Thanks for this post. I think that these kind of bad experience reports are valuable.
Is meditation-induced psychosis really a thing? Sure looks like at this point, as we have a significant nuber of well-documented case histories.
Well. how risky is meditation then? I am currently unsure on this point; the sheer number of bad experience reports, is somewhat concerning. By way of comparison: I am currently taking carbimazole for Graves disease, a drug with a maybe 1E-3 (ish) probability of a side effect that is kind of bad (agranulocytosis) … well, I might be willing to take a 1 in 1000 risk for the benefit of the drug.
Were there particular risk factors in these case reports, that indicate meditation is contra-indicated for some type of people? Also, not currently clear to me.
A particular risk factor for me is that I’ve always been unusually-susceptible to sleep deprivation messing up my cognition. Other people have different risk factors.
Thanks for this post. I think that these kind of bad experience reports are valuable.
Is meditation-induced psychosis really a thing? Sure looks like at this point, as we have a significant nuber of well-documented case histories.
Well. how risky is meditation then? I am currently unsure on this point; the sheer number of bad experience reports, is somewhat concerning. By way of comparison: I am currently taking carbimazole for Graves disease, a drug with a maybe 1E-3 (ish) probability of a side effect that is kind of bad (agranulocytosis) … well, I might be willing to take a 1 in 1000 risk for the benefit of the drug.
Were there particular risk factors in these case reports, that indicate meditation is contra-indicated for some type of people? Also, not currently clear to me.
A particular risk factor for me is that I’ve always been unusually-susceptible to sleep deprivation messing up my cognition. Other people have different risk factors.