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Beers, Clifford - The hallucinations of depression
Identifier
001906
Type of Spiritual Experience
Number of hallucinations: 1
Background
A description of the experience
Clifford Beers – [from Manic Depression and Creativity – D Jablow Hershman and Dr Julian Lieb]
A crumpled pillow is quite an ordinary everyday object, is it not? One looks at it and thinks no more about it. So is a washing rag, or a towel tumbled on the floor, or the creases on the side of the bed. Yet they can suggest shapes of the utmost horror to the mind obsessed with fear. Gradually my eyes began to distinguish such shapes, until eventually, whichever way I turned, I could see nothing but devils waiting to torment me, devils which seemed infinitely more real than the material objects in which I saw them