Except meditation is sold (yes, sold) even to the mentally ill as if it were a completely benign cure-all, suitable for use in preventing or attenuating exactly

Except meditation is sold (yes, sold) even to the mentally ill as if it were a completely benign cure-all, suitable for use in preventing or attenuating exactly that kind of mental disturbance. After all, leaving someone alone with their own thoughts... what harm could that do? And who could be blamed for such problems, except the individual? It's almost like prescribing absolutely nothing. So, when someone tells you this will surely ease your pain, but, rather than cure, or even do nothing at all (the general assumption a naive individual might make), it greatly amplifies one's problems, as if one were given a service animal only to be viciously attacked by it, such a result is probably going to surprise you.