Most people who have a psychotic episode have never had a prior psychotic episode. Meditation being marketed as a solution to emotional (psychological) issues

Most people who have a psychotic episode have never had a prior psychotic episode. Meditation being marketed as a solution to emotional (psychological) issues is precisely the point I’m trying to make. This is the same problem with detecting the link between antidepressants and suicide. The link between Prozac and suicide was noted in the 80s but written off as correlation. Because correlation is just as plausible an explanation as causation is. It’s difficult to not to conflate the two. In the case of meditation, I don’t see many people acknowledging the possibility that mental health problems could be correlated with, as opposed to caused by, meditation itself. Most people I know are psychologically healthy and do not meditate. The people I know who have turned to meditation have done it help with their problems (physical or emotional). I wouldn’t argue that it’s a perfect or even strong correlation, merely that the correlation is there and it may be enough to explain these somewhat rare outcomes from meditation practice.