For me personally, I was told a story. This story lasted probably, 1 and 1/2 to 2 years before I got help (medication). This story was active every day, connecting dots in my life, teaching me how to grow from past hurt, showing me the most beautiful things in life (and outside of reality) to give me hope and then also there was the bad, like genuine serious pain felt when I was being reprimanded for something I had done wrong in the past. So from my experience it seemed to be coming from a place that knew more than I did. And I could feel it not hear it.

God in my eyes is an infinitely wiser being that’s transdimensional. But through this ‘God’ delusion things were ‘shared’ with me (ideas, images, short stories) and I felt euphoric (as in the greatest most intense feeling I’ve ever had, but also the worst when I was being reprimanded). The most beautiful times of my life were during this ‘psychosis’ and I find myself missing it as even the colours where brighter and I felt beautiful(not in the the literal sense).

Although poorly worded (not sure I expressed myself enough this time either, little apprehensive ) what is an atheist’s perspective on mental illness, do you believe in other causes other than a failing brain?

(More of a question,less a debate)