bebatjof 🇵🇸5d ago

Hot (?) take: the uncritical recommendation of meditation is bad, and has caused me personal harm.

Meditation can increase certain types of depression and anxiety, it can increase suicidal ideation, and it can cause psychosis, dissociation, depersonalisation and derealization. This doesn't mean these people are "doing it wrong" (like with a free app).

Meditation should not be recommended indiscriminately, and if people experience adverse effects they should definitely nót be told to try again.

#meditation

Show threadcompost_funeral
@bebatjof I didn't know about this, but it makes perfect sense as the mental equivalent of hyperflexibility and yoga. In the sense of it possibly stretching things that need to be made less "mobile" actually
Mar 19 at 8:36pmWeb
Show threadbebatjof 🇵🇸5d ago
@compost_funeral totally! Good comparison, hypermobile people having pain, think stretching is going to help, but they actually need power training.