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Meditation takes the regular risks of various sorts of mental unraveling and puts them into a pressure cooker that increases the risks. Weird that many people get into it with the opposite expectation. I'm not even a meditator and I've had to help clean up fallouts a few times.
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Any fault line in your psyche that is likely to quake under stress will do so faster under practices like meditation. If you want to *lower* the risk, you... move away from the earthquake zone and hope for the best (ie adopt a lifestyle where that fault line is not stressed)
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If you are, for eg., the sort of person likely to suffer a megalomaniacal psychotic break in life with a probability of 1%, trying meditation will likely increase the probability to somewhere between 10 and 100% depending on what you try
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I suspect people either tune out, or don't recognize the significance of, everyday incidence of mental unraveling. You can't reach adulthood in most parts of the world without witnessing a few people coming undone, and the comorbidity with meditation type things (incl prayer)