Is it jinn, or is it illnessStep 1 of 8

Before you read on

Some of what people attribute to affliction is also what a treatable and sometimes urgent illness looks like. Get seen today, not next week, for any of these. Hearing or seeing what others do not, especially if it is new or in more than one sense at once. Not sleeping for several nights with energy that feels raised rather than drained. Not eating or drinking. Confusion that comes and goes, or a sudden change in someone who was well yesterday. Fits, collapse or loss of consciousness. Any new symptom after a head injury, a fever, a new medicine, or in pregnancy or after birth. Any thought of ending your life or of harming someone else, which is an emergency now. And if you have been told to stop a medicine so that the treatment can work, please speak to your doctor before you stop, because stopping suddenly is dangerous by itself whatever the cause turns out to be.

Lesson 6 of 6

The signs that mean today

These are not signs of affliction and they are not signs of anything else. They are signs that the clock is short.

Hearing or seeing what other people do not, especially if it is new, and especially in more than one sense at the same time. A fixed belief that will not move even when the person is shown otherwise. Several nights running without sleep, with energy that feels raised rather than drained. Not eating or drinking, or refusing food because of a belief about it.

Any thought of ending a life, any plan, any preparation. Any thought of harming somebody else. Those go to emergency services now, not to an appointment.