I got psychosis about the same time (some weeks after) I started practicing loving kindness meditation. (this was 5 years ago) I’ve been wondering if there’s some connection or if it’s a coincidence.
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Probably a coincidence. I thought i got mentally ill after meditation too
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Some people get psychosis because of meditation, better stick to mindfulness
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Meditation is not for everyone
Those diagnosed with some sort of psychosis can be negatively impacted by meditation.
I know that I become more unstable when I meditate.
I tried it a few times and no longer engage in meditation
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I also meditated a lot in my prodromal phase.
Now I meditate every now and then for 10 mins tops.
Too much is no good for my psychosis.
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I used to do self hypnosis when I was 17, and that was about the time I started having major problems.
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Alot of components play a role. I got psychosis from reading certain books social network and financial stress. Maybe the meditation triggered something in you.
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That’s what I’m thinking. That I already had the potential for psychosis, a mild schizophrenia, and then the loving kindness triggered something in my brain and it turned to full blown psychosis.
I kind of regret I started doing it, but maybe I would develop psychosis eventually anyway, just at a later time, The loving kindness meditation seemed like exactly what I needed to function better in life. I was very shy of people and had a lot anger in me. I didn’t do well with people at all. The loving kindness meditation made me open up and actually be able to function around people.
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I was seeing a woman that I had loving feelings for at the same time as my first psychosis. I think there was a connection. I lost control over my emotions somehow.
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