"My sister is a demon"

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This is a story about a girl and her sister growing up in a Mormon family, and her sister was said to be possessed by a "demon" (and seemed like a rotten human being, anyway). What I'm curious about is if this represents what growing up in a Mormon family is like, particularly pertaining to the beliefs. When I was a teenager, there was a Mormon family living across the street from me (and they were pretty fun to hang out with), but I don't know much about Mormonism itself:

I would be careful with some of these animated stories channels. Regardless of kernels of truth, you should take them with a pinch of salt.

It probably depends on how strict the Mormon family is. Mormons do believe in demons, and they do take portions of the Bible literally, so if people could be possessed by demons in Bible times, they think that they probably could be today.

A lot of people with fringe beliefs have similar notions.

It’s problematic because sometimes people with mental illnesses in need of treatment are thought to be experiencing demon trouble.

I knew a Catholic woman who was convinced her grandson was possessed by a demon. She had custody of him and his sister, would take him to priests, pastors, rabbis, store-front “psychics”, and even a seventh son of a seventh son who had emigrated illegally from Mexico in the vain hope that someone would remove the demon and make him act more like his older sister (he was 6, she was 10).

About two years after I had met them, the grandma suffered a fatal stroke, and the kids went to live with cousins around Fresno. About a dozen years later, I heard the boy was going into med school.

He was just a normally active, intelligent, and imaginative little boy. Some people seem to use “demon possession” as a way to explain things they don’t understand or can’t control.

Oh wow, thanks! I had been seeing a proliferation of these videos in my feed for the past week or so.

I have relatives who think that people with schizophrenia are demon-possessed. It’s a great thing that schizophrenia doesn’t run in my family...

We’ve had demon-possessed objects, though. Some of my relatives are very imaginative and open to suggestion (is that the word I mean?).

Bradleigh,

There are some that seem pretty realistic and even enlightening, like this one, for example:



It matches my experience of being in a mental hospital as a teenager pretty well.

You are fortunate if that matched your experience. I have had a couple of experiences where I had to be more on guard in the hospital than in some of the worst neighborhoods I have lived in.