I think I read somewhere hyperreligiosity is a symptom of sz, but I don’t remember for sure. I don’t know who else to ask, and I don’t want to make an appointment with my pdoc just to ask that.
Since I switched to Abilify, the religious stuff has really toned down with me.
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Im religious so sometimes have overthinking about sins.
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Me too. 15151515
Its a sz thing,I think.But no priest I found who wants to deal with deep confession,even in monastery.
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Very much so, yes. One of the reasons religious talk is muted here is because it is a trigger for those who suffer from it.
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Totally is, but I don’t feel ditching religion helps either. At least personally it feels like a security thing.
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It makes me feel better that there are priests who self isolate like me, some also self isolate in mountains.
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I’m really religious at the moment. I’m doing spiritual exercises and praying a lot. It makes me feel better, i think… I recently thought that if i kept living as i did i would go to hell maybe, so i try to change, and it rests my mind.
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Yes hyper religiosity is definitely a symptom of SZ/SZA and bipolar manic episodes.
It hit me hard for years.
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I have that …
How do I make it stop?
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When I went into remission I became hyper religious and wanted to be a nun. I practiced extreme penances like sleeping on the floor, fasting, putting a crown of thorns on my head, tasting vinegar, whipping my back and cutting all my hair off.
I wanted to be a saint. I didn’t think I was still sza, maybe it was genuine religious fervour or it could have been i still had sza? I don’t know.
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For me, it was a part of manic episodes. When I became manic I got really into Judaism, to the point that I was planning on converting (was raised Catholic). I lost all interest when I started a mood stabilizer and the manic stuff was put in check.
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I have paranoia that everywhere I go people are using witchcraft on me…
I also think the world is ending and I’m terrified because I lived a ‘sinful’ life …
However God became an obsession and I’m so tired of thinking of him all day and I’m tired of kicking my rear end when I screw up…
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I have it with schizophrenia, but also with my OCD. I find myself praying a lot, needless to say.
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It’s a good question. It seems that in an unhealthy man religious practice can go down the wrong path. Leading towards practices that aren’t beneficial or are even dangerous. On the other hand religion/spirituality can be a great boon on the road to recovery for many. But the mind has to be functioning somewhat coherently (usually with the help of meds). I don’t think we should necessarily write off hyper religiosity as being a mental illness. There are plenty of people who live like monks or nuns, or priests, bishops, and so forth who have no signs of being mentally ill.
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I think religion is positive. Prayers help me. But, im a bad case too, where my sza took my ability to enjoy it away for much of the time.
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It’s more like a normal human reaction. Getting grandiose without due evidence or reason (ask a person of knowledge or authority in your religion to verify) is a symptom however.
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Trigger warning: I love my religion but I’ve had to take a step back from it. I was becoming obsessed with my religion to the point where it stopped comforting me and the only meaning it gave me was to punish myself. I was obsessing over my sins and being a good person, so much so that my empathy and what I feel actually makes me a good person was lost to the fire and brimstone of it all. I am still religious, but I am very cautious in my practice now.
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Yes, I’d say so. Lots of people become hyper-religious with this disorder. I wasn’t even raised religious (no church or anything) and even I had religious delusions during my first couple years with the disorder.
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Never had that but my grandfather encouraged me in 5th grade to follow my choice to look into Goddesses and Paganism. I guess xmas in 1992 in 2nd grade I got into with my great uncle’s religious wife of how all holidays were stolen, and she stormed off. Papa thought it was funny and declared me the winner because she couldn’t refute my facts.
Man I miss My Papa he bought me tons of stuff to practice with.
But I never had like delusions of anything religious. My daughter is named after Isis and my kids are half my religion and one follows my Atheist husband. So if I did have ideas that I was one of the Goddesses, he’d let me know to knock it off I know better. Figure reality check close at hand is a good thing. But never had it happen.
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