Both…this is really just a sick joke.
My nervous breakdown happened to me after a wealthy friend was bragging about hurting her other friends, scaring them badly including some who developed PTSD/schizo and then let her sex abuser use the girls for anything they would do…Now I have heard the voices every waking minute for 10 years, medicated or not as this woman’s family males stalked me, including my seeing them leaving my home and contents were ruined exactly as threatened. My neighbors saw the trespassers too but refused to help with police as they were doing a little drug thing…stalking charges, harassment and restraining orders are almost useless anyway…Other victims have been bothered by this group for 30 years including some of the women who have been beaten bad enough to need hospital care after the family abuser jumped out of the bushes as their homes…Some of these victims tried to follow orders from the abusers to bother new victims (called gang or cause stalking), trespass/vandalize but I know the torment goes on for these poor people who refuse to talk to new victims and/or cops for any protection, thus keeping this group of people still harming new women through online dating & family sex abuse victims who don’t want to deal with it any longer & give abuser new women to hurt…
As far as a spiritual disease, you will meet a lot of screwed up Christians who have went through pastor counseling and are left nutty…Many of these folks are closet schizo who follow orders from the voices called gang stalking/cause stalking and will harass specific strangers about something private…including gangs of kids in city surrounding strange adults to harass them about getting a disability check…Some of these people are screwed up worse, stealing, property crimes and will harass customers/coworkers and ruin transactions at work. Some of the non-denominational churches and pentacostals do advise the parishioners to act in this manner and mistreat people…Do google Gang and cause stalking, you are better off knowing this stuff. Mental care refuses to discuss this or help victims, calling it delusional even, which causes the confused to go insane and frequently self-harm…You cannot get angry with your mental care staff or they will forcably hospitalize you at your own expense for months for attitude adjustments…If you don’t like your pdoc’s approach, change doctors quietly.
Souls…some people are really so screwed up by this mess, they are the undead. I don’t mean paganisms, demonically possessed. There is no such thing except a terribly sick joke at work here and a lot of profiteering from the meds/psych care…There are a lot of battered and weary people suffering here and a lot of anger over this so they are soul-less, numb zombies. Some cities do operate like you are either an aggressor or a victim so things are hard …Some of the people who are submissive to the voices will even take demands from voices to date a specific person with intent to harm by battery, cheating, financial frauds…there is a lot of abuse that isn’t that noticeable because to get that relationship, they had to ruin victim’s employment. It is toughest being a single female as you will be targeted for potential sex partner, domestic house help or place to stay by the worst of peoples. The gang stalking verbal harassment, the sexual harassment by nutty male coworkers who do not mind ruining you and the trespassing at your home are worse when you are a female alone. Do not spend all you make and only own basic belongings…frequent approaches to winning a relationship include breaking everything you own numerous times or getting you in trouble at work so unemployment will be denied…Keep the money in the bank…
To spot the wrong people in social situations…1. They contradict themselves or do 180 on topics denying previous statements. 2. They try too hard to make friends. 3. They tell too many stories with so much info missing, it is implausible…The truth will scare you when you find out the rest of the story. 4. These kind brag about doing illegal things to people. 5. Their friends look fine for a while, then they start to taunt you about things and appear two-faced like a taciturn. If you see the group turn on another new person & person is upset-able, leave. Traveling with strangers is worst situation you can put yourself into – men will drop off a woman who won’t sleep with them and some abusers will take you to another police jurisdiction to hurt you where cops do not care and your family cannot help. In new social situations, you are better off keeping your last name private or use fake last name for a while and use email not containing your name or any username that can be googled…Do not discuss where you work…self-employed handles it. If you see anything like this, you should not return phone calls, text, emails or answer door to the group. DO NOT acknowledge anything you see or hear that is wrong there…Some of these kind will stalk you, and you will have tell them you want no more contact and I hope for your sake they leave you alone… Moving may be only solution but you will probably have a lot of strangers say something nutty to you, gang stalking you, for a while to remind you of whoever you met…The ladies groups are the safest places to socialize…even churches can be really unokay places if some of the members are abusers and rest of the congregation are submissive or silent.
Psycho-somatic is very real…You can have a lot of unpleasant tactile hallucinations including touch without any cause, bugs crawling, wind knocked out of you, stabbing pain for seconds, blurry vision, heart palpitations, orgasms…Muscle cramps, twitches…Getting upset and remaining upset will make you physically sick for a while sometimes…Complaining to a doctor can make things worse. The only people who remain okay through schizo are active in keeping busy with something kinda positive, self support, art, education, etc and keep busy with positive/normal friends.
Several schizo friends have given up organized religion…That was a way of coping after meeting a few groups of nuts who claim they hear God. Unfortunately, some mental care is okay with a person saying this and acting in a manner harmful to others so judge each situation independently and respond defensively when necessary…
If you have a story like mine, if you quit talking to the group, ignore the voices’ demands and do not talk aloud to yourself, sometimes your symptoms would improve in 2-3 years if you did not discuss the group you met very much.