Seed Media Group

Search this blog

Profile

A Good Poop is thrown together by a guy named Chris. Chris is working on his Master's degree in Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Toronto. You can reach him at agoodpoop@gmail.com.

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Archives

Blogroll

How I Find Stuff

« More problems with piercings | Main | YOUR HEAD A SPLODE »

Awareness gone wrong

Category: Brain Stuff
Posted on: February 2, 2008 4:54 PM, by Chris

Kuijpers HJ, van der Heijden FM, Tuinier S, Verhoeven WM. Meditation-Induced Psychosis. Psychopathology. 2007 Sep 11;40(6):461-464

Please correct me if I've been misinformed here, but isn't meditation supposed to help you chill out, not make you go nuts? Although I guess if your mantra was 'Must kill everything I have ever loved' I could see the problem.

TrackBacks

TrackBack URL for this entry:

Comments

I don't recall where, but I've seen (written) works discussing meditation that have noted that it should be avoided by those (like myself) with schizophrenia or similar mental illnesses.

Posted by: Kevin C. | February 2, 2008 7:10 PM

CONCLUSION: Meditation can act as a stressor in vulnerable patients who may develop a transient psychosis with polymorphic symptomatology.

I guess I could see where this could happen. Talking with the neuro physiology guys might give some insights as to how the wiring of the brain would play into this.
Dave Briggs :~)

Posted by: Dave Briggs | February 4, 2008 11:40 AM

Real meditation or the sit and envision a deer by a babbling brook, I feel so good visualization? In real meditation, there are real results. However, we have LOTS of built-up crap that has to come out of us in order to make room for the enlightened stuff to flow in . . . this can be messy. Perhaps meditation taught by an authentic shaman could prevent some of this brain fuzz?

Posted by: cathy | February 18, 2008 6:17 PM

This is consistent with what many traditions that use meditation teach about it. That is, meditation's not a toy or a "therapy" or a hobby but a very serious pursuit, best attempted with guidance and likely to lead one down some unpleasant byways before benefits are achieved.

Posted by: zy | February 22, 2008 6:52 PM

Post a Comment

(Email is required for authentication purposes only. Comments are moderated for spam, your comment may not appear immediately. Thanks for waiting.)





Having problems commenting? (UPDATED)

Search All Blogs

Blogs in the Network

Top Five: Most German

Top Science Stories

powered by SEED - seedmagazine.com