How do you reconcile the ideology of psychiatry with your own faith? This was traditionally thought of as a demonic issue, after all. For me my experience seems very much to involve demons, but some people on here have less of a coherent experience than me, such as previously thinking they were talking to a celebrity in their heads, etc. I could understand how you could put faith in psychiatry if you were cured by medication though.
For me, I am always in the presence of a demon, and although he does not always interact with me, he attacks me when things go wrong or I have self doubts about things and exploits the situation. He also attacks me in a weakened state. I can also converse with him at any time I want. I can literally feel his energy/presence, and it feels like a very dark energy/cloud over my head. If I tune into it it becomes stronger and engulfs me and he will start talking and possessing my body, making sneering faces through my face and jerk my head around.
I am very saddened because I want an exorcism, but I feel this demon has destroyed my credibility and the Catholic church would not give me one. Psychiatry, from my viewpoint, can never cure me and is false hope. I’ve tried a number of medications at very high doses and none of it stopped it.
I am not a Christian, not opposed to Christianity either, but can relate to feeling as though possessed by something demonic. I awoke one night having heard a voice calling “Come out!” and from within me a hissing voice responded “Never!”. I was alone staying at my parents place and their dogs awoke at the same time and came to the bedside as if they’d heard this as well.
I have had many, many more experiences along these lines and far more terrifying than this one. But I can remember this hissing voice from before I began to go through the living hell I’ve lived over the past year +. It would say to me “My body lies beneath a bog” Which led me at the time to assume it was a spirit rather than something demonic. But I have experienced things that cannot be explained as symptoms of an illness in my mind.
I don’t normally speak like this on here, but then what is normal for me? Currently, about a week out of that living hell, and hoping I don’t slip back there, what I am dealing with is a voice coming from within me that insults virtually everyone I come across, it’s racist and obscene, and is making my life impossible, putting up walls where I could normally in this situation pick up the pieces and make some progress and forward momentum in my life. I have no control over whatever is within me.
I know this stuff is generally feared and discouraged on this site, and as I’ve been pretty much left alone I don’t try and push it, the unusual beliefs that is. But I can’t rationally think of what I’m living with as the result of mental illness and I believe any rationally minded person having gone through what I’ve gone through would conclude the same.
This has been the primary issue for me as well. I’m a Catholic and have been struggling with seeing demons in peoples eyes, seeing their faces changed and distorted, sensing tbeir prescence all around. I haven’t figured out how to reconcile psychiatry with faith/religion as yet…going to church is a struggle as it reinforces a lot of the things ive experienced (feeling like im the center of all good and evil, seeing childrens faces demonically .
Perhaps its simply a combination of time, medication, therapy and prayer…but I’m not there myself yet, I truly cant bring myself to pray to a being that I have begun to doubt even exists.
The battle between Jesus Christ and the demons on earth is very real and in the news today.
I think the devil tempts and confuses people to do all the bad stuff on earth. But after the flood God made a covenant with his people. And will not intervene on the earth until the final battles of the last days. Which the way things are going may be in our lifetime.
But there are still good people on earth that do the right thing.
I’m talking ISIS that is killing Christians in genocide where they have lived for hundreds of years. And attacked Paris and encourage others to kill innocents.
Obama may not care because he is a traitor who actually armed them.
I admire Putin that will not let his country be attacked. The world has to unite against these people that call themselves soldiers but hide behind and kidnap women and children.
idk what to do about it but i just wish someone did so i just trust in THE ONLY THING I CAN AND HOPE For a better tomorrow, its all i can do, i am at his mercy or there mercy (idk which one yet) both maybe, one for good and one for bad, isis are evil, i think we are at the mercy of the devil as well as God but God can protect us but only so far and the rest we have to do ourselves, being forever vigilant (try to be strong as much as we can) despite our mi if that is possible because we need to always be on our guard against evil