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Eden1919Senior Contributor
how do you know if you are mentally ill or if you are actually just psychic? like what if i am supposed to be helping the spirits who are trying to communicate to me not block them out what if i am doing everything wrong? how do you know?
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Ru-beeModerator
Hi @Eden1919 I'm hearing how confusing this must be for you, and hope others may be able to offer some insight from their own experiences on this.
I wonder if there's anyone on your team who you trust and can talk to about this?
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Good question @Eden1919 I think anyway, there might be quite a range of thoughts and feelings that are “reasonable “ about all those things in life that are not quite rational. I guess there is an art to being somewhat grounded, listening to the quiet murmurs of the soul. Sometimes different cultural perspectives mean it may be a bit fluid.
take care Bella
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SunflowerycatsNew Contributor
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rav3nSenior Contributor
hey @Sunflowerycats welcome to the forums!
i like this 'Middleway' tool you've mentioned, i'll be looking into it more. thanks for sharing 😊
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YourLocalMHGuruSenior Contributor
Hi Eden,
You ask a very good question. I will just start with a disclaimer that I am not a believer in spirits, but I also have no proof they don't exist - so I choose to believe it is a possibility. I have experienced some unexplainable things myself (ie, my mother and I both shared a simultaneous hallucination of my deceased father walking by her pool in her gated backyard).
Mental health science and science, in general, don't study the metaphysical. They focus on the obeservable and repeatable world. Often you will see these disciplines speak out against the metaphysical world, but that is an overreach of their knowledge and authority. It is not their area of focus or knowledge.
Here are some of the major criteria of all mental illnesses that are important to help you distinguish what would be considered problematic or not:
1. The experience is distressing for you.
2. The experience is interrupting your ability to complete your daily obligations (ie., go to work, eat, sleep)
3. You continue to engage or spontaneously experience even when you are aware the experience is causing you harm or hold you back.
These three criteria are on every single mental health diagnosis in the DSM V TR (the latest edition) and the conditions must be met to warrant a diagnosis. So if none of these apply to you, then you do not need to be concerned that you have a mental illness. Spirituality is found amonst every society, so long as you are not harming yourself or others - it's no one's place to judge.
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BunniekinsSenior Contributor
@Eden1919 hey Eden1919 in my opinion there is a fine line between being mentally ill and having gifts. i find that even with being thoroughly medicated i still have psychic dreams and visions.
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Eden1919Senior Contributor
Thanks everyone I am still confused on this issue tbh, even on medication I still have these experiences so that does make it more confusing I guess it is complicated but yeah I really don’t know what to think there are so many things to consider and it is so complicated. I think the spirits for the most part want good things there are some that don’t but yeah idk I am just so confused I really can’t tell what is what at the moment.
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orezContributor
Its a credit to you in that your are grounded in such away that either way with the telling it works within your kinda' of ordinary. When foreseeable harm becomes a thing the telling might prove to play itself out. If you are keeping all of your experiences in some form or other I guess I waiting for the book, pod cast, T.V. special or any interview you will be engaged in.
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