Some thoughts are harder to write out than others. This is one of the harder ones because it is complex, and many will not accept it even though they have likely experienced something they can not explain. They probably have never told more than one or two people about their experience either out of fear of rejection or other reasons.
It is always easier to deny than entertain what we think we know may not be correct. I was watching a television show about children who see spirits, are pestered by spirits, or are terrified by a spirit. As is the case with most people having this gift, they did not know what to do about it, and neither do their parents. These children are lucky, they were helped by a two respected psychics, an Empath, and others.
Growing up seeing things, hearing voices or your name called when no one is around is no fun as a child. Neither is having ‘imaginary’ playmates dressed in Navy Sailor uniforms who don’t care to play with you. It is harder when one of them does not care for kids.
It is made worse when both imaginary people tell you that about one hundred feet away beyond the lilac bushes is another person who neither of them like and to stay away from that area. Living with a ghost or poltergeist sharing your room, having visions – dead people (mostly family) coming to visit you is scary. In fact at times it is terrifying. Those are only the major events to help you understand this multi post.
Trying to find someone who understands anything paranormal and willing to talk about what is going on is almost impossible. Most people either don’t want to know, pretend they don’t notice, or are scared of what you may say while talking with them.
Clergy generally are of an opinion that it is either an over active imagination, health issue, drug problem, or a mix when venturing an opinion when asked for guidance. Eventually I found people who helped me, and shared what they knew to help me help myself.
With the internet and mega bookstores, there are thousands of people who claim to be psychic, or have paranormal abilities such as communication with the dead, or what we refer to as aliens. Others will guide you through your life, fix your problems or who knows what else.
Some of sources are total scams, some are looking to make a quick buck such as some fortune tellers, and some authors. For the most part these folks are self professed in the authors abilities, and self heavily marketed. Promises are large and actual content is a little light.
A few people however, even though they may seem a little over the edge when it comes to abnormal, are the real deal. They lived with themselves and their uncommon life until they could not take it any longer. At that point for them, it becomes a matter of accepting who and what you are, or losing yourself to the void. To the person who has to make that choice, there does not seem to be a lot of difference at that point and time. They found ways to make their gifts work for them instead of against them, and though they may be odd they do what they think is best for all.
It seems impossible to really know if what you (may) have experience(d) is real or not. Most people become scared and try to turn that part of themselves off like a water faucet, hoping they can turn the handle and it will stop. Some people like myself in the beginning, spend a lot of time scared of what they see and hear, and wonder about their grip on reality. Perhaps it is really is a bad movie playing in their head. Others do lose their grip on reality because they can not take it any more. They end up on some medicine or other because someone tries to make them normal when there was nothing wrong with them to start with, except knowledge and understanding.
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Psychic and Scared Self help Guide
Now that the door is open, it is important to know you do not need to know exactly what you are or what is scaring you. You may be a Psychic, Clairvoyant, Empath, Healer, Sensitive, Medium, or other. What you define yourself as can be determined at some future point when you have the desire to decide who and what, or if you are.
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