Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder

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You quote a report which says this about your religious experience;

"The connection between religiousness and psychosis has been verified historically. In the early times of psychiatry, Phillipe Pinel stated that religious fanatacism may be a causative factor of madness and that mad people should be deprived of the symbols and practices of their religion and taught philosophical and historical knowledge. Emil Kraepelin registered the very frequent presence of mystical and religious content in his psychotic patients,"

Did you sign up to this site in hope of therapy?

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I started my own thread along these lines last year. I am in therapy myself and vocational rehab. I should be in outpatioent substance abuse treatment except for my stubborn enjoyment of bourbon, lol.
My mother turned to pentecostalism after my brother died of pneumonia; there was an epidemic in northern IL in 1968. He was six months old. Much of my dislike of religion comes from the way less than scrupulous preachers prey on the already emotionally wounded. Then, so it seems, their wounds are not only made worse, but in some cases held over their heads so the amoral f*cks can feel superior. She eventually left that church because she was ashamed of herself for still smoking cigarettes. That holy book was designed to screw you up, IMO.
/soapbox