Hello, Kandice,
Welcome, I’m so glad you were led here & that you’ve participated in some of this forum already! The best way one starts to help themselves when faced with any condition, mental or physical is to do as you are doing now; listening to your inner guidance; that “gut” feeling. In my experience, the medical world overlooks the spiritual view of a condition which, in my opinion, is the foundation for everything else.
As you step forward to explore your options in alternative healing, Kandice, only you will know what is best for you.
To begin, I invite you to read an article by my teacher, Julie Redstone that may start you on your way. The following is an excerpt from, “A Spiritual View of Mental Illness.” The link I’ve included contains many of her articles so you may read more as you choose.
“Up until now, we have looked at mental and emotional disorders as an extreme handicap for those who live through them, a financial burden for a society that maintains those who cannot care for themselves, and a source of concern for families who try to remain in loving relationship even while experiencing hardship. Indeed, we know a great deal today about the impact of mental illness on the self and on others. But what has not been knowable till now is the relationship of the group of conditions we are calling ‘mental illness’ to the realm of the soul. As paradoxical as it may seem to the human heart and mind, this relationship involves a choice that the soul has made to manifest in this way – a choice to create a deep-seated emotional or mental condition for which a great cost is paid in life. This choice, though invisible, is very real. Perceiving it can help us penetrate the mysterious world of the mentally ill. It can also help us look for the hidden value and purpose of conditions that at face value seem anything but positive in their nature or in their effect.
The choice for illness of any kind that shapes the course of a life or a significant portion of it is always the choice of the individual soul, made prior to incarnating into physical life. The soul looks at the various opportunities for learning that could be afforded by different circumstances, and chooses what will be most productive in terms of growth in a particular area. In relation to severe emotional or mental difficulties, especially those in which separation from reality is involved, the soul makes a choice to learn from the very experience of separation, alienation, and distortion that is the handicap itself – to learn in the context of being deeply wounded, deeply immersed in one’s own inner reality, and yet also, simultaneously, separated from oneself. For the separation from external reality, for most, is accompanied by an equally potent separation from one’s true self. As a result, a person can experience a lack of a central core or clear sense of ‘I’ that invisibly limits all of life-experience. This situation, including patterns of withdrawal and difficulties on both mental and emotional levels, displays differently for different individuals. Yet within the variation there is a common thread. It is this:
At the core of the choice to embody in a way that causes severe and painful separation from reality and from the self, is the motivation on a soul-level to find that very center of self, and to re-establish a connection with the rest of the world that has previously been injured or broken.”
Article in full:
http://www.lightomega.org/List-Articles ... stone.htmlI am so glad to meet you & hope you will visit again & share your experiences with us. You are on an exciting & profound journey of self discovery & I send you blessings. ~ Meg