Does anyone else here experience periods of intense religiosity, followed by feeling -nothing-? Or even feeling extremely drawn and spiritual about a particular religion, but then maybe weeks, months later you dont believe it anymore but suddenly believe a different religion?
I have met plenty of people in hospital that are completely overtaken by religion.
To be honest, I went to a Catholic School and that put me off religion for life.
You don’t have to have religion to be moral. Many people manage not to be socially unacceptable and hold no faith.
Religion is the basis of our morality, but it has served its purpose and I think it should have its place in history as a mechanism that brought people together to develop a common set of rules that people should live by to promote as much cooperation and care for others as possible.
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I’ve been camps people church hopping trying to find the right religion or faith.
I waited all my life to hear evangelical preacher
Boy did that open my eyes
I’m just looking for others who may experience this as I do. I go through periods of intense religiosity, followed by believing in nothing. But then I may suddenly focus on a different religion. I know religiosity is common within Schizophrenia, but I can’t seem to find anything about others experiencing such extreme back and forth.
Perhaps you should look at how delusions work? I don’t mean that as an offensive comment, but that I go back and forth on my psychosis subject matter that’s similar to having a religion.
I feel it intensely and then like you say nothing at all. Perhaps researching how and why psychosis or delusions come and go may help?
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Thank you. The thing is I experience paranoia and delusions on an almost constant basis, though with different levels of severity. I am currently feeling the intense belief and desire for a particular religion so I wanted to ask here to kind of get grounded in reality knowing others experience this as well. Its very difficult for me right now. I’m pretty disconnected at the moment, having a hard time being ‘here’.
Religiosity fits me perfectly. I zip back and forth from Christianity to Zen and every philosophy in between. I was into Hinduism for a while then zippo then back to Jesus then to Stoicism then zippo. You should see my bookshelf nothing but bibles, Quran. Bhagavad Gita, tao the ching, humanism, and the NatGeo guide to North American Birds. Well, the bird thing is a joke but it still is there. At first it was just a curiosity thing but then when you start practicing each religion and going back and forth and in my case my interests can change within days. I think the sza bipolar has a lot to do with it. Oh and if you ever schedule a stay in the nut hut make sure you smuggle in your own bible because every other one on hand is usually taken.
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Just curious what is your personal reason for getting involved with these different religions. Is there something your searching for? Sometimes we get wrapped up in day to day events ,that could be why it’s spuratic.
I honestly don’t know. I’ve been drawn to religion my whole life. I remember when I was a kid being told about there only being one God, and I asked why and if it was ok to pretend there were more lol. I just can’t help but feel weird beliefs or feel drawn to things. I use to be wiccan, then generic pagan, slipping in and out of believing I am a starseed/indigo/soul from another planet (To the point Id cry wishing I could go ‘home’). For the past year or so its been flipping between belief in a god I am familiar with, and Islam. Its just this intense NEED to have an intense spiritual experience and belief. I know much of it just comes with the territory though.
Skunk: I’ve got the BP SZA stuff going on, though since my moods have been under control thanks to meds, I still experience this. I don’t feel very up or down, but I am currently still feeling mildly psychotic from a full episode I had last weekend (I almost constantly have psychotic symptoms/feelings anyway. but its worse right now)
I grew up with a religious mother but wasnt very religious myself. Then when I went into remission when I was about 22 I believed it was my mom’s prayers that healed me and I became religious and explored different churches until I settled on Catholicism and I felt the call to be a nun and convent hopped for four years. Then I settled in a convent thinking it was my lifetime calling. But then four months later I left. A month after that I became a Muslim. That was in 2011. And I was still in remission. I was very religious for that first year as a Muslim then I got married the following year and my sz came back. Then gradually my interest in religion got less and less. Nowadays I don’t see myself as very religious anymore. I do my Islamic duties like five daily prayers and wear headscarf but not much more than that. I have little interest in more than that. I do believe in God but don’t see myself as very religious anymore. I’m not strict anymore and don’t like being around strict Muslims a lot. I like to be moderate thinking of the afterlife but yet also have fun in this world.
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to each they own religion. that is what i say. (as long as i can still say Merry Christmas) LOL
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I’m a believer. Will be all my life.
Merry Christmas!
Religion is a philosophy that you either agree with or don’t. I can’t go to church because I can’t work and can’t contribute.
I’ve done this. I was raised Catholic, but I rejected it at a young age, then had nothing to do with religion until I became hypomanic (and later, manic) in college; I, too, am bipolar-type sza. At that time, I became all about Judaism. I was attending the local synagogue, doing Torah study, observing the holidays - hell, I even joined the Jewish student group at the university when they invited me to do so upon meeting me at temple. I was planning a conversion. When the manic stuff ended, I lost interest and didn’t go to temple for a couple years, until I became hypomanic again, then I got into it again. I haven’t been hypomanic or manic in several years, thus I have not had an interest in religion in several years. I’m still not exactly an atheist, but rather I consider myself agnostic. I totally relate to what you were saying, though.
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Some people are just fascinated by religion and love learning more about it. Like most things, it can be healthy or unhealthy. If you feel your passion for different religions is. What I Elyn impacting your life, it might be a good idea to try to refrain from it for a bit. If you don’t see it as a negative influence, though, just enjoy your passion. A lot of users on here have made religion very important to their recovery, and a lot of users need to avoid it at all costs. You have to decide for yourself which category you fall into.
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I disagree with this. I think morality far outdates religiosity. I think even animals can have their own kind of morality.
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I think you have to believe in evolution to believe that morals came before religions. If you believe that God created man and he did not evolve. Religion is simply relationship with God and God instilled in us morals to know the difference between right and wrong . With the unfolding fosil record it’s getting increasingly clear that there is no prof of animals changing from species to another species ,but only changing characteristics within kind. Most people with a faith are not evolutionists and there’s evidence in Darwin’s writing that if he seen the fosil record we have today he wouldn’t be an evolutionists eather.
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God revealed a lot to me about spiritually through psychosis, and simultaneously revealed to me that I have a mental illness and I will never be able to fully understand his mysteries
I’m a Catholic and I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life.
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God is dead. He died of embarrassment for humanity.
I was once religious, as I posted above, yet I have always believed in evolution by natural selection. I just never took scripture literally (I’ve never understood those who do), and I considered evolution to be God’s means of creation. I don’t believe that evolution and religious faith necessarily have to be completely at odds with each other. I don’t know from where you are getting your information about the fossil record, but you have been misinformed. The fossil record points to evolution. I’m saying this not as some sort of amateur wannabe scientist, but rather as a person with a master’s degree in biology. Sorry, I hope I didn’t offend; as a biology professor, I have a hard time letting go when someone tries to spread misinformation about scientific theories.
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