#ghostsickness

[collge-lyf]

Anyone remember when Dean had Ghost Sickness and his hallucination was being a dick to him.

[motherof3corgis]

Eye of the tiger, Baby! #supernatural #ifypuknowyouknow #ghostsickness #lovemyfriends #breakfast https://www.instagram.com/p/CiZPgppO4lM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[leonardcohenofficial]

For the remind me of thing umm talking with friends in a cinema bathroom after the end of a really good movie. Anddd a washing line full of clothes in the sun AND. A fruit bowl

literally the imagery of all of this is so beautiful and so touching 🥺✨🌟

[leonardcohenofficial]

12 for film asks if u haven’t had it already!

a movie that holds a special place in my heart: wattstax (mel stuart, 1973) is the best concert movie of all time and it's one that i could watch on loop endlessly literally nothing compares to the beauty of black music and black joy; also while opening night (john cassavetes, 1977) is not my favorite in his filmography it was both the first film of his i got to experience on the big screen as well as the first film i'd seen in theaters since april of 2019 (when i saw it this past june) and thus has a special place in my heart for that on top of it being an amazing film

[yamachancosplay]

Supernatural

So Dean Winchester can handle demons, vampires, etc. but he's terrified of snakes. Aaand now he's haunted.

[ravensghostguide]

Treatment for Ghost Sickness

Religious leaders within the Navajo tribe repeatedly perform rituals to eliminate the all-consuming thoughts of the dead.

[ravensghostguide]

Cause of Ghost Sickness

Ghost sickness is related to the belief that the dead may try to take someone with them. Putsch states that "Spirits or 'ghosts' may be viewed as being directly or indirectly linked to the cause of an event, accident, or illness". Both Erikson and Macgregor report substantiating evidence of trauma response in ghost sickness, with features including withdrawal and psychic numbing, anxiety and hypervigilance, guilt, identification with ancestral pain and death, and chronic sadness and depression.

[ravensghostguide]

Culture Background of Ghost Sickness

The Native American world-view is more cyclical in nature than the typically linear world-view of most Western societies, which view the world as cause and effect, with events happening linearly, i.e., one after the other. Native Americans have what the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) term a relational world-view that is more cyclical in nature. It is not oriented in time, but instead believes that all events affect each other, regardless of when the event occurs—past, present or future. In the Muscogee (Creek) culture, it is believed that everyone is a part of an energy called Ibofanga. This energy supposedly results from the flow between mind, body, and spirit. Illness can result from this flow being disrupted. Therefore "Indian medicine is used to prevent or treat an obstruction and restore the peaceful flow of energy within a person". Purification rituals for mourning "focus on preventing unnatural or prolonged emotional and physical drain. The grief resolution process is qualitatively different for Native Americans than for Western cultures. In 1881, there was a federal ban on some of the traditional mourning rituals practised by the Lakota and other tribes. Lakota expert Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart proposes that the loss of these rituals may have caused the Lakota to be "further predisposed to the development of pathological grief". Some manifestations of unresolved grief include seeking visions of the spirits of deceased relatives, obsessive reminiscing about the deceased, longing for and believing in a reunion with the deceased, fantasies of reappearance of the deceased, and belief in one's ability to project oneself to the past or to the future. A common belief among the Kwakiuti Indians of British Columbia is that a child's soul is weaker or less attached to their body than that of an adult. This would make children more vulnerable than adults to ghost sickness. In this society the children are commonly referred to as adults in order to protect their souls and mislead the ghosts.