Question is moot
vision777 said:
I would like to know if a person has so-called bipolar should they be any where near a tarot deck ?
I'm married to a bi-polar person. If he wanted to read tarot cards I'd see no problem save that in his up moods he'd probably read them for people all night long, and in his down moods he'd focus too much on whatever bad messages they were giving him and no do anything.
Otherwise, he'd be fine with them.
As for psychosis, from wiki:
People experiencing psychosis may report hallucinations or delusional beliefs, and may exhibit personality changes and thought disorder. Depending on its severity, this may be accompanied by unusual or bizarre behavior, as well as difficulty with social interaction and impairment in carrying out the daily life activities.
I do not think that anyone with that severe a psychosis could handle tarot cards. They'd lay out the cards and start telling you that aliens were on their way to eat your brains. Then they'd lick the cards and you'd probably be running for your life.
when people read cards then tend to say a lot of things that have nothing to do with the actual card picture or meaning of the card. it's either there making stuff up or they could actual have a mental disorder how do you know if this person is a real reader or could be having little psychosis melt downs.?
People "making stuff up" doesn't = psychosis. However, I will grand that there are strange folk out there including those who have "episodes" where they have visions (this is common enough that anyone can experience it). Sometimes this happens to people while looking at tarot cards. Maybe it's psychic ability, maybe psychotic episode. Whether
they should be allowed to read the cards is an absurd question.
Why? Well, because people can get up on a pulpit and preach as truth, vision or future whatever psychotic episode they experienced. There is, unfortunately or not, no law against telling people the visions you have when you look at anything, nor any law against them believing it. So far, I see far more danger in the preacher who gets his cult to kill themselves then I do a tarot reader who scares a single client. You might as well worry about folk believing Nostradamus or the Book of Revelation or the Rapture.
You can't keep tarot cards out of anyone's hands any more than you can keep such books out of anyone's hands. So the question is moot.