How to tell if a psychic medium is genuine?

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I have booked a session on Monday and it's not cheap at £100 for a hour.
I've just lost my nana and mum and I'm desperate to know they are ok and still around me.
How will I know if this medium is genuine?
She is asking who I want to connect with,do I tell her?
Or let her tell me who she is finding.

Op I’m so sorry about your mum and Nan. I know you’re looking for comfort and reassurance but as others are saying there is no such thing as a genuine medium, they are people who prey on the grieving

Keep the money, don’t go, and buy yourself something lovely as a reminder. 💐

Honestly op do not spend that money. I lost both parents when I was 21, and I went to different mediums to desperately try and connect with them in the months following, it honestly destroyed me, they knew nothing about my parents but were pretending they did, throwing out vague facts that could be related to anyone really. I knew I was being conned but would cling onto anything I could relate to them just to try and believe it was real. They are disgusting con artists, feeding off peoples grief. I just feel anger now

I do understand your need and I wanted to see/hear my DF. I think I do because I see white feathers and feel him around. I also actively remember him.

I do not think there are any genuine psychics. My friends family made a fortune years ago and it sounded like a scam. I went to a cheap one several years ago and she picked up on nothing. I know if she was real my DF would have been there.

My friend went to see a medium after her mum disappeared, he was widely know in our area and didn’t charge but you took him a gift, usually groceries, and not much. He let her record the session. He told her lots of very accurate details about her mum and family, she was sceptical before she went and quite the believer afterwards because he was SO accurate about so many things. I think she found it comforting. About a year later they found her mums body in very unusual circumstances. Which basically disproved every single thing the medium said to her. I really wouldn’t go. Their not real, try and find another way to bring yourself some peace, I’m very sorry for your loss💐

Sorry for your loss. Try to find the time to connect with them and your feelings by doing something you enjoyed doing together, a walk at the beach, baking, listening to x music, talk to them quietly in your mind through the process and listen, there are always signs that remind us what our beloved friends or relatives would have wanted or said on certain situations.

Don’t let a dodgy stranger looking for your money “disrupt” your internal conversation and eventually your peace. Because the medium will keep adding things to keep you coming for more (she or he is there for the money, remember?)

Best advice on here is from @user1471447924 to invest the money in bereavement conselling instead

Sorry for your loss

I agree they are fake but if you want to spend the money and it gives you closure / makes you feel better I say go for it. It’s like a placebo effect

One lady I later became friends with & she very accurately predicted the next 20 years of my life down to very odd minute details. Nothing she predicted was even on my mind back then & I argued some predictions. She was spot on with everything though

That's ridiculous. Are you suggesting that people have no free will? That we have no choice in what happens in our lives? If a "medium" says you'll have 3 children, would this still happen if you decided to become celibate?

Apart from the ridiculousness of the suggestion that "psychics" can both speak to the dead AND see into the future (two quite separate skills, surely?) the gullible credulous will disregard the predictions that don't come true, and massage the facts to fit the ones that seem more likely. They may even 'help' them come true.

To paraphrase Dr. Emmett Brown:

"...your future isn't written. No one’s is. Your Future is whatever you make it."

I should have added...

Sorry for your loss, OP, I hope you can find strength, love and support to see you through this

Our local spiritualist Church charges £20.00 a reading and does a drop in session. You are asked for no details. The medium told me specific information which would have been hard to guess. If you give your name in advance they maybe to find out information from Facebook.

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Disc, many do do it for free via spiritual centres, or minimum charge to cover cost at home. They are the genuine ones & I've met a few incredible ones in my time. One lady I later became friends with & she very accurately predicted the next 20 years of my life down to very odd minute details. Nothing she predicted was even on my mind back then & I argued some predictions. She was spot on with everything though

Assuming this was 20 years ago, you will have forgotten details including incorrect guesses, massaged general ‘predictions’ to fit actual circumstances, and amplified correct guesses etc.

I’ve said this before here under other names, but my mother and aunt were awed by someone locally famous they saw many years ago, and would recite to us the uncanny details of her correct predictions, including the number, sex and initials of both their children and other very specific things. Then not long ago, we found the written notes on the reading at the bottom of an ancient handbag. Unsurprisingly, they bore very little resemblance to what my mother and aunt remembered — lots of generalisations, number and sex of children wrong in both cases etc.

I can definitely understand wanting a message from a loved one. I lost my son a few years ago and,despite being the biggest sceptic there is, I was so tempted to see a medium, just to make sure he was OK. A friend of mine,in a similar situation went and,although she found comfort in her experience, it was clear to me that she was manipulated so I didn't go. Now I just feel repulsed by the idea of people exploiting grief to make a living.

It's my experience that our loved ones send small signs every day and there's no need to pay a third party to receive these messages.

None of them is genuine.

easy. None of them are.

Please do not pay £100 for this, anyone who has to ask who you want to contact, or ask any question of you isn't worth seeing. Your local spiritualist church would be free or very low cost for the same thing.

It should be illegal to charge people for 'psychic services'.