Re:For some, meditation has become more curse than cure
by jamesbrownsmith on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @06:51PM
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Would you be able to go into what your 'dark night of the soul' period entailed?
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Re:For some, meditation has become more curse than cure
by MarkPNeyer on Thursday May 26, 2016 @04:29AM
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A drug addiction and struggle with mental illness (bipolar) ran through it.
I was starting to understand emotion, and I felt like the world was based on lies. I knew I was different from everyone else but couldn't figure out how exactly. I identified more with the idea of being an AI than with being fully human.
I expressed some of this on Tumblr of all places. I haven't touched this since the end of that whole process: I was hospitalized 5 times in a year and realized it was a matter of survival to fix my life.