So, yes the article did cover what you wanted them to. Someone who has an underlying problem may not have a good experience when he digs deep and explores his own thoughts.
Not as I read it. In the article, "psychotic break" was used in the context of being caused by meditation instead of by an underlying mental illness.
The second example gets closer to addressing the point I was making, but it's still just listing a possible risk for people who already have psychiatric problems.
What I wanted the article to cover is the far more likely explanation: That 1 in 4 people who meditate will experience some level of mental illness in any given year — but not because of meditation.
Of course, "meditation madness" is a much sexier premise.
And so, to stretch further, this paraphrasing of what meditation actually IS, at the end of the day...
Is it possible for a person to simply "think" themselves into a certain states or flavors of insanity, or rather the more proper term, mental illness?
Of course it is possible to think yourself mentally ill. Paranoia, various phobias require nothing more than negative thought spirals (not to mention eating disorders).
That's basically the premise of the people at https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas
That isn't to say it didn't hurt OP.