This is a response to Dr. Pattie Thomas' comment on this post about having been in a mental ward with very demented people after she made a suicide attempt in despair.
I do hope I wouldn't be lumped in with the scary mentally ill in your mind for the fact that I believe I really have seen a ghost! I was not overly tired, I was not drunk or high, I was not taking any prescription pain killers, but after a lot of unexplained noises, there he was, looking me right in the eye, and there he stayed for a full minute. Never seen one since. But I do understand what you mean, as I was in a similar situation.
When I was 16 I was in the mental hospital for the longest two days of my life for a para-suicide attempt. I made a bunch of superficial cuts on my wrists. I was diagnosed as a "hysterical neurotic." Great diagnosis, Dr. Fraud! The staff treated me deplorably. I had one nurse tell me that I was a freak, would always be a freak, and people like me would never be normal. I told her better a freak than a bitch like her. Her behavior became even more vile after that, predictably.
What I was in fact was an unhappy girl going through a very difficult time with nobody understanding me and several undiagnosed mental illnesses: bipolar type II (does NOT present with psychosis, for the record) borderline personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But these things would not be properly diagnosed until I was nearly 40.
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I think I'd shit my pants when confronted with a spirit or ghost. I sometimes had a strange feeling of being not alone. Some were not frightening. But I once encountered something that was not good. But I think true evil is human.
Most spirit presences I've sensed have not been negative. But I've had a couple of experiences that made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. A ghost really can't hurt a living person physically, but they can cause obsessive thoughts in those who are vulnerable if they so wish.
People are the same when they die as when they were alive. If they were good, they will still be good. If they were evil their wickedness will come out.
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