I was a gravely mentally ill far-right Catholic theocrat here in Brazil. Mental illness (clearly connected with obscurantist conspiracy theories) took me from extraordinary academic performance to great failure. In about 2009 many things converged to dramatically improve my mental health and start a slow leftwards conversion. It accelerated in 2017 when I met Anahuac, a free software militant and communist. The common cause (software freedom) helped pierce my anticommunist indoctrination. It accelerated further in 2025 with Lemmy and a fellow Brazilian engineer who is a PCBR comrade.
Within the last few months I have watched many communist and anti-imperialist videos, listed to the great Communist Manifesto (in audio book form) over and over again, formed a small online group for fellow communist (and sympathizers) engineers, and defend communism with enough energy to be called a CPC propagandist – although my arguments have also been strongly praised by several people, including fellow communists, center-leftists and even conservatives. I am now looking to buy The German Ideology. I am still on Lula’s Workers Party (accused of neoliberalism), but when I have enough knowledge, I will decide between trying to radicalize the Worker’s Party from within or joining an openly communist party.
I now I follow a much more authentic line of Catholicism. I am a fan of Pope Francis, who has made good progress in the Holy See (“Vatican”), although not nearly enough.
For individuals and families who so choose I support authentic Christianity, with due separation of Church and State and friendship with people of other religions such as our Muslim brothers and sisters. For the State, definitely communism!
I have had grave mental health problems, connected with far-right obscurantist conspiracy theories. My mental health and worldview have improved together and now I am a communist sympathizer. See https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4218443/6102383
I surely hope your depression never returns!