Meditation: A Double-Edged Sword—A Case Report of Psychosis Associated with Excessive Unguided Meditation

Meditation is gaining a lot of popularity nowadays because of the associated benefits on both mental and physical health. There is ample literature available on the benefits of meditation. However, there are cases of psychosis reported sporadically in individuals who indulge in excessive unguided me...

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Autor principal: Goud, Sripathi Santhosh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9617715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36316997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2661824
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description Meditation is gaining a lot of popularity nowadays because of the associated benefits on both mental and physical health. There is ample literature available on the benefits of meditation. However, there are cases of psychosis reported sporadically in individuals who indulge in excessive unguided meditation. Herein, we report a patient who presented with schizophrenia after doing excessive meditation.
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spelling pubmed-96177152022-10-30 Meditation: A Double-Edged Sword—A Case Report of Psychosis Associated with Excessive Unguided Meditation Goud, Sripathi Santhosh Case Rep Psychiatry Case Report Meditation is gaining a lot of popularity nowadays because of the associated benefits on both mental and physical health. There is ample literature available on the benefits of meditation. However, there are cases of psychosis reported sporadically in individuals who indulge in excessive unguided meditation. Herein, we report a patient who presented with schizophrenia after doing excessive meditation. Hindawi 2022-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9617715/ /pubmed/36316997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2661824 Text en Copyright © 2022 Sripathi Santhosh Goud. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Meditation: A Double-Edged Sword—A Case Report of Psychosis Associated with Excessive Unguided Meditation
title_full Meditation: A Double-Edged Sword—A Case Report of Psychosis Associated with Excessive Unguided Meditation
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title_short Meditation: A Double-Edged Sword—A Case Report of Psychosis Associated with Excessive Unguided Meditation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9617715/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2661824
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