What visions?

I don't mean to discount spirituality, but sometimes I cannot help it. Especially when I read medieval accounts of people having waking visions, falling into rapture, or spasming with the spirit of the Lord. Funny how a lot of this behavior is labeled "Schizophrenia" nowadays.

For example, Margery Kempe. She was a female Christian in the 14th and 15th century who recorded (via a scribe) her visions and emotional responses to God's works. Most of it began after a traumatic childbirth (again, I think less of spiritual torment, and more or Postpartum Depression). Sometime during this period she experiences a full 8 weeks of feverish nightmares and sightings of devils threatening her. At another point she takes a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and is reported to fall off of her horse when near Jerusalem and go into spasms. She attributes all of this to the curious boon of God's love, and how he deals us both pain and joy. I attribute Kempe's behavior to mild-moderate schizophrenia manifested in the repressed and anxious role of a female in medieval Christendom.