How insane do you think you are?

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Korytco

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Some one once said everyone is insane in varying degrees. Well how insane are you, I myself am...WHOHOHOHOHO!!! :P


^^ Do you have ADD

Are you literally diagnosed with insanity ?

Do you think you are insane .

Do you ever question your sanity ?

Do we all question our sanity ?
 
Serious discussion, guys, or this shall be moved to Spam. =P

Hmm. I don't know, I guess I am pretty insane...to a certain degree. Actually, I'm more sane than anything. xD No, I don't have ADD, but I can show some OCD once in awhile.

Insanity can be a touchy subject for some, as they may know someone close to them who is probably, in the literal sense, indeed insane. I don't know anyone who is close to me that is classified as "insane", but I do know of people back in my country.

Anyway, no, I've never questioned my sanity. I mean, I can act insane if I wanted to, but that's entirely different. There's times where I'll think, "Haha, I'm so damn crazy sometimes" but that's it. Nothing serious where I'm seriously contemplating whether I'm insane or not.
 
I know, I brought it up because I think something triggered my insanity. Or something is significant enough in my life to be substance for insanity .

Like I am really annoying today, and hyper and wound up. I am acting like I am 10 years old, and I can not place my spazzing fingers on why.

I wonder if that can be considered insane, define insanity . Is it this ?
 
I wouldn't consider myself insane by any means, though I've questioned my mental state on at least two separate occasions in the past.

I'm a violent type when emotionally distraught. Extremely aggressive both physically and vocally, which nobody seems to have noticed at all and just assumes I'm having a little mood swing... which only adds fuel to the fire now that I conclude this. Not exactly a definition of insanity, but I'm completely warped when 'enraged', which causes much internal strife with myself.

I've questioned sanity over the above due to actions taken, but no, I don't think I'm insane. It's human nature to doubt oneself at some point or another, so people thinking for even a second that they're insane is perfectly normal. To me anyway.
 
Agent Smith said:
I wouldn't consider myself insane by any means, though I've questioned my mental state on at least two separate occasions in the past.

I'm a violent type when emotionally distraught. Extremely aggressive both physically and vocally, which nobody seems to have noticed at all and just assumes I'm having a little mood swing... which only adds fuel to the fire now that I conclude this. Not exactly a definition of insanity, but I'm completely warped when 'enraged', which causes much internal strife with myself.

I've questioned sanity over the above due to actions taken, but no, I don't think I'm insane. It's human nature to doubt oneself at some point or another, so people thinking for even a second that they're insane is perfectly normal. To me anyway.
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Well, are those considered insane moments, if you always acted out of rage and anger would it be considered insanity ? Or do you always have a logical reason for that anger. Biologicaly speaking there is medication for violent mood swings, and if you went to a doctor he may diagnose you with something. Have you ever asked about it?

Oh the word is always there, and we stick it to things that we do not understand or want to understand but is anyone really insane?

Really, or are there people that we just deal with by calling them insane and locking them up without understanding them. Put them on some pill because things are beyond our comprehension and acceptance levels?
 
My friends always say that my personality is like the weather, very unpredictable...so i that sane?

I always say that everybody is insane except for me, that should cover it though :P
 
Mjrn said:
My friends always say that my personality is like the weather, very unpredictable...so i that sane?

I always say that everybody is insane except for me, that should cover it though :P
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You are not insane though, the word is being used immaturely, and prematurely perhaps.

If someone is different or craves different things, he is all the sudden insane.
  1. The quality or condition of being sane; soundness of mind.
  2. Soundness of judgment or reason.
That is the defintion of sanity, how bland is that?

Is it not reasonable for a mind to seek out what it wants . Is it not sound to be at peace with yourself. Who is the judge or right from wrong?

If you judge you are insane then are you , or does someone else have to believe it? If you do not believe you are insane and act to please yourself, and have soundness of mind are you insane?

It is always referred to as mental health. Well insane people are not unhealthy , no they are statisfied and happy. Furfilled and realized.

Unless we are talking depression .
 
I suppose the exact definition of "insane" is quite loose, so in a sense anyone can be insane for a period of time, if not indefinitely. Insanity seem to bare a greater un-spoken meaning which people assign to things, which Korytco says, that we might not necessarily be able to comprehend or easily understand.

So in conclusion, yes, I'd say I've been insane for a lot of my life. ;p
 
Define "insane".


If I am "insane" because I am a math geek, am eccentric and insensitive, and probably not neurotypical, I don't really care.

However, I can tell you I'm not a psychopath and don't go around killing people, nor would I kill people if my life depended on it.
 
I think there is a fine line between sanity and insanity in this day and age. In early years, people had to behave in this or that way in order to be accepted by their society and everything was very strickt. If you didn't fit in, you were insane. So many geniuses were called insane, but they just thought 'out of the box'.

But nowadays, so many cultures are blended together, so many different believes. It doesn't matter that much what you think anymore. Geniusses, and scientists can make up the most craziest explanations about something and still be accepted or even have people to back him up. Is insanity growing then? Or is insanity being more accepted nowadays?
 
Agent Smith said:
I suppose the exact definition of "insane" is quite loose, so in a sense anyone can be insane for a period of time, if not indefinitely. Insanity seem to bare a greater un-spoken meaning which people assign to things, which Korytco says, that we might not necessarily be able to comprehend or easily understand.

So in conclusion, yes, I'd say I've been insane for a lot of my life. ;p
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I would agree, and say that I am periodically as nutty as a fruit cake. What if I never realized that though, then based on my observation I would never be insane at all. After all a word's presence is only existent when applied, no?

What if I was a hermit and was as nutty as a fruit cake but no one else ever noticed it. I was never discovered, then would I live my whole life a sane man. OR insane people, the special types that stand out or frighten us ?

What if I was a nutty hermit and I was the only one who thought I was insane then would I be insane or does the majority opinion rule out your own personal indenitifaction of who you are in life and try to chose to be. Even when it is judging yourself.

I am insane, but you all say I am not. If I start to try to prove it to myself that I am insane am I self realized? Do I finally reach a connection, a spark ?

Angelus-Mortis said:
Define "insane".


If I am "insane" because I am a math geek, am eccentric and insensitive, and probably not neurotypical, I don't really care.

However, I can tell you I'm not a psychopath and don't go around killing people, nor would I kill people if my life depended on it.
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Are they really insane though or just murders with a dirty name ? If any mind can be understood than any mind can be logically created and deserved.

Mjrn said:
I think there is a fine line between sanity and insanity in this day and age. In early years, people had to behave in this or that way in order to be accepted by their society and everything was very strickt. If you didn't fit in, you were insane. So many geniuses were called insane, but they just thought 'out of the box'.

But nowadays, so many cultures are blended together, so many different believes. It doesn't matter that much what you think anymore. Geniusses, and scientists can make up the most craziest explanations about something and still be accepted or even have people to back him up. Is insanity growing then? Or is insanity being more accepted nowadays?
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But can one choose to be insane?
 
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Angelus-Mortis said:
If I am "insane" because I am a math geek, am eccentric and insensitive, and probably not neurotypical, I don't really care.
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Being a "geek" wouldn't allow people to identify you as someone not in a sound state of mind; perhaps a little obsessive, but it's not odd for someone to thoroughly enjoy engaging in a subject.
 
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Being a "geek" wouldn't allow people to identify you as someone not in a sound state of mind; perhaps a little obsessive, but it's not odd for someone to like a certain subject.
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Not when if he choses to act in that matter . If compulsive , anything compulsive can be eventually viewed as insane. Why though because it is not understood, the differences are feared because you know you will fail to understand the differences and that person.


Compulsive is not normal its a personal decision that stands out to others to be judgmental .


Insensitive , there is a distant word .

Insensitive is a dangerous word .
 
And this certain subject is highly abstract, and in some cases, considered unreal.

I study a subject, which, by certain people, could not accept the fact that imaginary numbers are workable, and that non-Euclidean geometry disproves the fifth postulate of Euclidean geometry, which everyone is most familiar with. In other words, the geometry of this universe that we live in now might not be the one everyone is most familiar with, and you may think me a nut for believing that.

And that's probably why people thought Einstein and other geniuses either understood something on a really high level that none of us could grasp or they were insane.

But I did ask for a more precise definition of "insane" that we could work with.
 
Angelus-Mortis said:
And this certain subject is highly abstract, and in some cases, considered unreal.

I study a subject, which, by certain people, could not accept the fact that imaginary numbers are workable, and that non-Euclidean geometry disproves the fifth postulate of Euclidean geometry, which everyone is most familiar with. In other words, the geometry of this universe that we live in now might not be the one everyone is most familiar with, and you may think me a nut for believing that.

And that's probably why people thought Einstein and other geniuses either understood something on a really high level that none of us could grasp or they were insane.

But I did ask for a more precise definition of "insane" that we could work with.
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No, this is for everyone. Everyone would not agree on a defintion of insane. Nor does anyone review the defintion often , but the word is used all the time. What does it mean to you , and others is not the question, if it can be justified is perhaps.
 
Angelus-Mortis said:
And that's probably why people thought Einstein and other geniuses either understood something on a really high level that none of us could grasp or they were insane.
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Yeah that's what I mean. They weren't insane. There were unaccepted. But in this society, I think it's easier to be accepted.
 
As I said in a previous post, the word is used far too loosely, and in far too numerous occasions for any one definition to be the 'real' one.

Though dictionary.com is telling me...

1. not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a person who is mentally deranged: insane actions; an insane asylum.
3. utterly senseless: an insane plan.
 
There were others too, like Lobatchevsky, who came up with the idea of non-Euclidean geometry, as well as Bolyai and Gauss (who was too wise and said nothing about it at all because he knew people wouldn't accept it). When it was introduced, people thought it was ridiculous.


Although most of that was because they believed Kant's idea of mathematics.

Agent Smith said:
As I said in a previous post, the word is used far too loosely, and in far too numerous occasions for any one definition to be the 'real' one.

Though dictionary.com is telling me...

1. not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a person who is mentally deranged: insane actions; an insane asylum.
3. utterly senseless: an insane plan.
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So does that mean illogical or irrational?
 
Mjrn said:
Yeah that's what I mean. They weren't insane. There were unaccepted. But in this society, I think it's easier to be accepted.
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Discovery in science, discovery in fulfillment. . Finding out new mathematical formulas is realization. At the time it may not seem logical but in the end it always is. So with discovery of brilliance is it really insane, is anyone rightful to ever claim such a thing ? It is logical, the numbers add up after. It is not insane , it is logical, practical and functional .

Do the numbers add up to any mind ? Can any mind be logical, and understood ?
 
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