Do you consider schizophrenia/sza a spiritual awakening?

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Yes and no . everything can be trigger for spiritual awakening. It’s how you use things

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For some, yes. 45555555555

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Nothing grounds you more that the limitations of SZ, imo.

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It awakens the spirit but the spirit needs an education.

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TBH at the time, I did think it was some sort of awakening, but now I think that thought process is very much a part of the illness.

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If you are not psychotic due to medications eliminating delusions and or hallucinations, in my case delusional thinking went away with medication, the contrast between the spiritual delusions and the medication working is vastly different.

While psychotic I was actively “communicating” with reality and the universe in a spiritual way. Once the medication made the delusions go away I found that many of my beliefs were based on the same trains of thought as I experienced while delusional, this made me abandon alot of irrationality which has turned me someway towards an agnostic mindset. I still believe in a higher power but I just don’t believe so much that myself or anyone else can interact with the higher power.

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Jesus, no. This garbage again? It’s an illness and a treatable one at that.

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Yes and no like other people have stated. I rather not have it at all.

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Me personally, yes I see it as a very serious illness (psychosis) but also yes I see the recovery phase as a spiritual awakening, ie a reevaluation of life.

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I agree with what you said actually lol, just trying to sort thru some of the ■■■■■■■■ I’ve been told in the last 2 years

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Yeah I know what u mean, much like a trial in the Bible, hopefully it’s fixable, its tough lol

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I agree, if you look in that mindset, it causes you to see reality as if you were “enlightened” or something, when in reality you’re just looking for whatever your honed in on at the time

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I feel the same, if this is a spiritual awakening, I’d much rather have never had one

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more like an attack

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more of a ‘‘dark night of the soul’’ for me…google it if you like

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Yeah I know what you’re saying

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It’s definitely a wicked illness but it did affect me spiritually as well.

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More like a spiritual slumber.

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