Peter was healed from Schizophrenia

When I was about 24 I was living on my own and I had a really bad mental breakdown which put me back in Glenside Hospital. It is hard to explain how I felt then, but after the breakdown, it really crippled me. My diagnosis was Schizophrenia, panic attacks and an anxiety disorder. I could barely talk, I couldn’t express emotions and I couldn’t dress or shave myself; it was likesomebody had a hold of me. I felt absolutely shocking.

After about a month in Glenside, I went home to live with my parents but after about 6 months I wasn’t getting any better. I was going down physically as well. I was in Glenside most of the time and only came home some weekends. Then long time friendstalked to Mum and Dad, telling them I could be healed. I had just sat slumped in mychair at the kitchen table; no one thought I was listening, so they were stunned when I suddenly said, “if I can be healed it will be by Jesus Christ”.

I went to my first meeting in 1982 with my Mum and Dad. At the second meeting we went to I decided to get baptised. I knew I had to get baptised to receive the Holy Spirit so I thought “what have I got to lose?” I got baptised under the water and when I walked back to the change room I realised that I felt completely normal; the sickness had just left me. I could talk again. My Dad saw me across the Vogue theatre auditorium as I left the change room and saw me smile at him, something he had not seen me do in years. He asked me how I felt and I told him that I had been healed. Then I received the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, at a House Meeting six weeks later. It has been a real blessing ever since. I have been employed all these years and Mum and I look after each other. I would just like to praise the Lord.

Peter is a member of The Revival fellowship - Adelaide, South Australia