Schizophrenia or Possession?
When a parish announced that they were facilitating a fundraiser to pay for the training of priests to perform exorcism, that struck some chords of understanding.
When people are afflicted with extreme stress, their hearing and auditory nerves are activated and stimulated by their own body chemicals. They may hear voices all the time, as long as they’re awake. They think they are possessed. They seek counsel from their church. They are told to get medical attention to certify that they have no physiological problems and psychological conditions, before returning to the Church, to get help to screen for exorcism.
People are usually incredulous that they could be experiencing schizophrenia. They can’t believe they could be having a mental condition. The Church knows better. That is why people are advised to be screened for neurological problems and psychological conditions, before they form their own opinion of needing exorcism.
Schizophrenia can be cured with psychotic drugs as any psychiatrist will tell you.
Some forms of schizophrenia may be healed through alternative treatments.
My meditation for 1st Sunday of Easter
Acts of the Apostles 10:38
” … Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.”
What good can I do to help people in this topic of schizophrenia and possession? I can share my knowledge of schizophrenia by blogging about this.
Evil people, or selfish people, can manipulate to pressurize you to the point of suffering extreme stress. The abuse may trigger schizophrenia. You may think you’re hearing external voices, but actually, those voices are only from your internal mechanisms, from your auditory nerves being stimulated by stress. Your brain may remember and recall memories of voices and replay them. Your psychological state will also influence the types of words you think you’re hearing.
In our present time, scams and extortions are very common. Those are executed via inflicting deceit, stress, urgency and other weapons of psychological abuse. When the targeted victim suffers heavy stress, they may get schizophrenia.
After a long time of convalescence, when you are no longer stressed, you will slowly stop hearing voices.
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