Why is it that if you have an imaginary friend as an adult, you are considered crazy?

Question

but if your imaginary friend is named Jesus, Allah, Buddha, et al then it's okay?

Answer 1

Because Jesus is REAL!!! He isn't imaginary! So therefore, if you are an adult and Jesus is your friend, then you AREN'T crazy!!! If have an imaginary friend who isn't really, like so called Henry, then that is just crazy because you should be mature enough to know that this here "Henry" isn't real.
Hope I helped!

Answer 2

Actually, many have often been considered crazy even if their "imaginary friend" was a god figure.

This problem stems back to Freudian psychology. Sigmund Freud was an atheist. He did not believe in life after death, life before life, or in the reality of Spirit. As such, his entire psychoanalytical paradigm, which had a large impact on the formation of modern psychology, was distorted through his own prejudice, i.e., his conclusions were all wrong.

Technically, anytime a thought or feeling just pops inside without any willful creation - including all dreams - it stems from one or more people on the Other Side.

But since many psychologists, therapists and psychiatrists do not accept the reality of the discarnate dimensions - like Freud - they will label contact with one or more discarnate personalities as "imaginary."

They even have what they think is a scientific term for this: "magical thinking."

In fact, the only thing which is imaginary is their assumption that they have a grasp as to what is really happening. Something that is beyond what they were taught in college and are willing to accept.

Fortunately, there are some progressive therapists out there but one has to do some digging to find them.

Answer 3

If you mean literally...then it is because you are...schitzo actually. Even if you are a kid and truly believe your friend exists in the real world you are considered crazy.

The fact that you are asking it though, tends to lean towards the figurative....and completely agree with your assertion on that level. Believe me, I had the shite hit the fan recently in my life and discovered many of my supposed friends were not there when I needed them. Does that make them imaginary friends? ;0)

If Jesus, Allah & Buddha help people, more power to them. I stopped believing in them around the same time I saw the light on Santa and the Easter Bunny but, then again, who am I to judge. They have to remember not to point fingers at others, though, for who are they to judge as well, right?

Anyway, Solid question Bud...Thanks for reading the ranting reply!

Answer 4

The United States has a lot of imaginary friends. Does that mean everyone in the country is crazy

Answer 5

Jesus is not an imaginary friend. The others are not, but they don't know it, so it's real to them.

I know a girl who had an imaginary friend, who also had a mental illness. But her doctor didn't try to get rid of him, because for the time being, he was giving her good advice.

Answer 6

because if your imaginary friend is not paying attention to me, then it cannot be true, otherwise i am a undeserving person.

Jesus, buddha and allah are real though, some prophets of God, the other God.

Allah, Jehova, God are the same and the others listed are prophets, but Jesus had a special meaning. one i cannot prove except by faith at this point, but one day i will be able to see that my faith was right.

-eagle

Answer 7

That is more of a belief system i guess i mean you don't really walk around talking to jesus or allah do you, like you would your imaginary friend

Answer 8

Belief is a strange, abstract thing.

You see if you beleave in God as an adult you are basically admitting that you cannot grasp the universe as a self-created series of random events that culminated in your own exsistance.

Yet if you beleave you have a friend that you have a relationship with, a discourse with and that friend is solely imaginary, then it is often interpreted as a Schizophrenia. In which one possible symtom would be the manifestation of blocked personality traits as characters that communicate with you.

Answer 9

Just because they cant see them doesn't mean there not real what makes you think they are imaginary because that's what people told you i have always been taught that you should try and talk to the dead but isn't it rude to ignore them if they are talking to you first. i guess you wouldn't have to pay to get her in to a movie. the world is one big mental institution were every one is sick we either get well or we stay in hell and there is only one doctor with the cure.

Answer 10

Because religion gives people who need to have reason and significance to their life reassurance that some magical friend up in the sky is listening to their every thought, watching their very action, taking toll of every thing they say and do. It is a great excuse to be completly self rightous and self absorbed.
These people might be "crazy"--but then, all of us are kind of crazy, what they really are is deluded in their own self importance.