Everything is insane. If your not insane than your normal. It is impossible to be normal. We have nothing normal to compare you to to say that your normal. Hence we are all insane.

Insanity is completely subjective depending upon who is doing the accusing. Some of the most intelligent people who have ever graced our text books were once labelled as insane. Some of the most horrible people on this planet were brilliant, but that brilliance was often seen as a twisted soul. To the onlooker, any idea that you don't necessarily understand might strike you as insane, although to another it could not only make perfect sense, but be a revelation. The fact that we are all individuals in mind, body and spirit should make it fairly obvious that not everyone will think alike. We do not all have the same experiences, and therefore will think differently than the person sitting next to us. Unfortunately, for some reason, people expect everyone else to think and act like they do, and as a result will often label those with opinions and ideas which are far removed from their own as "insane". Personally, I believe it to be another form of descrimination; some other way to ostracize your fellow man by refusing to accept people for the way they are.

insanity is the mind connecting itself to this world and another world that we cannot see. insanity is thinking outside the box to the extreme and they can lie so well because they truly believe it. if you tell them something is real (as long as they don’t believe otherwise) they will believe you and i think that is so cool. insanity is the coolest thing i don’t care if society looks down upon it if you are insane you tell the truth and don’t fake what you feel or believe. i wish i were insane sometimes the way they think is amazing!

_Ash

Literally, insanity means not healthy, or of ill-health. I’m thinking this comes from ante-modern-medicine times, when little was known about what caused illnesses, and they were all bunched together. That people used to take to bed for months to recover from what are now simple illnesses is illustrated in many “classic” novels I have read (“War and Peace,” “Bleak House,” “Les Miserable,” etc.). For this purpose, there used to be sanitariums, which we now consider analogous with mad-houses, but which were originally places to make that long journey to recovery. Of course, both mentally and physically ill people stayed in these places, for the discriminating line between them was completely obsure in those times.

Today, though we imagine that we have much clarified that line, it can still be blurry. Many illnesses that we consider to be strictly physical can have temporary, or even permanent, mental affects. Malaria, strokes, syphillis, and many other “physical diseases” can cause a person to do things which are not at all reasable, and, in some cases, come back to sanity later.

However, with the mention of reason, we come to modern definitions of insanity. The third entry on www.m-w.com for insantiy, is as follows:

3 a : extreme folly or unreasonableness b : something utterly foolish or unreasonable

And yet, this is the term that we use when we speak lightly of insanity. The first entry on Miriam Webster’s website is more serious, and probably more familiar to most of us:

1 a : a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as schizophrenia) and usually excluding such states as mental retardation, psychoneurosis, and various character disorders b : a mental disorder

A deranged state of mind does seem to be more descriptive of the modern definition of insanity. As psychologists began to follow in Sigmund Freud’s footsteps, analyzing the secret motives of men, the idea of a class of people overpowered by their unconscious impulses began to seem more and more favorable. This explained so much of what we now call psychotic behavior. Of course, as new age psychologist have attempted to follow this idea to its logical conclusion, questioning which actions we have control over, they have increasingly painted a picture in which we are all insane. To the new psychologist, all humans are sick, and there is no norm.

But if we are all sick then sick is the norm. The only person who is insane is a person who tries to be sane. Seen objectively, this all makes very little sense. It is likely that there are people in the world who can justifiably be classed as insane, but we may never perfect the method of sorting everyone out into clear categories of “sane” and “insane.”

insanity is just something that 'normal' people use to classify people in the world that are not like them. so i think we shouldn't try to label people: sane,insane,goth,prep: these are all stereotypes and they should stop.! being insane is when you have a mental illness and have been diagnosed with it your not insane just cuz you dress in all black or whatever i hear alot of people call my friends insane because they dress like that and that they are on drugs if they listen to rock. Hell my brother says that piece of shit! i dont think we should go around stereotyping each other like that and noone is insane if they cut or whatever its what they choose to do! unless theyve gone to the doctor and the doc informed them that theyre insane and have schizo or whatever and they openly come and say it, then its none of your business so just get off it!!!!!!! LEAVE THEM ALONE! ~sincerely~ -a mad teen!

I’ve been treated for schizophrenia for about a year now and it’s not a big deal anymore. I’m not experience phsychosis which is really intense. It’s just like being on a bad trip of lsd, I know this because I do research and not because I do drugs. I have schizophrenia because I have had cases of too much dopamine in my brain and it has caused the bad experiences. So I have the label schizophrenic-I’m being treated-I’m not insane because I am very stable-and society needs to deal with that. Insanity is derogatory because the definishions are foolish or extremely foolish and I am not a fool because I’ve never cut, never been raped, never tried drugs and yet I have this. Having a lot of dopamine does help the imagination, but sometimes the imagination goes too far.

insanity is unexplainable really, i myself am insane, i cutt myself burn myself, withdraw myself from reality, edge away from other people, hallucinate. Insanity is many things, but to me it is life mystic

I believe to call myself of insanity, I go out in the wilderness, hoping to find a wild animal, hopefully a bear, maybe a cougar. But never in the dark, so I am not that insane.

There's also the fact that some people are just stupid and can't help that. No seriously. You can't force a person who's not as "smart" as you to change, and vise versa...somebody who's too smart shouldn't change to fit society. Why not just leave things the way they are? Humans have done enough damage to our planet and yes they also have done a lot of amazing things...ugh I dunno this topic has become too deep for me.

Insanity is not real. I am not real, therefore I cannot be insane. Insanity was a concept created by something that does not exist, therefore insanity doesn't exist either.

If you’re making a point, you’re a martyr.

Insanity is when you don't think you can do anything in life, and when you think you're useless.

Insanity is a perception. All is in the eye of the beholder. I think I am perfectly sane, but my doctor says otherwise! Who is right? He might have charts of symptoms and percentages, but I am the only one who hears what I hear and sees what I see, no one else. Insanity is undefineable, because it has no set shape, colour, size, extent or symptom. I am not insane, I just see the world my own way.

Insanity I belive is the basis of all human life, all our thoughts and even our evolution is an insane process. If this makes any sense to anyone. I belive this because it was insane for us to start out as just a single celled organism and end up ruling the world with a plague called humanity. This plauge in and of itself represents insanity to its fullest extent because it clashes everything together from criminals…or at least what our view of humanity calls criminals…to geniuses, which are in themselves insane. And since we are all one species still this mixture is insane, soon I belive the insanity will spread and the human species will continue to develop and “criminals” will become more dangerous and evolve to become better criminals becace that is their form of survival, and the same shall happen of all others sub catagories within their specis…well since we are not on topic anymore….i’ll just conclude with the last point that this all started with a bit of lighting hitting the ocean…which started evolution.

I can tell you what insanity is to me. Unfortunately, I've been there. Psychosis turns me into a person altogether different than the self that I know as "me". Changes in brain chemistry turn me into a delusional, paranoid, freaked out person who can't understand why everyone around me is shocked or scared by the words that come pouring out of me so fast that there is no time for the brain to edit. I don't sleep for days. I hallucinate; I once ran screaming from my house convinced that a man in a flannel shirt was standing in my living room, just staring at me. I nearly sent my girlfriend through the windshield when I SLAMMED on the brakes because of a cow standing in the middle of the road - a cow that she didn't see. I feel an urgent need to escape my own skin, to get away from myself because I can't deal with the racing, irrational thoughts. Then psychosis leads to suicidal thoughts; the horrible urge to crash my car into something hard at 120mph (a speed I have obtained more than once in attempts to flee my own brain). Buying a pistol, loading it, feeling the barrel in my mouth, while I rage against myself for having had a child, for having a relationship, angry that I have to think of them. Banging my head against the wall, harder and harder, trying to make it stop.

This is what insanity is to me. I know that this isn't a particularly philosophical description, but it's hard to theorize about whether there is such a thing as "insane" when you've lived the concrete reality. Yes, insanity is just a different "state of mind", but it's a frightening and destructive state for me.

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I really wish I did. I look up to some of the most insane people I ever heard about. They have the coolest ideas, their problem is often that they are taken to a level where we others cannot cope with them..

Let’s start with Frank William Abagnale Jr. The guy was a fraud, he cashed over 4 million dollars in checks all over the united states, within 3 years. He became one of the best check frauds in history, before he turned 19! Eventually, the FBI realized that the guy could help them and so they got him out of jail. He works for them. He designs the safe checks that we use today…

Then there’s people like Micheal Jackson. The guy in insane. Truly. But he is also a genious. Same case with Shakespeare, Mozart and a whole bunch of other people. They were all insane geniouses.

Most “mad-men” have much higher IQ’s than the average. They are really smart.

Hannibal Lector (I don’t know if he a fictional character or what, but still). Can you tell me that the guy is not an absolute genious. That he likes to eat people is not a problem in his eyes, yet he has the nerve to call other criminals completely insane. His brainfunction is simply too great for his own mind, that’s what I think

I think insanity, is simply the ability to think that has gone into complete exageration. The level of the ideas in this persons head is just too high. Something is wrong, for sure, but we can’t have everything. If we get this incredibly high IQ, we can’t also be normal….