demonic possession bullshit

   the possession of people by uncontrollable preternatural or paranormal forces
   traditionally and colloquially referred to as demonic possession
   is in fact a reality ---
   we call it mental illness; we call it clinical depression; schizophrenia, psychosis,
   hysteria, epilepsy, dissociative disorder...
   we no longer throw around words like demonic, supernatural, etc
   out of respect for the zeitgeist --- reason worship, anti-superstition, deification of science ---
   but the powerful implications of these words have remained intact:
   there are stuff outside the bounds of our understanding, 'neath the thresholds, behind locked doors,
   that will get out if we let them or if they grow strong enough.

   i have come close to these demons first-hand
   not by means of aesthetic manifestation; i have not heard them; i have not seen them,
   but i have spoken with them directly ---
   one of my most endeared friends have been demonically possessed for years now
   schizophrenic and psychotic, a serious clinician would say ---
   i wonder, the difference...

   in fact, modern scientific psychiatry describe stuff like demonomania, demonopathy
   in which the patient believes that he or she is possessed by one or more demons.
   how is this not legitimized, valid demonic possession by definition?

   the problem with a label such as demonic possession is the implications of it:
   this is, however, not my problem.
   people associate with demons
   some kind of visually manifestable demonic entity, imp-like, horned, malicious...
   these childish and obnoxious ideas are, to me, obfuscated by what is really going on.
   hell is not an actual physical place beneath the crust of the earth,
   demons are not horned, red, and malevolent physical and personal entities.
   hell is here and demons are everywhere:
   have you ever been visited, say, by the demon of failed romance;
   the demon of mental insanity; the demon of suicidal ideation; the demon of financial hardship?