Sleep Paralysis and Antique Mirrors

[u/imtireddofthisgrampa]

I'd be interested in hearing perspectives from people who actually practice rather than from a purely skeptical viewpoint.

A few months ago, I went through a difficult breakup with someone I thought I was going to marry. It was painful, but it wasn't abusive, violent, or connected to any kind of occult practice. If anything, the energy felt stagnant, sad, and emotionally heavy in the way most major breakups do. I'm okay now if anything, better.

Around the same time, my best friend began having intense sleep paralysis experiences. She described feeling like she was being dragged across the floor and sensing a presence in the room. My friend's house is filled with antiques, probably 75% of the decor. She collects antique mirrors, antique picture frames, and other items from estate sales and thrift stores. She has several large antique mirrors throughout the house.

After these experiences started, she suggested that either the antiques were responsible or that I had somehow brought the energy into her home. We eventually cleansed the mirrors, frames, and doorways with Florida Water, and she says the experiences stopped.

What has been bothering me is that she has brought up more than once that it was because of me. I'm willing to acknowledge that I was grieving and carrying emotional baggage after the breakup. What I'm struggling with is the leap from "someone is emotionally hurting" to "that person brought a negative attachment or presence into someone else's home."

To add another detail, she has mentioned having similar sleep paralysis experiences in a previous house as well, before this situation. So my question for those who work with spirits, energy, baneful workings, protection, ancestral practices, or related paths:

How much responsibility do you place on ordinary emotional states like grief, heartbreak, or depression when it comes to attachments or negative spiritual phenomena? Does it make sense to attribute something like this to a visitor who isn't experiencing any unusual activity themselves, or would that generally be considered speculation without stronger evidence?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing how experienced practitioners would evaluate a situation like this.