Do you think there should be support groups for people who have had bad paranormal experiences?

Question

Do you sometimes feel like a "victim" of the paranormal and feel you need some guidance as how to deal with it?

Answer 1

I don't know. In my personal opinion, I think that each 'experience' is a personal one and it's there to help you grow spiritually. It is you goal to seek and learn from it. I had a bad experience and I'm still to this day interrupting it and trying to figure out what it meant.

Answer 2

Yes, 100% there should be groups that help people deal with these kind of events. Problem at large however is that many of our trained professionals cant think outside there own biased box that they are taught while in school. You have to approach the subject and be willing to say that just because it never happened to you does not prove that it could not happen. When people go through spiritual attack or bad paranormal issues along with alien abductions, PTSD is very real to them and without counciling you can drive yourself crazy over it. Years ago my mom had a room mate who swore to my mother that the attic bedroom she lived in was haunted. My mom would hear the radio go on when no one was home and one day she went up to turn it off finding out it wasnt even pluged in. Her friend at times would come down stairs crying and asking my mom if she could smell vomit on her hands and even though my mom couldnt, this woman would puke all over the place. The final straw came when my mom heard a deep voice upstairs on night and heard her friend crying, when my mom opened the door her friends head was pinned against the wall and she had small blister like raisings around her neck but it was only 4 fingure like marks, not the common 5 as in human. The next morning my mother went to talk to her and she had left. My mom to the day she passed away never new when she left or where she had gone. Her familey never heard from her nore was there a missing persons report filed as far as I know but then again this was back in 78-79. Running will help only in some cases to get away from the entity or paranormal situation. After a run in like I explained, it would be logical to have the need of assistence and help after a traumatic event like this. Just ask yourself this, why are so many people afraid to look for help even today? Because our society has already put a stamp on people who experiance things that are not explainable through science as BS. When a person cannot think outside the small box that our society has created, the easiest way to explain it is by saying the persons experiance was a product of a mental dissorder rather than allow themself to question and wonder if indeed somthing could happen that cannot be explained by ration. Supernatural issues are outside of our world. They are not bound by the same laws we as humans are meaning :space, time, and standard dimentions. The Bible itself even warns us against getting involved in spiritual afairs due to God telling us that we have no understanding of the matter and that it should be 100% left up to him to deal with.

Answer 3

If one is needed, and there are enough people who need it, then sure. There are support groups for just about anything nowadays. I'm sure there are a number of people who thought they experienced something paranormal and it disturbed them, so perhaps they might benefit from some group therapy. I've never felt a "victim" of the paranormal, but if I did, I would actually just be a victim of my own power of suggestion.

Answer 4

Yes ,we need a alien abduction support group in australia.

Answer 5

Talking about a bad experience with other people who have had the same bad experience it very beneficial.

Answer 6

No, just a special room in the psychiatric ward.

Answer 7

yes but i think some churches or priests have been helping in this area for years?

Answer 8

Yes,there definitely should.I don't see why the Parapsychological Association doesn't put it's considerable weight behind this problem.What could they be doing more important then that?

Answer 9

Choose carefully those with whom you share your paranormal experiences.   There are a lot of people who will label you as crazy, because these experiences are not really accepted  as real in our culture.   Institutionalizing "support" has its dangers, too.  

While some religions may help some people, be very careful there.   There are too many who would want to treat with pity anyone whose experience is not  in conformity with rigid doctrine.  

Seeking emotional support in this area is about the same as it is in any area of life.   You have to choose carefully and learn by trial and error whom you can trust, whether friends, or family members, or someone else.  Don't just spill out the whole story.   Assess whether there is good will towards you and whether the person or people have open mind(s).

Answer 10

Yes I do think so and there are such groups but they can be difficult to find. For example Constance Clear ran a support group in San Antonio, Texas for alien abductees.

She was a licensed social worker that was open minded and didn't suggest medication and that all people reporting such experiences were suffering from a mental disorder (something she was qualified to determine).

Unfortunately most mental health professional have no training or exposure to exceptional human experiences and do not know how to tell the difference between psychosis and exceptional experiences which there are clear differences between as determined by extensive research.

I have never experienced anything of a paranormal nature that has made me feel like a victim but I know many people have had such experiences and I wish more support groups existed and more mental health professionals were concerned with people's well being rather than medicating and diagnosing them to conform to the professionals personal beliefs about the paranormal.

I also wish support groups in general had professionals at least in an advisory position to be able to consider when a person might need more than simple support.

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Answer 11

Yes and I have gotten the guidance to deal with it.

Have you ever talked with a group of people and walked away tired? There was probably a psychic vampire in your midst and you didn't know it. Probably they didn't even know they were doing it. Our own personal self defenses usually are enough.

Sometimes the church will help with people that have had bad paranormal experiences. For the most part I've only found online forums where people vent and ask questions. There aren't many support groups for this type of thing.