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yeniseri wrote:I would be hesitant to teach people with schizophrenia any qigong!
For relaxation purposes, baduanjin at its basic level can be a good tool to calm the person and increase their well being so at the somatic level (experience) of pain, tense, anxious etc, simple is better.
Qigong can induce mental images and experiences that can/may imbalance the person (they are already experiencing 'bad' mental trips) and increase their severity making it unbearable and dangerous!
- Hong Kong J Psychiatry 2000;10(3):12-14Incorrect performance of Qigong exercise can lead to some somatic or psychological disturbances...Such syndrome manifested during or after the Qigong exercise may be called "Qigong deviation," which has become a diagnostic term now widely used in China. It has also been included in the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders (1989.) The mental disturbances initiated by Qigong exercise has aroused wide interests and discussion now among Chinese psychiatrists and Qigong researchers.
The common symptoms in [Qigong Deviation Syndrome] mental disturbance are anxiety, nervousness, depression, etc. Seriously ill patients cannot control their own behavior. Some patients are found to have hallucination or delusion, and some even have the impulse of committing suicide.
- The British Journal of Psychiatry (2007) 190: 379-384Seven trials were included. Most studies evaluated Chinese herbal medicine in combination with Western antipsychotic drugs; in these trials results tended to favour combination treatment compared with antipsychotic alone...
Results suggest that combining Chinese herbal medicine with antipsychotics is beneficial.
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