The truth behind Exorcism...
In 2005, a famous Hollywood movie was released,
** The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
Although Hollywood makes many horror movies,
but there was something special about this movie.
If you look at the poster of this movie,
it says
"Based on a true story"
It was based on a true story.
This was the story of Annalise Michel.
One of the most famous exorcisms in the history of the world.
Annalise Michel was a girl who was born in West Germany in 1952. When she was 16 years old, she suddenly fainted one day at school.
Her friends said that when she fainted,
she was in a strange state for a minute or two.
When she returned home that evening,
she went to her room and slept. But she woke up suddenly in the middle of the night.
The victim described that night as feeling like something heavy was on her body as she looked around,
and then she felt like she had wet the bed.
But nothing special happened for the next few weeks and months.
But then a year later, the same thing happened again.
This time, Annalise's parents felt that
they should take her to the doctor.
According to The Sun,
when the parents took Annalise to the doctor,
neither the doctor nor the neurologist could find anything.
But then about a year later,
in February 1970,
Annalise contracted tuberculosis (TB),
which led to her being admitted to hospital.
While lying in a hospital bed,
she said that she was seeing strange colours and hearing some voices.
The doctor said she had temporal lobe epilepsy, which was causing her seizures.
Temporal lobe epilepsy is not a rare condition.
More than 50 million people worldwide suffer from this condition. But Annalise's case was quite different. A few days later, Annalise began to experience dangerous hallucinations.
Annalise began to see things that others could not see,
and hear voices that no one else could hear. She had voices in her head that told her that she was cursed. The thoughts of these voices caused her to become depressed.
But that was only the beginning.
Catholics often kneel during prayer. According to The Telegraph, Annalise began to do this 600 times a day.
So much so that the ligaments in her knees were damaged.
One day, she hid under the table,
and barked like a dog for two days straight.
One day she ate a spider, the next day coal, and once she ate a bird. Her parents couldn't understand anything. When the doctors didn't answer, they went to a bishop and asked him to perform an exorcism.
An exorcism is the religious practice of removing demons from someone's body.
In Arabic and Urdu, it is called 'ruqyah'.
It is said that Annalise had six demons in her body:
1. Adolf Hitler, German dictator
2. Roman emperor Nero
3. Judas, a disciple of Jesus, who betrayed him
4. Cain, son of Adam, who killed his brother Abel
5. Lucifer, the greatest demon in Christian beliefs
• 6. Valentine Fleischmann, a German priest in the 1500s,
who was excommunicated from the church for drunkenness and murder.
As the exorcism progressed, it was said that the demons began to speak. The original audio recording of the exorcism can still be found on the Internet. The case of Annalise Michel is one of the strangest cases in the world. But it is not the only one. About 10 years ago, an American man was found unconscious in his hotel room. When he was taken to the hospital and regained consciousness, he began speaking Swedish. When his ID card and other documents were checked, his name was Michael Boatwright. But when he was asked his name, he said his name was Yuan Ek. How could an American man speak Swedish after being unconscious? Why did Annalise Michel start making such sounds? Had an evil spirit really entered his body?
Let's understand these secrets from the perspective of science.
In English, it is called Demonic Possession,
its real scientific cause is
Multiple Personality Disorder
or in its current name,
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
You must have heard about this mental illness somewhere.
If not, then you must have seen it in movies.
For example:
Aparchat.
Kartik Calling Kartik.
Fight Club.
Or Psycho.
In these movies, you will get to see incidents like Annalise and Michael Boat.
This means that a person has multiple personalities.
But how is this possible?
To understand this, we have to stop using this name.
Because now this mental condition has been given a new name.
DID
Dissociative Identity Disorder.
You know what identity is. Identity means what is your real self.
So what can the separation of identities mean? Famous Urdu poet Nida Fazli wrote in her poem:
(There are 10-20 people in every person)
Whom you want to see,
of course, see it more than once."
This poem has a very deep psychological meaning.
Because first of all, you are who you really are. But secondly, you are who you think you are.
Do you understand the difference?
If a person is stupid,
he can still feel that he is a smart and intelligent person. In psychology, a specific term is used for this, the Dunning-Kruger effect.
This effect is seen when
a person exaggerates his abilities, although he is severely lacking in knowledge and skills at that time.
There is a famous saying,
'A fool thinks himself the smartest person.'
Being stupid or intelligent is just one aspect. This split in identity can also happen when a person feels like they are good at heart but are actually selfish. Or it can be the opposite. A person can be really good at something
but feel like they are not good enough.
So number 1, the person you really are.
Number 2, the person you think you are. This is your self-image.
Number 3, the ideal self.
The person you want to be.
It depends on each person and also on your social upbringing. For some people, their ideal self may be a self.
For example, an educated, well-adjusted female doctor tells her son that
The caretaker of the apartment protects them and is older than the child, so the child should greet him with respect, what would be the ideal self for that child?
(Being humble and conscious)
Now, if someone If a person's identities #2 and #3 are very different,
then their confidence will be quite low.
But on the other hand, if a person's identities #2 and #3 are quite similar, then their self-esteem and confidence will be high. Because it depends on just one question. How much do you like and accept yourself?
Do you like yourself a lot?
Or are you someone who doesn't like themselves at all?
(Self-image, ideal self, self-esteem)
Psychologist Carl Rogers says that our self-concept is made up of these three things. And these three parts depend on many things.
Our habits, the environment around us, the things we are proud of, or the things we feel ashamed of, our regrets, our secrets, the things we are afraid of, our desires, our fantasies, it is possible for a person to look very happy on the outside but feel sad and lonely on the inside.
As there is an Urdu song in which Kaifi Azmi wrote,
"You Why are you smiling so much? What sorrow are you hiding?"
A person may seem very religious to you, but in reality, they may not believe in God. A person may appear very dignified and humble to others, while they may be angry and upset with their boss or a family member. It is also possible, biologically, for someone to be born with a male body
but to feel like they are a woman. Or someone may be biologically female, but to feel like they are a man. So, what I want to say here is that our identities and our minds are very complex. Sometimes, our multiple identities are divided into different personalities.
These different personalities are called alters. A person may have two alters, four, five, even twenty alters. There is the famous case of Kim Noble,
who has over 100 different personalities.
Each of them has a different name,
a different age, a different sexual identity,
a different mood, a different body language,
and also different memories stored in the brain. In general, to some extent, even in many normal people, different personalities can be seen.
Like some people, when they spend time with their friends, their behavior and body language are quite different versus when they spend time with their parents. The way they talk, the emotional tolerance, everything depends on who they are with. But in this DID disease, this harmless little habit goes to an extreme level. Not only your body language and behavior, but also your name changes, your age changes. In the case of some people, different memories start forming in their brain. It seems as if their brains are divided into different parts. In these cases, there is one main personality that is seen in people for the maximum percentage of the time.
This is called the Host Identity or Primary Identity.
Usually, it is that This is the persona you are born with. But in some cases, an alter can also become your host identity. As in Kim Noble's case, her alter Patricia became her primary host identity.
Kim's daughter was 14 at the time,
when she takes care of her daughter as a mother but she no longer sees herself as Kim, but as Patricia. Apart from Kim and Patricia, she has other identities. Such as Judy, Julie, Abby, Dawn, Ken, Bonnie, Hailey.
In 2017, the Hollywood film Split was released.
This is what it showed. When Kim and her daughter went on the Oprah Winfrey Show, they were filmed twice. Once when she was at home, Kim's persona was Patricia. And when she came on the show, her persona was 15-year-old Judy.
There is nothing to worry about because, as you see in the movies, personalities do not change suddenly and dramatically. In fact, most of the time,
if people are not aware of it, they will not be able to notice it.
One surprising thing we see here is that whenever this personality changes, the memory of the actions or experiences of the other personality disappears. So often, throughout her life, she forgets her keys somewhere, sometimes she orders a pizza but then forgets that she ordered it. Sometimes she finds her car mysteriously parked many miles away. One day, something disturbing happened while she was driving. The personality changed.
Her 15-year-old Julie personality emerged while she was driving and caused an accident.
A person who suffers from this dissociative identity disorder does not know that she suffers from it. She only notices that she often has memory lapses or does not have a proper sense of time.
They can't remember where they were a few hours ago
When a different personality took control.
When the psychologist told Kim that she had DID, Patricia and several other personalities refused to believe it. They thought it was strange.
That it couldn't be possible. It took six years of therapy before she could accept that this was happening to her. Once she understood this, the pieces of the puzzle slowly began to fall into place and she began to understand why she was repeatedly wasting time and why there were so many gaps in her memory. With the help of psychotherapy, Patricia finally began to accept her condition.
But what is the solution?
The solution is the opposite of dissociation.
Reintegration.
Communication between the different alters must be established
So that the identities can be reunified into one.
At the time this article was written, her identity was not yet fully integrated
She had 3-4 changes daily but over time, she understood that the triggers that were changing her
personality.
For example:
Every time food was served, Judy's personality would come out. Whenever she went to take a bath
She would be overcome by the water spirit. Having understood these triggers, she began to manage her DID system. On the other hand, Annie Liz Michael
whose story I told at the beginning of the article, was not so lucky. She had to undergo 67 jinn extractions over a period of 10 months
She then died. What was the cause of her death?
Some people say that evil and malevolent spirits create negative energy and as a solution to this, they often talk about positive energy. Often, you are told ways to use the positive energy of the universe to fight negative energy.
Which is discussed in the book (The Secret)
The book (The Alchemist) in this dialogue.
Is there any truth to it? Annalise did not die because of a demon or negative energy.
She died of starvation and severe dehydration.
That is, she had no access to food and drink.
She was so light that she weighed only 32 kilograms.
When the news of her death spread around the world
It became a national scandal and law enforcement agencies began to get involved here. They saw that Annalise had actually been in psychiatric care since the age of 16. The doctors who treated her said that she had responded positively to medication and therapy. They said that Annalise had 3 mental illnesses
1, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
We have already talked about it
2, Anorexia Nervosa.
This is a mental illness in which people have misconceptions about their weight. Healthy people believe that they are gaining weight and becoming fat, while their body is actually healthy.
And because of this, they keep eating less and less and gradually they reach an abnormally low body weight.
3, Hyper-Religious Personality Disorder.
A condition in which a person's religious beliefs become so intense that they report mystical experiences. They begin to have delusions about spirituality.
Such people often become obsessed with unclean things. Their regular thoughts are always about whether their actions are not sinful, but what they are doing is right.
The reason for this is said to be Anne-Lise's parents, who were very religious. Anne-Lise's childhood was spent in a very religious environment.
This is why Anneliese felt she had demons and sometimes called these 'demons' Hitler, or Judas, or Lucifer. This is very clear because if there were a Hindu, Muslim, or atheist who suffered from the same problem, these names would not have come to her mind. Anneliese only knew the names Lucifer, Judas, and Cain because she was taught about them as a child. A professor at the University of Würzburg said that when it all came together, Anneliese was suffering from severe psychological distress. The district attorney said that if she had received medical attention in time, her death could have been prevented. This is why charges were filed against her parents and the two Roman Catholic priests who performed the exorcism on her. All four were also convicted of negligent homicide. Now, you might be wondering, that many of us go through irrational thoughts, internal conflicts, regrets, fears, phobias of various things, repressed desires, superstitions, and other negative emotions, but not everyone has DID. Why is this so? What is the difference between people with this disease and despite all these things, those who do not suffer from this disease? What is the main cause of this dissociative identity disorder? When data on people suffering from DID in the United States, Canada, and Europe was collected, it was found that in almost 90% of cases, people who suffer from this disorder have suffered some kind of abuse in their childhood. This abuse can be physical, emotional, or sexual. It can happen repeatedly or only for a short period of time. But this abuse causes brain trauma. It leaves a mental scar on your brain. And because of this trauma, your brain dissociates. It may sound a little strange, but it's true. Dissociation is a coping mechanism of the body. Your brain splits into different personalities to cope with the trauma that has been inflicted on your mind. Obviously, this way of coping with challenges is not very safe. It is a serious mental illness. Because of this, people can suffer from stress, anxiety, and severe depression. Because of this, people can become addicted to drugs and alcohol and in many cases, they become violent towards themselves or others. Any traumatic event that happened to a person in their childhood often gets lodged deep in their subconscious mind and in most cases, the victims don't even remember what happened to them. You may find the treatment a little strange, but when these patients are treated with psychotherapy, the therapist tries to remind them of the traumatic event because if you want to re-unite the fragmented identities, to ensure that the patient has a single identity, it is important to accept and forgive whatever traumatic event happened to them. The solution to this is to remember the past and accept it. Dissociation is something that in severe cases turns into a mental illness called DID but milder cases can be seen in many people as I told you at the beginning of this video it is likely that every other person watching this video has experienced a dissociation episode at least once in their life some studies show that 74% of people have experienced a dissociation episode at least once in their life. Some studies done in the US claim that this number is around 50% but it is a very high number almost half of the world population has experienced it at least once in their life but don't get confused. It is not black and white. (You will either experience it or you will not) It is a spectrum just like democracy and dictatorship are a spectrum. Similarly, there is a spectrum of dissociation, from mild to moderate, but only in extreme cases, this mental illness causes DID. Examples of mild cases can be, Dissociative Amnesia. You must have heard this dialogue in some movie. (I don't remember what happened after that) When people suffer from a traumatic event, their brain dissociates the event from time. So they forget many details about it. This type of dissociation is called Dissociative Amnesia. Also, Dissociative Fugue can be. I told an example of this at the beginning of this video, the story of Michael Boatwright an American man who started speaking Swedish after losing consciousness Do you know how it happened? There was a simple reason behind it. He had spent a lot of time in Sweden. Swedish public records show that Boatwright lived in Sweden intermittently from 1981 to 2003. When asked about him, several Swedes said they knew an American who was very interested in medieval history. Photographs of him as a child in Sweden were also released, but after spending several years in Sweden, he moved to Japan, where he got married and became a father. After that, he moved to China, where he taught English, and later, he moved to California. Doctors said he was suffering from a dissociative fugue state, where people become confused about events in their past. Here too, the trigger is some kind of trauma. Boatwright had a son and two ex-wives, but when he broke up with Boatwright, But when Boatwright was asked about them, he couldn't remember any of them. There's a song by the band Linkin Park called Numb. The song has a line: (I'm so numb I can't feel you there) Some people often feel that they are completely detached from their actions, thoughts and feelings. They see themselves as an outsider. This type of detachment is called depersonalisation. A similar type of detachment is derealisation, where people feel that the world and the people around them are very unreal. Everything seems like a dream. Time either moves very slowly or very quickly. These are serious mental health issues but unfortunately, most films portray them in either a scary or insensitive way. A Bollywood film (Bhool Bhaliya) in which an actor Rajpal Yadav plays a character, Chhota Pandit is shown to be suffering from a mental illness in the film but the film uses it as comic relief. At the end of the film, a so-called psychologist treats him by slapping him. Even the main character in the film, Vidya Balan, is treated by a psychologist in strange ways. No real life therapist would approve of these methods. On the other hand, there are some films which present DID patients in a violent light like Aparchat or Alfred Hitchcock's legendary film (Psycho). They present a very dangerous person. The disease is sensationalized for entertainment. Dr Simone Randers of King's College London says that Because there is already a stigma in society about these illnesses, films that show DID patients as violent and dangerous only add to the problem. In real life, most DID patients are not violent. A 2017 study also came to the same conclusion. One film that showed DID patients in a sensitive and well-thought-out way was Kartik Calling Kartik. You may remember this film starring Farhan Akhtar and Deepika Padukone. After reading this article of ours, I hope that you have understood this illness well and that you have understood that we should not create any stigma about mental illnesses. If someone has a heart problem, he goes to a cardiologist. If someone has a mental problem, he should go to a psychologist. This should not be a problem of one's ego. In real life, if a person is suffering from a lot of stress, anxiety, depression or irritability, it is possible that the underlying cause is some kind of mental illness. That is why it is always a good idea to consult a psychologist.
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