Did you know that people with psychological disorders are more likely to be religious?

Question

Catholics were more likely to show obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms than less religious people. Patients with OCD get caught in a vicious mental cycle that can take over and cripple their everyday lives. For instance, a sufferer may become convinced that everything around them is dirty, and in extreme cases spend up to eight hours a day cleaning in a bid to banish the thought.

The study cannot say for certain that religious devotion early in life causes OCD symptoms. It is equally likely that people with those character traits feel more drawn to a religious lifestyle and devote themselves to God.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2339

Answer 1

Yes, as a matter of fact I did know that. I've spent enough time in mental hospitals myself.

The other way around is also true: people who are very religious tend to develop psychological disorders. This is not bias; this is researched fact. Certainly some people, maybe even the majority of people, who are regular church-goers are mentally healthy. But the pressures of fundamentalism and similar all-involving religions tends to get people down, one way and another. Often it is too many conflicting demands for their time between church, work and family.

Answer 2

Isn't that amazing how only Catholics were affected the most...After all, do you have any idea how many religions there are in this world, and yet only Catholics were mentioned in this "study" done by a scientist....well I never...imagine a "scientist", coming up with these conclusions.....this is a bunch of bull...just because you publish something in a magazine doesn't mean it has to be true....get real!
I just did a study and I think atheists are more likely to have AIDS......what a snow job. Do you usually believe everything you read or just the stuff that knocks Christians.

Answer 3

Yeah, it makes sense that people with OCD would be drawn to Catholicism, which is quite obsessive-compulsive in nature; but also that the religion itself might instill that kind of anxiety disorder in otherwise healthy people.

That's not to say, Gesus, that it doesn't occur in non-religious people. It's just to say that there does in fact seem to be a correlation between VERY religious people and people with this type of disorder.

Answer 4

.As/per the national burea of standards; strongly religious people are closer to being mentally incompetent.
There are millions upon millions of agnostics and/or aheists, they just keep religiously quiet about it.
Everybody has doubts about the resurection of Christ and life in the hereafter. They do not really believe in paradise heaven and hell and a God that is standing by, waiting for us to make a mistake so he can burn us to a crisp.
Isaiah chapter 44 verse 10 says; Who? hath formed a God, or molten a graven image (of a God) that is profitable, for nothing.
Jonathan

Answer 5

You are right..but thing is lot of abnormal people behave normal because of religious teachings..Only people with high
IQ can can be truely kind and see whole humanity as their own family without any help from religious teachings..I imagine ..may be after few more thousand years in future humen beings would be religious without joining any organized religion..

Answer 6

From what I witnessed during my years as a psychiatric nurse, people with psychological disorders are no more likely to be religious than any other segment of the population. In fact, most of the ones I encountered weren't.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

Ummm, sorry, not true. Im an Atheist &, i suffered fromPTSD & generalized Anxiety for 10yrs.

Answer 10

Wow yet another scientific study.