I am starting to think the reason I am going through this is because of things to do with past lives. I am full of constant cravings and I think I need to work on self denial and simplicity.
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Why work on self denial? Most if all psychologists or therapists talk about self love. That’s what probably we must all do, along with working with ourselves, before, after, or in parallel with that.
Have you heard of the hungry ghost concept in buddhism? After a highly material minded person dies they become a hungry ghost, with a fat stomach, skinny neck, and a constant craving for a fruit that burns their throat when it goes down. It is a lesson to teach them to control their cravings.
It makes more sense in ways than the Christian concept of Hell.
Don’t believe in those things. I think you need more to work on yourself, doing a therapy maybe. Buddism and other religions don’t help with mi.
Were many of us not people of constant cravings and impulses before this happened to us? How many of us had substance abuse problems before this happened? Could we not be the hungry ghost?
And that’s just in this life. Could our propensity towards these vices not also be connected to our past lives as well?
Why are we driven to solitude and isolation? Maybe it is for us to think, like when a child is put on time out. Instead of fighting it, maybe we really need to think about what is troubling us and what our negative thoughts are really telling us.
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Well, I agree on that, but I don’t agree that we must relate the religion with this illness, tried to do that sometimes and led me to nowhere.
In distress I like to tell myself that we are only here to move plants around. It makes me smile and think differently for awhile.
What were you expecting, lightning to strike and the Gods to come from the sky in a white chariot? Perhaps we are meant to suffer a little bit in this life.
Even now I believe that I am a bad person and I’m being punished. But think about children or babies got killed, what are their sins? Even if they had past lives, I don’t believe it’s a punishment in this life where they don’t remember anything from the past life.
In positive psychology they say not to suppress things - to let it pass on its own. The purple elephant is an example of this.
Maybe we shouldn’t talk about religion anymore.
We are now the hungry ghost. The things we craved and once enjoyed now brings us pain.
The hungry ghost does not stay a hungry ghost forever, but first he must control his cravings.
Please talk to your doctor about this.
So they can give me more drugs so I can cheat karma? That will only lead to more pain, such as diabetes or some other serious health condition, as well as side effects.
Yeah, but you’ll also feel better. Have you tried all medicines? I am not well either 'cos I reduced my meds with my pdoc, but I’ll tell him to increase them again.
You really put psychiatry on an undeserved pedestal.