Setanta wrote:No one here is qualified to diagnose you Jenniejen. My personal and not entirely uninformed opinion is that there is nothing wrong with you. What i wrote earlier i perhaps made too complicated for such a simple matter. I was saying that your experience is a common one. It is only because you thought your vision might be real that you became alarmed.
So, let me reinforce this: what you experienced was common and normal, it doesn't mean you're crazy, and it also doesn't mean you actually saw hell.
Chai Tea should be ashamed for that series of tendentious questions, they were really inappropriate.
Sentena - you have GOT to be kidding.
It would be really nice if you were to actually read what I wrote.
I was doing something called "asking a question"
The above line is someting called "sarcasm"
"your personal and not entirley uniformed opinion"......
First you state no one (I'm paraphrasing) on this thread is qualified to give a diagnosis.....then you go about giving your opinion "read diagnosis" that nothing is wrong with her.
Are you a pychologist? Phychiatrist? What makes your opinion more informed than mine?
I was not even giving an opinion - I was information gathering - My prefered method of formulating an INformed opinion.
I was not tending toward a diagnosis of mental illness.
It is reasonable to ask someone who is seeing/hearing things others aren't such questions so as to ascertain is what the person experiencing is due to an actual relegious experience, a mental disorder, a side effect of drugs, or a myriad of other possibilities.
I suppose you also didn't read the lines I wrote below it expressing that some people view these visions as a relegious experience, others as seeing another plane of existance, others as a medical condition.
I noticied you didn't mind jumping all over the mental disorder part of my questions - Ignoring my other stated possibilities.
In MY somewhat informed opinion having visions should not automatically be viewed from a relegious perspective. There are just too many other possibilties and I was attempting to narrow it down
Sorry Sentana if seeking information is so offensive to you. In the future I'll be sure to confer with you before posing any questions.
Ashamed? Of what? Trying to delve a little deeper as to why a almost complete stranger is seeing multilated people and hearing sounds from hell?
Oh - and Neo? You're so quick to agree with Sentana being the local thought police, then you turn around and ask about if ms jenniejen diddles with tarot cards.
How inappropriate of BOTH of you.
Oh - and Jenniej - I'm fine - what was happening to me was a chemical inbalance in my brain - No problems for years. I was simply giving an example -Trying to build up the old empathy angle, you know, letting you know you're not alone.....
Is that OK with you Sentana - I mean, trying to identify with her? Don't want to be inappropriate again.
BTW - I have a bachlors degree in accounting & business, and a masters in social work that I acheived later in life while working in the business end of the medical field.
prefered not to pursue the SW angle as my pragmatic side proved stronger.