Religious or spiritual beliefs induced by SSRIs? I briefly searched the literature to see if I could find any peer-reviewed articles on this topic, but I didn't see any. Several years back, I was prescribed a heavy dose of an SSRI to treat an eating disorder. An interesting side effect of the medication, at least I can't think of anything else that might have caused this, was that I became more open to entertaining the possibility that the supernatural might exist (ghosts, angels, gods, whatever). I was raised in a Catholic household, but as soon as I developed critical thinking skills (10 - 11 years old) I quickly saw that there was no good evidence of the supernatural. I don't really think that I've ever experienced spiritual beliefs apart from the brief time I took the SSRI. I'd love to see a study on this to find out if SSRIs coincide with novel spiritual beliefs in a statistically significant percentage of patients. In lieu of such data, has anyone else experienced a similar phenomenon? What do you speculate might be the underlying cause of it?