Is there any clincal studies showing that Christianity can lead to insanity?

Question

I'm interested in sociological factors that determine how a person's cognitive pysche can be overturned by religion and its effects on depression

Answer 1

Clinical Studies have found just the opposite. In fact, studies of patients have shown better recovery and overall health in direct proportion to the amount the patient prays or has others praying for them.

When it comes to psychosis, in which physiological causes are involved, Christians can be just as susceptible just like any other disease, illness, injury, or malady.

The Bile makes it clear that Christians are just as susceptible to the various forces, illnesses, and misfortunes that can plague our lives. Christians, however, have more ways to deal with these things and can experience joy, knowing that we have an eternal relationship with the Lord.

We are motivated by:
A love of God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strengths,
A love for our neighbors as ourselves, and
A love for one-another as Jesus loved us.

There are hundreds, possibly thousands of studies regarding the impact of prayer on healing. I have listed a few. Not all are positive either, especially if regular medicine is excluded in favor of prayer alone . . .God bless you in your studies.

Answer 2

Dear Iran,

I'm not sure, but i don't think that a study like that could stand. First of all there would be too many other factors. A scientist trying to do this study- would most likely not be a Christian so just to begin with their definition of a Christian may be quite different. Just because someone says they believe in God does not mean they practice it (supposedly 80% of America is Christian). So i think that would be very hard to measure. Especially because you would be depending on the testimony of people in mental institutions.

I am both a Christian and was a psychology major who did a lot of research in the area of mental health when i was at UCLA. My father is paranoid schizophrenic (He's not a Christian) and so i also spent time volunteering in psychiatric wards and learning a lot about those considered clinically insane, and just saying that even if there was such a study there are too many variables which would make such a conclusion nearly impossible to draw. i'm speaking right now from a scientific point of view and not a Christian point of view.

Hope that helps. Kindly,

Nickster

Answer 3

No. And I would think that if there are such studies, they would be devised by people who are themselves 'insane'. There are people with mental illnesses in all faiths, with no faith, in all cultures - and from all walks of life at every point in history. If anything, I think that joining a religion might help one make sense of this crazy world.

Answer 4

My ex was paranoid-schizophrenic and he, like many others, was always ranting on about God and Jesus. The shooter at VT, in his manifesto, wrote 32 pages of rantings about, along with other things Christianity. Also he was raised in a Christian home.

Answer 5

No but some of the questions in this category show the need for psychiatric care for some of the opponents of free choice and free discussion.

Answer 6

Believing that invisible things are around you, watching you, reading your mind, listening to you, influencing your life are symptoms of a potentially very serious mental disorder called schizophrenia. So are hallucinations, hearing voices, irrational thoughts (life after death, resurrection of the dead , virgin birth etc...)

Answer 7

I don't know, but there are multitudes of people who personally witnessed Christ & His followers removing demons & curing the Insane. So, don't give up hope, keep praying! John & Tam

Answer 8

Not that I know of...but I have seen insane people who claim to be Christian (but are not) twist the Word of God.

Answer 9

Not that I'm aware of, but statistics prove that most people who are in prison claim to be Christians.

Answer 10

Andrea Yates.