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- Aug 18, 2020
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Here is a very interesting wikipedia article on the (in)sanity of the historical Jesus Christ.
I don't want to hurt religious feelings but I think the question should be allowed to be asked.
I had psychosis and I was delusional. I have met a guy in a clinic for psychosis he had religious delusions. I think either he considered himself a prophet or Jesus Christ himself. The ironic thing is he said something similar like. "Look to how insane people they put me. All these crazy people." It is interesting many (not all) psychotic people can judge whether another person is delusional or not. (At least in real life on the internet that is way more difficult.) But making this judgement of your own mind is very difficult when you are delusional yourself. (due to inter-subjectivity)
In the bible many people are described who hear voices. They think God would talk to them. They feel like they were on a religious mission (like the guy who I met).
Or people think they were posssed by demons. Psychiatrists would nowadays probably give the diagnosis psychosis/schizophrenia/bipolar or a similar diagnosis.
However I am no expert on it. Maybe magical and spiritual thinking was more widespread to that time. Way more people believed in God, afterlife etc at that time. Not all of these people were just mentally ill I assume.
What do you think?
Mental health of Jesus - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I don't want to hurt religious feelings but I think the question should be allowed to be asked.
I had psychosis and I was delusional. I have met a guy in a clinic for psychosis he had religious delusions. I think either he considered himself a prophet or Jesus Christ himself. The ironic thing is he said something similar like. "Look to how insane people they put me. All these crazy people." It is interesting many (not all) psychotic people can judge whether another person is delusional or not. (At least in real life on the internet that is way more difficult.) But making this judgement of your own mind is very difficult when you are delusional yourself. (due to inter-subjectivity)
In the bible many people are described who hear voices. They think God would talk to them. They feel like they were on a religious mission (like the guy who I met).
Or people think they were posssed by demons. Psychiatrists would nowadays probably give the diagnosis psychosis/schizophrenia/bipolar or a similar diagnosis.
However I am no expert on it. Maybe magical and spiritual thinking was more widespread to that time. Way more people believed in God, afterlife etc at that time. Not all of these people were just mentally ill I assume.
What do you think?