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Posted: 18th Dec 2004
I suppose it's all relative. Relative to society and to your own perspective. Sanity is a subjective thing. I happen to believe that war is insane whereas most people in this country think otherwise so to them, I'm a little off the deep end. Actually I'm a lot off the deep end to them

Think of all the things society considers loopy: depression, manic states, introversion.. etc. Many of these are perfectly natural but to "fit in" society decides to pump us full of drugs. How insane is that?

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Posted: 18th Dec 2004
Quote: ¨The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success¨

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Posted: 18th Dec 2004
Sanity, as I view (medicalize) it, is a functional human existence where one is able to adequately care for ones physical needs both in the short and long-term.

When someone's higher congnitive/executive function is impaired as to jeopardize his or her ability to see to those needs, that become insanity.

-Mike

Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella



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Posted: 18th Dec 2004
I think that our present life makes us all insane a bit. So every person is not normal by psychological point of view. So the line bwtween sane and insane is very thin...
But there are absolutely insane things happening in our world...

Posted: 19th Dec 2004
I always see insanity as 1. when a person has a quite different perception of the reality that is generally accepted as true (ie. see/hear things that are believed by others not to be there, believe things like 'my landlady's trying to poison me')

2. When these perceptions/beliefs interfere with the way that the person would like to live their life (unable to hold a job down, etc.), or when it hurts them/others

3. how the persons behaviour compares to others

This last point is an interesting one, because it is no longer based on the individuals' experience, but how it is perceived be others. Like in days gone by homosexuality was classified as a mental illness (and only surprisingly recently declassified), but today only a very few (ignorant) people would argue this to be true.

Another thing i find interesting is the way that religion fits into this...if a person was to tell you that their thoughts and actions were being monitored by aliens, and they had to make sure they acted in a certain way so that the aliens wouldn't punish them, you would assume they had a mental illness, but replace 'aliens' with 'God', and you wouldn't think twice.

well, that's my 2 cents

Posted: 24th Dec 2004
i'm going insane, christmas is pi****g me off no end already, i dont know if i'll make it through tomorrow without stabbing someone with a chicken leg!

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Posted: 24th Dec 2004
People can mentally operate on any of thousands of different levels, but there seems to be a certain band wherein if you fall you are classed as 'sane'. This is a bit of a generalisation though. I think everyone has there own eccentricities and it's only those with grossly stronger ones than others that get dubbed as insane. My mum is mad in some respects because of very particular (and unfathomable) quirks in her personality, but I'm the one getting 'assessed' in March.

I had a point. It went somewhere where I am not. Hmm...

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Quote: ¨The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success¨

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Absolutely love that though because it is very true,

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Posted: 25th Dec 2004
you're insane if you cant operate and conform to societies beliefs and values.

i didn't get my hands on any chicken legs, everybody survived.......so far

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Posted: 25th Dec 2004
personally, i'd say that if you can still question yourself as to whether or not you are sane, you aren't. it's when that self checking stops that i'd class as borderline.

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Posted: 25th Dec 2004
Quote:

"L*D suggests that there is an area of the mind which could be called unsane, beyond insanity and yet not insane."

Posted: 25th Dec 2004
lol yea, i never got the bit about the circle with a fine split in it. sounds like the ramblings of a madman to me

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They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no