A New Dawn said:
Then the best answer is to change your environment. Just like anything else that needs recovery. Move. Get new friends. Find a loving person and ask what church they go to. Go see a psychiatrist. Any of the above. All of the above.
Anything but give them a place to foster the possession! (If it really is possession.)
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Some people whine and complain, and yes, they do in some sick sense enjoy where they are, and then there are others who cannot just pack up and move, make new friends, go to church, go see a psychiatrist. Why? Money is often an obstacle, an extremely limiting one. Moving takes an extreme amount of funds. Making new friends is something a lot of people cannot do...such as those with social anxiety, agoraphobia, maybe even those who are despised because of their depths of addictions, or their lack of 'fitting in' with styles and clothes, or their occult pasts. Find a loving person? That's a LOT harder said than done. It's also difficult to find loving people if you don't have ways of being integrated with society. Loving people don't grow on trees, and they are typically extremely hard to find. Go see a psychiatrist? Why, so they can prescribe medication to lack your involvement with satan? Also, psychiatrists take money, even at the county health departments, there's still fees involved.
It really doesn't matter if it's possession or not if a person says it is and says it feels like it, then the effects are still there.
I didn't say it was easy. But if one wants relief, then they have to be willing to do the hard things.
Willing? Willingness isn't always the only factor. Ways and means tend to be limiting for a lot of people.
HBM said:
what you SHOULD do is shut the whole thing down. Erwin, you have UNQUALIFIED people trying to do this..pastoral doesn't seem interested. NEVER mind the fact, IF people want REAL help, they will go to someone in REAL Life. They NEEd that. WHAT if someone gets sucicidal? People can't jump through the screen and help them. GET real. This is just a huge problem waiting to happen.
Unqualified? So all the occult recoverers, all the people posting in depression and like forums about being suicidal, all the ones who self-injure, we should lock down their forums, because none of us are 'qualified' to befriend them. What does qualified entail? What's the deeper issues underneath? For many it's a lack of care and concern throughout their life, but God brings little blessings into their lives, which end up changing a lot of people, albeit through a computer screen, often that's the only acceptance these people are ever going to feel.
My first thought when I was suicidal was finding a person here...so I could get committed...or not. People are more willing, by nature, to discuss things and look for the help they need, if they don't have to be identified.
I did get real. I joined this forum to find people, and I have. It doesn't help everyone. Everyone is different, but if any of the recovery forums, inclusive to the one per the OP help a single person, it's well worth it.