Sometime when we are going through trauma in our thoughts and emotions, the mind uses delusions to help us to sort out what is going on. It is a kind of protection as the mind seeks to protect itself from hurt and blame. It can be a distraction from the reality which is causing us distress and a way of helping us to have some sort of value especially if we are being abused.

Delusions are not “real” but part of the cycle of our imagination that is sorting through hurt and the trauma we have experienced. We imagine situations and outcomes that could be or that come into our remit of understanding and the mind playacts these out either as dreams, thoughts or in real time. The trauma is so great that it affects our thought processes and emotions so deeply that we reenact certain aspects of our pain. God is able to keep us when we are in these situations of being and bring us through. We can then look back and analyse where our ideas came from and it helps us to understand the pain.

We can think we are someone else, or imagine people we know who want us to do certain tasks; think we can do strenuous things and we may even try to do these things, but God keeps us safe through it all until the troubled time is past. Delusions can be worked out in real life and can get us into trouble with authorities, as we are not thinking logically, though it might seem so to us that we are at the time. It is important to seek the right kind of help and have people we can reach out to when necessary. This can be hard to find as not everyone is sympathetic to those suffering for this kind of mind illness. People are afraid of the person who is suffering and this causes isolation and more distress for the sufferer.

People can retreat into delusions as they try to come to terms with rejection and the isolation they feel. Sometimes people have to construct a whole new life because of the rejection of family and friends. This is a very difficult situation and without the guidance and protection of God, it cannot be achieved. We find our refuge in God alone, not in psychiatric hospital nor any friend. God is our help in these desperate times and He will bring us through and help us to stand and be well again.

The delusions pass and we are able to deal with them in our normal cognition. God is with us through all our trauma and will bring us safely through. He is our strength and fortress and though our mind and emotion give way under the stress, He is able to support us and keep us safe whatever our mindset. Let us be strong in heart and commit all our ways to the Lord. He will dissipate the delusions and bring us our again into a plain path.