Messages By: justweird

I think it might work for some cases. For example, the guy thinking he is cursed because he keeps getting in car accidents. Well, duh!  There is a difference between self-fulfilling prophesy like that, and true curses, which I absolutely believe are real. I suppose that a person would have to experience some things in order to believe in them.  Like seeing ghosts. Okay, who knows what ghosts really are - are they demons, are they spirits of people who have died, are they imprints of historical events, or are they curses? I don't know  which is the answer, but I do know that there is SOMETHING to the paranormal (which would include curses).   

  

People in general just don't get it, and churches especially don't get it. I've been throuh exorcisms myself, which only served to make matters worse because the churches don't recognise the reality of MPD, so they essentially tried casting out parts of me - and that made me worse.  There has got to be a balance somewhere. People who know where the psychological ends and the supernatural begins. There is a line there somewhere. 

No. My therapist does not use hypnotherapy. I am not cocoscious- which means that I have no memory or awareness of what happens when one of them is functioning. I just lose time.  This is kind of off topic for this thread, though. I brought it up mostly to explain why churches fail when trying to deal with the curses part of this. They treat me like I am demon posessed - no more, no less.   And the psych world...well they don't look at the possibility of the supernatural. Bring it up to them, and they think you are hallucinating. Both directions to go for help are polar opposites when it comes to how to handle it. When I think that the answer is somewhere in the middle.  I don't think it is all or nothing...either 100% psychological OR 100% spiritual. People have physical, emotional AND spiritual needs. Getting shrinks to work together with the churches to meet those needs - that is the challenge. People can have problems in more than one area at the same time!

My son is a hoarder.   We couldn't figure it out, but  it turned out that it was just a symptom of another problem - - he was diagnosed with obsesive compulsive disorder.  On the surface, that doesn't seem to make much sense because you'd think that a person with OCD would be perfectly tidy all the time.  That isn't always true!  

  

It turns out that perfectionism taken to the extreme can lead to chaos. If the person can't obtain perfection they just totally lose control and give up and don't even try. Well, it is more complicated than that, but in a nutshell, it becomes an obsession. Just do a google search for "Obsessive compulsive disorder and hoarding" and you can find a lot of information about it. OCD is caused by a chemical imbalance and can be improved with medication and therapy.  

  

The other posters who said that just carting away the junk wont help are absolutely correct. I used to try to "help" my son by cleaning out his room. But the stuff just piled up again afterwards. I didn't understand it and would be so frustrated with him. It was actually a relief to learn that he wasn't choosing it - that there was a medical reason for his behavior. He is doing MUCH better now but it is taking time.