Overcoming Schizophrenia

Ever felt watched in an empty room or pinned to your bed by a fear you can’t explain? We go straight at the experiences many people whisper about—nighttime voices, shadowy figures, rising panic—and unpack how they collide with real, diagnosable symptoms like suicidal thoughts, insomnia, and depression. 
You’ll hear Damien’s unscripted story: years of hearing voices, seeing frightening images, and feeling a heavy presence that robbed his sleep and sanity. He searched for help, found confusion, and almost gave up—until he discovered a community that treated his suffering seriously and offered steady support. If you or someone you love is battling night terrors, paranoia, or relentless anxiety, this conversation offers language, tools, and a next step toward rest.
If this helped, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs courage tonight, and leave a review so others can find practical hope. Need direct support right now? Call 1.888.332.4141 or visit paranormalactivitieshelp.com.

Episode Transcript

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Hi there, may the God of the Bible bless your life together
once again with this episode. Paranormal Activity for you who
see strange things for you who have the presence of presence of
someone in the room, in your bedroom while you are alone.

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There is nobody there but you have this presence of demons
attacking you like we have today.
The story of Damien, because he suffered from Jesus
Christophenia, he would feel like a presence or the presence
of evil spirit frightened him while he was in bed.

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So no peace to sleep. It's like when a person sees
stuff like that. You see right now on your video,
a person that sees shadows, theysee something attacking them
during the night, a strange presence.

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Dispersive feels are like paranoid panic attacks.
Well, let us understand more what schizophrenia is all about.
It seems that you have started to see some negative changes in
your life that you have no idea as to why.
Maybe you have been experiencinghallucinations.

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We're hearing sounds that appearreal to you.
You're restless. Stupid.
Your thoughts may be disorganized and you have no
answer as to why. Paying attention to work may
seem difficult, and even making a simple decision may feel
overwhelming. Because of these symptoms

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occurring to you all at once, your employer has decided to
fire you from your job. On top of all this, you have now
become depressed and withdrawn and increasingly paranoid.
Maybe you are going through thisterrible ordeal right now and
are asking yourself why is this happening to me?

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Your symptoms may be something out of your control and you were
unaware of schizophrenia. You do need spiritual help.
You do need to be set free once and for all.
There was this man. He looked like a crazy person,

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he looked like somebody insane, somebody that was mentally ill.
Because that man, he used to cuthimself, he used to go to the
mountains, to the tombs. He had no peace.
Even shackles and chains could not hold him.

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I want you to watch this video to understand what happened to
this man. And thereafter we are going to
go into them years story. When he had come out of the

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boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs, a man with an
unclean spirit, because he had often been bound with shackles
and chains, and the chains have been pulled apart by him and the
shackles broken in pieces. Neither could anyone tame him.
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the

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tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

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My name is Damien, and you know I suffered from schizophrenia.
It started in 2013. I would hear voices, noises.
I would have what I would feel like the presence of spirits

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that would frighten me while I was laying in bed.
I would see demons, things like this.
They, they, it brought me like depression, anxiety in the first
six months. I just looked for churches and
when I would tell them about these things, they sometimes

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they would give some kind of help.
But I could sense that it was kind of awkward for them and
they really didn't know how to deal with it.
I pray God lead me to a place that can help me with this
problem. And one day I was walking down
the street by the church and I picked up a flyer and it was a

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flyer of the Universal Church. And it meant it showed the
things that I was suffering from.
But I kept coming back because Isaw the faith that that the
assistance pastors passed on. And it gave me that faith that,
you know, it didn't matter. At some point I could be healed,
you know, so I kept coming back and eventually I did see my

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healing and I and I was healed from schizophrenia.
I don't have depression, anxiety, I'm not addicted to
anything. So, you know, I'm free, I'm
blessed. All the blessings that I've
received here, you know, nothingcompares to the greatest
blessing and that is receiving the Holy Spirit.

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So come to the Universal Church,give this ministry a chance.
You won't regret it. He is now completely free.
And you who have this memory loss, confusion, your minds, you

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suffer from this schizophrenia. We are going to pray for you
right now. I want you, please to stand in
the place where you are. Let us now pray together,
lifting out both your hands to heaven, close your eyes or God
of the Bible in the name of Jesus, the same power that you

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use to set damn here free, so free dispersed right now from
Jesus evil spirit. Place your hands upon your
heads, both your hands on top ofyour head.
Close your eyes in the name of Jesus Christ.

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Whatever evil spirit that works upon the life of this person
dispersed that cannot is sleep well and suffers from Jesus
paranormal activities. Jesus spirit that torment
dispersed day and night right now in the name of Jesus Christ,

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Yes, this paranoid panic attacks, paranormal experiences,
I rebuke you now and I command leave this person alone.
The spirit of torment, in Jesus name, keep your hands upon your
heads, open your eyes now and say in Jesus name take off your

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hands and say, get out of my life.
Be set free. The Lord sets you free.
Breathe now in and out. Hold now your cup of water,
close your eyes, O Lord, in yourname we bless this water, so

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that when this person drink of this water may drink the power
of the Father, the power of the Son, and the power of the Holy
Spirit. So we consecrate this water in
Jesus Christ name, Amen. This water is blessed.

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Drink with all your faith and beset free, Amen.
Then you said I am free indeed. What do you need to do right
now? What is the next step for you

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right now, Every week we have this podcast Paranormal
Activity. Now you need to call us.
This is the helpline number to assist those who suffer from
paranormal activities. 1-888-332-4141 Our website is

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Paranormal Activities help.com. May the God of the Bible bless
all of you. Next week we are going to be
back with one more episode over here talking about Paranormal
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