Category Archives: delusions
Are There Benefits to Being Bipolar?
Originally Published on July 20, 2010 in “Psychology Today” Let me start by acknowledging what is well known: Manic Depression or Bipolar disorder can be a devastating illness. Affecting at least 1% of the population, it can, untreated, result in suicide, ruined careers and devastated families. Bipolar disorder is often accompanied by alcohol and drug [...]
Give Us This Day, Our Daily Meds
My particular issue is with Bipolar 1, with psychotic features. I have social anxiety which factors in as well as weird delusions. The anxiety and delusions are pretty much one and the same. They are often the things that will touch other people, while the rest is less obtrusive and can be hidden. I have [...]
Delusions Understood (Sort Of)
by Bryan Lowe I need to briefly share what delusions are like. I’m going to flip the switch and flood the room with light, and watch the “critters” scuttle to find a hiding place. I’m doing this to help heal myself, and for you to understand this awful state of mind. First of all–definitions. Delusion [...]
I Guess It’s Time for Meds: Funny Pic
Just a little something to lighten your day. Hope all is well and if you’d like prayer for anything please let me know. Related articles Prayer Request (sharinhislove.wordpress.com)
A Day in the Life of a Mentally Ill Patient
6:30 am. ”Rise and shine,” but you simply just live and walk , in this kind of a desperate fog, Simply put, ‘there will be no sunshine for you today.’ But, which only just seems to really matter to us, who have no hope. You exchange brief greetings with your roommate, which only just seems proper, even at this level. [...]
Shedding Self Importance
Shortly after Lynn and I were accepted by KBCC to be their senior pastor we traveled to California to be with family for a few weeks. On our return to Alaska we drove from Anchorage to our home in Homer on the Kenai Peninsula. I could hardly wait to jump in and be a pastor. As we drove [...]
That Delusional Shore
I need to be honest and forthcoming. Life has been…let’s say…interesting ….the last two weeks. I have been struggling a great deal with delusions and paranoia, two big issues that are part of my mental illness. Maybe I over-think these things? But spiritually, I am growing. My prayer life and time with the Word has been very [...]
Saddened by My Fallenness
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matt. 5:4, ESV Scripture never flatters the human heart. It acts on us directly, “dividing the spirit from the soul.” I find no glowing review of our common humanity, nothing leads me to draw any other conclusion. At our deepest essence, we are depraved, [...]
A Crash Course in Depersonalization
Depersonalization is like having amnesia. You don’t know who you are, you’ve “lost” yourself– your identity or your personality. You try to jump-start yourself. You pray, make deals with God, but it doesn’t help. You are stuck. There is a pervading feeling, like doom. It saturates your thinking, flavoring everything with a sense of finality. [...]