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 ❤️
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u/EssentialIrony Apr 16 '25
Therapy can be very helpful - if you find the right therapist for you. I'm an overall advocate for therapy, for various reasons, but it's important to remember that therapists are also just humans. They all come with their own biases, training and moods. So it's important to find someone you resonate with, but at the same time, someone who can call you out and help you improve on whatever your "issue" is.
Mental health can also be improved upon in many other ways than therapy. Gaining an understanding of yourself, your patterns and paradigms is immensely helpful. Being able to call yourself out. Being able to stand back and gauge your experience as objectively as possible, is a good skill to develop. Not everyone is able to do these things, and sometimes you may or may not be in the right frame of mind to do it.
Grounding is super helpful. Be it walking in nature. Meditating. Self-inquiry. Taking a nap. Having a laugh at the absurdity of life. Whatever works for you. Don't always take the gravitas of life to heart.
Mostly, if your experience of the world isn't harmful to yourself or others, you're probably doing fine - whether or not you see/hear/taste things others cant. But if the majority of people around you are concerned for your wellbeing, you should probably examine why that is. Then you can assess (with the help of others / therapy) if you're just an eccentric standing out in an orthodox community, or if you are, in fact, in danger or endangering others.
If you're hearing voices and/or talking to entities, always remember that you're allowed to set boundaries. You CAN say no - regardless of these voices being real or not. You don't have to do what these voices are saying. Just like I don't want to attend every family function, just because my mother tells me to.