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>I don't think this is helpful, while I think aiming to get away from medications and psychiatric institutions is a great goal but I think shifting to some other extreme and just going full on into majic and the occult would be detrimental. It is easy for schizos and maniacs to justify their delusions if they have a such a strong context in the occult and it can end badly.
Only if they don't ground themselves well, psychiatrists are doing more harm than good by attributing all problems to imbalance of hormones and neuro-transmitters. also disregarding the power of delusions (a double edged sword) is another reason why that there are many people who get on medications kill themselves.
>Some will say their is no such thing as mental illness and that is all metaphysical forces whilst psychaitrists will tell you the opposite, in truth, it is a bit of both.
I agree, sometimes it's not just negative entities but also personal flaws due to experience that corrupt people. if there is no personal flaw, the metaphysical forces have no place to exploit ,enter from.
> Acknowledging you have mental health problems is a great start to sorting them out, when you place all the burden of getting well on majic and reject therapy or any form of medication you can be doing yourself a lot more harm than good.
Citation needed
>Better to sort yourself out, take some time and rest, and become firmly grounded in a position were you can think clearly and not let negativity have a profound impact on your life before you start dabbling in this and that and be confronted with an overwhelming amount of literature and esoteric material. Yes, sometimes spiritual material can help orientate yourself and find the words you need to hear in times of need, but I find those times and words are better left to fate, not trying to force the universe through a constant perusal of the occult. Studying the occult is not something you should do when you are needy and surrounded by anger and hatred, things will take advantage of you and you will make choices unconsciously based on your emotional states. Something like meditation, clearing your mind, cultivating discipline in what ways you can, and trying to create balance in your life I think is better advice.
Yes, the occult isn't just about conjuring spirits, there are ways to find balance and lose your fears and deal with depression, but I don't think the OP will get anywhere by listening to a shrink, hell he might be in this mess because he listens to one.
Note that he already tried what you suggest, going to a psychiatric institution and taking medication.
yes some medication will help, but not the synthetic chemicals which are made with very little understanding of human biology, pharma knows some stuff ,yes, but not nearly enough to mess with neuro-transmitters and hormones the way they do.
>I know the woes of anti-psychotics, mental health institutions etc but some medications can be extremely helpful to some people and if you can get a good therapist I have seen people transform themselves in a really stable and structured way.
If you do, why do you advise him to keep on doing what he was doing and obviously did not work?
Would you suggest he gets on prozac? or change his medication, you are starting to sound like a pharma shill at this point.
>Most of the personal problems in our lives can be fixed without having to rely on other entities and magical systems and I genuinely think it is best if you suffer from a mental illness that you should try to leave that out till you are grounded because if you don't the lines of reality only become even more blurred and you lose yourself in a swirl of esotericism which ends up draining you of your life due to obsessive and deranged natures.
Well, depends on the branch of occultism , some have really transformative powers, he just needs to find strength,balance and purpose in one of them, either way he needs to search for the right discipline.
>How about you pray for its restoration instead of its demise?
I don't think this is possible at this point.