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I can not imagine why he would be insane other than his beliefs do not resonate with widely accepted beliefs. How you personally define insanity might not make
by cbs 14y ago
I can not imagine why he would be insane other than his beliefs do not resonate with widely accepted beliefs.
How you personally define insanity might not make this apparent, but what you've said is a tautology. The inability to conform to societal norms is basically the yardstick for every mental illness.
I had a hard time wrapping my head around it when the mental disorders was defined to me as any inability to function within the bounds a society, because there are people on the mental disorder spectrum that can competently (if imperfectly) navigate society most of the time. Unfortunately the Wikipedia definition [1] doesn't capture the idea as well as I wish and I've completely forgotten how I used to articulate this concept back in the psychology/sociology classes I took.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder
- LatvjuAvs 14y agoTautology it is, I never knew such a word existed :) Thank you. Recently I started to learn more about "mentally ill" people and it have brought me to understanding that what they say is most sane thing I ever heard, they do not hide or pretend or make up story just to go on and work/pay taxes/watch another TV series. They Say directly what world is afraid of, what everyone wants just to hide, put away. And they act upon it if you ignore it. And in a sense, they express all our problems we want to stash away. They will continue do so, until we take all the monsters out of closet and will have a good talk about it. NOT leaving everything to mind numbing drugs.