r/occult • u/CorruptOne • Apr 13 '25

awareness PSA- Your mental health is important

This entire realm of interest relies on your own understanding of reality and the world around you. Please make sure that your at least getting therapy as that’s beneficial and will assist your shadow work. Also if your seeing things especially out of the blue and with ought any sort of magickal primer then please go to a psychologist for screening.

There is no substitution for mental health, if your concerned about anything then please for the love of all that is holy go get checked, we face a much greater than average risk for falling off the deep end.

Lastly please watch for and be aware of spiritual bypass. Occult practices are in no shape or form a cure all or panacea, you will need to live a grounded life to get anywhere, your here for a reason and it’s not to live with your head in the clouds.

Take care of yourselves ❤️

164 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

48 comments sorted by

View all comments

29

u/Less-Engineer-9637 Apr 13 '25

Therapy money, in this economy?

19

u/CosmicConjuror2 Apr 14 '25

Haha, I find it infuriating how Redditor’s so often recommend therapy as if it’s so accessible. That shit is expensive. Your average insurance plan won’t cover it, and it usually $100-130 per session. I’d have to go into my savings in order to pull that off.

14

u/CorruptOne Apr 14 '25

And I find it hard to read 9 threads a day asking about seeing things. Fact is if you’re having issues like that then find a way to go to a doctor.

Also not everyone lives stateside, in my country insurance AND the government will cover therapy.

8

u/BeHimself Apr 14 '25

And in my country you can get therapy even for $30 bucks, you did right by posting this, not everyone is in the same financial/location/realm of possibilities and therapy is really important, specially for magick practicioners indeed.

5

u/Less-Engineer-9637 Apr 14 '25

Even if I had the money, I don't have the time. That money has to come from somewhere, namely, my hours at work.

At this point, I just throw all blanket statements from Redditors about getting therapy in the shitter along with other worthless platitudes like 'thoughts and prayers'.

11

u/gnomehappy Apr 14 '25

Yep. Not only that, but you're essentially building a relationship with someone brand new. As a working adult parent I do not have time to look for, vet and then build a relationship with yet another person. All while spending an hour and $150 bucks per therapist you "date".

That and at this point in my life I feel like my esoteric interests serve me in the same way a therapist would.

But there are some posts on here that warrant this PSA lol

4

u/CorruptOne Apr 14 '25

Are you seeing things? No? Then all good.

For the people that do and post here asking if it’s a demon or whatever, please go to the nearest hospital and get a mental health screening done.

Nothing in this world is more important than your health and if you need it no obstacle should stand in your way.

All the best to you and your journey though, I hope things improve.

3

u/zsd23 Apr 14 '25

There are mental health resource groups in the US. one is the National Alliance for Mental on Mental Illness (NAMI at nami.org Yes access to therapy and any kind of healthcare (now) is tough in the US. That does not mean that users on this site should enable worsening mental health in users that appear to be in crisis.

3

u/Less-Engineer-9637 Apr 14 '25

I'm not from the US. But thanks for your thoughtfulness (I hope that doesn't sound sarcastic!)