Insanity and you

Chris Hanratty · Post by **Chris Hanratty** » 09 Feb 2005 19:46

Ever get the feeling that you are starting to become mentally insane?

I'm serious, no jokes.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 09 Feb 2005 20:03

Somedays, uh, I feel like I should just post no comment and smile to myself.

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 09 Feb 2005 20:33

Yeah. Some days I do.

I think it's mostly related to depression, for me

BainbridgeShred · Post by **BainbridgeShred** » 09 Feb 2005 20:40

For awhile I thought I was insane. I was diagnosed with Existential depression and would sit in my room for days at a time. I think it's all bunk though because I never went on any perscription and I feel good now.

lightningbolt · Post by **lightningbolt** » 09 Feb 2005 23:31

Yeah, I like feel that sometimes.

Or how about that feeling like you have a hole in your stomach. It's really hard to explain but it's just this really shitty depressed feeling like nothing ever going to go right in your life.

I really don't know. I need to go to bed.

ville · Post by **ville** » 10 Feb 2005 02:20

Insane people don't know they're insane.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 10 Feb 2005 11:39

wow, someone wants to flex their knowledge because no one else has ever heard of a catch-22...good job!

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 10 Feb 2005 11:48

Sane people don't know what insane people know about themselves.

check, your move.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 10 Feb 2005 12:03

the thing is, the sane people are the ones who decide who is insane and who is not, so it doesnt matter what the insane people think. (Q to B3)
your move...or anyone's.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 10 Feb 2005 12:25

which has no effect on if an insane person knows they are thought of as insane by the sane people defining insanity as people different from the normal range of behaviors in society.

B to f5

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 10 Feb 2005 12:48

the majority of people who think the same label themselves sane. they also define the variations from the norm as insane. its the sane people that define what insane even means and no one asks insane people to define their condition, because insane people arent qualified to know ANYTHING about their particular condition. its a paradox for someone to know they are insane...the things they know are the exact problem they have. if they DID know they were insane, couldnt they just straighten themselves out? like, if thoughts they have are illogical, they dont KNOW they are illogical, because then they wouldnt have or agree with those thoughts once having realized them.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 10 Feb 2005 12:50

I think a percentage of insane people would know they are having irrational thoughts, but would be unable to help themselves.

Think of someone who is "possed by the devil" or some such thing. They know something is wrong with them, and they are powerless to stop it.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 10 Feb 2005 12:55

so if insane people know that they are insane how come so many of them wind up killing themselves without ever getting any help at all, or possibly without being recognized as insane?

and i hate to use this in my argument...but 'possed'???

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 10 Feb 2005 12:56

I heard that you are considered clinically insane if you don't sleep for, like, 72 hours staight.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 10 Feb 2005 13:00

crap, possessed. That doesn't look right either.

I don't know, but I think insanity is a large umbrella and it covers many different dissorders.

If so many fat people know they are fat, why do they keep eating so much ?

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 10 Feb 2005 13:02

ok, i think i can agree with that

but. eating is something that becomes a habit. it even becomes an addiction, so eating less is something that is difficult to do for habitual over-eaters. insanity, on the other hand, is completely different. the parallels you attempt to draw between the two...basically just dont exist.

edit--besides, if this metaphor really did work, then i would argue that these people dont consider themselves fat. just like the insane people, they dont see a problem, so there is nothing to fix. but unlike obesity, with weight increases the knowledge of the problem, with mental illness, the knowledge of the problem decreases with the increasing intensity of the problem

ebo · Post by **ebo** » 14 Feb 2005 12:51

Erik Chan wrote:I heard that you are considered clinically insane if you don't sleep for, like, 72 hours staight.

I was once awake for 60 hours and was merely feeling
like I didn't need sleep at all anymore. It did feel weird though, mostly
because I was totally pumped and hyperactive. If your brain doesn't
have the time to deal with all the impressions it receives during wake
time, it gets a li'l grumpy.

After 72 hours you should start having hallucinations, which can become
dangerous at a point. Of course, that depends on your physical and
psychic stability.
Dave Clarke, legendary DJ, once said in an interview that he doesn't
do drugs except for sleep deprivation. He has once made a 72 hours
DJ set straight through.

zachatree · Post by **zachatree** » 14 Feb 2005 13:38

i have been legally insane sevral times in my life. and i have been up for over 72 hours a lot of times, and yes usaly around the 65 hour mark u start hallucinating,

drugs...

who is to say what insane is? there can be alot of different ways to be insane. whats the differance between insane and crazy?