What do you think? I really think so.
There’s no way 90% of the people in the Bible aren’t schizophrenic. So, definitely related.
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It can be very destructive with religious delusions. Religion and schizophrenia aren’t oppossed to each other…I guess it’s all how you cope with it all. I’m not a fan of religion. For others it makes a big difference. We all walk different paths!
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My religious delusions were a big part of my upbringing and I brought that to the church of God.
I’m a very religious person and religion makes up a big part of my so called delusions according to my pdocs. I don’t believe they are delusions but my doctors do.
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I don’t think 4 different sz would come up with the same account of anything . But the gospel’s support each other. There are people that are said to be possessed or are cutting themselves or described in a crazy manner. But they are all healed as far as I know. I don’t recall anyone being paranoid. But yeah some crazy stuff happened.
I don’t think I have religious delusions. However I cling to God at my lowest points. Pray alot and feel closer to God. So I pray more and talk more about God so I think I have had doctor’s that thought I had religious delusions. I think it’s just what I do under pressure.
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Only for some people.
Both.
Religions of the world were not made by mentally ill people on a whim. Their development was a profound cultural response of intelligent and civilised populations (yes, even the most primitive) whose existence was but its catalyst.
Incidentally, people who do not have sz and profess no religious affiliation often have dramatic moments in their lives when they become aware of themselves and their relation to the universe. It is a wonder that we are here at all given the odds.
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Growing up in a bi-religious household. My mother is catholic and my dad is Jewish. it was easy for me to believe I was the reincarnation of jesus Christ. Given that I had the Judaism in me, but I was raised to love and cherish Jesus Christ. So I wanted to be him. I am a prime example that it can!
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When I try to connect with religion I have obsessive thoughts. Maybe it’s because religion doesn’t make sense for me.
What were some of your obsessive thoughts?
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One obsessive thought that I had is: if you’re not christian, you’re wrong.
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When I become religious it is a sign of illness. I hear angels talk and I feel a bond to my guardian angel. I can feel them in the room. And they talk to me. Say I must read the bible for protection against demons.
When I was really ill, the angels were trapped in the walls and called my name and told me to rescue them. “Take down the wall. Rescue me.” Luckily I did not bash the walls to pieces.
Jesus also told me I could walk on water. I never had a chance to do that though. The crisis team came and picked me up and drove me to ER.
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Religion turns people into believers, meaning it makes people simply accept less than truth rather than venture onward to find and thus meet the actual truth itself. I may for instance believe that I can leap across a river that is of a certain width, but as long as I simply accept the belief, I will remain at a distance from whatever the actual truth is.
So let’s say that there is two sides to reality. One is this side, and the other is the afterlife side. If your mind ventures toward the truth concerning both sides, then you may end up extending your mind into the afterlife side. This messes up the separation between the two sides.
So it would be best to keep people stupid enough to still practice beliefs and disbeliefs, and do this one way and/or many others, all to keep them away from the big truth.
So I would say that religion and influence are not connected.
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My family is moderately religious (Irish Catholic), and at first I thought I was hearing demons speak to me.
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i think my Christian faith has strengthened the bonds in my brain tbh, its helping me to recover and i believe it does help me.
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I believe being non-religious allows me to rely on the tools of reason when dealing with delusions and hallucinations.
Reason is my armor.
Also, I find a greater satisfaction and sense of wonder from poetic naturalism, .i.e. Carl Sagan, than from religious dogmas.
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