Many of us have seen films like ‘Exorcist’, ‘Anabelle’, ‘The Conjuring’. One of the common features of all of them is people possessed by demons and exorcisms. Yes, we are used to seeing these in movies. But what about in real life?

is common in a certain segment of society to be possessed by a demon or demon or there are a number of psychological and mental conditions that are the unknown face of demon/exorcism rituals. If you’re ready to learn, let’s get started.

People with mental health problems, especially in ancient Christianity, were associated with demons entering their homes.

As such, religious rituals were constantly being performed and there were religious symbols around them. After a while, all these rituals are accompanied by fear cause hallucinations Very normal.

For example, imagine that you have serious psychological problems. All the time You are stressed and anxious. Moreover, doing things for hours makes you even more stressed. It is very normal that even if you see a cross, after a while you are triggered by it, it can look different in your eyes or cause hallucinations.

The vast majority of people we see during exorcism rituals have mental and psychological problems.

It causes the body to tremble and contract due to the uncontrolled movement of neurons in the temporal lobe. temporal lobe epilepsy; It can cause patients to experience many cognitive, emotional and behavioral problems during the period between attacks.

The crisis experienced by people who are supposedly possessed by demons or demons in the rituals we see in those films or videos. epilepsy/epilepsy crisis You may have noticed how similar it is to . Even if you haven’t noticed it yet, now that you think about it, you’ll agree.

Multiple personality disorder can be interpreted as ‘being possessed by a demon/devil’.

Multiple personality disorder, also called dissociative identity disorder, usually occurs after a panic attack or trauma, because the brain automatically protects itself. People have two or more personalities that are independent of each other. These personalities can control the patient’s behavior ‘Lucifer’ or ‘evil spirit’ it could be. The patient sees that some phenomena in the brain take shape as something happening outside himself.

It can be defined as possessed by the devil or possessed by a demon in different cultures. Because people with multiple personality disorder, as their illness progresses, They have difficulty controlling their body and emotions. Furthermore, impairment of consciousness, memory, perception; It causes hallucinations and after a while the person may no longer be able to distinguish between what is real and what is not.

Patients are hypnotized.

Rhythmically recited prayers, hymns, movements; It can put patients into a kind of hypnosis. You may have come across images of dozens of people fainting by repeating the same thing in congregations before. They look like something has entered them and they’re in a trance, right? There is also the intensity of the emotions they create rhythmic sound repetitions What else can happen if you get involved and everyone is doing the same thing at the same time?

In some exorcism rituals, they read the same prayers to the patient, say the same words, and do the same movements, sometimes for hours. They may even tie up their bodies and hurt themselves with various objects, thinking that they are doing this to the devil. All that stress and hypnosis that the person lying there feels, behave outside of themselves It can cause

We should not forget that people who believe in situations such as ‘demon/jinn possession’ generally have low socio-cultural, educational and economic status.

Obviously we don’t say this to humiliate people with a certain status. For example, some rich people believe in family reconciliation, retro, astrology and short nonsense. The same goes for some poor and poorly educated people; Instead of opting for medicine and science, he resorts to exorcism rituals. Either they are not taken seriously by the doctors in the public hospitals they go to, or inefficient exams of a maximum of five minutes They don’t get results.

Unfortunately, it is these desperate people who introduce themselves as “haji/hodja”. object of exploitation it will be. Do you mean rapes called ‘exorcism’ behind closed doors, or cases of pedophilia? We’ve seen examples of this before.

The study of the phenomenon of ‘demon possession’ at a psychological level goes back to Freud.

Freud stated that people described as ‘possessed by demons’ their repressed impulses are revealed he thought. The ‘possession’ was hysteria. In later research, some scientists noted that the cases showed characteristics that allowed them to escape from an unpleasant living situation and reduce their feelings of guilt by blaming an invading demon.

The seizure cases were then interpreted according to object relations theory. Objects that arise from the introjection or imagination of one or both parents, It could be experienced as ‘demonic’.

Patients can actually be healed after these rituals.

No, the entities that supposedly enter people after exorcism rituals do not escape. However, the patient believes so strongly in that ritual that when he feels better thanks to the efforts of people to help him, he becomes a kind of slave. Placebo effect He is alive and can recover after the ritual.

In summary, mental and spiritual disorders are generally attributed to the devil or demon, and unscientific methods are used. When these methods come together with the spiritual and mental state of the person, interesting rituals are created called ‘exorcism’. One day modern medicine I hope it is accessible to everyone.

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