Schizophrenia: Chemical Imbalance or Entity Possession?

The true cause of schizophrenia is unknown, though most consider it a dopamine deficiency that occurs for a variety of reasons. Then there are those who are sure schizophrenia is a psychic gift, or clearly, entity possession. Let's take a look at some of the theories.

I've always thought schizophrenia was caused by a chemical imbalance - a lack of adequate dopamine. Recently I wrote a report on Diabetes and Schizophrenia citing a 2010 research project article that proves that in some cases insulin deprivation results in a disturbance in dopamine levels. (Not trying to scare anyone - I know not all diabetics will become schizophrenics, and not all schizophrenics are diabetic!)

My interest in the link between diabetes and schizophrenia comes from living with a friend who had both.

Usually the recommended treatment for schizophrenia is to take medication such as Risperdal. This is what my friend did after living with me for a very unhappy/wild six months. He's still using it, ten years later.

If you had asked me about entity possession 5 years ago I would have scoffed at the thought. I am one who believes there's a God but no devil. However a friend talked me into reading a couple books about entity possession. (Different friend, not the diabetic-schizophrenic friend.)

The first book I read was a classic: The Unquiet Dead: A Psychologist Treats Spirit Possession by Edith Fiore. She gave a convincing explanation of what spirit possession is, how it happens, how to protect oneself from it, and how to depossess oneself of entities.

I believe in the supernatural, in part, because of my own experience of having a poltergeist in an old trailer park back in 1984. After two excessively strange incidents I mentioned the poltergeist activity to a long-time tenant of the property and learned that the section of the trailer park that I was on was at one time used as a cemetery. "They dug up all the graves and moved them when they built a school here back in the thirties," he told me. Yeah, right. No wonder there were so many oblong indentations in the ground fifty years later.

Because I already believed in ghosts, it wasn't a far cry for me to start believing in entity possession. It all sounded so reasonable, the way Edith Fiore explained it.

Next I read Entity Possession: Freeing the Energy Body of Negative Influences by Samuel Sagan M.D. - director of the Clairvision School based in Sydney, Australia. His book looked at entity fragments and gave numerous examples of people whose lives were affected by them. In part, it read like an advertisement to get people into the school. Rather than giving clear instructions on how to depossess, the solution was to go to Australia and enroll in expensive courses. That was out of my price range. Interesting book, none-the-less!

So when I saw this video yesterday, I knew what the woman was suggesting, and feel there's a possibility she's right. If the woman is skilled at entity depossession, she may be able to help schizophrenics. Still, I'd hesitate to tell a schizophrenic to toss away the Risperdal and get depossessed.

First, the video:

She was responding to the much-publicized condition of January Schofield:

Since I've lived with a man who had schizophrenia, I'd never advise a schizophrenic to go off medication. What I went through before my friend accepted medical help was frightening on many levels. I was frightened for myself, my possessions, and of course, for him. Our friendship had no hope of lasting until he started using Risperdal. There were mood swings, wild imaginings, destruction of property, and rages. All things I couldn't live with... but they ended soon after the Risperdal was prescribed and used.

Once a schizophrenic stops taking medication it is very hard to convince him that he needs it and should start taking it again. He (or she) will again feel "normal" yet do things everyone else interprets as insane.

One of the theories I've heard over the years from a variety of sources is, "I think schizophrenics are psychically gifted and can see things that are really there that most of us can't see." Well, that might be, but considering the insane and destructive actions that go with this, the obsession over religion, and the rages, I still think they should be medicated even though in theory I'm not a fan of the pharmaceutical industry, and am researching natural remedies to replace meds; thus, I own this website. Though I'm anti-meds in general, I'm very cautious for both myself and others (especially others) and believe there's some conditions that shouldn't be experimented with. Schizophrenia is one of them. Diabetes is another.

Last month I heard from a mutual friend who still has contact with him that she's convinced her schizophrenic husband to go off his medication, to use medical marijuana instead. I don't know if this is effective or detrimental to schizophrenics and plan to do some research on the matter. What terrified me is that she told me she was trying to convince my friend to stop using meds too. She said so far he'd refused to stop using Risperdal. I can only hope that continues; I'm one of the few people in town who knows what he's like when he's not using it.

I believe his mental condition came to be due to insulin deprivation when he was much younger. (Severe diabetes, untreated.)

So far as I'm concerned, the jury is out regarding entity possession and schizophrenia. This may be valid for some schizophrenics but not for others. I would love to know what the woman in the video above proposes to do to depossess a schizophrenic. I'd like to see it work. I'm not 100% skeptical as I'm sure many of my readers are. I have experimented with entity depossession for myself and others, and found it fascinating and valid. But . . . I would never tell a schizophrenic to quit using medication while I depossessed him. I'm just not up to that and believe there are too many variables to be advising against medial treatments. (And of course, I'm not a doctor and not qualified to do so for any ailment of any kind.)

The grandfather of entity depossession, Carl Wickland, M.D., wrote:

“Lacking physical bodies through which to carry out earthly propensitites many discarnated intelligences are attracted to the magnetic light which emanates from mortals, and, consciously or unconsciously, attach themselves to these magnetic auras, finding an avenue of expression through influencing, obsessing, or possessing human beings. Such obtruding spirits influence susceptible sensitivities with their thoughts, impart their own emotions to them, weaken their will power and often control their actions, producing great distress, mental confusion and suffering."
- Carl Wickland, Thirty Years Among the Dead, page 5.

This, I believe is true. I've read about it in other books as well. I've had my own experiences with discarnate energies and entities. So, I believe the process of entity removal is worth trying, and hope January's parents and others with schizophrenia will consider it.