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Epilepsy and Demonic Possession...or something of the sort

Tue, 06/24/2008 - 16:43

Has anyone had problems with religious family members whipping out Mark 9 (the chapter where Jesus heals a boy who apparently is having seizures of some sort), then declaring that you must have demons in you, or you have spiritual unrest, or are somehow "not right" with God?

My father did that to me recently. When he started talking about it, I was afraid he was going to try an exorcism on me right then and there. But he didn't - he just prayed. Ever since then he's been pushing me to talk to my minister about my alleged spiritual unrest. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to do that - soon we'll have a new minister and I can just see me going in on his first day on the job and saying, "O hi, sometimes I wake up at night with a yell and then I shake. Can you help me? I must not be right with God."  The poor minister would probably put a request in for a transfer that same day.

I mean, I do have Demons. I really do. And I have Crime and Punishment and The Idiot and Brothers Karamazov and most of Dostoevsky's works. (Sorry - had to get a book nerd joke in there.)

Seriously, I thank this very same Deity (with whom I am supposedly not right) that I'm an adult and live a few states away from my father. But this still bothers me because I have to deal with my father's pestering me to talk to the minister. Truly, I think it goes beyond just a religious matter and it's more a question of my father's sanity.

So has anyone else dealt with this demons issue?

Comments

Re: Epilepsy and Demonic Possession...or something of the sort

Submitted by Philjj on Thu, 2011-02-10 - 05:45
I doubt your a bad person and I know I'm late to this subject.  I'd imagine and I'm just guessing that it can be an either or thing demons or medical.  I just had for the first time in my life what was just like a seizure waking from a dream.  I've done some very apostate things lately.  I have real actual demons that I'm getting rid of.  Litterly demons.  And this dream I was about to meet Jesus before I woke up what woke me up was this black evil thing thats been moving around in me sometimes choking me sometimes just kinda resting or moving around my head and as it nearly came out as I was waking up I was shaking violently.  It was just this whole seperate thing that left my back and held on to my neck and head and was flapping around and I was shaking.  As I said I did something to deserve this demon anything not from the bible to get rid of demons seems to fail from what I've seen.  But I'm sure almost all people who are diagnosed by a doctor probably have something neurological as I've been praying and trying to get rid of this I've often has  little ticks and stuff.  I feel for anybody with any serious medical condition controled or not.  BUT I can assure you there is the case where you can have demons inside of you.  God bless.

Asalamu Alaikum! Ur the first

Submitted by Ididm on Sat, 2020-02-08 - 17:24
Asalamu Alaikum! Ur the first muslim I've come across on an Epilpesy forum! Are you aware of The Medicine of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him). It categorieses epilepsy /seizures in the same 2 ways current medicine does today. 1 being Tonic, physiological, 2 being Focal see hear touch taste smell something that isn't there. My 7 daughter yr old hears and sees. She shouts and screams and has been physical, but Thank God! She has no recollection of anything that has occured. I wonder if over time she will be aware? She's had a spike recently and doctors are investigating and trying different meds. Nothing has worked as of yet.

Re: Epilepsy and Demonic Possession...or something of the sort

Submitted by starinajar on Wed, 2009-01-07 - 23:01

I can't imagine how that must feel.... going to church and having everyone, parents included, tell you that you're possessed or evil in some way.

I had my first seizure a day before my 14th birthday, and when I was diagnosed with epilepsy a year later after I had another seizure, my mom would tell me not to tell my friends or anything. I'm 20 now. My family accepts what I have, and tried to guard me against the stigmas about epilepsy that at the time, I knew nothing about. I think there is a small family history of seizures on my mom's side... one of her sisters had them.

My family and I are Muslims, and my mom is Indian, but never did they ever imply that I was insane or possessed in any way. I guess it's something you can really be thankful for, having parents that work in scientifically-related fields, because they will not be ignorant when it comes to illnesses that are gravely misunderstood. 

Anyways, that's my story. The only way you can show others that there is nothing to be feared from epilepsy is to educate them about it. But then again, whether or not they choose to believe is their choice... 

 

 

I can't imagine how that must feel.... going to church and having everyone, parents included, tell you that you're possessed or evil in some way.

I had my first seizure a day before my 14th birthday, and when I was diagnosed with epilepsy a year later after I had another seizure, my mom would tell me not to tell my friends or anything. I'm 20 now. My family accepts what I have, and tried to guard me against the stigmas about epilepsy that at the time, I knew nothing about. I think there is a small family history of seizures on my mom's side... one of her sisters had them.

My family and I are Muslims, and my mom is Indian, but never did they ever imply that I was insane or possessed in any way. I guess it's something you can really be thankful for, having parents that work in scientifically-related fields, because they will not be ignorant when it comes to illnesses that are gravely misunderstood. 

Anyways, that's my story. The only way you can show others that there is nothing to be feared from epilepsy is to educate them about it. But then again, whether or not they choose to believe is their choice... 

 

 

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