The Devil His Demons and Mental Health

I believe the devil and his army of demons play a role in the development of mental illness. I am a christian I believe in God Jesus and the bible. Yes I believe every word in the bible is fact. In my experience I have found there to be a correlation between satanic practices and the development of mental disorders.

Ephesians 6:12 "for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places"

Here Paul talks about the real war, the one that I believe we fight every second of the day whether we are aware of it or not. 1 Peter 5:8 "Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour". Here peter makes the bold claim that the devil is out there seeking to devour us and if we're not Watchful he will succeed. The devil hates us. Why? because God loves us and the devil hates God so he wants to destroy us in whatever way he can. One of the common tactics I believe the devil takes to inflict damage upon our lives is he assaults our minds. Think about it if you lose your mind if you lose you grip on reality, your out of the game. Therefore I believe the devil tries to assault our minds. I confess i do not know how this actually works, or what powers the devil has and what God allows him to do or not do. But through my experience of my own mental health struggles and other peole iv encountered in mental hospitals and in life it is clear too me that the devil plays a role in mental illness especially severe mental illness. The point I want to try to get across to you is that a lot of people who wind up mentally ill do not get there all on their own, i believe the devil plays a part in many people who wind up mentally ill, not ALL but many.

Let me first share my experience with the occult. When I was 21 I met a women and we fell in love and began dating. She had told me that she used to practice witchcraft and that she had cursed some people in her life and that when she did bad things happened too them. Its important for me to say that while I believe i was a saved christian at the time I was not living as a christian. I was living like a typical American. I didnt believe in demons or God or the devil. But at this point in my life i was becoming more open to the idea that there might be more to the universe than what we percieved. Anyway this women also told me she had visions and that some of the things she had seen wound up happening. One day I saw her have a vision, we were laying on a couch together and she was looking at me than all of the sudden she looked through me and I could tell something was happening too her. After it was over she told me she had a vision and i believed her. I say this to let you know that now at 21 years of age i was now open to the idea of visions and the supernatural.

Now its important to say that at this time in my life I was mentally stable. I had a job I had hobbies I was going to school and I was happy. Nobody thought I was mentally ill and i was functioning well if not thriving mentally. Howeve this relationship with this women turned sour and we broke up. It was at this time that i began to become very unwell. I was having trouble moving my body, I was in chronic pain and was diagnosed with two frozen shoulders. Frozen shoulders are when your shoulder joint becomes encapsulated with scar tissue and its very difficult to move your shoulders and you experience a lot of pain. I say this because it was at this time in my life that I was so desperate that I was willing to try and believe in anything that would help me get healthy again.

Spirit guides

It was at this time that I encounterd online what people called spirit guides. The websitesIi read said that we all had spirit guides that were assigned to us(kinda like guardian angels) and all we had to do was meditate and seek them out and they would guide us and helpe us in life. So I did and for the first time in my life I began to hear voices. However i wasnt frightened because I belived these voices were my spirit guides who want to help and guide me. They were very funny and one of them told me that they were the apostle peter and i belived him. Now I listened to these being(I never saw anything only heard their voices) for about 3 days before it became abundantly clear too me that these beings were trying to make me lose my mind. Now the websites I read said that if you wanted your spirit guides to go away all you had to do was ask them to leave you alone. So I did and the voices stopped. Now nobody knows that I heard voices or was seeking the helpe of spirit guides, I was isolating myself at this point in my life(one of the tactics I believe the devil uses is isolation). I believe now that spirit guides are demons and that I invited them into my life somehow, and they began to have an effect on my life. Again I dont know the particulars, I just believe that seeking spirit guides somehow opened a door for demons to impact my life. It was later (not sure when) that I read a post about a women who used to talk to spirit guides for decades and that she had visions and multiple supernatural experiences, , long story short her life fell apart and a chirstian friend told her that her spirit guides were not benevolent beings but actually demons in disguise. 2 corinthians 11:14-15 "And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of. righteousness".

Sun gazing

At some point not sure which came first the spirit guides or sun gazing but again led by desperation I came across a website that said staring into the sun at sunset and sunrise could heal any illness and give the indivdual supernatural powers. I thought the powers would be cool but was mainly focused on getting my physical health back. Your probably thinking who would stare into the sun?! are you a fool? your going to blind yourself! But this website explained that staring into the sun would not blind you but would heal you. So again I was desperate and ready to believe anything even supernatural things that most people would consider myths/fantasy/fiction. So i stared into the sun at sunrise 3 days straight. I immediately went manic (mania is having too much energy and not being able to calm down) my mind began to unravel and i begain to lose touch with reality. Also I began to think that demons were attacking me and that I needed to use my powers to burn them up in the sun. These 3 days went by in a blur and i couldnt tell you what I did other than hide from the light. Because i think my body relaized that staring into the sun was unhealthy and my body was trying to tell me it needed rest from being overstimulated (by ofcourse staring into the sun). Now very simliar to reading a post about spirit guides actually being demons I read a website about a man who him and his wife had cancer and they tried to heal cancer by staring into the sun. His wife died and he began to have demonic experiences and one day he told his christian friend that angels or something of the sort were interacting with him, his christian friend told him these beings were not of God and he concluded that they were demons. He also said on his website that staring into the sun was a sin and that it could open you up to the demonic. So i stopped staring into the sun but it is at this point that my mind began to unravel and i became very mentally ill. The next couple or few years went by in a blur and I had many demonic experiences, and my mental health deteriorated.

It is important to say that in the midst of all this chaos I had what I believe was a visit from God(I Will make another post about this experience in full) the result of this experience was believing that God was real Jesus was real and the bible was real and i immediately began studying the bible and taking my faith seriously. This experience changed my life forever and I believe without it I woudl never have survived all the chaos and mental struggles I experienced after engaing in these demonic activities.

Anyway my mental health continued to decline until i was hospitalized involuntarily and wound up medicated and diagnosed with schizophrenia, and, schizoaffective disorder. Schizoaffective disorder being my officlal diagnosis. After many years of battling with everything I had and the grace of God I am mostly stable and have had many victories over my mental illness. I have therapy once a week, see a psychiatrist once a month, and take powerful medications to manage my illness.

Now I say all this to say that before engaging in these occultic activites I was mostly a healthy functioning young man, however the immedaite result I can see looking back over all this chaos is that engaging in these occultic activites destroyed my mental health and led to years and years of suffering and just destruction of every aspect of my life. It is my belief that the devil and his demons played a role in me developing a mental illness and that anyone who enagages in occultic activities could open themselves up to the same pain and suffering i experienced. I can confidently say that the only reason I am still here is God's direct intervention. I am now a devout christian I love Jesus study the bible and attend church. I credit my faith in Jesus to saving my life and enabling me to have victory over all the mental torment I experienced.

So in summary I believe Occultic activites like seances, withcraft, sun worship, demon worship, any form of idolatry(worshiping anything other than God) can lead to opening doors to the devil to run rampant in your life. I have heard and read so many experiences similar to mine where someone engaged in an occult activity and wound up developing mental illness. So please believe me when I say God is real, Jesus is real, the bible is real, and the devil is real and he wants to desroy your life. However it is my belief that the devil and his demons can be overcome by Jesus. On your own you don't stand a chance but with God on your side your victory is secured. So if you've engaged in occult activities and my post has opened your eyes to the truth please know this Jesus died on the cross for our sins in order to reconcile us to God the father. Romans 10:9-10 says "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Belieivng Jesus is who he says he is (the son of God) grants one eternal life and secures you a future in heaven. However if your reading this and don't believe Jesus is the son of God and that he died for your sins, when you die you will go to hell and suffer for all eternity. But if you believe in Jesus you will live forever in heaven with God and Jesus. believing in Jesus is the key to victory over the devil and his demons and death itself.

But to be clear I believe mental illness can exist without demonic intervention(you can't just blame everything on demons, we are all responsible for our decisions)and even if demons caused the mental illness it doesnt mean that you shouldn't seek treatment. Anyone with a mental illness should seek treatment from a doctor. In other words how the mental illness came too be doesn't change the fact that medication and doctor supervision may be needed