What do you consider insanity?

[noname223]

I had psychosis and yes I think psychosis can be considered insanity. I would not consider mania or depression as insanity. I have both too.

Psychotic symptoms can drive you nuts. They can be so fucking tormenting.

A clinic therapist I met called people who kill themselves insane because they seem to be so irrational to him. He followed my story and well I think he knows that I am at a point where the pain is unimaginable and beyond anything.

I don't think thinking life is beautiful is insanity. It is a subjective experience. For some people life can indeed be beautiful.
However, pretending life could be great for anyone...yes that is insanity for me.

Or wanting to prohibit assisted suicide. Here I am undeciced. I would go with cruel and stupid and not exactly insane.

Voting Trump depends if you are a low wage undocumented immigrant (can they even vote?) yes that's quite stupid. I am not sure whether it is insane. Because insane people might not have the capacity to understand politics or to vote.

What do you think?

 

[Hollowman]

Dealing with psychiatrists over and over again is insanity.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I don't know. My neighbour admitted that he went off the rails once. I asked him what it felt like and he said- it was like absolute clarity.

It scares me though. Is dementia a form of insanity? I've worked around people with dementia and it's heart breaking really because they can have very lucid periods mixed in with all the confusion.

I suppose hallucinations are something I would assume accompany insanity. Witnessing things that aren't actually happening. That's the worst of it though. How would you know what was real?

 

[Pluto]

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I think existsnce itself is insanity

 

[Darkover]

not under control mentally experiencing a lack of ability to regulate their thoughts and emotions, often leading to impulsive behaviors, difficulty concentrating, and potentially extreme reactions to situations

 

[HarryCobean]

Most of what people do seems like insanity to me.

 

[saii]

not under control mentally experiencing a lack of ability to regulate their thoughts and emotions, often leading to impulsive behaviors, difficulty concentrating, and potentially extreme reactions to situations

As someone with a diagnosed ADHD, I really don't think having difficulty concentrating makes you insane. I do think you should be considered insane once your lack of ability to regulate feelings poses a danger to others. I see Insanity being a state where you should not be part of a society under this condition. but maybe I am just ignorant. Maybe I am just coping since I don't like to think of myself as insane even though I am planning to ctb and have already failed it and have been going to a psychiatrist and taking meds n shit for years so maybe I am insane, I truly don't know... but to normal people we all probably are.

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

Posting on here for six years probably qualifies.

 

[Rhymester]

I always considered insanity as feeling every emotion at once. Feeling too much life. Being stimulated by everything this world has to offer.

 

[reversebandaid]

Ig I feel like insanity is a spectrum like there's no black and white definition

 

[OverBeforeStart]

Breakdown of character/identity. mind breaks down, gets harder and harder to make sense of anything. I never had a fragile mind, never had problems understanding the world around me, nothing phased me mentally, but I've fallen a long way.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Insanity is basically just me on a Monday