Insanity, mental instability, religion, torture, and family

[howtoneverletgo]

Insanity. What is insanity? Thinking in a way untrue to reality? no. Having a warped thought process? Nope. Thinking in a way so far removed from common schools of thought, that it is incomprehensible to the average person? I believe so. Mental instabilities including medical craziness, retardedness, autism, and other mental disorders are not

Comments

[ashai]

Hmm, thinking in a way untrue to reality and having a warped thought process can be either symptoms or the result of mental illness so it's hard to separate where the line is drawn between cause and effect. You make a good point though. There is something a bit voluntary about being insane in the way you frame it as an ultimate freedom within society. I think it would be classified as eccentricity in psychology today instead of insanity though. The difference lies in whether harm is being done or suffering is caused by a person's thought pattern and behavior. That distinction is very important to the modern understanding of psychology

[howtoneverletgo]

With a bipolar aunt, and a religious fanatic depressed uncle who's as good as diagnosed with narcissism and bipolar disorder I have learned that their thoughts are the result of wearing badly tinted and cracked metaphorical glasses which may as well be metaphorically super glued to their metahporical faces, however when i wrote this i was to bother to explain anything. I agree with you, but sometimes when I hear about the mass killings I wonder. Would it be so wrong to torment the man responsible if we can save them? Can his rights really outweigh the rights of hundreds, thousands even of people? and what happened to sacrificing the rights of the few for the many? is that even applicable? I used to think it was a load of bs the government used so they didn't have to work as hard at providing individual rights. now, i wonder. Then i listen to someone like you and i remember how truly wrong toture is