"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Ian Maclaren
Prayers up
I ask Our Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, to be with you, your son, and all of your family. May His healing hand touch each of you, giving you the strength and consolations you need.
Update:
Ben asks for further prayers; he feels like he is “going under.”
I think one of his medications, an anti-psychotic, may be causing anxiety - which is a mild word for terror - which his mind puts a narrative to, a reason, and that is demonic attack.
Yet he and his father went to the psychiatrist today, who wants Ben to double the dose of the anti-psychotic, because he believes psychosis is the primary problem that must be fixed, not fear leading to psychosis. And then a benzodiazepine to address the fear. Ben and his father are on board with this.
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know. I have always trusted this doctor before but I am afraid he is making a terrible mistake. Pray that he is right and I am wrong!
Pray that if he is wrong, Ben endures these next few days. I supposed a few days will tell whether he is getting worse or better.
Thank you for your prayers. We are seeing our pastor today. I don’t think we’ll get far with our request to see an exorcist. Only one event happened which weighs on the “possessed” side of the scales for me. Everything else to me looks like illness, or maybe illness combined with demonic affliction.
I wish there were enough exorcists here that you could consult one to rule out demonic attack. And I know that telling a person who is mentally ill, and mentally ill only, that he might be possessed or attacked, could do great harm.
Do no harm - a rule for priests as well as physicians.
Amen.
Prayers up for your son and for you.
Hugs to you. I know how hard this disorder can be on the family.
Prayers for all of you ... strength to get thru until better times .......