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I started trying meditation ten years ago, and initially, it was going well. However, after I developed anxiety, the imagery in meditation often triggered a sense of panic in me. Does anyone know about the relationship between long-term meditation and depersonalization? There are some papers discussing this topic.

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I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're talking about, but i'm going through a book called 'The Mind Illuminated' and the author has a section of the book called the 'Dark Night', which talks about how you can have a lot of issues if your meditation practice develops but your everyday life does not reflect it. He mentions a specific type of anxiety comes with this as well. My be worth looking into.

Thanks for your reply, I am going to check this book. We've been talking a lot about the advantage of meditation in this society, but it seems there are also some dark sides of it...

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