Mental Illness

[Guest H]

Hello everyone.

I'm a sikh girl , i don't know if im allowed to write something like but i dont really know where else to go for help. I suffer from a mental illness, Schizophrenia, im currently waiting to see another psychiatrist for help and medicine. Im not making excuses for myself but i have lots of problems in my life and i feel its all down to my illness and soemtimes i feel i have been a bad person. Due to my illness, i hallucinate and can hear voices, i have delusions and basically live a very different life in my head to the one i actually live. if that makes sense, i get bad thoughts, i cant help myself beacuse i want to be a good sikh but i feel i shouldnt pray beacuse i have been a bad person and god can see that...and because im ill i dont know if i can always be true to god...so im really confused.

I have never been overly religious but in the past 2 year i have turned as my problems worsened i turned to god and listened to gurbani and went gurdwara and did ardas and i feel that helped but i always look at my kara and think how can i wear this, i have been a bad person and then i hallucinate and do and say stupid things...its wrong. I just wish i could have a normal life, because i want to go to univeristy and make my parents proud but i feel my illness will pull me down and make me feel the way it does. Sometimes, i become very isolated and distance my self because i get really scared that people are going to hurt me and attack me, physically and verbally. I spend lots of time alone on my computer and keep myself really busy beacuse im just really nervous around people.

I want to enjoy life and im afraid i wont, i also dont know how sikhi views mental problems and how to deal with this and want to be a good sikh aswell.

Thanks for reading.

take care H

[Lionchild]

I want to enjoy life and im afraid i wont, i also dont know how sikhi views mental problems and how to deal with this and want to be a good sikh aswell.

Thanks for reading.

take care H

Welcome guest, anyone can become a good sikh and partixipate in all events, as well as become khalsa. Some popel will think otherwise, however, don't listen to thsoe squares.

I'm sure other members here can elaborate on this subject.

[Sachkhand]

keep japping naam

[Guest no1]

waheguru ji ka khalsa, waheguru ji ki fateh

one thing which really stood out from your post was fear.

your afraid of people, or being attacked etc.

theres nothing anyone can say to you to make this go away (apart from waheguru maybe)

wherever you are in the world, the most important thing is sangat.

your mental illness can be cured

theres only one person who can do it, guru sahib.

do ardaas, really sincere ardaas

n try n find some sangat, do simran with them

or go to every rehnsbaee or kirtan program u hear about

the most important thing is ardaas,

if it is sincere it will not go unnoticed.

try to establish an amritvela

do nitnem every morning

throughout the day, listen to kirtan as much as possible

sing along, the more gurbani you listen to and recite the better

read and recite bani as much as possible

www.sikhitothemax.com <<that site can help you understand bani

please keep in touch n let us know how its going

guru raakhaa

waheguru ji ka khalsa, waheguru ji ki fateh!!

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

God has no hatred, Nirvair. Unlike human beings who never accept "bad" people, God is Nimanaiya da maan, the honor of the honorless, niataniyaah da taan, the power of the powerless, niotiyah di ot, the support of the supportless. good bad whatever, never hesitate to run to the sanctuary of Satguru Ji, sri guru granth sahiba nd guru sahib's blessed sangat guru roop khalsa ji. unlike like other people, guru sahib will never shun you in any way.

good luck.

[Bored]

jap nam and u wont fearing anything in life.

[jss]

as a medical student, i feel it's important to tell you to please STICK to the therapy that the psychiatrist recommends and take your medication daily...it will help you...even on the days you feel better ...still take your medication...

and yes...continue doing simran and paath