The part of the world I come from is very spiritual and religious, a lot of people find spiritual and religious reasons for everything, if you are not strong willed you would easily believe these things because they come with facts. And even if you are strong willed you might be in a position where you would be forced to rethink your stand hoping that you are not making the wrong decision. I remember when my sister was so depressed that she scaled off the balcony of our duplex, my parents attributed it to her being influenced by some demonic spirits calling her actions rebellious and quoting that the scripture says rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.
To be honest you can’t argue with them when they say these things, else you will be like a demon sent from hell and they will start praying for God to deliver your soul. I remember when I was at the lowest moments of my life, fighting hard to keep my sanity and almost committed suicide, my parents said I was being controled by spirits from my fathers house. The thing with these things is that there is really no way to fact check them, and with the facts they bring, sometimes I just resign in silence.
Perhaps they are right, perhaps they are wrong. However, what usually brings out the worst in me is when I am down looking at the people I know and love to pull me back up and tell me they understand or something to encourage me. But instead what I get is them attributing my weak state to being possessed. These are the reasons I do not go to them when things get hard, because at the end of the day, I feel like just running away from everything.
