03-09-2011, 01:00 PM
Hello, All.
First of all, I would like to say that I have been struggling with mental illness for most of my life. Many of my symptoms have taken on spiritual (even karmic) significance over the past few years, and I've had unusual experiences that I do not thing had anything to do with mental aberrations at all, but I'm not going to try to hide from the fact that I'm ragingly bipolar. For years I've experienced instantaneous, extreme mood swings, plummeting from giddy highs into suicidal lows. Certain behavioral modifications, diet changes, etc. have helped lessen the severity, but I do not think it is something that will ever completely vanish from my life experience.
I've also dealt with OCD symptoms, though for the most part I seem to have grown out of the worst of that. I no longer have to do things like turn the water on and off ten times after I get done washing my hands. I'm also rather prone to psychosis. I operate out of a somewhat uncommon perspective, in that I recognize the hallucinations and delusional thougts I have for what they are and simply ignore them. For the most part I've learned how to maintain a "normal," unassuming existence in spite of these symptoms.
I was talking to a friend last night who is coming into the realization that he is schizophrenic. He's had a much harder time than I have, bombarded with constant hallucinations, delusions and abstract physical symptoms. However, he has retained his intelligence and coherent thought, and like me, seeks to find a way that he can edge his way around the strangeness and live a normal life.
This friend has constantly projected that he is under attack from numerous entities. His behavior regarding the matter suggests overzealous paranoia, but when I did a reading for him, I did sense a presence of energies gathered around him. What I perceived was that these energies simply tapped into the irregular patterns of his brain and tailored his hallucinations to meet their purposes, meaning for the most part they just get to sit back and watch him drive himself into the ground without doing any major work.
I suppose my question is this: Obviously, I think a mentally ill person can come under psychic greeting as easily as anyone else. However, how does one distinguish between the products of irregular brain patterns and actual outside interference? Does it really even matter? I suppose the catalyst is the same, but sometimes the way you would handle one is useless against the other. In my friend's case, sending love and light to the hallucinations that surround him do not cause them to go away, because the distortions in his brain are not healed from this action. To what degree do you all think negative entities could exploit preexisting mental illness in a person (though I realize some people simply go mad because of it)?
I'm really wondering what spiritual distortions cause mental illness. I know anger causes cancer, but what causes bipolar disorder or schizophrenia? I've had a million different theories as to what has contributed to the distortions I currently entertain, but dealing with these various issues hasn't come close to resolving the issue. I was also wondering about how Ra says some wanderers take on "personality disorders" as a reaction to the planet's vibration. Would mood swings or psychosis count as "personality disorders?"
My friend is suffering a great deal, and I and many others I've talked to have had no easy time of it, either. I want to help him, but I have no idea what advice to offer except that he call upon his guidance system and ask the Creator for help, which he seems to be doing quite extensively already. I would never recommend that he go on the type of antipsychotics the shrinks put me on...it would break my heart to watch him turn into a drooling vegetable whose head is full of fog. Alternative healing, maybe? I'm not even sure what the point of this thread is...I'm just wanting to pursue different options.
First of all, I would like to say that I have been struggling with mental illness for most of my life. Many of my symptoms have taken on spiritual (even karmic) significance over the past few years, and I've had unusual experiences that I do not thing had anything to do with mental aberrations at all, but I'm not going to try to hide from the fact that I'm ragingly bipolar. For years I've experienced instantaneous, extreme mood swings, plummeting from giddy highs into suicidal lows. Certain behavioral modifications, diet changes, etc. have helped lessen the severity, but I do not think it is something that will ever completely vanish from my life experience.
I've also dealt with OCD symptoms, though for the most part I seem to have grown out of the worst of that. I no longer have to do things like turn the water on and off ten times after I get done washing my hands. I'm also rather prone to psychosis. I operate out of a somewhat uncommon perspective, in that I recognize the hallucinations and delusional thougts I have for what they are and simply ignore them. For the most part I've learned how to maintain a "normal," unassuming existence in spite of these symptoms.
I was talking to a friend last night who is coming into the realization that he is schizophrenic. He's had a much harder time than I have, bombarded with constant hallucinations, delusions and abstract physical symptoms. However, he has retained his intelligence and coherent thought, and like me, seeks to find a way that he can edge his way around the strangeness and live a normal life.
This friend has constantly projected that he is under attack from numerous entities. His behavior regarding the matter suggests overzealous paranoia, but when I did a reading for him, I did sense a presence of energies gathered around him. What I perceived was that these energies simply tapped into the irregular patterns of his brain and tailored his hallucinations to meet their purposes, meaning for the most part they just get to sit back and watch him drive himself into the ground without doing any major work.
I suppose my question is this: Obviously, I think a mentally ill person can come under psychic greeting as easily as anyone else. However, how does one distinguish between the products of irregular brain patterns and actual outside interference? Does it really even matter? I suppose the catalyst is the same, but sometimes the way you would handle one is useless against the other. In my friend's case, sending love and light to the hallucinations that surround him do not cause them to go away, because the distortions in his brain are not healed from this action. To what degree do you all think negative entities could exploit preexisting mental illness in a person (though I realize some people simply go mad because of it)?
I'm really wondering what spiritual distortions cause mental illness. I know anger causes cancer, but what causes bipolar disorder or schizophrenia? I've had a million different theories as to what has contributed to the distortions I currently entertain, but dealing with these various issues hasn't come close to resolving the issue. I was also wondering about how Ra says some wanderers take on "personality disorders" as a reaction to the planet's vibration. Would mood swings or psychosis count as "personality disorders?"
My friend is suffering a great deal, and I and many others I've talked to have had no easy time of it, either. I want to help him, but I have no idea what advice to offer except that he call upon his guidance system and ask the Creator for help, which he seems to be doing quite extensively already. I would never recommend that he go on the type of antipsychotics the shrinks put me on...it would break my heart to watch him turn into a drooling vegetable whose head is full of fog. Alternative healing, maybe? I'm not even sure what the point of this thread is...I'm just wanting to pursue different options.