Are Antidepressants Destroying Your Marriage?

 

Sex has never been easier than it is today. In our modern age sex has never been more free, more encouraged, never have more varieties of sex been more tolerated and openly discussed and pictured, as least not since Sodom or Pompeii. And yet people are having less sex, in fact some are calling this a sex recession, because of how many people are not having sex or are having little sex:

“The sex recession, also known as the sexual recession, refers to a decline in sexual activity among adults, particularly among young adults. This phenomenon has been observed in various studies and research papers, and its causes and implications are still being debated.

Several studies have investigated the sex recession, including a 2021 study in the Journal of Sex and a 2019 study published by The Atlantic that found young adults in the United States are having less sex than previous generations. This trend has been observed in various countries, including Australia, Japan, France, and the United Kingdom.”[1]

This might sound strange to you, especially if you are a little older now. If you came into adolescence in the 90’s and early 2000’s you will remember how many comedies there were at the time in the cinemas that presented sex as the ultimate goal of the young men or women. Movies like American Pie, Road Trip, Van Wilder Party Liaison, and more were constantly pushing a hypersexualized message. There was a constant stream of these kinds of movies. I am not suggesting you watch them, in fact I would recommend you do not. But the transition from a culture that appeared sex obsessed into a culture that is shunning sex in increasing numbers is an interesting one. Those kinds of comedies would never reach mass appeal in our day and age, and yet society is supposed to be more sexually free…right…?

A lot of research focuses around how younger people are having less sex,

“Increased rates of sexlessness have been documented around the world, among all age cohorts, regardless of marital status. But what’s most astounding is that this trend is particularly pronounced among younger generations, including millennials (born from 1980 to 1994) and Gen Z (born from 1995 to 2012), with roughly one in three men and one in five women saying they haven’t had sex in the past year.”[2]

However, if you pay attention you will see that this trend is being observed in all age cohorts, no matter their marital status, and this is what I want to hone in on in this piece. However, why we are looking at how this trend is effecting young adults will become more obvious as you read through. Marital status should be associated with increased sexual activity, not a massive decrease, however a lot of data, and anecdotal evidence suggest that sexless marriages are becoming a plague in our society right now, and men and women are crying out.

One element that a lot of people may not be aware that is negatively affecting their sex life is antidepressants,

“Interventions that have the capacity to modify our biology, mating psychology, and mental health are driving these trends. For example, two common types of pharmaceutical drugs — selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs, a class of antidepressants) and the birth control pill — are known to decrease libido as a side effect.

Although these interventions have the potential to aid many, we must ask what their influence has been on young people. Many begin their usage in childhood, and this has the potential to affect them profoundly.

More than a third of Gen Z report taking prescription medication for a mental health condition. If an individual is uncomfortable in social situations or when required to have face-to-face interactions, they will be less inclined to want to meet new people in the context of dating. Sexual intimacy requires being comfortable in your body, being present in your head, and being willing to put yourself in a position of possibly being judged or rejected by someone else.”[3]

We should add here that it should also include only being done in the context of marriage between a man and woman.

There are many reasons to be concerned about the amount of young people on medication for mental health conditions. But one that is becoming increasingly recognized is how these medications can be detrimental to sexual development and function well into adulthood.

“We know little, however, about the long-term effects of SSRIs on adolescents’ sexual development. This is concerning, considering SSRIs have been approved for use in children as young as 6-years-old, and nearly 4% of children and adolescents aged 3 to 17 in the United States take them.

One recent study using a rodent model showed that exposure to an SSRI was associated with changes to a part of the brain that is involved in emotion regulation and stress management.

There are also data emerging about a condition called post-SSRI sexual dysfunction, which describes sexual side effects from SSRIs (and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) that persist after a person has ceased taking the medication. This can include a loss of sexual desire and arousal, numbness in one’s sexual anatomy, and sexual dysfunction, including erectile dysfunction and difficulty reaching orgasm.

In some cases, individuals who began these medications during their teenage years report a blunting of emotions and an inability to feel crushes, foreclosing their desire in adulthood to be sexually active.”

It should be noted that these reflections are written by Dr Debrah Soh, who “is a sex neuroscientist and the author of “Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy.”[4] These are well informed points of data that we should take seriously, because this is affecting society in incredibly deleterious ways.

I want you to consider the fact that in our society many young people are prescribed drugs which are known to suppress sexual development and function. Now, it is inappropriate for young people to be engaging in sexual behaviour, so you might ask what is the big deal? The big deal is that these young people come into adulthood and their neural pathways and their behaviour have been detrimentally affected by these drugs already. This is not theoretical, the decline in sexual activity is being observed and documented across age groups. This does not just happen if people are prescribed these drugs from a young age, this effect can happen at any age.

But here is the reason why we have begun this discussion off with this point: if you think the problem is bad now, just wait, because it is going to get worse. Much worse. These drugs can affect sexual ability at any age, but we are now raising increasing numbers of young adults who come into the age where they should be thinking about marriage, and they have been chemically castrated, or severely damaged, before they can even begin to start forming serious relationships.

You will be surprised, and I hope a little horrified, at just how common sexual disfunction is from anti-depressants,

“Sexual side effects from psychiatric drugs, especially SSRIs, SNRIs, and antipsychotics, are not “rare” inconveniences. They’re well-documented, common, and in many cases, long-lasting.

Research shows:

• SSRIs cause sexual dysfunction in 50–70% of users (we bet even more) (Montejo et al., 2001; Serretti & Chiesa, 2009).
• Effects include loss of desire, arousal difficulties, genital numbness, and inability to orgasm and a basic loss of disconnection.
• Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD)—a condition where sexual function never fully returns even after stopping the medication has been documented in peer-reviewed journals and acknowledged by the European Medicines Agency (EMA, 2019).

Yet despite this, patients’ concerns are routinely minimized or dismissed.”[5]

50-70% of users!! Think about that. 50-70% of users. I am becoming increasingly aware of a plague of sexless marriages in our society. There could be many contributing causes for this. For instance, regular porn use is known to decrease libido and effect sexual function. Relational issues are also known to decrease libido. Work-life balance is also a contributing factor, so too is the fact that both men and women work so much today that many couples have little time for connection and are often too tired for physical connection. But another underlying problem that many people are not aware of is that their spouse might not be interested in sex, because their sexual organs have been numbed or damaged by antidepressants.

And in some cases this function NEVER FULLY RETURNS!!

The European Medicines Agency notes about Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction:

“This study is specifically addressed to post-SSRI sexual dysfunctions. There is scarce literature on the case definition of post-SSRI sexual dysfunction. Available literature1,2 clarifies that PSSD, while nominally referring to SSRIs, applies to antidepressants in general. PSSD is, thus, a misnomer and better defined as post-antidepressant sexual dysfunctions.

PSSD is classified as sexual dysfunction disorders, which manifest days or weeks after beginning antidepressants and persist after discontinuation. The sexual dysfunction disorders that make up PSSD in the literature seem to be selected based on frequency of occurrence. 

These signs and symptoms are: genital hypoaesthesia, loss of libido, libido decreased, female sexual arousal disorder, anorgasmia, female orgasmic disorder, male orgasmic disorder, orgasm abnormal, orgasmic sensation decreased, premature ejaculation, ejaculation delayed, ejaculation failure, vulvovaginal dryness, nipple hypoaesthesia , nipple hypoesthesia.”[6]

Among the most common reported sexual dysfunction side effects reported are,

“Within the narrow definition, the most frequently reported reaction PTs are ‘libido decreased’ (716), ‘loss of libido’ (378) and ‘anorgasmia’ (296). Within the extended definition, ‘erectile dysfunction’ (691), ‘sexual dysfunction’ (599) and ‘priapism’ (231) account for the highest numbers of reports.”[7]

The cases of these side effects being reported are increasing.[8] But it should be noted that the numbers are vastly unreported, because people are loath to discuss such things with other people.

The study notes that that they cannot conclusively determine whether these ongoing cases were from the medications or the fact that these people were not healed from their depression.[9] When you consider that sexual dysfunction is itself a reason why somebody would become depressed or that would increase someone’s depression, and the fact that these drugs are not guaranteed to work anyway, and that they do have known side effects of sexual dysfunction, then it is incredibly irresponsible that people are put in this position.

One of the symptoms here, anorgasmia, is particularly disturbing to contemplate,

“Anorgasmia is delayed, infrequent or absent orgasms — or significantly less-intense orgasms — after sexual arousal and adequate sexual stimulation. Women who have problems with orgasms and who feel significant distress about those problems may be diagnosed with anorgasmia.”[10]

Erectile dysfunction for a man, or the inability to have an orgasm is incredibly distressing. However, if he is able to go a long time without orgasm this might not be seen as distressing by many. But for the woman this will bring a lot of anxiety alongside a general and growing disinterest in sex. When you consider that anorgasmia can be so extreme that neither a man or woman can orgasm, you can imagine the distress this causes.

This dysfunction can have varied root causes. There could be physical reasons, psychological reasons, situational reasons, or health reasons. But among the causes is antidepressants, as we have noted, but this should be reiterated, “Medicines. Many prescription and nonprescription medications can inhibit orgasm, including blood pressure medicines, antipsychotic medicines, antihistamines and antidepressants — particularly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).”[11]

This anorgasmia can be accompanied by other related sexual problems, “These may contribute to or complicate the problem with having orgasms. These conditions include:

• Problems with sexual arousal.
• Little or no desire for sex.
• Pain from sexual intercourse or other sexual stimulation.
• Dryness of the vagina or vulva.
• Involuntary tightening of the vagina, called vaginismus.”[12]

Even though this condition can have many causes, one cause that many people just would not expect is the medicine given to them by their doctors to help them relieve stress, anxiety, or depression. In fact, it is intuitive, but also documented, that this sexual dysfunction can have a compounding effect on someone who is depressed already, “A 2010 meta-analysis (Atlantis & Sullivan) found that sexual dysfunction can worsen depression, not improve it.”[13]

As Dr Teralyn also notes “sexual satisfaction is a predictor of relational stability” and this is really intuitive as well. Is it not? If you take a marriage that is facing struggles because the wife is depressed, and rather than working on the root causes of what has brought on that depression, you instead throw in medication that is going to very possibly hamper the ability for the husband or wife, or both, to function normally in sex, you are guaranteed to cause issues.

And while sex is front and centre in this situation, it can go far beyond that. The lessening of a desire for sex, can simply be a lessening in desire for anything. As one woman has noted, a user of SSRIs has cried out, “Now I just look at him and I feel blank, like I can’t be bothered to speak to him.’ She wouldn’t be the first woman to fall out of love. And yet, clouding her judgement over her feelings for a man she was once ‘obsessed with’ is that she doesn’t feel anything at all.”[14] In fact, many users of this medication report that relationships do suffer as a result of their taking it.[15] In line with what is mentioned above about Women’s Health notes that “40% and 60% of those on antidepressants have experienced some form of sexual dysfunction, with women more likely to struggle.”[16] Many describe this process of going numb to those they love and much else in their lives. And we call this healing? It is more like a form of lobotomy.

Men, maybe you are not a good enough lover, it is known that some men are in this category. But if you went from a very passionate love life with your wife, to the fact that she is no longer interested, there is a strong possibility that if she is taking this sort of medication it is to blame. As another woman notes,

“’When I first went on citalopram, I felt numbness down there and had a really reduced libido,’ she recalls. At the time, she wasn’t in a relationship and the symptoms didn’t trouble her too much. It was meeting her partner that made the ‘numbness’ – both physical and emotional - feel unnavigable. ‘He was supportive and told me he would rather I was on meds and functioning than not on them. But eventually, the lack of sex caused our relationship to fizzle.’”

Men has this happened in your marriage? Women has this happened to you or your husband?

Part of the reason that SSRIs have this effect is because they blunt the pleasure reward functions in your brain, as well as lessening emotional pain.[17] They literally numb your mind. Patients “become less sensitive to rewards”[18] as a result. This might be sex, or some other kind of activity that brings you joy or pleasure. They dull your brains ability to find pleasure in pleasurable things. And these things have a known track record of destroying relationships and marriages,

“Across the forums in which SSRIs’ relational symptoms are dissected, posters range from those who watched their spouses and partners change after going on medication, to those who were prescribed SSRIs and found their relationships flipped from passionate to viewing their partners as roommates or friends. But there are also stories like Harriet’s; women who link taking an SSRI with acting in ways they felt were out of character, including chasing new sexual experiences such as one-night stands or affairs and feeling ‘alien’ in their homes.”[19]

Doctors are prescribing drugs to women that can make them indifferent to their partners but excited about the guy at the bar. I suspect the reason this is happens is simply because when you are numb you need heightened stimulation to activate your pleasure circuits. But it should be noted they are not sure exactly why this happens.[20] Needing heightened stimuli is known side effect of other kinds of drugs, thought.

For some women, the sacrifice is worth it,

“Less likely to end up on the forums are stories like Julia’s. Just before her son’s first birthday, the 39-year-old midwife from Edinburgh called her GP in tears. ‘I remember telling her that I couldn’t laugh at my husband’s jokes any more, or follow what he was saying,’ she recalls, of a challenging period during one of the lockdowns. Her GP prescribed sertraline, which she’s been taking ever since. ‘My son is now six years old and I can truly say [the medication] gave me my old self back. In terms of my relationship with my husband, who I’ve been with for a decade, I’m so much easier going. He spends a lot less time reassuring me about my anxieties and I can laugh at his jokes again.’ The relational impact hasn’t been wholly positive; the medication has ‘completely wiped’ her sex drive. ‘But I still enjoy sex when it happens. And even if I’d have known the impact it would have on my sex life, I’d make the same choice again.’”[21]

Of course, has anyone stopped to wonder if maybe the reason so many people were willing to tolerate things like lockdowns was because they could use prescribed drugs to just numb how they really felt about one of the greatest psychological operations in history? Men are you ok with the sexual side of your marriage being largely written off so that your wife can numb her mind to the stresses of being a wife, mother, nurse and more all in the middle of an extreme time like the lockdowns we went through? Has anyone stopped to ask if so many women are depressed because modern society expects them to be fulltime workers, mums, wives, girlfriends, etc, etc.?

As you can see the evidence that antidepressants are causing a plague of sexless marriages is massive. In fact, A Midwestern Doctor notes something we should all pay attention to,

“SSRI antidepressants are one of the most harmful medications on the market, and because of just how many people they are given to (often for no good reason as only a minority of patients benefit from SSRIs) they have had a profound effect on the consciousness of our entire society.”[22]

To illustrate this in vivid picture form, look at this account,

“He took a moderate dose, a 10 milligram pill, and an hour later, he said, “I had numb genitals.” He abandoned the drug almost right away and has taken no psychiatric medication since. “Three years later,” he explained, his penis “feels like my elbow — if you touch my elbow, it’s that same kind of sensation.” And there is emotional numbness to go with the physical. “I can’t feel any connection to you guys — I feel like my soul was ripped out of my body.” He has tried to get doctors to pay attention. “They were like: That’s impossible. It’s all in your head.”[23]

What are we doing to people? How much carnage has been wrought by these evil medications? And I mean evil. I learnt in my Jeremiah exegesis class all the way back in my early bible college years, that in Hebrew the base definition of evil is that which harms human flourishing. Are these drugs not doing this, and in spades?

And to bring us back to the start of the article where we noted that kids are being raised on these things,

“Only over the past few years has Ruth learned, from her daughter, about the sexual side effects she still lives with and about her grief. “Her erogenous zones don’t work,” “I have huge, terrible regret” about allowing her child to be medicated. “I can’t believe I so easily said yes.”[24]

I make no bones about saying that I see an evil plot in action here. From very young ages people are being raised in a society that sees the numbing of their brain, and therefore the artificial warping of their neural pathways, as a normal and recommended thing to do. I see it as the neurological version of binding feet. If you think that is too extreme, consider not being able to have a girlfriend, wife, boyfriend, husband or family, because you were given these things either at a young age, or when you were already an adult and you were among those who faced the most severe side effects. And I have not even gotten into the other problems these sorts of meds can cause.

Are antidepressants causing sexless marriages? Unquestionably. “Sexual dysfunction is common in remitted female depression patients on SSRI treatment, which may further impair their marital satisfaction and QOL. Hence, routine screening for sexual dysfunction is necessary for them.”[25]

Are they the only thing causing this? No. There are of course other factors. Even in cases where antidepressants are having this impact, there could have been other causes to begin with, and the drugs may have just exacerbated the situation. Depression is a complicated thing. It can have physical causes, but it is far more likely to be environmental. A woman whose husband is making her depressed might not care about having sex with him anyway. So don’t oversimplify this as a single cause issue, as it is not. However, these drugs are creating eunuchs. And I believe this is intentional. Not necessarily in the mind of every doctor, that is almost certainly not the case. But in the broader context of an misanthropic society with population agendas, anything that causes impotence or low libido should be viewed suspiciously.

I guess getting rid of the original Hippocratic oath about doing no harm was more consequential than people want to admit.  

List of References

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_recession

[2] Debrah Soh, 2026, https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-sex-recession-hitting-gen-z-and-whats-quietly-killing-their-drive

[3] Ibid.

[4] Ibid.

[5] Dr Teralyn, 2025, https://drteralyn.com/how-ssris-and-other-psychiatric-medications-secretly-damage-your-relationship/

[6] European Medicines Agency, 2019, Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other antidepressants and persistent sexual dysfunction https://catalogues.ema.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document_files/Antidepressants%20and%20PSSD%20-%20EV%20analysis%20-%20report%20-%2020190220.pdf p6.

[7] Ibid. p11.

[8] Ibid. p12

[9] Ibid, p16.

[10] Mayo Clinic, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/anorgasmia/symptoms-causes/syc-20369422

[11] Ibid.

[12] Ibid.

[13] Dr Teralyn, 2025, https://drteralyn.com/how-ssris-and-other-psychiatric-medications-secretly-damage-your-relationship/

[14] Catriona Innes, Inside the SSRI Marriages, Women’s Health (available through apple news).

[15] Ibid.

[16] Ibid.

[17] Ibid.

[18] Ibid.

[19] Ibid.

[20] Ibid.

[21] Ibid.

[22] A Midwestern Doctor, 2026, https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-truth-about-ssri-antidepressants?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1envt0&fbclid=IwY2xjawRSkQZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFPY2dxeFVNOUUxWE16WEZWc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqJb76nrQUpUJwYSozpLddnesAP0SW_E4IFt1isfzJ8ntD3knVgy7ngY55KW_aem_ayHbUOqQBnM2jYaAC6IxPQ&triedRedirect=true

[23] Ibid.

[24] Ibid.

[25]Sravanthi Penubarthi et. al. 2022, National Library of Medicine,  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9460025/

Is Trump Possessed?

 

I want to state very plainly at the start of this article that I do not write this with any intention for hate, or to stir up hate. In fact I write this with the exact opposite intention; I want to stir up a spirit of prayer among God’s people. Even if you disagree with my overall argument in this piece, which is fair and valid, as I am simply hypothesizing, as a Christian you will be cognizant of the dark forces at work in this world, and this piece might act as a new call to prayer. In fact, it might even serve as a good call to repentance for many of us, who have not been as diligent at praying for our leaders as we should have been.

Over the last few weeks, I have had several conversations in person with friends about a particular theory of mine about powerful world leaders, including President Trump. The change in Trump has been so dramatic, so far removed from his earlier presentation and campaign promises that people have suggested different reasons for what is behind this change.

Some people have suggested that there is more than one Trump, that he has look-alikes who speak and campaign as well. Some even suggest that Trump has been replaced in the public sphere by one or more of his look-alikes. This might seem too conspiratorial for some to consider, but the idea of body doubles and look alikes goes back into ancient history, with even a Persian King having been replaced by their lookalike at least once.[1] There is even a great episode of Arrested Development that has fun with the Saddam Hussein lookalike concept; it is a great episode. There are images going around showing a short fat Trump at official meetings that is not as tall as Trump is known to be. So, he at least has some body doubles, which is not even a little bit controversial for such a prominent world leader to have.

Others simply say that Trump has been changed and corrupted by the same process as other powerful politicians, through campaign donations and political processes. They point to the various interests that paid for his election campaign and argue that he is now being pressured to deliver for his donors. Campaign donations are not made from the goodness of billionaire’s hearts; they expect a return on their investment. Some might add into this category that Trump may be under blackmail, hence his resistance to letting the Epstein files be fully revealed, and his constant attacks on Representative Thomas Massie who has been doggedly trying to get them fully unveiled. These people simply consider him to be corrupted or compromised in the normal sort of processes that happens to a lot of powerful leaders.

Still others think Trump’s strategy is to keep people off guard, and this explains much of what we see. You could put in this category the hopium crew, those who are holding out in hope that this will turn out for good. These are decent people who believe Trump is enacting a grand plan and it will make more sense in hindsight. I know many people personally who have this perspective, and I counted myself in this category for some time.

Then there are the gas lighters. Those who argue that this is exactly what was voted for. As if they think some of us cannot remember how much Trump mercilessly mocked those who wanted to invade Iran, or who had continually started these Middle Eastern wars. These people might have some validity to their position, though, because to be fair Trump’s messaging was more mixed than consistent on these issues, especially if you take in his pre-presidential career. But still, redefining foreign wars as America First is really one of the Neo-Cons most successful cons so far. This is not the Trump a lot of people wanted, no matter how much they try to day zero[2] us and pretend it is.

While I think there is some truth in all of these perspectives, short fat Trump is pretty noticeable (even if you struggle with that possibility), I think there is another possibility that should be factored in that many people have not considered: the white house is too powerful, too prominent, too connected to the world system for the god of this world to not have a major and direct influence in who runs it and how it is run. So let’s explore the reasoning behind this hypothesis.

Something we know as Christians is that non-believers have no defense against demonic influence or even possession. Jesus gives us insight into this in Matthew 12, where he says,

“43 When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation” (Matt. 12:43-45).

Jesus is telling us here that a person without the defenses of the Holy Spirit has no chance against demonic possession or oppression. They are like an empty house waiting for an inhabitant. What happens to the sons of Sceva in Acts highlights this as well. We read in Acts 19,

“13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” 14 Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. 15 But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” 16 And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17 And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled” (Acts 19:13-17).

These “exorcists” were powerless because although they proclaimed the name of Christ, they were not true believers. Hence, the demonic power drove them away, rather than them driving it away.

Let’s leave aside whether or not believers can be influenced, oppressed or possessed by demons in this discussion.[3] I think it is uncontroversial to say that the vast majority of believers would argue that non-believers have at best little and probably really no defenses against demonic influence. The best defenses they can probably bring to bear is avoiding depraved behaviour, but this is easier said than done. It is probably not even enough for the unbeliever, as they are like an open house waiting for an inhabitant.

Therefore, if we are willing to accept that the devil is the god of this world (2 Cor. 4:4, c.f. Eph. 2:2, John 12:31). If we are willing to accept that he has a place of prominence from which to rule (Rev. 2:13). If we are willing to accept that he will seek influence over the rulers of this world (Rev. 13:4). If we are willing to accept that possession or demonization is real, as it is recorded in the New Testament on many occasions. If we are willing to accept that non-believers have little to no defenses against demonic influence. Then it stands to reason that non-believing US presidents would have incredibly evil spiritual forces bearing down on them while in their role, or even before, and it stands to reason that this would affect them and their policies in significant ways. This even goes a long way to explaining why so many presidents act like Manchurian candidates and push the same sorts of policies that serve the interests of power and not their people.

I have had this conversation with a few people privately recently. Maybe I was prompted by re-watching The Two Towers and seeing how Theoden King was possessed by the spirit of Saruman to think maybe the strongly Christian Tolkien wrote about this for a reason. He was incredibly spiritually wise, and this is reflected in his writings. Maybe I was prompted by reflecting on the obviously Satanic nature of the Epstein reveals. Maybe I was prompted by other investigations about how evil influences societies in history. Whatever prompted me I was considering writing about this when I came across an article written by someone else who has beaten me to the punch, it is titled: Are World Leaders Possessed? The Ancient Technology of Demonic Transfer, by Dr Heather Lynn.

It stands to reason that many other Christians can see the obvious evil and inversion which is happening in the world right now. Even the desperate desire for many to seek to rationalize Trump’s foreign policy into some kind of grand plan is signs that something is off. We saw people doing this through Covid. Many good people were seeking to explain away why the people’s president was fast tracking dangerous experimental jabs in an irresponsible way. Many thought if Trump was behind it, they could not be bad…that was their actual reasoning. As if a real estate mogul and former T.V. host greenlighting the production of a medication made it unnecessary for the years’ worth of medical trials that are required before a new medical technology can ever be considered possibly safe. Just think about the hopium required to even make such a rationalization. But the utter devotion of many to Trump, no matter what he does, is to many of us another example of dark spiritual forces at work. Therefore, it is exciting that others are seeing this and writing about it.

Let’s look at some of her points,

“Is it possible that world leaders are operating under the influence of an ancient demonic force? I have spent over a decade researching exactly this. I wrote a book about it. The answer is more disturbing than the question, because the ancient world did not merely describe possession. They built infrastructure for it. They named it. They classified its stages. They identified the methods of induction, the patterns of institutional spread, and the vulnerability of those closest to power.”[4]

Not only is it possible for world leaders to be possessed, we have documented evidence going back into the ancient world that the supernatural had this sort influence over the powerful. This explains why the signs of the takeover in society by evil are so consistent across continents, times, and culture; they are manifestations of the same sorts of evil.

It is not only an ancient phenomenon,

“This is not confined to the ancient world. In a scene I documented in Evil Archaeology, Mongolian government officials gathered in a hotel conference center to participate in a shamanic possession ritual. They were not there to stop it. They hoped it would work.

A 68-year-old female shaman and her two apprentices dressed in brightly colored fringed costumes as the room fell silent. The shaman began her drumming and chanting. An onlooker was overcome. He leaped into the arms of those restraining him. The dancers crowded around and continued beating their drums.

The goal was to summon an entity and ask for its help. A government official watched, unblinking, hoping the shaman had delivered on her promise.”[5]

The possession destroys the host, making them increasingly irrational,

“The Roman emperor Caligula is remembered as a madman. He declared himself Jupiter incarnate. He held conversations with the god. He built a bridge between his palace and the Temple of Jupiter so he could visit his “brother.” He executed citizens on impulse, displayed sexual behavior that horrified even Roman sensibilities, and demanded worship as a living deity.

Nero followed the same trajectory. His early reign was competent, even praised. Then came a progressive dissolution of personal identity into the role. Murders. Grandiosity. Performance replacing governance. Rome burned. He sang.

The conventional explanation is insanity. The ancient explanation was more specific.”[6]

The influence of these demonic powers on these leaders turns them into madmen. Have you noticed how increasingly erratic Trump’s policies have become? He always had an element of chaos in his leadership style. In fact, I remember being impressed with how he used this to keep the media and his political opponents continually off guard, talking about his last controversy while he was already on to doing something new. But this chaos has grown exponentially worse, and it is now bringing the whole world into chaos with it. It has even undermined many of Trump’s own good policies like the winding back of green subsidies, removing the US from the WEF, and rejecting the anti-civilisational goals of the climate accords.

You can even see this chaos with the defences made by those who support Trump, no matter what.

Their support of him has even become more erratic. Precisely because they have to keep rationalizing increasingly erratic behaviour. Watch how they claim that Trump is a genius for ending the war with Iran and then the very next day that he is a genius for threatening to destroy their entire civilisation, and then that he is a genius for opening a straight that he caused to be closed in the first place. And this process happens at least once or twice a week, at the moment, and has for weeks now. This is an incredibly chaotic pattern that shows that Trump has encountered a problem that cannot be saved with his usual rhetorical bluster. Yet, these people are locked in for the ride, no matter what happens. It is as if his charisma has an actual effect over them.

Many Trump loyalists are constantly having to interpret everything through a trust-the-plan framework that is becoming increasingly strained, as it becomes clear that the president’s control over the situation is getting weaker and weaker. Trump sending in the troops is genius, even though they aren’t effective. Then Trump’s pulling them 100’s of kilometres away is genius, even though it contradicts the first claim. Trump sending in the aircraft carriers is genius and so is his pulling them outside of effective range. The examples could go on. Whatever he does is just seen as genius. The plan keeps changing, and their argument is that this is so no one can work out the plan. Whatever happens they claim that Trump has it under control, and many obviously truly believe this, as well. The level of idolatry necessary to make the claim that whatever happens he has it under control, reveals how wrong they are, but if you say that you are simply accused of having TDS. It is remarkable.

And remember I am reflecting on this as someone who was a massive supporter of Trump. I used to accuse Trump’s critics of just having TDS, I still believe many did. But now I see how I went too far in defending his actions at times. I still have a MAGA hat. I will keep it, too, is a memento of different days.

Possession can even change the host,

“Father Chad Ripperger, one of the most active exorcists in the United States, has spent eighteen years observing how demons manifest through the human body. He describes a phenomenon he calls morphing: the face changes, the complexion shifts to colors no human skin naturally produces, and the voice assumes characteristics proper to the demon’s own nature rather than the person’s. He says morphing accounts for roughly ninety percent of what exorcists observe in session. The person you were speaking to is no longer behind the eyes. Something else is using the instrument.”[7]

Maybe this explains why some of these people look so different sometimes from image to image? Any normal human being looks a bit different depending on the photo angle and lighting, countless people use this to their advantage on dating apps. But sometimes you look at these leaders and there is just a difference there that is incredible.

Of course, for some Christians this is simply a bridge too far and too deep down the conspiracy rabbit hole to even be considered worthy of public discussion. But was it not our own Bible that tells us the real rulers of the world are not human beings, but spiritual forces,

“10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:10-12).

This is why Christians wield prayer, faith, the gospel, hope in salvation and the rest of our spiritual armour of God, because we know that the biggest danger in this world is spiritual danger. The threat to our souls that evil presents is a real, true and genuine danger. Even many non-believers recognize that evil now.

But note that Paul explicitly says it is these spiritual forces which actually rule the world. This means that in one way or another they must have influence over the unbelieving leaders in our world. Remember unbelievers have far less defences against evil, if any, than believers, and even believers can find themselves in danger from the devil who roams like a roaring lion, look for people to devour.

This really drives home why we should be praying for our rulers and authorities, doesn’t it. Paul, as usual, warned us about this as well, “1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way” (1 Tim. 2:1-12). Just by taking on these positions of leadership world leaders have entered into a spiritual battle many of them may not be aware of. And even those who think they are aware of it, do not realize how unprepared for it they are, unless they are believers trained in spiritual warfare.

This really explains so much about our world. And it especially reminds us how much we should depend on prayer. Perhaps we Christians need to repent for not praying for our leaders enough. After all, prayer is powerful and effective.  

List of References

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[1] https://www.livius.org/articles/person/gaumata-smerdis/

[2] Pretend like the past did not happen.

[3] I think they can. After all, if demonic idols could be set up in the temple in the Old Testament (Ex. 8), and if the man of lawlessness can set himself up in the temple of God, which is the place where God’s spirit dwells (2 Thess. 2:4), then why can a believer not be effected in some way by demons to whom he has given a foothold (Eph. 4:25-27?

[4] Dr Heather Lynn, 2026, https://drheatherlynn.substack.com/p/are-world-leaders-possessed-the-ancient?r=1envt0&utm_medium=ios&utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e223_tv0&fbclid=IwY2xjawRSkSxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFPY2dxeFVNOUUxWE16WEZWc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvj9mKELSEHvFgVekuTdek5UmD4oH50nMRDAzngXPoF12wTBGioOtsrxEhK9_aem_DY4F5LmhaqKlmqJwNdDtOA&triedRedirect=true

[5] Ibid.

[6] Ibid.

[7] Ibid.

Jordan Peterson Is Sick

 

Please take note of this:

Jordan Peterson is a world-renowned clinical psychologist. He was at the top of his game for a long time, and a sought-after public speaker on a host of issues. I believe he was trained at Harvard. He was famous for years as the head of the manosphere.

He has been utterly destroyed by psychiatric medicine, that was prescribed by a psychiatrist, which is an offshoot of the practice of psychology. He has been broken by his own field. (Never take advice from those who take drugs).

Those who know my views on Peterson know I am not a fan of him. But this story is important, because at the heart of it is a daughter and family devastated by the kinds of drugs that are prescribed in mass numbers in our society. That people incorrectly see as safe.

These drugs are dangerous. You think you are under responsible supervision? But you are not a world renowned clinical psychologist with close peers who are psychiatrists, at the top of their fields.

I genuinely believe that future medical historians will look upon current psychiatric and psychological practice as a terrifying dark age that unleashed chaos on society. I am planning to write some research papers on how antidepressants are likely causing countless sexless marriages. More to come on that. But it is just one example of the carnage that this profession is responsible for in society.

Peterson’s own story highlights the danger of these professions.

Also, yes I know the difference between psychologists and psychiatrists. One field is considered a form of advanced counselling or social science, the other is considered more of a medicine. But both come from the same dark root: Chaldean magic practice.

The Chaldeans or Magi were a class of magic practitioners and so-called wise men that held incredible prominence in ancient Babylon. They had their analogues in many other societies as well. They claimed to be able to interpret dreams, and to be able to commune with the divine and the principles behind the Spiritual world. Today we call this class of people psychologists and psychiatrists. You might think that this is just the claim of a radical Baptist preacher that holds no weight, so to dispel you of that notion here is a quote from Sigmund Freud and another quote from a PhD thesis republished by Oxford University Press.

Freud,

“In what we may term "prescientific days" people were in no uncertainty about the interpretation of dreams. When they were recalled after awakening they were regarded as either the friendly or hostile manifestation of some higher powers, demoniacal and Divine. With the rise of scientific thought the whole of this expressive mythology was transferred to psychology; to-day there is but a small minority among educated persons who doubt that the dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.”[1]

Freud explicitly claims that psychology, which originally was a broad term covering what we today call psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, has inherited “this whole expressive mythology.” In other words, he explicitly claimed that psychology stood in the same place as those ancient Chaldeans, especially with regard to dream interpretation. Note that Freud was a neurologist who developed psychoanalysis. Hence, he was a psychologist in the broader sense of the term, meaning someone who explored the human psyche, but not in the narrow sense in which we use it today, which means something closer to counsellor.

But what about psychiatry, isn’t that a more objective field focused on medicine? No, it comes from the same rotten tree. I do not say this lightly. Here is an extended quote demonstrating this,

“HYSTERICAL WITCHES AND MEDICAL CONCEPTIONS OF WOMAN AS MYSTERIOUS AND DEMONIC

Not only historians took an interest in witches. Representatives of the burgeoning discipline of psychiatry also found them fascinating and polemically useful. As I will demonstrate, writing on the topic coming from this direction indirectly created a conflation of witches, feminists, and hysterics that coloured the understanding of the witch in most non-religious discourses of the time. Like Michelet, psychiatrists employed research on witches as a tool to attack the church. It was in this context that witches came to be closely linked to the diagnosis of hysteria.

The relationship between psychiatry and the church had long been problematic in France. The clergy were the traditional healers of the soul, and nuns were time-honoured caretakers of the insane. Psychiatry now swallowed up their market shares in the caretaking business. The new and completely materialistic explanations of what ailed the mentally ill provided by neurologists like Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), head of the Salpêtrière clinic in Paris, also threatened the church on an ontological level. What was worse, many medical men relished this fact and did their best to turn the knife in the wound. The usefulness of an enquiry into the nature of hysteria as anticlerical propaganda may even to some extent have determined this choice of topic for some of those involved. Since the “laws” of hysteria were supposedly universal, they could also be applied to historical phenomena. Demonic possession and mystical ecstasies became a main focus for this retrospective medicine, since a pathologization of these things would powerfully undermine the authority of Catholicism. What priests had seen as symptoms of possession simply constituted the second phase of a hysterical attack, the grands mouvements where arms and legs would flail, the tongue hang out of the mouth, the pupils of the eyes dart in all directions, and so on (figure 6.2).

In the book Les Démoniaques dans l’art (‘The Possessed in Art’, 1887), Charcot and his disciple Paul Richer (1849–1933) analyse old paintings, engravings, and other artworks depicting demonic possession and claim the postures portrayed prove these individuals were in fact hysterics. Charcot’s former assistant Paul Regnard published the book Les Maladies épidémiques de l’esprit: Sorcellerie, magnétisme, morphinisme, délire des grandeurs (‘Epidemic Maladies of the Spirit: Witchcraft, Magnetism, Morphinism, Megalomania’, 1887), where it is asserted that witches suffered seizures just like those of hysterics. For example, they would, Regnard says, assume the characteristic hysteric position with an arched back. He underscores that the witch of the past is identical to the hysteric of today. As H. C. Erik Midelfort points out, the works produced in this anticlerical medical milieu conflate the conditions of the possessed with those of witches. Historically, the two were quite distinct and possession was not a crime.

Charcot’s talent for showmanship was an important factor in the success his theories enjoyed. On Tuesdays, he held open lectures where he astonished his audience—in a huge amphitheatre packed to the brim—by displaying the extravagant antics of his hysterical female patients. An attack was triggered by use of hypnosis or the pressing of a ‘hysterogenic point’, and Charcot then narrated the stages the patient went through. A cataleptic patient could be pierced by needles and pins, a lethargic woman “petrified” into strange postures defying the laws of gravity. In short, the show rivalled those of stage magicians or the startling tricks Spiritist mediums could treat their clients to. Authors and journalists, actors and actresses, demimondaines—all came to see Charcot’s presentations. They were so popular that they even made the Salpêtrière a tourist attraction listed in official travel guides to Paris. Hysterics were at times also the subjects of experiments with so-called dermographism, where letters or symbols were gently traced onto their skin by doctors and left curiously raised marks that remained clearly visible for an abnormally long duration. The demonic (for instance, the word SATAN) was a favourite subject when choosing what to trace, no doubt reflecting the close connection believed to exist between witchcraft and hysteria. These experiments were presented in heavily illustrated books that fascinated the public (figure 6.3).

FIGURE 6.3 The word SATAN appearing on the back of a hysterical patient. Hysterics were at times the subjects of experiments with so-called dermographism, where letters or symbols were traced onto their skin by doctors and left raised marks. The demonic was a favourite subject when choosing what to trace, no doubt reflecting the close connection believed to exist between witchcraft and hysteria. Photo from T. Barthélémy, Etude sur le dermographisme (1893).

Asti Hustvedt stresses that Charcot’s discourse on hysteria is ‘permeated by an atmosphere of the occult and supernatural’ and ‘borrows heavily from the vocabularies of religion and demonology’. Thus, he ‘ultimately appropriates the very demonology he is debunking, and thereby reintroduces Satan into hysteria’. Charcot’s personal aesthetic preferences no doubt played a part in this. His office, all its walls and furnishings, were painted black, and engravings of scenes of demonic possession were displayed on the walls. Further, there are several examples of how Charcot’s rhetoric of rationalism and science at times gave way to a love of melodramatic performance, which opened the gates to a more ‘occult’ understanding of the pathological phenomena at hand. A favourite experiment of his during the public lectures was suggesting to a hysteric patient chosen for this purpose that a card from a completely blank deck had a specific image on it. He proceeded to mark the card on the back, reshuffled the deck and the patient would then amazingly be capable of identifying this very card even though nothing distinguished it from the others.

Being a positivist and rationalist, he, of course, did not formally classify things like this as “occult”, but some of the women participating in activities of this type started claiming actual powers of extrasensory perception—seeing themselves as a sort of latter-day “witches” with supernatural powers, as it were. Some spectators probably also had a hard time understanding experiments of this sort as non-supernatural. Further, the process of identifying a hysteric could be startlingly similar to methods used for recognizing a witch in early modern times. Both involved the “suspect” being stripped naked and pricked with pins, in order to find spots insensitive to pain. According to Hustvedt, the combined effect of all these things was that Charcot’s ‘science of hysteria breathed new life into age-old ideas of feminine mystery and demonism’. The pathologizing view of witches taken by Charcot and his cohorts strongly influenced the writings of medical men in other countries as well. Simultaneously, the air of mystery and the demonic he bestowed upon woman also became part of the medical discourse across Europe.”[2]

It is very clear that evil men were seeking to mock the church through these demonstrations. Their explicit intention was to undermine the Church and its charitable institutions.

Remember the modern hospital system comes directly out of the Church charity. While there is precedent in non-Christian cultures for versions of hospices, the wide public charitable institutions dedicated to healing, we call hospitals, are a Christian invention. Psychiatry and psychology are correctly seen as efforts from anti-Christians to bring pagan elements in to the healing spaces to replace the Church. They did this explicitly, and it is documented. Understanding where these professions come from is vital.

List of References

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[1] Sigmund Freud. Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Kindle Locations 96-99). Kindle Edition.

[2] Faxneld, Per. Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism) (pp. 208-211). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.