A mental health expert at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Francis Yeboah, has warned the public against confusing symptoms of psychosis with spiritual revelations.
Speaking on Joy Prime on April 2, 2025, he explained that individuals who claim to hear from God may, in fact, be experiencing hallucinations and in need of medical attention.
Francis Yeboah pointed out that symptoms of psychosis, such as delusions, auditory hallucinations (hearing voices), and visual hallucinations (seeing things), can lead to behaviors that may be mistaken for spirituality.
“There are many people who claim that God has called them, but it’s not God, it’s insanity calling them. With auditory hallucinations, the person hears voices; with visual hallucinations, they see things. For example, they might say they see three people when, in reality, there are only two,” he said.
However, he explained that in highly religious societies like Ghana, such experiences are often mistaken for divine messages.
“People often give strange directions because we’ve made ourselves so spiritually minded that anything spiritual becomes unquestionable. When they give these directions, you might not even question their validity. But in psychiatric settings, we bring people back to reality,” he said.
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