11. If When

If when you feel the insidious onset of your illness you feel you're losing your grasp on life, that may not be the case. Even if it seems like you're throwing your life away,  you aren't. You're shedding your old life for a far better one up ahead.  First, you will have to endure years of severe mental pain.

You may experience high levels of physical discomfort.  You may have audio hallucinations (often called "voices"), delusions, fears, and/or paranoia.  As long as you are growing, and preparing the beliefs you will need for your healing, you will continue to grow.  Take action through therapy if needed.  It is often useful when looking towards a life of healing and possibility.  You'll find that God will open doors, and create circumstances for you to move you in the direction of the life you want. 

It's important to set your sights high enough to get off of SSI, and away from government support. A healed mind will no longer need these supports. God gives each of us a gift to use to support ourselves in the world.   For the mind to become sound, abundant creativity, and prosperous in thought, we must support ourselves.

We must find a vocation which allows us to fully use our minds. We must use our minds to create a way of life where we support ourselves.

10. Fantasies

 

Fantasies can keep our minds pleasantly occupied when we are housebound due to the paranoia that accompanies our illness. Fantasizing about having lots of money and what you could do with it can fill up hours of our day giving us something to do when we are home.  It helps when surviving and managing the voices we hear in our heads. We can wake in the morning and look forward to our fantasies, and the hours we spend with them. Fantasizing gives structure to part of the day.

9. Even

Even in the midst of strong suicidal mental pain, even when you're hearing voices, you have the ability to choose what to do. You can change your thoughts. You can choose new ways of thinking. 

Sometimes a change in thinking is made possible by a change in medication, or your living environment. In order to survive the severe psychic pain of mental illness,  you must develop a way to live from moment to moment. That is often what you're already doing when you live with strong, severe mental pain.  You must not do anything to hurt yourself.

8. You Will

 You will get a second chance. The dreams that didn't, or couldn't, come true due to your illness, aren't lost. They can be recovered.  As you come farther up the road you will get another chance to make your dreams come true. 

The years you spent overcoming mental illness prepared you. They readied you to respond to the next chance you'll receive. You won't miss this opportunity. You're equipped to take action and pursue what you want.

7. Mental Illness Three

Mental illness is mental giftedness. It is actually a mental gift in a terrible state of development. The process of transforming the illness into a useful gift can be a long one.  It may even take years. 

One must pass through life's hell to come to this heavenly new mind, and the wondrous life possible with it. It is worth the pain, and fear, and years of paranoia that you must endure to come to it. 

God is with you even if you have no sense of His presence.  He is with you through your illness, He is with you, and will bring you to the places you need to be to receive this new mind.  It is a mind like Christ's, creative, and capable of sound thought.  It can create any good, or great life you desire.

Transforming the ill mind to a new one is difficult.  It requires mental effort, and you may need many years of preparation in the areas of thinking and belief where your mind is concerned. It can be done, and its worth any distance you must travel for the prize of mental soundness, and health.

6. Mental Illness Two

Mental illness is the only gift God could give with the transformative power to help you become what you deep down inside most want to be in life.  You must travel a long, painful road to discover this gift.  You must never give up pursuing what you most want to be in life even if its  buried inside you, and long forgotten.  God wants you to remember.  He is waiting to help you achieve. 

You must believe when others won't.  You must be willing to work for what is important to you with both your mind and body. For hidden in work is the power to become a new creation. One with a sound, fit mind, and the ability to co-create life with God.

Healing is possible even if Jesus has gone on ahead to hold the gates to heaven open.  Because He showed us all infirmities can heal, we can heal.  It is forever established that your mind, no matter how sick,  can get better.  It can become new and sound again. 

Nothing can stop your healing if you believe you will heal. If you are willing to persevere without giving up.  You must be willing to learn new ways of thinking.  You must work to create a new life outside you. The journey to a new mind and life is possible.

5. Medications

 Medications  make it possible for the formation of new pathways of thought.  They impart, and enable, structural changes in the brain's chemistry.  New pathways can lead to new thought processes and belief systems in new realms of the mind.  It becomes possible to transform your mind and find soundness that wasn't there before. 

The healing of a schizo-affective mind depends, in large part, on the person seeking healing. A medication that makes a positive impact on brain chemistry, one you're at peace using, is the chance to develop new thinking. 

God will aid a soul that seeks to heal the mind. He'll use the most unsuspected circumstances to bring about events to bring the right medications to the mind in need of them.  But medications alone are not enough.  Effort must be made to take possession of one's mind. You can learn to change your thinking.  You can feel it.  It's as if a hand is grabbing the mind and taking full hold of it. 

Change and healing can be long, slow processes. They can take many years. They are greatly aided by the person seeking to heal their mind. Moving in the direction of a fully functioning life, the one they envision, can lead to all the joy and happiness of pursuing what you truly want. Medication may still be needed, but you can support yourself without SSI. Ideally, you'll find what you want your life to be. If you're willing to pursue it. Risk the loss of your old mentally ill life, and create a new, mentally sound one.

4. You Must

 

You must sacrifice your mental health to remain on SSI.  Once you've come to the point in your journey where you're ready for your mind to be transformed, you must make the necessary efforts to heal. A healed mind needs to create a living for itself to remain healthy and sound. The mind heals when it can create new life. Medications may still be needed, but as the mind heals proper medications will not have side effects that hinder its functioning. It will operate soundly.

3. Mental Illness One

 

Mental illness didn't happen to you to stop you. It happened to you to transform you. The removal of your old life may require that you pass through the hell of mental illness. Rest assured that a whole new life awaits, and a new mind, new joys, and a rebirth of your spirit.

2. The Furious

 

The furious mental pains burning inside a mind with a mental illness serve a useful purpose. They burn the old mental process  to ashes.  They turn the mind into fertile ground so new thought processes and thinking can develop. 

New thought processes take considerable effort to create.  The development of new thought processes may be the most difficult work a person can do. A mind that has been burnt down is like the foundation poured to build a house upon.  It's ready for a new framework. 

Reading is one of the best ways to supply a mind with the resources for the new thoughts required to erect a novel framework, or thought patterns. As new thought processes develop, new work will need to be done.  The best way to help shape new thinking into a new process is with a new approach.  Together they enable a person to live a new life. 

Both of these processes, the burning away of the old and the creation of the new, may take many years. Healing, however, is available to anyone willing to create a new mind. Healing is available if you follow through on the work that will strengthen a new mind.  

The author of sound mind, Christ, will guide the restoration.  He will guide even the sickest, most unbalanced, and afflicted mind.  Simple faith in Him, and His ability to heal from heaven, is all that's needed.  If you undertake the necessary work  of building a new mind, one like His, you'll find work that allows your new thought process to create a new life.

1. A Mentally Ill Person

A mentally ill person who never heals their mind, and claims they are not mentally ill, may have a mind that would be sound in a different world. In this world, with it's schools of thought, systems of education, and business, a certain soundness must be present. The author of the soundest mind possible, Jesus Christ, can guide the life and healing of the most mentally ill mind into the same mind He had. 

You must be willing to do the difficult work of transforming your mind and it's thinking. You must be willing to get off of SSI. Once you believe that Jesus is really there, and that He is there for the soundness of your mind, healing can begin. This requires faith in Him, and a willingness to create the life you want.

Slowly you will bring about a new mind and life. It may take years of perseverance. A mind like His depends on a relationship with Him. His is a mind where overcoming is possible, where difficult stretches can be endured. Where the most difficult work environments can result in rich character development. It is a mind that sees God's hand in every circumstance.