Ever ran into a demon?

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I prefer the works of the psychologist, Dr. Peter Venkman.
 
medium rare said:
Catholic priests work for free. With a bottle of Scotch as an honorarium, perhaps.
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The Church actually makes it incredibly difficult to arrange for an exorcism and also requires the person receiving it be evaluated to assess whether their behavior might instead be due to mental illness. They can't get rid of it as a sacrament but it is very heavily downplayed.

I wonder what FFE (fitness for exorcism) evals are like.
 
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I used to work for a facility overseen by the Sisters of Providence. Was at a meeting where a Priest (not sure why he was even there, as this was one of the only times times I recall one being involved in a case- maybe it was a human rights committee meeting or something) mentioned the possibility of possession. The sister who was there (she was a regular provider of pastoral care and participant in treatment meetings) gave him a look like he was crazy and made sure that we all see her do it. Within a few days, we had a meeting with all the clinical staff, the sister, and the higher up sister in charge (priest was not there) where they very clearly let us not that that was NOT what they were all about, viewed the priests suggestion as inappropriate, and trusted us clinicians to figure out what the client needed, with an offer to provided continued appropriate pastoral and faith-based services as we (and the client) saw fit. Turns out that changing the medication from clozaril to Riperdal (long enough ago that there was no generic ripserdone) with a bit of social skills instruction and a tweeking of the differential reinforcement plan was effective. Maybe demons don't like clozaril, non-aggressive self-advocacy, and DRAs, but I'm guessing it was the clinical effects of our interventions rather than the spiritual ones that made the difference (as well as the discontinuation of regular phlebotomist visits related to clorazil usage!). Man- makes me remember that a large portion of my work at the team was focused on keeping phlebotomists from getting there butts kicked! Maybe demons just don't like blood draws?
 
ClinicalABA said:
I used to work for a facility overseen by the Sisters of Providence. Was at a meeting where a Priest (not sure why he was even there, as this was one of the only times times I recall one being involved in a case- maybe it was a human rights committee meeting or something) mentioned the possibility of possession. The sister who was there (she was a regular provider of pastoral care and participant in treatment meetings) gave him a look like he was crazy and made sure that we all see her do it. Within a few days, we had a meeting with all the clinical staff, the sister, and the higher up sister in charge (priest was not there) where they very clearly let us not that that was NOT what they were all about, viewed the priests suggestion as inappropriate, and trusted us clinicians to figure out what the client needed, with an offer to provided continued appropriate pastoral and faith-based services as we (and the client) saw fit. Turns out that changing the medication from clozaril to Riperdal (long enough ago that there was no generic ripserdone) with a bit of social skills instruction and a tweeking of the differential reinforcement plan was effective. Maybe demons don't like clozaril, non-aggressive self-advocacy, and DRAs, but I'm guessing it was the clinical effects of our interventions rather than the spiritual ones that made the difference (as well as the discontinuation of regular phlebotomist visits related to clorazil usage!). Man- makes me remember that a large portion of my work at the team was focused on keeping phlebotomists from getting there butts kicked! Maybe demons just don't like blood draws?
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Bless the Riperdol. Bases covered.
 
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