Possessed or Mentally Ill? w/ Exorcist Fr. Vincent Lampert

Fr. Lampert talks about how exorcists tell the difference between mental illness and demonic possession.

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[andrewhayes]

A very brave priest. Reminds me of a story my parish priest in college told about his mentor, who'd been ordained in New Mexico in the late 1940s. This priest's first parish was with an older priest in a pretty rural area, with a lot of big ranches. One of their parishioners was a rancher, and he told the older priest he thought one of his workers was possessed. This ranch hand refused to wear clothes or come back to their quarters to sleep and he would kill the sheep he was supposed to be guarding and eat them. This always reminds me of Fulton Sheen's admonition that two sure signs of possession are obsessions with nudity and death, and how one of the demoniacs healed by Jesus was found naked in the tombs, but I digress. The two priests traveled out to the ranch and sure enough, found the man calmly sitting naked at a little campsite he'd made for himself. None of the other workers dared to go near him. Rather than recoiling at the sight of the two priests, he just sat there, calmly, and the priests asked him his name, and he responded with this unnatural, still voice. The older priest, knowing the trick Fr. Lampert describes, asked him a question in Spanish. Now, this was someone with almost no education, someone barely literate in his own language, English. But he responded in perfect Spanish. Maybe that's not so amazing, surely he worked with Mexicans on the ranch, you might say. So the priest asked him a different question, in French this time. The response came in French. Then in German. Finally the priest asked a question in Latin, and the man responded in Latin. Eventually, of course, the man was exorcised and he was fine, but stories like these should always make us wary of how the devil is working at us in subtler ways, and you don't have to look far to see the impact he's having on our world. St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us!

[kimthetruthofit]

Once you experience the paranormal you never forget it.

[youbloodybloodworktimejasper]

I was radically born again and have no explanation for it. This is all real. Jesus is Lord.

[godsgrace]

I am a Mental Health Therapist and do know and agree many are oppressed or/and possessed by the enemy/demons. I have seen them.

[ohnoyce]

I’ve thought many times over the past year that we could well benefit from a mass exorcism/deliverance.

[perezm]

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
- Ephesians 6:12

[larkinabbott]

Father Lambert is so humble and confident in the Lord what a blessing much wisdom and knowledge.

[lindajnichols]

Sometimes if a patient goes through a deliverance or exorcism, the mental illness disappears. It was a mask the demon was hiding behind. I've had this experience with a couple of my patients.

[mdlamerica]

The “Paranormal Witness” episode with Father Lampert is one of, if not the best episode. Amazing man of God.

[marionhegarty]

GOD BLESS ALL WHO WORK IN THIS FIELD. MAY GOD OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST PROTECT THEM ALL ✝✝🛐🛐💜💜🙏🙏👑👑

[knholifield]

We had a demonic presence in our house. I asked my pastor to pray over our house. He said he didn’t do anything like that. But I insisted and he prayed over each room in our house. It worked and Jesus drove out the spirit. Now I just do it myself.

[alexvendetta]

Agree 100% with Priest Lampert! He’s awesome.

[fintan]

“The entry point.” The entry point for Regan in the Exorcist was the ouji board. She made friends with Captain Howdy. The ouji is not just a game!
😈😈😈

[yvobalcer]

A person can be both possessed and have mental illness. I think being possessed could make anyone mentally unstable.

[flaviantiusfebrianoiko]

I agree with Fr. Lampert. It's difficult to find the professionals (either psychiatrics or psychologists or medical doctors) who are open to the possibility that what they are facing is not a mental problem but a spiritual problem

[elizabethkirkeide]

When I was twenty (I am 60 now) I was delivered from among others a critical spirit. I was not possessed, but this spirit would constantly insinuate criticisms into my thoughts. I was an evangelical Christian in a charismatic church. I did not have the eucharist or mass, at that time. Believers in Christ simply told the demons to get out. It was a profound experience for me. Afterward, I was not hungry and was very sleepy for two days. I no longer had that critical voice in my head. I'm not sure how I got this spirit, I did have many scary experiences as a small child with an angry father. The important thing to know is demons are not the adversary of God. God is not threatened by Satan. Satan is our adversary, not God's. Christ defeated Satan on the cross, for our sake. If you are troubled by demons ask God to help you and he will.

[breadandcircus]

Fascinating priest and topic. God bless him

[glendagonsalvez]

There is a reason there are the saints n the angels to pray n intercede for us, if only we ask, and in all of this discernment is extremely essential

[menoldjoshua]

In my experience, any experience with the supernatural absolutely and totally wrecks your mental health. Who you gonna tell? Who’s gonna believe you?
If it’s real, more so it’s just real to you and no one else. It’s a wild catch 22

[gabrielcrawford]

Having studied cult and ritual abuse, it is important to distinguish Dissociative Identity Disorder from demonic possession. In cases of extreme abuse, one's personality can split to such a degree that it is like having one or more personalities that are not aware of one another. So, one can mistake demonic presence from a personality that split to survive terrible violence. When one treats the personality split like a demon then greater harm may happen, so the collaboration between the Church and mental health professional is crucial. Furthermore, in cases of cult and ritual abuse, or priestly sexual abuse, religious imagery and sacramentals are sometimes used in the abuse so the sacred object becomes associated with the trauma and abuse, so an extreme response to something religious may not be demonic but a trauma trigger. Again, this is another reason why one can mistake psychological symptoms for demonic symptoms.