A distressing near-death experience with veridical perceptions during coma: psychiatric and clinical reflections from a rare case - PubMed

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The article presents a rare case of a 25-year-old woman with a distressing near-death experience (NDE) during a medically induced coma after a traumatic brain injury from a car accident.
Her NDE scored 28/32 on the Greyson NDE Scale and included an out-of-body experience (OBE) with veridical perceptions, later confirmed by medical staff, which were accurate observations of events while she was unconscious.
Following the experience, the patient exhibited significant psychological changes, including the complete resolution of pre-existing suicidal ideation, highlighting the transformative potential of distressing NDEs.
The case challenges reductionist models of consciousness, raising questions about its neurobiological basis and underscoring the need for psychiatric and clinical attention to such non-ordinary states of consciousness.

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