It is your responsibility, not anyone else's, to make sure you are mentally and emotionally healthy. For psychic defense, psychological and spiritual cleanliness and purity, nothing is a more important prerequisite than mental health. Be wary of romanticizing your issues - it is always better to work through your problems than saying that you're a little bit crazy or "schizo" and making it part of your identity. Other people are not obligated to accept your outbursts and quirks, some might still do out of compassion or ethics. A great gift of intellect and consciousness is that it allows its wielder to nurture and heal the self, but this effect can only be achieved when you also have the humbleness to admit that something is not right with you for the moment. Don't allow yourself to go off the rails and beyond the threshold of what is healthy. Guard your sanity because it is what protects you from vile influences - both from within and without the body. Prioritize your mental health and wellbeing. You have the power to heal yourself. Q: > These concepts are foreign to many. Where can one go to get a full education in all these unwritten rules? Don't just say "life experience". Shaolin temple? For me, it was working in psychotherapy , working in schools, prisons, charity organizations, private practice - saw firsthand the crippling effects. There's nowhere to truly learn these things outside of personal development, I believe, and beside spiritual circles of course, but not everyone is lucky to be born into one. In truth, for me, non-dogmatic Christianity lands closest. Christian teachings are that of higher morality. Other religions - I would never advise, for a myriad of reasons. Each have their application but I believe none are truly pure in their teachings except Christianity. I believe people have made Christianity an enemy recently and unfairly due to the corruption and weakening of the church, especially in the west - where it has been infiltrated and taken over by bad actors - but also believe that they are missing out on its many essential lessons. Christian morality is /the/ morality. At its best, it is clear and pure and means well for all. If I had to throw my child into the care of any institution - it would, without a doubt, be under the guidance and tutorage of orthodox Christian black monks. Studying the stories of the saints is a great start, without sounding pretentious or condescending - there is a reason why spiritual hygiene and inner purity are taught before any mystical knowledge is ordained through the Christian tradition. Without the pretext of purity - all esoteric knowledge is innately corrupting.