A lady living overseas from the UK, came across my webpage
on "Psychic Attack"...
http://www.brothermichael.org.uk/skills/protection.htm
...while browsing the internet and this prompted her to send me the
email message repeated below [names deleted]...

Message
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Please,

Is there any medication that would get rid of my psychic awareness
that you know of or know anyone that had taken some for this? I am
taking some but doesn't seem to work. What else can I do to get
rid of it? I need a group to protect me from the energies they attach
to me, when I'm out in public. Know anyone? I don't want to be
psychically aware & would like to be rid of the awareness.

I need help out of a psychic attack by mostly males, [XXXXXX], a
drug addict, who sexually attacks me & abuses me(an ex-neighbour
brought to my spiritual realm by showing him a picture), [YYYYYY] (an
ex-boyfriend of 14 yrs, whose now in jail for almost killing his wife
of 10 yrs & he is attacking me with the worst energy of devastation),
1-2 Irishmen(that I got in touch with from the internet) & a gay
female named [ZZZZ] (that a co-worker brought in a group to
originally help me), & [AAAAAAA] (that I once paid & to do work for
me), the others I've never met. I have people around me in my
spiritual realm that use them as a weapon & play games with my life.
They do this for a group that [XXXXXX] is friends with, [BBBBB] &
[CCCCCC], a female, that my ex-neighbour had also brought by showing
the 2 my picture.

I need this nightmare to stop as they all came to my spiritual
realm to help me out of a psychic attack that started over 11 yrs
ago. I need a group of people to help me to let them know I'm not
alone & have people on my side that know I should've never went
through this. I need a group so they don't continue to make me feel
out numbered & in a no win situation. As they will control my pain,
as long as they think no one is out there, that are more mature than
them. They play a game as they are a fan club to the 3 people that
lied. My ex-neighbour's friends, the 3, turned this into a nightmare
by lying to the others telling them something devastating happened to
their friends while trying to help me. Well, in the first place, it
was a lie, as they are full of lies, & they brought me another
attacker to get money out of me & lied to me for a yr to get money
out of me. They pretended to help me & lied to me about everything
they could saying that the group that originally attacked me were
going to harm my children & such to get money out of me. They got me
in debt because I was topping off my credit cards getting cash out of
them & even opened a new one to give them cash. I was despaired,
because I\'d just had a fire in my home, because of the attack &
needed this to stop. They played off my desperation & didn't care
about anything I went through, only to cause me to go through more.

This group have made friends with the others I'd brought in from
the internet to keep them from helping me. I can't believe they even
go through all the trouble. This sounds insane, but it is true & I
don\'t know what their obsession is with me. I think [XXXXXX] has
something to do with that. Watch what he does to his mother, as he is
a drug addict. But the others around don't discourage them, they
just go along with their obsession. I am alarmed by the way they
don\'t question why they want them to do anything, else for them
after they lied about their friends being killed by a biker club, for
3 yrs. They wanted these people to take it out on me & my children &
they knew nothing had happened to them. The catered to them & babied
them for 3 yrs before this other friend finally came out & told the
truth, as he said that was too much to put me through. It wasn't as
bad as it has been now. These people have been in habit of being
involved with these people & it has been 3 yrs since the truth came
out. They are still catering to them & acting like they have to help
them to hurt me as if they've just gotten used to spiritually abusing
me & spiritually sexually attacking me.

I need help to stop all this, even by mostly talking sense into
these people, as that is what these others do & sometimes it works
for a little while. You'd have to what them all the time, like 24/7,
because they never even sleep any more or do anything they used to do
or be who they used to be. most of these people I found from the
internet & they were people who healed or spoke of God on their web
sites. Now they are just people who obsessed with these cold blooded
people, & they aren't people who care about anyone else but
themselves. They don't work in the light anymore. It is sick. Can
you please help me? I need all the help I can get from a group of
people. Look to see how many people are in my spiritual realm
please. What can I do?

Despaired,

[name]
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This lady is obviously extremely distressed and I felt keen to help
her - her experiences reminding me of somewhat similar experiences I
had myself, in the late 1980s, which kept recurring and getting
worse, despite seeking psychiatric help and medication, until in
January 1990 I ended up as a psychiatric in-patient for 4 weeks.

The Path of Depressive Psychosis
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Such experiences are usually labelled as "depressive psychosis",
and "treated" with anti-psychotic/anti-depressive medication. My own
experience of such labelling and medication was that it felt like a
rejection of what was very real to me and that "going on-board" with
this exacerbated my already overwhelming inner splitting and
depression.

Medication did not "cure" or "fix" my own terrifying and depressing,
self-harmful reality, but it did have the merit of preventing me from
ACTING ON the threatening perceptions, thoughts and ideas and that I
was experiencing. It also gave some relief from the vicious cycle
of "spiralling down" that I had fallen into. The "cost" of medication
was side efects such as "zombie-like" apathy and a continuing sense
of alienation from everday life and everyday people.

Medication did not "cure" the underlying sources of my
dysfunction/illness. Like many people I found myself falling back
repeatedly into the same nightmare over a number of years. Many
people end up on long-term, or even lifelong, medication because of
this underlying "not really cured" truth. Associated with this is a
long-term loss of self-confidence and a pervading sense of personal
vulnerability, dependency and insecurity which easily "sets us up" to
either repeat the previous nightmare experiences of
depression/psychosis or to lead a much-diminished self-protective,
restricted and dependent lifestyle.

Even on the path of medical treatment there are "vicious cycle"
pitfalls that we can succumb to. One of these is the "You will never
recover - the best you can hope for are periods of remission!"
medical prognosis, which is all too common. This may of course be
true in some cases, but it can also be true that this "expert
prediction" can become a self-perpetuating, self-fulfilling prophesy,
ensuring continuing depression, for there is nothing more depressing
than losing all hope of ever recovering!

The First Step in Recovery
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The lady's email repeated above seemed full of urgent distress and I
felt the urge to respond immediately. However my deeper wisdom "gut
feeling" held me back from rushing in as a "heroic
rescuer", "gracious healer" or "wise guru with all the answers!".

I recalled my own "first step" in REAL RECOVERY (as opposed
to "medical management of symptoms"!) some 17 years ago...

I visited an old friend from my teenage years. A poorly-educated and
fairly alcoholic (!) rural farm-worker. He gave what the medical
people could not - a listening ear! I knew that I could trust him to
be non-judgemental and to be genuinely and caringly interested in
my "story".

When I came out of hospital and entered out-patient care I had wanted
to explore and understand the bizarre and terrifying realities I had
experienced - a natural, self-healing desire to confront and dis-arm
the sources of my terror.

The outpatient psychiatrist responded to this by saying, "What you
experienced was just 'irrational' - you have just got to forget it
and move on!". But there was no "moving on". Something immensely,
terribly frightening and "real" had happened to me and as I tried
to "move on" it clung to me like a fearful dark shadow that
constantly lurks in the background.

Finding a sympathetic, non-judgemental, non-diagnostic, non-
prescriptive listener was hugely therapeutic for me. Speaking my
experiences and terrors began the long process of cutting them down
to size and eventually laying them to rest.

So it is possible that in writing to me, the lady above has already
begun her own self-healing journey and the best contribution I can
make is to be a sympathetic listener and offer some crumbs of comfort
which I know were powerful for me and which have helped to keep me
out of these experiences and away from medication and psychiatry for
the past 15 years. Whether they will comfort her is "In the Lap of
the Gods (beyond my control) for we each have our own "ebb and flow"
path of dis-ease and healing.

Rooting-Out the Roots!
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I once heard a very holistic psychiatrist say that mental illness is
the no-man's land between the old life(style) that we once knew, but
no longer works, and the new life(style) that we are not yet able to
grasp. This certainly was true for me.

Another wise psychiatrist once wrote that ANXIETY is the root force
underlying all cases of psychopathology (dis-ease of the psyche). I
can really relate to that also!

Your Help?
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How would you respond to the request of the distressed lady quoted
above?

Tomorrow I will post my own response - I do not want to influence
your own reflection and response to this powerful call for help. I
will be happy to pass on to her your responses, after all she did
say "I need all the help I can get from a group of people."


Mike