Psychosis Questionnaire

Question 1:

If I feel a presence in the room it means

a. There’s someone or something in the room with me, nothing else can cause the feeling of a presence
b. There could be something else causing this feeling. The human mind is powerful and we even see that all kinds of sensations and perceptions and experiences can be experienced by people who take LSD for instance. It’s also true that lack of sleep or experiencing abuse or stress can trigger some of these same perceptions and feelings that drugs can.
c. Anything that feels spiritual is a spiritual experience; it can’t just be a process in my brain devoid of a supernatural encounter causing such a spiritual feeling.

Question 2:

If I feel guilt this means

a. Guilt is always a spiritual experience and it’s always from God. The human mind may be able to generate superficial emotions and feelings, but something as real and serious as guilt it cannot generate on its own without God giving us the feeling and experience.
b. The human brain can generate feelings of guilt (even when God convicts us of guilt it’s still our brain reacting to His conviction that gives us the guilty feeling so the feeling has its basis in our biochemistry and neurochemicals), and the only way we can know if we are truly guilty is by the Word of God. If we’ve done something the Bible calls a sin, then we’re guilty; if we’ve done something the Bible says is a good action or thought, then we can know we’re innocent in doing or thinking it.
c. There is no such thing as false guilt, or a misguided feeling when it comes to guilt.
d. Abuse and rape or trauma, or even biochemical depression can cause the body to become inflamed, and this feeling in many people feels like the feeling we associate with guilt, even though the person is innocent and it’s their abuser who is the guilty one who committed a crime against them.

Question 3:

If someone hears a voice in their mind claiming to be the voice of God this means:

a. It is very likely to be, or absolutely is, the voice of God
b. It might be the voice of God, but it also could be something else. You would need to evaluate the details such as the nature of the voice and its attributes, what things seem to influence it or be causing it, the contents of the information it gives, in order to narrow down if it’s God’s voice or something else.
c. It’s very unlikely to be, or definitely is not, the voice of God.

Question 4:

Which of the following is true about what do we know about how the human mind works (you may circle more than one):

a. Direct mind-to-mind transfer of thoughts (telepathy) is impossible, although people like Elon musk are working on technology that can connect to a person’s brain and be influenced by their thoughts to type and communicate and perform actions. Through computers and possibly in the future, computerized systems that connect to the neurons in our brain, indirect mind-to-mind (with a step in between) communication is theoretically possible.
b. Direct mind-to-mind telepathic communication is possible and scientists just haven’t figured this out yet. It works via a mechanism they haven’t thought of yet and it’s happening to me or has happened to someone I know who is communicating with me in this way.
c. Telepathic communication is possible but not through technology, through angels or spirits, or entities.
d. The Bible says only God can both read our thoughts and communicate with us mentally through the Holy Spirit convicting us, but that neither other people nor demons can read our thoughts. Demons can put thoughts into our minds though and communicate with one-way communication. This is how they tempt us to sin.

Question 5:
What do we know about the FBI and government agencies? (circle all that applies)

a. They can know where I am at all times and in all places and are basically omniscient (or close to this)
b. While they do have advanced technology, there’s still a definite limit to this technology and they are far from omniscient. It’s possible to be somewhere and they don’t know where you are. Look at Edward Snowden whom they can’t find because he left the country.

Question 6:

If someone eats a food they don’t usually eat and they get sick afterwards this means,

a. The new food definitely made them sick
b. They were definitely already sick and the timing of the reaction was a coincidence.
c. It can’t be determined at this point whether the food made them sick or whether it was something else. The person should wait till they feel better, then try the new food again, and note whether there are any reactions the second time. The person may need to do this several times, and note reactions. If they react to the food each time, it’s likely the food that caused the reaction. If they don’t react the other times, then getting sick is likely to be caused by another factor and not the food.
d. Even using the scientific method and testing you can’t ever get closer to knowing the answer of what may have caused you to get sick; things like this are always unknowns and can rarely be pinpointed, and scientific analysis is very unreliable.

Question 7:

If it’s the case that there exists an item of clothing no one has worn in the second-hand clothing store, this means

a. There’s only one item of clothing that hasn’t been worn, and all the others have been worn before
b. There’s one item of clothing that hasn’t been worn, but there may be others that haven’t been worn too
c. None of the clothes have been worn in the store
d. The clothes have all been worn in the store
e. There is no real answer to this question