Patient with Meditation-Induced Mania
StoryTestimony★★★★I clearly remember several years ago, I had a patient who was vulnerable to mania and they did some meditation. They thought it was gonna help calm them, et cetera. It blew them totally into a full-blown manic episode with psychosis. I was like, you gotta be joking. But this is part of where I started doing a deeper dive into the risks of meditation. And I realized like, this is not just something that we should say, oh, it won’t hurt. It can hurt for some people.
Anguish, Amanda; Binus, Daniel, “Meditation” (AudioVerse teaching 42875).
The point
A psychiatrist recounts a patient with bipolar vulnerability who experienced a manic episode with psychosis after meditation, highlighting potential risks for vulnerable individuals.
Scripture
1 Peter 5:8
Audience
AdultsYouth
Tone
Sobering · Convicting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 88 words