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mg | 5 years ago

    They found that about 8 per cent
    people who try meditation experience
    an unwanted effect

What does that even mean?

That 8 percent of people who try meditation experience something "unwanted" within a certain time afterwards?

Is that different from a control group? Which control group? When you look at 100 random people people with the same situation and instead of letting them meditate let them go for a walk instead - what percentage will experience something unwanted?

We would need to look into the study to figure out if it has more info.

But the article seems to provide no link to the study. No DOI, no nothing.

Based on the name "Miguel Farias" mentioned in the article, it might be doi 10.1192/pb.bp.116.053686 from 2016:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353526/

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tokai|5 years ago

At the end of the article it says:

"Journal reference: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, in press"

So its not available yet. You'll find it here when/if its accepted.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000447/0/ja

andreilys|5 years ago

Not to mention the selection bias that occurs with a cohort of people who want to try meditation (who already might be predisposed to certain kinds of mental aberrations)