How to Handle a Psychotic Break in Meditation

Very rarely meditation can lead to a psychotic break. This was outlined on the Untold Podcast The Retreat.
Referencing this episode of Untold:
• Episode 4 - Another De...
This video offers a trauma-sensitive perspective.
Useful resource for people struggling with meditation-caused trauma response...
www.cheetahhouse.org/

[@aratneerg3699]

Strong advice... Do not do a long retreat until you have learned meditation from proper teachers. When u feel comfortable then do a weekend meditation retreat with instructors. Then do a week etc... look for Buddhist groups that promote this. Do not do this to tick it off your bucket list or to prove something to your friends or ego. It takes time to learn, and you need to be able to talk to people initially until you are skilled.

[@complexHealing]

As awakening happens, and unconscious material is surfaced, I hope that our skills at holding such unprocessed experience increases to enable integration. May we handle the crises with great skill.

[@shimrrashai-rc8fq]

Where do you get those "proper" teachers from, especially if you economically cannot travel to arbitrary locations?

[@jeffkbissell]

Thanks Mark! Looking forward to the next episodes

[@complexHealing]

Wonderful! On the way...

[@LadyNahualli]

So the retreat involved psychedelic substances? Yes, those things can trigger someone with trauma or disorders. I'm bipolar with psychotic episodes and i'm not even suposed to be doing alcohol.

[@complexHealing]

No, the retreat only involved meditation. In very rare cases, meditation can trigger psychosis. Good for you for the clean living!

[@LadyNahualli]

@@complexHealing Thats very odd that psychosis can ocur because of meditation. More like she already had underlying issues and instead of going to a psychologist she decided the retreat. That happens a lot to ppl struggling with mental issues. Drawn to spirituality but not really adressing the root of it.