Mental Illness or Diabolical Possession? Can You Tell the Difference?

A person who reacts violently to sacred images or prayers:

This issue has an evolution in time, and an identifiable cause that can be managed with therapy and/or medication:

A person has an issue and talks to someone qualified about it. When the qualified person starts praying in his mind, the person with the issue seems to read his mind and shouts out something akin to, "Do not call upon that one!"

When a person displays "powers" such as telekinesis, supernatural strength, a lengthening or darkening of the face, or dramatic shift in vocal tone:

When a qualified person prays in his mind in the presence of a person afflicted with difficulties, the afflicted person cannot read his mind:

A person's eyes dilate excessively and cannot be altered even by shining a light directly into the eye:

A person gains a sudden knowledge of the occult which they did not possess before and of which the person has not studied or shown a previous interest in:

Different medications and therapies have been tried by the afflicted person to no avail:

A person is having family difficulties where his hatred of another family member is unfounded and causing divisions:

A person is suffering unexplainable disturbances to his mental and/or physical health, his work is suffering major disturbances, and he feels no peace: