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When mental illness and spiritual gifts become conflated

I feel called to become a healer but I have bipolar disorder and everyone says I am just having delusions during my manic episodes

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pathologizing of transcendent experiences obscures genuine spiritual capacity beneath psychiatric categories

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African healing traditions for mental distress?”

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