A new study is out and it seems spiritual people are more likely to have mental health issues:
They suffered problems including abnormal eating conditions, drug abuse, anxiety disorder, phobias and neurosis.
They were also more likely than others to be taking medication for mental health problems.
Professor Michael King, from University College London, and his fellow researchers wrote in the British Journal of Psychiatry: ‘Our main finding is that people who had a spiritual understanding of life had worse mental health than those with an understanding that was neither religious nor spiritual.’
It must be said, though, “spiritual” in terms of the study means woo ” in the absence of a religious framework”.
