Are Psychics Crazy People?

Psychics are often labelled ‘crazy’ by those who don’t believe in psychic phenomena. Does being psychic mean you are crazy or mentally unstable?

And if it doesn’t, where is the line between mental illness, insanity and psychic phenomena? 

I haven’t seen an article anywhere about this delicate subject written by someone who calls themselves psychic.

Yet, it’s a subject that is very important in my view, and it’s come to my attention lately because in my last blog post, I wrote about how to make spirit communication feel less scary.  I got a comment from a commenter who said that psychic development can be scary because some people have angry spirit guides who influence them into committing violent acts.

To me, it sounded like the commenter was referring to a mental illness (like schizophrenia or psychosis) NOT psychic phenomena. Yet this person talked in terms of spirit guides telling people to do things. 

If you’ve heard about possessions, negative entities, and spirits telling you to do destructive things, you may have asked yourself questions like:

Where is the line between insane and psychic?

Can your spirit guides tell you to do crazy things?

Does opening up psychically make you mentally unstable?

And you may have found the whole area a bit worrying and disturbing and decided not to pursue psychic development. Or it may have been a worry in the back of your mind while you pursue psychic development.

In this article, I aim to address these concerns.

(Before I begin, I just wanted to say that I am not a medical doctor. I am not professionally qualified to give advice about mental illness (or any illness!) Therefore, what is written below is my personal opinion and as usual with all of my blog articles, whatever you do with the information is totally up to you!)

So here goes…

The Fine Line Between Psychic and Insane

Traditionally, psychics are thought of as insane.  People who can hear God are insane.  Yet people who talk TO God are not insane – they’re thought of as holy (perhaps this is why religion is socially acceptable and psychic phenomenon is not acceptable.)

As for atheists (who are usually sceptics too), they most definitely do not think that psychics are actually ‘psychic’.  I have heard sceptical people saying things like psychics must be mentally ill.  Or if they’re not mentally ill, they’re unscrupulous liars.  If they’re not unscrupulous liars, they’re well-meaning, but essentially deluded.

Although a few of the psychics out there may be unscrupulous liars or mentally ill, my opinion is that many psychics are fairly normal people of a sound, sane mind.  Not unstable, not stupid, not deluded – sane, and normal.

Yet since I’ve started offering psychic development, and offering readings, I can’t deny that psychic development sometimes attracts people who are not so sane.  I don’t see it so much in my work, but I know others who sometimes attract mentally ill people who are not on medication, because of the nature of what they do.

That is because there is a very fine line between psychic and psychotic.  It’s a thin line but it’s a very clear one.  I just want to talk about where that line goes (in my opinion.)

Psychic or Psychotic?

Some people in the medical community believe that psychic and psychotic is the same thing.  I have read that some psychiatrists believe that if you see and hear things that aren’t there, you’re regarded as either psychic or psychotic.  And the difference between the two is how you deal with what you see. If you cannot cope with the voices you hear because they’re destructive/dangerous/abusive and you need help and mediation, you’re psychotic. 

According to some psychiatrists, psychics are people who CAN deal with their psychosis and so can cope with the voices they hear.

As you may have already guessed, I don’t agree with this!

How Do I Know I’m not Psychotic?

(or how do I know that any psychic is sane, for that matter?)

I believe myself to be a perfectly sane, rational being (who hears and knows things that medical science says I shouldn’t…)

The reason why I believe that my psychic experiences are real, and not psychosis, is because I have had too many experiences day in, day out that back up what I see and know.

Experiences like: talking to deceased spirits, knowing their name, their appearance, and passing on a message to their relative that contains information that was only known to those two people.

It’s not guesswork and it’s definitely not being a clever mentalist and deducing things. Simply because that’s not possible, due to the nature of the specific information deceased spirits pass on. In many ways, I considered myself a skeptical psychic when I started out, and my first experience talking to a deceased person (which you can read about in this testimonial) was what pushed me over the edge into definite, ‘no-going-back’ belief.

Through opening up to the psychic realm (or what some would consider the mad realm!), I know things that I cannot know otherwise. I also co-exist peacefully with psychic input. It’s benevolent and it’s never been cruel or abusive. I can turn it on and off and I can access it consciously. I can go for days or even weeks without it knocking on my door if I really want to ignore it. And I’ve no history of mental illness besides a few months of mild depression caused by circumstance.

So, What Is The REAL difference between Psychic and Psychotic?

Positive vs. Negative – that’s the first distinction.

Controlled vs. Uncontrolled – that’s the second key distinction.

Psychic input from your spirit and your guides and angels is positive, empowering, and is shown to be helpful in hindsight. You can also control it. Spiritual guidance does not interfere with anyone’s free will or attempt to control a situation.

The input that mentally ill people get is not controlled and it’s not input from benevolent spiritual sources like spirit guides or your own spirit. Psychotic input is usually abusive, damaging, destructive and if acted upon, can have very negative consequences.

Therein lies the difference, in my view.

So where does the negative input come from?

Understanding the Positive/Negative Distinction

Positivity and negativity is a scale or a spectrum of emotional energy.  In my Psychic Awakening course, I included this spectrum to illustrate this vibrational scale (you’ll need to click on it in order to see the full picture)

I wrote that it’s good to be above a 4 on that emotional scale (on any given day) before you tune into spirit.

If you’re consistently low on that emotional scale, when you tune into spirit, the chances are you won’t hear any benevolent input.  If you’re unlucky, you might access malevolent input/voices/spirits (whatever you want to call them.)

But of course, that doesn’t mean you’re psychotic. Psychotic and mentally ill people are those who access the very lowest end of the spectrum.

I personally am not sure why mentally ill people are accessing the lowest end of the negative spectrum and why that negative input won’t leave them alone. I have heard shamans say that it’s because you have openings in your energy field and victimization patterns that allow that very negative input to reach you. The medical community would probably laugh at that and say that it’s just a biological disorder of the mind.

Negative or Mentally Ill?

If your vibration is low or you’re depressed, I’m not saying that you’re necessarily ever going to access that same level of input that is available to someone with a mental illness. I believe the kind that psychotic or mentally ill people are exposed to guidance that is the lowest kind of guidance.

As for the ordinary negativity, we all have a shadow side. We all have negative self-talk that can be abusive. You could think of your negative self-talk and voices as being like different programs that run on a computer. Some of them are like viruses that you can get rid of, over time, with some work.

But when that negative virus and voice overcomes all others, and influences your behaviour so that it becomes destructive and dangerous for other people, that’s when it tends towards mental illness. If someone hears voices that instruct, persuade or encourage them to damage or destroy something or someone, in my opinion that’s worrying and medical attention would be needed. If the voices are abusive, power-crazed, or ordering someone to do something damaging or physically dangerous – that’s crossed the line, in my view. If you’re having paranoid delusions, that has too.

In Light of this, Who Shouldn’t Do Psychic Development?

Don’t do psychic development if you live in great fear, or if you have serious issues with paranoia.

Some people are very angry and some have experienced abuse and great trauma.  If you’re in those places, it’s best to make your priority to be lifting yourself up before you do psychic development, otherwise you can access lower guidance that reflects your current emotional state.

If you believe you’re being victimized or if you have any kind of victimization pattern running in your mind, then you may attract spirits who like to victimize.  You need to be in your power to some degree before you can get constructive positive guidance from the unseen realm.

If you do have a mental illness and you operate on the lower end of that scale, my advice would be the same – work on raising your vibration and stabilizing your emotional state before you even consider opening up to the spirit world.  I guess it goes without saying that I wouldn’t teach anyone psychic development who has an ongoing mental illness of that type because it would be irresponsible of me. 

Mentally ill is a big blanket term.  Depression, so-called personality disorders and things like OCD might also fall under that category.  I’m not talking so much about those disorders (unless they cause paranoia), I’m talking mainly about the mental disorders that expose you to negative and abusive input that comes from the lowest end of the spectrum, such as schizophrenia or psychosis. I’m also talking about illness that causes paranoid delusions.

Conclusions…

I believe that people who don’t have mental illness shouldn’t undertake psychic development too lightly either.  Especially not those who plan to do it professionally.  I don’t want to sound heavy here, but make sure you are not depressed – if you are, psychic development isn’t important for you at this time – lifting yourself up is more important. And although this goes without saying: definitely don’t train as a professional intuitive if you’re mentally ill and not on medication (I know that might sound like I’m being condescending by saying that, but I know people who have and I don’t think anyone would like to be a client of someone who had mental issues.) I have no idea how medication would affect psychic experiences so can’t comment on that.

So in my view, you don’t have psychological problems if you have heard voices. You’re not insane if you’ve had visions, or have strong hunches or just ‘know’ things without knowing HOW you know…as long as it’s not abusive, negative AND uncontrolled.

If you want to be psychic and remain balanced, I recommend learning how to turn it off, so that you’re not going around switched on all the time. Obviously, not knowing how to turn it off doesn’t make you mentally ill, but being able to turn it off can certainly help you to remain balanced in your life!

Got questions? Comments?

Do you disagree/agree with this? Although I welcome debates, I will warn skeptics who already think I’m crazy that I’m a lost cause ;-)

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19 Responses to “Are Psychics Crazy People?”

  1. Kate says:

    Very good article. Working in close contact with people with dementia and other various mental illnesses I have often wondered the same thing. Many times I have thought that the person I was watching was not really crazy as the hospital would have labeled them but just an overwhelmed empath without guidance or a closet psychic that had no support from family, friends, or society just from what they said and how they acted. Now I have also seen patients who do think they are psychic and it is obvious that they are not in any way a psychic, again by the things they say and they way they act. Having been exposed to both sides, the psychic and psychotic, on a regular basis I would totally agree that there is a thin line, but that line is in fact a very clear one if you know what to look for. Also I am not a doctor stating medical facts, just a health care worker looking to improve her own psychic empathic abilities. Thanks for the article, I really enjoyed it.

  2. Michael says:

    Hi Anna. I think you’re just the right degree of nuts. :)

    As you know I unfortunately have extensive and intimate experience with people who experience psychosis (not my own, I hasten to add).

    I believe that there is not a single case of severe mental illness that is “simply” due to brain chemistry – after all, physicality is a reflection of the upper dimensions and vice-versa. Psychosis is a reflection of damage and restructuring that has taken place for a variety or reasons, and that damage can have its roots in the third, fourth, or fifth dimensions. I am positively, absolutely certain that these people have (amongst other damages) open portalways to past lifetimes, parallel lives, and other civilizations. These doorways are not meant to be open – imagine being tuned in to 20 radio stations at once! Listen to a psychotic person exhibit the “word salad” phenomena and you’ll see the result.

    Joseph Campbell said that the schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic delights in swimming. The difference, as you point out to an extent, is whether the swimming is being done intentionally or accidentally.

    Should a person with mental illness pursue “psychic” development? Absolutely not…at least, not until they’ve done extensive work with a healer who can lead them to an understanding of what’s been happening to them and how to control it. In fact, since while discarnate these problems would not exist to this degree for most souls, I believe that the only reason they incarnate is in the hope that they’ll find someone to help them repair the structural damage and allow them to continue to evolve naturally.

    There are those who see psychotic people as holy, and assert that it’s wrong to try and “cure” them. Bullshit. We are here to function in _this_ reality. That’s not possible when one can’t feed or clothe oneself, or has a habit of walking into traffic or staring at people for hours at a time.

    If one is seeing or hearing extraordinary things, the best course is not to first try and see or hear more of them(!), but to consult a reputable person and first gain an understanding of what’s going on.
    .-= Michael´s last blog ..A Tap on the Shoulder =-.

  3. Anna says:

    Kate – Thanks for commenting on this. It must be sad to see those who are confused, overwhelmed empaths to be suspected of craziness. I guess that is why a lot of psychics do not tell anyone what they experience.

    Michael – Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing your insights here. I still have no idea how much real world change spiritual healing creates on mental illness. I have seen variable results. I guess you would know more about that. That is a great quote from Joseph Campbell.

  4. Hello Anna,

    I’m glad to meet you, and its interesting that I came across your article today :)
    This morning I awoke with a gnawing feeling that certain people I know may be judging me in a negative, unkind way, due to my belief system, and way of life. These people have never made negative comments to me personally, but I just sense their fundamental thinking and discomfort when I bring up a topic they are unfamiliar with. I ‘never’ expect that my thoughts or information will resonate with everyone, no matter how pristine and pure I feel an idea may be, due to the vast array of unique Souls on this planet. But the more I thought about it, I started thinking about the general tone of our world’s mental healthcare professionals and how they view “Sensitive”, “Intuitive”, and “Clairvoyant” people. It’s one thing for people to not resonate or understand people with psychic abilities, but it’s extremely ignorant and arrogant for anyone to label a person pathological just because the healthcare professional doesn’t understand or resonate with the client’s ‘unusual’ abilities. I was then prompted to go online to see if there are other like-minded people who share my frustrations, and who may offer supportive information to distinguish the difference between psychic and psychotic. This is the point at which I found your article. Thank you. I enjoyed reading it, and it was very helpful.

    Unlike most people I know, I rely on my heart’s intuition to determine what is right and wrong, or what is damaging and unethical VS what is healthy and moral. I have never felt “ill” due to my strong intuition and connection to the spirit world. For example, my website creatorblessings.com consists of information “downloaded” from my heart’s intuition. The ideas are not taken from a book or from someone else’s words (the way most people get their information), but instead from my personal insights which resonate within me. However, I am always upgrading or revising my pages when new information becomes available. In other words, as I evolve and grow just like every other being on this planet, so too does my knowledge about how things “work”.

    My intuition is as natural and flowing to my existence as my own breath which keeps me alive. However, I have noticed that people who insult or shun others with intuitive or psychic abilities are often those who don’t have access to those abilities within themselves. Reacting with fear to something we don’t understand is a common and typical human-nature reaction.

    I appreciate Kate’s comments regarding “empaths with out guidance”, who were possibly misdiagnosed, in the hospital setting she works in. Kate, your comment helps the mental health care profession move one step closer to letting go of outdated methods when treating and caring for “Sensitive” people. Thank you.

    I also appreciate Michael’s comments regarding Joseph Campbell’s quote: “Joseph Campbell said that the schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic delights in swimming. The difference, as you point out to an extent, is whether the swimming is being done intentionally or accidentally.” How true it is Michael (and the late Joseph :) ) – Well said. I also agree with Michael’s other comment: “We are here to function in _this_ reality. That’s not possible when one can’t feed or clothe oneself, or has a habit of walking into traffic, or staring at people for hours at a time”. To me, these examples that Michael mentioned are clear distinctions that one’s empathic or psychic abilities are at an unhealthy level. In other words, these people may have opened up to a certain level of psychic ability, but in addition may be suffering from some sort of malady if their state of mind is causing an inability to properly care for themselves, or to contribute to society in a productive way. The problem worsens if the empath or psychic’s state of mind causes them to bring harm to themselves or others. This is not to say that these people are ‘less-than’ or unworthy, but instead, their problematic symptoms help distinguish between the healthy minded and balanced psychic/sensitive being, VS the individual who may have ‘blown open’ their chakras creating unbalance, lack of control and a disordered life.
    My final comment is a word of advice to mental healthcare professionals or people in general who make negative, blanket statements about sensitive or psychic people. It is important to remember that there are all types of people with varying levels of consciousness in the world regardless of one’s title, position or belief system. For example, it would be a false, blanket statement to say that All homeless people are lazy, unethical and lack spiritual morals, and All people with high religious and academic status are the most motivated, spiritually aware and ethical people. Such conclusions are biased, inaccurate stereotypes. This same conclusion is drawn when people make blanket statements about individuals with psychic abilities. The truth is, many psychics are grounded, loving, ethical, wise old Souls who have purposely incarnated to offer healing Light and guidance to those who ask. However, it is true that some psychics are less than integral, ungrounded and prey on insecure, weak minded people. It is up to you to go within your heart to decide if any person, psychic or not, is helpful or harmful. When you judge ‘All’ psychics to be delusional, fake, or ‘out to get you’ your behavior is just as dysfunctional and ignorant as the non-integral psychics.

    When you meet a psychic who resides in truth and honor, your heart-force will recognize her or him to be a true Lightworker of the Creator. These are the true guides of Light who can help you get back on track, and continue your spiritual mission.

  5. Anna says:

    Hi Sonya,

    Thanks for stopping by and commenting! Nice to ‘meet’ you.

    I too look forward to a medical system where they accept sixth sensory and intuitive ability as a natural part of life. Until then, I guess I’ll be writing articles like these :D

  6. whistles says:

    I came into this website because I am wondering if I’m a pshychic myself.

    I’m extremely intuitive and sensitive to my surroundings. The other day I got a deep premonition something great happening. My cousin gave birth later that day.

    By sensing all of these emotions constantly around me it becomes difficult to focus on my work at times. I feel peoples vibes all around me. I see what the eyes and ears cannot hear or see.

    If I sense someone at work is in pain or struggling, it affects me. I am affected by strong vibes.That’s why my work environment is very important to remain balanced and stable.

    Sometimes I feel too much around me and live in the future, predicting what’s going to happen w-o actually living it.
    Its hard for me to live in the present, bc I’m living in the future. I may seem very wise for my age and never made mistakes.

    Once I predicted some type of unstable, shaky ground at my office. I quit bc it was such an uncomfortable feeling. My office shut down months later.

    I keep my thoughts to myself bc ppl will think I’m crazy. I wonder if anyone experiences what I have.

  7. Birdie says:

    Cool article

    I am a person in the mental health system currently on medications. What’s sad is I can’t tell what’s happening to me or what I think is happening to me. I don’t hear voices, but I “know” things, but when I first became “ill” I felt as if so much knowledge and ideas were forming, either stuff I learned in the past making more sense or stuff from nowhere, I became confused. Also I was having wild mood swings and panic attacks and my sense of hearing went way up.

    My experience was positive rather than negative except for the panic attacks and the mood swings. I even had two episodes where I felt so spiritually “high” I could not believe it. But it all went away with the meds.

    Last week, I’ve been seeing the 11:11 and 12:12 prompts and also saw a blue winged figure in my room. But my emotions were going nuts again and these things ended up scaring me. Soon I’m going to get my medication adjusted again.

    If these things are supernatural, how can medication stop them? I am guessing that the supernatural stuff has to be sensed through the brain somehow and that’s blocked, but what’s your theory?

  8. Jennifer says:

    What I want is for Psychics such as yourself including you, to undergo a thorough MRI of their brain to see how much Myelin they have. I want to know how much Myelin the ‘sane’ people have and how much the ‘unsane’ or unstable people have. There has been an association with Myelin deficiency and Schizophrenia.

  9. Jennifer says:

    Feel free to contact me.

  10. Alexander says:

    Hi Anna, thanks for this article. It really put a big issue of mine into perspective. I trained as a researcher in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, a skeptic materialistic atheist, interested in finding new drugs for brain disorders. After dealing with big live changes I had a spiritual awakening in 2007. My empathy opened up wide and I started to experience energetic presences, also when no people where near. Synchronicity led me to Steve and Erin Pavlina which helped to give it context. I chanced career and started working as a coach, employing my new found intuition and energetic help. Yet my family was deeply worried about my story and radiant enthusiasm and urged me to see a psychiatrist. I ended up talking to a professor of the psychiatry department of my old research institute. He deemed my empathy as a mood congruency illusion and other experiences as manic psychotic. This brought a deep clash within myself, seeing his side after 15 years of science. My reaction was to not face it and stop talking about it with my skeptic science friends. I know I will never convince them, as long as they themselves don’t have similar experiences. But the effect was that I now have a medical dossier branding me manic depressive, and no way to fight it. I went in to a depression. Within a year I lost my work, my marriage and my house. The big UP side is that I now have enough time to really get to know me and solve issues about how I react to people and their opinions. On your site I discovered cord cutting and I bought Rose’s book to learn to cut them all myself. After 5 cords, it already deepened and broadened the scope of my intuition. Your take on psychosis in this context is the first positive and clarifying I’ve read. Thank you. It will not change the minds of people who deem psychic phenomena as psychotic, but it helps to settle the restless mind for whom they are very real. At least it did for me!

  11. Michael says:

    Alexander,

    The fact is that having metal “illness”, and being spiritually conscious, psychic, intuitive or channeling, etc. are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they are usually highly correlated, in my experience.

    I do have fairly extensive experience in this area, and not of my own choosing. Through familial afflictions, the attraction of such clients, and consultation with other intuitives I’ve formulated some theories which seem to be quite valid.

    Joseph Campbell said that the psychotic is drowning in the waters in which mystics love to swim. In other words, it’s a matter of control and knowledge.

    Some misguided people say that psychosis should be untreated and allowed to run its course because the afflicted are being “spiritual”. Bullshit.

    The deciding factor is: can you function with things the way they are, or can you not? Some people have had serious psychotic episodes (which may or may not have been spiritual revelations, etc.), but eventually learned to incorporate these experiences into the common reality that we all share. One need not give up a special connection with the Divine in order to live in this reality…but it takes work.

    We all came here for a reason, and I believe that in the case of people with psychosis, they came here primarily to be healed. Something happened (most likely in a past life) that in a sense scrambled their psychic structure and thus made it difficult to live in this reality. They live in two worlds and so cannot function properly in either.

    All of which is to say that you can have your cake and eat it too…have your spirituality, your insights, your revelations…and still live as normal a life as you wish, if you only find the balance between expressing these things and tending to normal life and relationships. Becoming aware and then controlling your emotions and thoughts (and actions) is the key to this.

    You can do that and also continue to seek healing. I don’t know anything about this type of cord cutting, but I do know that the various possible types of damage to the psychic structure can be repaired – to an extent. As I do with my clients, however, I will advise you to choose a path in regard to your healing and stick with it. Constantly spending all of your money on various types of readings or healings is a circular trip and can become an addiction.

    Good luck.

    Michael

  12. Anna says:

    Jennifer – I don’t find the idea of having a brain scan appealing, especially not one to determine if I have similar levels of myelin as a mentally ill person. There’s a reason why I call my website ‘psychic but sane’ – I’ve never had any psychiatric problems or issues in that department and neither have the majority of my clients and students! I’ve had difficult experiences in my life (like most people have – the usual stuff) and came out the other side with my sanity intact. I also do sessions with highly intuitive people who have been through some terrible things and in spite of that, I rarely come across someone I feel I need to refer to a mental health professional.

  13. Anna says:

    Birdie – I am obviously not a mental health professional or neurologist so I have no idea why medication turns off your spiritual/psychic experiences too. I would say concentrate on getting well, I know it can hurt to feel disconnected from spirit. But I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that being well is the priority. Michael shared a good quote above: “the psychotic is drowning in the waters in which mystics love to swim.”

    My advice is – don’t go swimming if you fear you might drown (so to speak).

  14. Anna says:

    Alexander – glad you found this article helpful. I think that when you go through a spiritual experience, it can stimulate the upper chakras and create a temporary imbalance that looks a bit worrying to other people who have never experienced it before. The imbalance is that of having your lower chakra energy shift into the upper chakras temporarily. That creates a feeling of being intensely connected to spirit, a sense of oneness, overactive (unskilled) empathy and you might radiate spirituality too. I wonder if that happened to you. I’ve seen it a lot after a spiritual awakening.

    What usually happens after a while is that balance gradually returns and the person integrates their new found spirituality into their life. If balance doesn’t return, it’s considered a spiritual imbalance and the person becomes less effective, functional and happy as a human being.

    Spiritual addiction and temporary imbalances can make life difficult, but in themselves they definitely do not constitute mental illness.

    I believe however that a long term spiritual addiction can leave someone more susceptible to mental illness.

  15. Annie says:

    Hi Anna,
    I am thrilled to read this article! I also taught I was a psychotic when early signs of psychic started to embraced my being when I was in college. I thought I was crazy and went to see a medical doctor.The doctor ran several tests on me and later told me that I am not psychotic. Some say, I was cursed and for more than ten years, I spend so much money to find a cure of my “illness” as they (spiritual healers) call it. None of them worked.
    Until I found your site early November 2010, things started to make more sense to me! I guess being a meteorologist, it takes a very long long time for me to accept this low level psychic abilities I have.
    Once again, thank you Anna for a very helpful and interesting blog! I am hooked!

  16. Relieved says:

    Oh, you have no idea how much this article has helped me!! I think I stumbled into clairaudience. I felt it coming on me around 16. The idea of hearing voices sort of materialized in my head just before I fell from a height, and knocked myself unconcious. Then, verbally abusive voices came for a long time and scared me. That was when I was treated for schizophrenia, but I started meditating and focusing on chakras for the purpose of dreamwork, and the voices weren’t scary anymore so I stopped taking meds. But I have still walked around with that stigma my entire life. Now that I know, I think I will make more effort to get to know my guide. At least to the point so that I can find the ‘off-switch’. Thanks so much for posting this.

  17. karen says:

    I have been on the revolving door of mental health since adolescence and have recently been diagnosed as adhd and dysthymia I have had so many bad life experiences and traumas I’m surprised im still here. Recently ive been debating whether to disclose my hunch that I’m mixed up cause I know things and dont know how I do but just do – my friends think I’m spooky but love me deeply. I have had my knowing things confirmed time and time again but because there’s nothing tangible I doubt it and wonder if I’m insane…at the point now where im thinking of telling my cpn but scared they will think I’m psychotic. I’m also a reiki master and people think that’s weird enough. Don’t know what to do – any suggestions anyone?

  18. Victoria says:

    Psychics are gifted people and are unique. Understanding them with such capablitlies, intelligence and awareness that goes way beyond what we percieve as normal can be hard and daunting at times.

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