Danage

Hello.

I am a diagnosed psychotic (here in the UK they don't use such specific labels until a year has passed since diagnosis or I have had a third psychotic episode).

I had my first psychotic episode from November 2006 to November 2007. I had visual and audio hallucinations for a year. I told someone when it first started happening, and they didn't take it seriously. I told someone in May last year, and finally told my mother in July 2007, when she took me to the doctor, who referred me to a psychiatrist who referred me to Early Intervention in the county.

They got Home Treatment involved (when they started seeing me was when the thought invasion had begun), and finally when I was firmly on the medication, and the hallucinations and thought invasion had stopped in November last year I was discharged from Home Treatment, and I was back under Early Intervention.

I had my medication changed (I requested it) in May this year, and had thought invasion throughout June (I only told people about one incident, the most upsetting incident, and not the others), until Saturday 28th June when I had visual, and audio hallucinations coupled with pain that wasn't really there (my second psychotic episode). They subsequently put me back on the old medication that worked.

It is a rather odd thing that my first psychotic episode ended when I became a Christian again (I rejected them in favour of Jewish beliefs in October 2005), albeit a Biblical Unitarian one. I only became a Christian because of what my hallucinated son said. I feel that my psychosis was influenced by God's Holy Spirit, or directly by God the Father Himself, and not His power (the Holy Spirit).

Everything my son told me was completely in line with what the Bible says, so I believe my psychosis was the Holy Spirit, or influenced by the Holy Spirit, or it is just a mental illness (the third option I heavily doubt though). What does everyone else think?

Toda raba (Thank you very much).

Raveno

right now I'm currently having problems with thought broadcasting...what do you mean by thought invasion?

Qwerty

Hello there-

God works in mysterious ways, He could be talking to you through these methods. I know He does me, though I don't have psychosis.

Sometimes I think those with mental illness He likes to talk to, because we're willing to listen. Sometimes I think He has "chosen" us to talk to, like we are special.

Danage

Thought invasion, also known as thought insertion, is when one's thoughts are hijacked, i.e. thoughts are forced into my mind that are not my own.

Indeed God does work in mysterious ways. I do believe He did talk to me through my psychosis. I believe that I was somewhat chosen by Him, maybe because I was more willing to listen, but I believe that God used His Holy Spirit to communicate the Truth to me about Himself, Jesus Christ and Soteriology (the study of salvation).

Maybe God does talk to people with a mental illness, I honestly don't know. It is merely a belief.

Thank you for your views.

KJ77

Hey Danage, welcome to MF!

Danage

Thank you.