After 25 hospitalizations over the course of as many years, Mr. Heidnik had one experience that took him deeper and more completely into his psychosis than ever before. He had married a woman from the Philippines who left him soon after she became pregnant. He immediately made a suicide attempt and was hospitalized for more than one month in the VA Hospital in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. She returned to him once more, but he was extremely difficult to live with, and she was forced to leave again. To the 17 month old, there are big people and little people.
Big people control little people.
Big people come and go as they please and little people cannot. Big people punish little people. When Heidnik's 17 month brain took command, he reversed all this. No woman ever was going to leave him again. When the infant portion of the brain is sufficiently activated and decides that mommy is never going to leave him again, the adult portion of the brain becomes subservient to the new command center, and it drives the car to buy the chains.