I have severe panic attacks and was basically unemployable for 5 years. It’s impossible to say what happened here. I had a similar array of experiences and I st

I have severe panic attacks and was basically unemployable for 5 years. It’s impossible to say what happened here. I had a similar array of experiences and I still think meditation is a net positive and that these experiences are very rare. But the nocebo effect is powerful and it can be a bitch. Meditation is probably fine. I don’t see a reason to reject the null hypothesis that it is no more dangerous than any other intense pursuit. Work and capitalism probably have 10,000x the psychiatric casualty rate. In fact, open plan offices are probably more dangerous than an LSD trip once per year (though I don’t recommend the latter except in a controlled therapeutic setting).