Every time I believed in God, psychosis is all about God and religion of my upbringing for me. I don’t want to risk involving myself in that stuff. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist necessarily but I don’t want to believe in it. They think I’m therefore spiritually dead… Their words.
I’ve explained it to them and they seem disappointed and even angry with me.
And I told them I don’t feel comfortable around them anymore because in their movement the spirit is subject to the physical body so does that not imply if ‘I’m spiritually dead’ then my body is also dying since they are connected, as the movement also teaches.
Can anyone relate, how do you deal with it.
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I just shouldn’t care right.
It’s just sad cos they are my parents
If they think I’m spiritually dead and think psychosis is the work of the devil then that means they probably think i will get psychotic again too…
It’s all right to have faith. It really is.
It gets complicated with delusions because that is often a problem. It’s like that Dire Straits song. Two people say they’re Jesus one of them must be wrong.
I’m an ex-catholic. I’d love to be one but I just can’t with the history of the faith. I liked being involved with it but things people have done just don’t hold water with me.
Let them believe what they want. Build bridges other ways. You don’t have to buy the whole ride with them. My mum was really religious. I was an athiest. We still had a great relationship because we didn’t pick fights on things. We acknowledged our differences and moved on…
I’d say do that!
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Thanks.
I guess I would ask them what they mean by spiritual death.
With the intention of building bridges and not picking fights cos right now it just makes me feel like a piece of nothing. Being described as dead for that reason. I feel dead enough as it is in terms of psychotic aftermath depression and then for them to say that…
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Yeah don’t get involved in that! It’s not a slight on you and it’s more them.
All’s I know is that it’s important to maintain relationships with family. It helps when your doing poorly but you can’t fight wars with them. That stuff just never ends.
I wish I had a better answer for you. I just don’t and it’s no fault of you. I still draw a line in the sand over some things but I let people win in arguments because sometimes it’s better for your sanity to be the bigger person!
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I think you’re right this could go round endlessly with them this kind of discussion if I’m not careful. but I think it’s worth giving it just one more shot to discuss with them n for both sides to elaborate lol. Thanks rogueone for your input it helps me 
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I think this thread is going to get locked when the Americans wake up. Just do whatever you feel is right, I never really understood all this stuff personally. If you don’t think spiritually dead is actually a thing then it is up to your parents to be ok with that.
Yea I don’t even know what they mean exactly by spiritually dead so I’ll just ask later.
Im not sure if this thread will get locked up since it’s recovery orientated but maybe it’s still too triggering I don’t know.
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Yes we cant talk religion it will get locked.
I’ve cut myself off from the source of life. That’s what they said. So then I must be dead
Typo 9987654433
I don’t know why I allow it to make me feel so bad if I’m not believing in God and afterlife etc they make me feel so bad about it the way they go on about it to me
I believe in God, but I respect atheists. You have the right to believe in anything you like. I think your parents are wrong
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*comment that will close down this thread
Edit : I would Tel you my thoughts but I don’t get involved in this God stuff…
I get you are lost and am not going to flag this. @Butterfly don’t take anyone’s word on their experience with a higher power as your own. Start reading, you are asking question 
, start looking at things from different angles, just put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and decide for yourself, based on the evidence you find. It’s ok if tomorrow, you think differently. Just have faith in yourself and then decide how you feel. People of authority might think differently, but you are an adult and can make your own path
You are right I am an adult. Its just cos I have a connection to them as my parents and then for them to say that.but anyways at least they mean it from a caring perspective. And we are at least not on a bad note atm.
Thanks Free
I won’t entertain anything like this until the day I die, and then I will know the truth of it all.
Unfortunately it can be hard for religious people to understand this, as they think you have to have religion to live a good life.
This just is not true. I know right and wrong, as do most people.
I’m very spiritual, never talk about it. Stepdad had some ideas about it religiously but no prayer does not stop hallucinations. Doesn’t mean you’re spiritually dead, you’re just prioritizing what you can see smell and hear in front of you in order to keep yourself stable. It’s a challenge unique to this disorder I think.
My parents are so adamant about after life its quite difficult for me to understand how they can be. But whatever makes them happy is good for them. I won’t entertain things too much