Healed from Schizophrenia

Hello Helga!! I am so thrilled to have found your website and I must say that this is truly wonderful for you to be here for those who are suffering from this illness!! I had two uncles with schizophrenia, one committed suicide, also three nieces, all sisters, who have bipolar and schizophrenia! The father of these girls also is believed to be bipolar as well! My sister is about to have a nervous breakdown over all of the complications of having so many people in one household with such a serious issue. I want to ask you if you believe that this is strictly an evil spirit that causes this or only in some cases, or no cases? It is hard not to think of it as a very spiritual problem because the episodes are so evil and change the individual's personality so much!!! Can this be a generational curse? I know that doctors say that it is a chemical imbalance, but I am not sure that I believe that. What do you think? My dear sister who is a strong Christian says that she feels like she is in hell every day of her life!! I desperately want to help this family!!! They had such a wonderful life before this horrible illness struck each daughter at the age of 18 years and 7 months!!! Thank you again for being there for so many people who are suffering with this disorder!!! Sincerely, Angie Anderson

I just wanted to say God bless you to you Helga and all of your readers and people posting comments and struggling with this spiritual illness. Jesus Christ does heal today, miracles still happen, and many times prayer for healing of the family tree can really set people free from being in bondage, and I wish all of you Jesus' freedom and love in your lives, never ever ever give up hope, and someday you will be healed just like Helga was! God bless all of you for your sharing on this website!

hi helga, thank you for posting your healing on this site, i am very encouraged and i now believe i can have a total healing like you did when the Holy Spirit arrives. i have been dealing with this illness for over a year now but i am very hopeful that healing will come soon like yours. i completed a fast which really gave me the desire to seek after God with all of my heart, i ask for your prayers because im still dealing with acouple of symptoms that are confusing like thuds in my chest and crawling, water, and stinging sensations, i would like to be healed from all of it and throw my medication away like you did. thank you for your prayers and your wonderful story helga.

Thank you Helga for your testimony and to everyone else who has written.

Mental illness and particularly schizophrenia is prevalent in my husband's family on his mother's side. I am very happy to say that God has protected my husband from the worst of it through his childhood and adult years. We both became Christians before we got married over 16 years ago. Now we have two great kids of our own 13 and 11.

Recently my husband's relatives have begun to bring up the schizophrenia like it is some sort of inevitability that we need to prepare ourselves for. When I told his grandmother that Jesus is our protector and that we are trusting in Him to keep us from harm she was irritated. When I asked her if the doctors knew of any way to prevent it she had to admit that they did not but she still did not understand our faith.

I refuse to believe that God has spared my husband from mental illness just to have to watch his children go through it. I refuse to stop trusting that our God is loving, generous, and kind, and that He has good things planned for our lives. I believe with all my heart and soul that schizophrenia is not part of God's plan for anybody's life.

To the other readers, I encourage you to continue trusting God that he is bringing healing into your lives. Meditate on His words, hide them in your heart. They are your shield and your sword when the enemy attacks. God protects those who give themselves wholeheartedly to Him.

hi my name is joseph my family thinks i have schizophrenia i was put in hospitals many times and was forced to take many different kind of medicines the first time i took a pill i almost fainted to the floor. Now iam 22 years old and still taking medicine if i dont my family will send me back to the hospital these medicines cause me great suffering i start hallucinating from them i was a great athlete and a good student in school that is until i turned 18 i went to visit family in lebanon and hated it there i barely spoke the language and was there for 2 month when i came back to the US my family took me to the hospital iam wandering what to do now if you can give me some advice that would be great email me at joey.kanaan@gmail.com thx so much

Hi My Name Is Shuen Britton, Im 26 years old and I live in melbourne Australia, I have had scitzophrenia since i was 18, I was depressed before that ,but its nothing compared to the depression of scozophrenia i have now,I some day want to be cured, and throw my medication away like you. I want to except the holy ghost but i feel dark forces in in my heart stopping me. Over the last year iv gotten much better and my quality of life is better and hope to one day be completely better and settle down and get married and have kids.If you have any advice on how to receive the holy spirit so i can get healed. Please leave a reply or email me at jobe521@gmail.com My friend prayed me to receive the holy spirit and power but its feel those dark forces are stopping me and chokeing me so i cant speak in tounges.
Thank you , from Sheun Britton.

Hi Helga. It is awesome to hear that God touched your life and healed you of a problem many doctors consider incurable. I had paranoid schizophrenia many years before it was professionally diagnosed, and the downward spiral started at high school where I was severely teased. I developed an inferiority complex the size of the planet, become withdrawn and very melancholy... At age 25, I began to hear voices and thought I was hearing from God. I considered myself a "Christian psychic" because the voices would often tell me things about others only known to them - and they would predict the future to an amazing degree of accuracy. Over time, the voices became increasingly irrational and, as I listened to them, obeyed them etc, I slowly but surely slid into a psychotic state. My psychiatrist put me on medication I was allergic to - and the meds caused untold pain and great suffering... so,I became non compliant and on two occasions, I was hospitalized. I dabbled in the occult too, which did not help the situation, for after doing so, demons would torment me. This story has a happy ending though. I began to get well when I renewed my commitment to
God, i.e took my Christian faith seriously, and was put on a medication my bodily system could tolerate. I obtained work, ironically in the mental health field, and am slowly but surely regaining a social life and news friends. (I lost plenty of friends whilst unwell because they didn't know how to cope with somebody "mental"!) Anyway:
thanks for sharing your story and emphasizing that God indeed still heals today.

I wrote you a while back in regard to my daughter with Schizophrenia. She's going through the same thing that you went through by seing things and hearing voices. The devil telling her not to be belive in God ,and Jesus. But she has been praying all the time. But She's still waiting for God and Jesus to heal her. As parents we have been praying for too.
If there is anything else we need to do to make her be healed , please let us know, and also keep her in your parayer too.

thanks!!

Hi, my name is becky and I'm reading this because God has given me a huge compassion for people with Schizophrenia. At this point in my life I can't even try to estimate how many testimonies of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing I've heard as well as healing I've seen when I've prayed. I am praying for every single on of you and so glad to see your testimony Helga!! I anxiously await more testimonies of Schizophrenia being completely destroyed! Jesus paid for it a long time ago, and it's time to get what he paid for!

hi Elga, My name is John from uk.
Can you help a lady friend of mine. She has schizophrenia.at this moment she is being tormented by voices.A little of her past,she was into the acult. She is a born again Spirit filled christian.She has been prayed for many times.I think she has refused treatment but does take anti depressants.Thanks John

I am very pleased with all the testimonies I have read above. I have been diagnosed with Schizophrenia for 3 years. Now I have been praying to God, and read psalms in the bible. Please I need your help and your prayes too.

Thanks!!

My mother was diagnosed with a schizo affective disorder 6weeks after I was born. 29 years later, she is still with the same sickness and has now stopped responding to medication. She is taking the highest dosage, it has taken its toll on me financially, and in many other ways since family and relatives have stopped being supportive. I am from Africa. Please keep me in your prayers. Any advice is also welcome. I continue to pray, fast and believe God to heal her.

What a beautiful story
I am so happy that the lord has healed you and he is using use as a person to share their story with everyone. I myself have ocd and mine started out with thoughts of wanting to hurt myself and my mom which didn't make sense to me I have been praying everyday and night God heals me I have been on four medicine Paxil prozac zoloft and now effexor I want to be compeletely healed my ocd sometimes things I am schz but my counselor says it's just the ocd playing with your mind I know its not me. It's the devil because he is trying to get the best of me I have only had this going on sense January of 2011 I want to find work but I can't find anything I was like you when your parents told you to get a job I have three weeks to find a job because the lady has bills to pay I believe that God is going to heal me soon and I will find a job also believe me he told me so the key to this is you need to be strong and say this is my body it belongs to me you cannot control my thoughts You must be strong and don't listen to anything that is negative and tell the devil that you belong to Jesus christ and to tell the devil by the power of Jesus christ I ask you to leave him/her alone. The devil will try very hard to come back and make you're life horrible if he does please be very strong and keep praying like I do I know because the devil doesn't want me to be happy or love Jesus christ he has a very strong hold on me nope I am over here fighting because I Love Jesus Christ3

Dear Helga,

I have had schizoaffective disorder for 12 years. I find life very hard. I have tried coming off my meds twice in those years but have relapsed both times. Now I am worried psychosis will return if I try it again. I am a spritual person and have faith. I was wondering if you could pray for me to ask God to show me the way to be healed and feel peace. Your story is inspiring but at this point in time I feel crushed by the illness and life. I used to read the Bible when my illness first came on and eventually my mum took it off me as she thought it was making me ill. I remember many passages from it and could get another one now I live alone. Again I ask you, as for some reason I think it's important for you in particular to pray for me.

Chris

Dear Helga,

Thank you for sharing your inspiring testimony. I was in tears after hearing your story and I think that was a sign from God that your testimony is indeed true.

Though I don't have a clear diagnosis (and every case is different), I have some kind of a psychotic illness coupled with demonic oppression. The short version of my story is that I started to experience some supernatural things (like my body being moved by an external force) which initially felt like a good thing, but eventually led me to communicating with the spirit intensely causing me to be in a psychotic state. I never actually saw or heard anything, but it felt like an external entity was inserting thoughts into my mind. I was in a quite disturbed state so the doctors put me on medication. The meds did calm me down and stop a lot the psychotic symptoms but it left me feeling like a very unhappy zombie and took away my creativity which was so important to me. My psychiatrist says that the zombie-like feeling is from psychosis/schizophrenia not the meds, but I know he's wrong because I felt normal off the meds, except that the thought insertion returned and I decided to go back on meds because I was afraid of a relapse.

It's also been tough because I have been asking God for help for a long time now, but have not received healing from my condition. The zombie-like state continues and the demon still bothers me (it likes to choke me for example). I try to talk to God, but He mostly seems silent to my concerns. And my relationship with God is filled with doubt and anger as a result of it. But I know it's not really God's fault because I really caused this to myself by association with the demon, so the anger is not justified... And it's probably because of lack of faith that I am not healed, as I have tried to accept Jesus/God/Holy Spirit into my life, but have always doubted if it actually happened.

I am wondering if you could give more details about how the healing process took place? Was it actually as simple as receiving the Holy Spirit and you were immediately healed, or was something else also happening spiritually before you were healed? You mentioned there was a 4 week period where you knew you would be healed -- what was happening during that time? In your opinion, was the conviction that you would get healed by God important instead of having doubt as to God's power? Or was it more a matter of God's grace rather than what you did or believed personally?

I am really glad that you've received healing, and I wish the same could be true for everybody suffering from schizophrenia, because I know how awful it can be...

Eric

Hi Helga
My name is Imelda, 40 years old. I live in Indonesia
Thanks for sharing the story. I know exactly how it feels. I have suffered from bipolar 2, PTSD, anxiety, hallucination, panic attack, suicidal thoughts and other mental symptoms that I feel I can't explain for almost 25 years. I grew up with low self esteem, fell rejected and depressed mostly in my childhood. It continues until now
I can't make friends because this illness. I only get little support from people around me because they don't understand this illness. I lost my job, because this illness too.
I pray and pray. I have lovely sister who loves me and standing in praying with me every day. I stop my medication, because my body can't tolerate it's side effect
I believe Jesus is my healer. I keep praying till now..
Thank you for your inspiring story. Jesus loves you

HI MY NAME IS ROBERT, FOR A LONG TIME I NEVER KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT schizophrenia. I didn't know what was going on with my wife when she would tell me somebody was following her, but she didn't ever see them. My marriage ended because of this, I couldn't get her to believe that I was on her side when it came to hearing voices or that the tv was talking to her. I now understand that to her all this was real even though I didn't know. Please help me pray for Sabrina even though we are no longer married. She is a wonderful woman. I know God is a healer for sure.

Hi so I just recently found out someone I know has schitzophrenia. I found this out because I was at camp shamineau (a church camp) and when we went around a circle about five or six people said they didn't know if they were followers of Christ. For some reason I felt pushed to speak to this girl, I talked to her and found out about this disorder. I had never really known what it is but now i just can't get this girl off my mind. I feel like God has put me into her life and he wants me to help her find him and get rid of her illness. I am only 15 years old and I've never felt God use me like I feel him now. There is no way I can just leave this girl, but I barely know about this illness and I don't know what to do... can somebody give me some ideas please? And please pray for her also. Thanks much and God bless(:!

My son was diagnosed with shcizophrenia 3 years ago he started to get into drugs and alcohol around 13 years of age he then ended up in prison for fighting and thats when he had a breakdown and was diagnosed and when he came home he was very delusional and psycotic. He did get a little better just being out of the prison system he refused to take meds and when he did he said it just made him worse.
He is now in jail again , we are waiting to see what the ruling will be.It breaks my heart I pray and pray I know the Lord can heal him please pray for him also. Do you have any siggestions for my son. Thank-you

I am writing because my brother has this "illness", he has been in and out of the mental ward but has never been cured. My family is Christian and my mum had a similar experience in which she was healed when she turned to God. Once, a pastor came to our house when my brother was severely depressed and asked my brother to commit to God. My brother said he would, and as soon as they said a prayer together his illness seemed to vanish and he smiled for the first time in months. However my brother soon lost interest in God and returned to his former lifestyle, and his illness also returned. Years later he constantly speaks to himself, laughs at seemingly nothing and on occasions gets aggressive. He drinks almost everyday to calm himself down abit. I dont know what to do, I truly believe God can help him but do not know how to get him to see it. It is ruining my family's life and he is now back in the mental ward. Noone wants to see him there and he hates it there. I fear that when he is released he will be angry at us for putting him there and will eventually harm someone or worse.

hi helga fantastic testimony i can relate to the majority of what you experienced, i never however wanted to get diagnosed. i trust god he can keep my mind firmly fixed on him, i regret to say i have some struggles still internally from time to time which i have to hand over to the lord but its been 8years since those outward symptoms were present in my life or controlling it in any visible wayway.gods been so could to me, i still struggle to take in how much. your nursing career is in my prayers[and gods loving hands] godbless you

Thank you so much for your inspiring story. I am a 28 year old sufferer and I fear that part or all of it is spiritual in nature and I would like to pray for others who suffer, and hope others will prey for me. I have read of several people being cured through prair and deliverence from Jesus Christ the savior. God Bless, - George

Hello Helga,

I have schizophrenia aswell, for four years now. The medication is really ruining my live. I have tried to quite medication a couple of times but unfortunaltly my sickness came back everytime. Now I want to quit again, because I can't do anything, I can hardly read, I sleep a lot and feel tired and hopless, so now I am turning to God, because He is the only one who can help me now! He is my only hope!!! When did you know when you where healed of schizophrenia, when did you know that you could safely stop your medication? I wish God healed me now and that I could start living again. Live seems so useless now. Love Michiel

You're lucky your schizophrenia is in remission, but you're committing a grave mistake by not seeing a doctor about the problem. Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder, and whether or not you believe Jesus "cured" you, the symptoms will eventually come back unless you seek treatment IMMEDIATELY.

Best of luck
James T Skorton, M.D.

I am a Christian boy of 20 years living in the small town of Vasai , Maharashtra , India . I had a sad childhood ,since say I was 11 years of age . Boys of my age used to touch and fondle my chest as though it was a feminine characteristic . I also inserted such a negative thought in my mind . Then symptoms began , such as withdrawal and broadcasting . Then I also had delusions of my chest size increasing . But since a year ago I started to show symptoms of Schizophrenia . I became paranoid , that is frightful thoughts came to my mind , not getting sleep . That I am going to die in a very violent way . All throughout my father was of great support . Now I take medication from a psychiatrist . I was thinking , why only I ? But then I realized that God has made you , me and each person separately in this world . I am happy now but I still remain in the hope of being completely normal some day !

I was raised in the Catholic faith and believed that Jesus was the Son of God, but it had no real impact on me living a wordly life. It wasn't until my family life fell apart that I turned to God. The Lord sent a deliverer into my life, just another human, but one trained from youth to fight demonic spirits. This person is a strong Christian, not a Catholic Priest. What I have learned is that many if not most mental problems are not isolated to the medical description of schizo, depression, or many other conditions. The cause is often demonic influence, whether caused by our own contact with the occult, either knowing or not, or even generational sin. My own situation, I have learned was from a distant relative that practiced witch craft. This is what God refers to as generational sin. I have paid a dear price for sins commited many years ago by another person. Today I am thankful that I experienced what I did, lest I spend eaternity in hell for not turning my life over to Christ. The Lord turns evil into good and I have lived both sides. The point is satin works through thought process,and if there is an opening for him, he will move in and cause horrific mental pain which Dr.'s will ascribe a wordly diagnosis.

What a might God he is, hearing your story was so refreshing especially when there are so many negative remarks we hear when it comes to mental illness, may God continue to do great and mighty things in your life.

Hi, I been fighting with this desease off and on for 5 years now. I believe and a follower of God, but I'm seem not to be healed. I wonder what sin I haven't confess or maybe I should tell people about what I have done. Uuagghh ( I know who my confessions are for and been forgiving) I just questioning my faith. I was taken medication for about off and on a 1 year and then a solid 1 1/2 in a half. Then I was off for a year and a half. I stumble.. Now I taken medication but I believe in letting patience have its perfect work in me and to increase my faith and lack in nothing. Just waiting for the day that I could be free from schizophrenia. I know with faith and in God's will it will happen. Still praising God.

Hi! I am so inspired by your testimony.
I am also diagnosed with schizophrenia and it's torture for me. I am confused about reality and what my brain thinks. Please put your prayers for me. My name is Jireh.
Thanks! and God bless!