#Psychosis and Faith

[unstablemotions]

people: you need to get an official diagnosis from a psychiatrist!!!

psychiatrists: *misdiagnosed me with different things like +4 times and filled me with unnecessary medicine*

[izzyspussy]

i think a lot of people have never been in a truly desperate situation but think they have, and this causes them to pass really harsh judgment on people who made bad choices when either irrational or having no good choices to pick instead, and i really wish people could get some fucking self-perception and work on their compassion skills and not fucking do that as much anymore

[la0hu]

flipping absolute shit right now for so many many reasons. most prominently bc my friend is tripping for far too long on LSD and i'm scared she's actually having a psychotic break but im four hours away in rural connecticut supposed to be on vacation and almost no one at bramble is stepping up to help out with her and it's like what's the fucking point of living in community if they don't step up to the fucking plate when someone's having a medical emergency?? and me and harry are somehow supposed to make judgment calls about whether she goes to the ER and possibly a psych ward and we're ALSO supposed to rally more people to help trip sit, and keep track of the whole situation even though we're literally not physically there and cannot be physically there, in my case until tmrw afternoon and in harry's case not at all, and no one else is stepping in to offer to watch her, or to be on call if ppl need help in the middle of the night, and all harry and i can do is message everyone frantically and hope the few people who are committing to being there for her have enough energy to last this crisis... like actually fuck everyone

[recents]

the backstory short story about anders he fuses with justice, immediately starts hallucinating the grey wardens as templars and literally eats them alive then snaps out of it like “omg im a demon now nooooooo” like he doesn’t even get that bad in the game itself what the fuck? EATING PEOPLE? 😭 but also i’m imagining him stone cold biting people when he’s fighting like a fucking feral raccooooon 😭 😭😭

[slutdge]

does the term "neurospicy" make anyone else wanna fucking kill themselves

[atlee03]

Hi c: . My name is Ally Cat and I just turned 21. I was diagnosed bipolar 1 with psychotic features a week ago. My second episode of psychotic mania landed me in a partial hospitalization program. I experienced horrific bursts of energy and hallucinations.. This account is my art journal. This is where I let it out — My pain. And my Hope.

† 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

[shiroikabocha]

Where’s that “the right thing to do is not say anything… and you didn’t say anything! congratulations!” sticker

because I want one

[ame-in-the-rain]

[alonelyoperator]

[staring at myself in a mirror, gripping the sink so hard it shatters] we stay silly we stay silly we stay silly

[dawnedon]

"God is not benevolent. God does not love us. All that has been spoken of and preached about is a lie."

[carrie-kelley-deserved-better]

Shifting is a new age belief prevalent on tiktok that you can psychically astral project into an alternate or even fictional universe. There was recently some huge drama with a shifter accidentally killing a fictional character during a shift and other members of the community trying to convince them that it was morally the same as killing a human being.

Since uh, self hypnotizing so hard you hallucinate an entirely separate universe is difficult, it's pretty common for people to ask 'more experienced shifters' for advice which is what that comment is about.

[childofthewolvess]

No matter what kind of spirituality or faith you practice, you should be educated on spiritual psychosis and how to recognize its signs. The more awareness we spread about this, the less harm over time to religious communities across the globe. Learning about spiritual psychosis saves lives.

[mourninglamby]

for the ctommy asks, how do you feel about religious ctommy headcanons or the headcanon where butterflies follow him around because they like dead things?

I adore both of these headcanons a lot bc 1. It’s literally canon and 2. The Beauty in the Rot (OBSESSED!!!)

I think Tommy’s faith (twitch prime) is so interesting as both a comfort and a detriment at times… he worships and is blessed by patron saint drista with the sacred dagger to hunt those who hunt him and I am deeply gagged by that (they don’t know what they did) (I love psychosis but also I’m right). With the addition of cdream being religious as well…fucking insaneeeeeeee asylum. Insane. He uses his faith to get what he wants and justify torment or bond tommy to him even more than he already has 🙏☝️+ the whole I’m A God thing. BRUHHHH HIS SACRILEGE WILL KNOW NO PUNISHMENT IG 😭😭😭😭 sorry this became a c!disc ramble

[dappercritter]

You want some help with that, my dude?

[loemius]

here’s my hot take of the night:

the e-temples that have been cropping up lately are cool, and im glad to see people making specific spaces to come together to worship. that’s awesome! i’m very here for that as a concept. i love nothing more than to see the theoi get the praise they deserve.

that being said, i am very wary about the amount of people i have seen calling themselves priests/priestesses lately. not even just in the e-temples! ive seen multiple people in the tags who have in their bio “priest(ess) of [deity].” i realize most people probably don’t mean harm by it, but it gets under my skin. to call yourself clergy implies a specific level of knowledge and experience with a religion (which isn’t my business to get involved in your praxis like that, that’s personal unless you wanna share it), but more importantly, official recognition by an established institution. there are not that many of these (that i am aware of) for hellenic polytheism. calling yourself clergy is simply that — calling yourself that. there’s no backing for it, and it genuinely concerns me.

we as the polytheist community talk a lot about harmful practices in spirituality, things like spiritual psychosis or cultural appropriation, which are important topics to discuss. it’s been said before and i’ll say again — people claiming to be spiritual authorities of some kind without any kind of proof can be very dangerous. i don’t assume anyone has bad intentions. i give people the benefit of the doubt and assume that everyone is just trying to help other people worship. but it doesn’t change the fact that calling yourself a priest(ess) will make impressionable or unsure people look up to you, and that is a hell of a lot of responsibility. i am concerned that there are minors running these kinds of blogs. that’s a lot of pressure on someone’s shoulders, especially to put on someone who is still growing up and developing their research and critical thinking skills. i don’t want to gatekeep or anything like that. im very glad to see minors having really good experiences with their faith, that they’re excited to share it with others. but it just concerns me.

im certainly not as experienced as other practitioners on this site, having had about two years of experience at this point, but i am very wary of anyone who claims to be any kind of authority on anything unless you can back it up. regardless of if your blog says that you’re not an authority, calling yourself clergy of any kind implies that. people will take it that way. it inherently implies a level of authority, knowledge, and experience on a particular subject, which is usually backed up by having an official institution that recognizes you.

perhaps this is a little callous of me, but in the same way that when someone makes a claim about the theoi academically, i expect them to have sources to prove it, i expect clergy to have some kind of proof of their authority. otherwise, what are you doing that’s different than any other tumblr blog?

to be clear, i don’t have an issue with these devotional spaces. i simply take an issue with people referring to themselves as clergy when that is a particular term with a particular context and a particular implication. words have power. i earnestly think if people just called themselves something like ‘stewards’ of a particular temple, i wouldn’t be so bothered by it. or just call yourself a devotee of a particular god. ultimately, at the end of the day, the words we use have power and implications, and that has to be acknowledged and respected. send tweet