亲突发心脏病去世。对埃伦的影响是灾难性的。她再次失代偿。她的暴怒和愤怒的攻击变得更加频繁。她变得暴力，充满敌意，对她的家人和她接触的其他人高度怀疑。她变得越来越难以控制，她的行为充满挑衅和破坏性的敌意。例如，这个家庭决定在父亲去世后搬出他们的房子。当她哥哥开始把家具搬上车时，他回来发现埃伦把所有的家具都搬了下来，扔在地上，或者把其中的一些摔到车上。 Her relationship with her mother became intensely hateful and mutually antagonistic. Ellen would criticize her mother and fly into angry tirades, cursing her and shouting obscenities. Occasionally she would fly at her and attack her physically as well. One of the family members commented that the two of them were like oil and fire—they just couldn't be allowed together. Finally, the family—in an effort to try to find some way of easing the situation—decided to take Ellen on a trip to the shore. While they were on their way, Ellen jumped out of the car and started to run away. One of the friends with them gave chase and tried to restrain her. When the police arrived, Ellen began to scream that the man was trying to rape her. Her rehospitalization could no longer be avoided and she was readmitted to the hospital at this time. 她和她母亲的关系变得极坏，相互对立。埃伦会批评她的母亲，愤怒地长篇大论，诅咒她，大喊脏话。偶尔她也会飞向她，并对她进行身体攻击。一个家庭成员说，他们两个就像油和火一样，不能让她们在一起。最后，为了想办法缓解这种情况，这家人决定带埃伦去海边旅行。当他们在路上时，埃伦从车里跳了出来，开始逃跑。和他们在一起的一个朋友追着她，试图阻止她。当警察赶到时，埃伦开始尖叫，说那个男人想强奸她。她再次住院已无法避免，此时她已被重新入院。