I got diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia

Job405 said:

What do you guys make of this? Am I schizo or is this a legit demon? I am a bit confused to be honest.

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It would seem, IF you have been correctly diagnosed, that what appear to you to have been demonic attacks would be a consequence of the medical problem.

And you did tell us, if I understood you, that taking the medications had an effect for the better. Would that have been the case--would it have been possible--if your condition were entirely caused by the will of a demon acting upon you?

schizophrenia is an illness that will distort our feelings and perceptions, it has very little to do with demons but the wicked may use our mental confusion caused by our illness.

It is best to ask Jesus to protect you and keep taking the meds. Each time i stopped the meds the illness would come back and the hallucinations would drive me mad.

i advise you to seek out good Christian counselling as that can be very helpful understanding the illness rightly.

@Job405 reading what you have here.

The mind is a very powerful thing. To me, it is believed that all people have a voice inside of their head. Sometimes that voice is much louder for some who haven't been able to calm the inner part of themselves.

Never had any hallucinations unless, using a drug that would keep you up for days on end which would have me seeing shadows moving from time to time which was from lack of sleep.

Considering how well you can read, write, and articulate your experience.

Do you know who God is?

Do you know who the Lord Jesus Christ really is ?

Have you made attempts to just read the stories about the Lord Jesus Christ and see the love, and help that he shared with many people?

Hey man,
I am going through similiar problems mentally. Sounds like a demon since it is trying to get you to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. Whatever you do don't blaspheme! I recommend you get on the defensive and offensive and fight back! Guard yourself with the Full Armour of God, The Belt of Truth, Breastplate of Righteousness, Shoes of the Gospel of Peace, Shield of Faith, Helmet of Salvation, Sword of the Spirit. Also Plead the Blood of Jesus over yourself and your loved one's in Jesus name. We as believers have authority over the enemy given to us by Jesus, so bind and rebuke the enemy and their attacks in the name of Jesus. Also get in the word of KJV Bible as much as possible, even listen to it while you sleep. Pray much throughout the day. (Do all this daily) If you are on pc or android d/l youversion app. God gives us trials to overcome. He wants warriors in His Kingdom.
James 4:7
King James Version
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

I will keep you in my prayers friend. Stay strong and God Bless.

Job405 said:

Currently I am suffering from near-constant intrusive thoughts blaspheming God, telling me to reject Christ and worship satan or blaspheme the Holy Spirit, and to commit all kinds of sins. It can also move my head if I allow it, nodding to answer yes, and shaking to answer no. This entity or whatever it is, claims to be a demon.

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The term for such a phenomenon is "demonized", and this can sometimes happen to the saints of God. Anyone doubting that statement should buy and read this book: https://www.amazon.com/What-Demons-Can-Do-Saints/dp/0802494188

For over 6 months it pretended to be God, but this ruse was revealed a few months ago and now it is openly a demon.

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GET TO A SAFE PLACE NOW!

Your OP indicates that you are attempting to handle it yourself, and you cannot.

Never is asking for qualified religious and medical help so crucial because those people can see things that you cannot. I can say that because you admit that for 6 months you believed what the demon said.

The ultimate aim of demons is to destroy humans because only we, of all God's creation have the image of God created inside us.

Since demons (rebellious angels) hate God, they also hate believers who will surely go to heaven, where they cannot go.

Do not be afraid to seek help.

Job405 said:

I really don't know how demons operate. The spiritual world is confusing to me. Perhaps they use parts of our brain to create hallucinations? Perhaps taking medicine disables their ability to create hallucinations? I really don't know.

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The spiritual world is confusing to everybody, which is not so surprising IMO since we live for awhile in this material world.

Remember that Jesus told us to trust him, which is a way of saying that he knows that we do not have all the answers to all the questions that we naturally are going to wonder about. They will become clear to us in the life to come.

Job405 said:

I believe I do know who God is. I have read or listened to the gospels and many other parts of the Bible.

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That is great to know Job405. You said sometimes your prayers go unanswered, sometimes mine do too. Sometimes in life it seems we gotta keep going either way.

Romans 5:3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Job405 said:

I have prayed to Jesus and God but it seems my prayers are going unanswered. I'll keep taking meds though.

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when i first got sick God didn't seem to listen either but the reality was that i still had to learn to love Him enough not to give room for ungodly spirituality. God, who is the truth, gets pushed aside when we begin to believe those voices lying in our head, to only let scriptural truth speak in love for God and neighbour gets God back online again.

Call upon Him and put your faith in His loving truth, the more you learn to do that the better you will hear God speaking in your life. As a matter of fact love people truthfully and God will come and dwell in your heart. Much better than those pesky voices. Honestly true.

Job405 said:

No I was locked up in a mental hospital for over 6 months hopped up on meds and I had a team of doctors, nurses and social workers helping me.

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As a former case for those like you, I had the responsibility of setting post hospital care. That included doctors social workers partial day care, group homes, etc; and where possible contacting believers in those professions to give a godly perspective to fragile people.

From your response, I do not have a sense that you are in a safe place right now.

I'd continue with taking medication while looking at this as a test and my own personal journey.

Job405 said:

Ok I'll start with you. I love you Jeshu

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Thanks brother i love you too, i especially love you to find Jesus in all of this. Jesus has been my biggest help ever always loving me true and helping me in the battle with the wicked.

You say you don't understand spirituality but in reality you are a spiritual person, just like God and just like the wicked. however Jesus brings good spirituality into us. Like love, kindness, gentleness, forbearance, long suffering, patience, humbleness, thankfulness and joy. All such feelings/realities dwelling in us, come from God. Indeed all good life comes from Him. The wicked on the other hand bring bad spirituality into us. Realities such as dishonesty, lovelessness, selfishness, greed, hate, judgementalness, human pride, arrogance, guilt, shame, confusion, and anxiety.

Can you see that both good and bad live in us? That is because we were originally made in God's image but then us heeding the wicked's lies from early childhood onwards builds a lot of bad life into us. Trauma events in early life can result into mental illness. Letting Jesus deal with the trauma is the way out for such people.

Honest an active faith in God's love set me free from the wicked and their horrible voices. As love for God and neighbour grew the wicked lost their power over me. i still use medications to keep them at bay physically but spiritually i found the Word of God to be the best weapon. The more my love for God's word grew the more the truth dwelling in my heart brought the wicked to naught. It has been absolutely fascinating to see Jesus set me free from all the lies i believed about God, myself and my neighbour.

So please get to know the living word. He speaks in love for God, yourself and your neighbour. For as long as you hear love for God and heed His voice and believe Him, the safer you will be from the attacks of the wicked and the more your ill mind will heal.

It is about loving. The more loving you become the stronger you will be against the wicked ones attacking.

Please be of good courage, with Jesus hand in hand you can win this battle.



An invitation to The Chosen.

God's Love will not take or will
you to conform to rules or demand
which imprison, enslave, burn or kill you.

God's Love will not pervert what's Good
The Lord loves truthfully Wise and Good.
True Love was, is and always will be Good!

In God's Love you are free to be right!
In His love everything is good proper and kind.
He loves all who love good and true to rule!

His Love is caring, providing, and sharing.
His Love always enjoys and protects good life.
His love rules even when bad life has being in us!

Hear Jesus call - 'Come join up with us all!
Leave whatever ties you down and be free
loving good life with all God's own to be.'

To the rest in your heart God's asks
how long will you tarry in the darkness?
Please leave such bad existence within.

For life must not, no never should, or would, or could,
be forceful, rude, prideful, arrogant, selfish, lustful
or otherwise be untrue to God's loving truth.

Neither should life be hurting or ill,
hungry, oppressed, despised, hated
or otherwise have existence in wrong.

Please hand your Bad Life over to Jesus
Humbly ask for His Good Life back in return
and go love God, self and neighbour with Joy.

The Church knows that Jesus is coming soon
All bad life will be our shameful past then,
so please leave your bad life while you can!

Love.

Job405 said:

Currently I am suffering from near-constant intrusive thoughts blaspheming God, telling me to reject Christ and worship satan or blaspheme the Holy Spirit, and to commit all kinds of sins. It can also move my head if I allow it, nodding to answer yes, and shaking to answer no. This entity or whatever it is, claims to be a demon.

For over 6 months it pretended to be God, but this ruse was revealed a few months ago and now it is openly a demon. During the time it pretended to be God (all persons of the trinity), I was in a mental health ward following two suicide attempts. There I had more vivid hallucinations like I felt fire around my body, intense vibrations when I thought the rapture was going to happen, smelled burnt hair and saw a more full darkness when I thought demons were entering me. But I had no real visual hallucinations. It made me spread false prophecy about the rapture, a specific date of the rapture.

I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia despite not being paranoid or having visual hallucinations, or hearing voices.

I tried to go without antipsychotic meds but some hallucinations came back, like it being able to adjust my body temperature and the smell of burnt hair. So meds do help to some degree, but they do nothing for the constant blasphemous thoughts.

The demon says it hates me, enjoys seeing me suffer, wants me to go to hell, that it wants to destroy me, or use me to destroy other people, it hates humanity.

I checked this page and this entity or mental health problem ticks off boxes on both sides:
How to differentiate Schizophrenia from Demonic Possession : Mental Illness Policy Org

It now has an aversion to religion but also pretended to be God, back then it had an attraction to religion. It has rational speech but no supernatural knowledge or occultic phenomena has been observed. It does now claim to possess me but previously it pretended to be God. Prayer has not solved the problem, and meds have helped with some of the hallucinations.

What do you guys make of this? Am I schizo or is this a legit demon? I am a bit confused to be honest.

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Have you considered REPENTANCE?
Not, just regret or remorse but change your way or lifestyle !

SANTOSO said:

Have you considered REPENTANCE?
Not, just regret or remorse but change your way or lifestyle !

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Can you repent of having Covid-19?

Can you repent of having progressive neuro-muscular disease?

I ask those rhetorical questions because very often mental illnesses are due to a chemical imbalance in the brain. The usage of psychotropic medications, which often have profound side effects, are designed to prevent those voices from "rising to the top" of the thoughts of the mentally ill person. or with the NSSRIs and the SSRIs such as Zoloft, Prozac Lexapro and Paxil (among others), which are all designed to prevent the natural serotonin in the brain to be absorbed by the nerve cells. The first two medications are the most often prescribed medications in the USA.

So I am not scolding you, but rather educating you. Mental health is a complex issue, not given to fast fixes. People with this disease need compassionate understanding, and not condemnation or blame.

Please notice that the poster has restrained himself from blasphemy despite being tempted to do so.

From personal experience, I also know that mental illness also has a demonic component because once I recall a demon once asking me if I wanted to be mentally ill, and I refused him. That was quite the scary encounter.

Hope this helps your understanding.