Psychology of Demon Possession Cases

Many of us have watched movies such as “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 watching these in movies. But what about in real life?

common among a certain segment of society being 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 psychological problems, especially in ancient Christianity, were associated with demons entering them.

As such, religious rituals were constantly performed and there were religious symbols around them. After a while, all these rituals with fear triggering hallucinations Very normal.

For example, imagine you have serious psychological problems. Already constantly You are stressed and anxious. On top of that, things are being done for hours that will make you more stressed. After a while, it is quite natural that even when you see a cross, you will be triggered by it, it may look different to your eyes or cause hallucinations.

The vast majority of people we see in 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 inter-seizure period.

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

Multiple personality disorder can be interpreted as “being possessed by a demon/devil”.

Multiple personality disorder, also known as dissociative identity disorder, usually occurs after a panic attack or trauma as 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 and “Lucifer” or “evil spirit” it could be. The patient sees some phenomena taking shape in the brain as something that happened outside of himself.

It can be defined as being 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 bodies and emotions. Additionally, impairment of consciousness, memory, perception; It causes hallucinations and after a while the person may not 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 passing out by repeating the same thing in congregations before. They look as if something has entered them and they are in a trance, right? In the intensity of emotion they create, there is also rhythmic sound repetitions What else can happen when you get involved and everyone does 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 can even bind their bodies and hurt themselves with various objects, thinking that they are doing it to the devil. All that stress and hypnosis felt by the person lying there, to behave outside of themselves It may cause

It should not be forgotten that people who believe in situations such as “demon/jinn possession” are generally of low sociocultural, educational and economic status.

Of course, we do not say this to humiliate people of a certain status. For example, some of the rich people believe in family alignment, retro, astrology and curt nonsense. Similarly, some of the poor and low-educated people; Instead of choosing medicine and science, he resorts to exorcism rituals. Or they are not taken seriously by doctors in the public hospitals they go to, or inefficient examinations lasting a maximum of five minutes They don’t get any results.

Unfortunately, these desperate people are the ones who introduce themselves as “haji/hodja”. object of exploitation it becomes. Do you mean rapes under the name of “exorcism” behind closed doors, or pedophilia cases? We have seen examples of all of these many times before.

The study of the phenomenon of “demon possession” on a psychological level dates back to Freud.

Freud stated that people who are described as “possessed by demons” their suppressed impulses are revealed he was thinking. The “possession” was hysteria. In later studies, some scientists noted that the cases showed characteristics that allowed them to escape from an unpleasant living situation and reduce guilt by blaming it on an intruding demon.

Afterwards, the seizure cases were 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 in that ritual so much that when he feels better because of people’s efforts to help him, he becomes a kind of placebo effect He lives and is able to recover after the ritual.

To summarize, mental and spiritual disorders are generally attributed to the devil or demon, and unscientific methods are used. When these methods come together with the person’s spiritual and mental state, interesting rituals called “exorcism” emerge. One day modern medicine I hope it is accessible to everyone.

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