Q&A: Insanity?
Question by craukymuvilla: Insanity?
Is “insanity” objective and based on facts?
Is it not more possible that an insane mind is only considered INSANE by a consensus relative to your culture?
For one to consider himself insane is to submit to a group’s ideology and not any ultimate truth?
All a culture would have to do is reference a God’s “commandment to kill” to justify murder. It would be a theocratic government.
I suppose a culture’s will to create principles in support of Holy Wars is the true sign of bad mental health!
(And this is relevant TODAY)
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Answer by Owl
Well how do you explain serial killers..is there a culture that accepts and supports them?
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One would not consider themself to be insane, one would have an advisor to do that for them
If everybody else was insane in the same way as an insane person then that person would not be insane.
Insanity is based on facts distorted so much that it makes one insane.
INSANITY
What a subject to examine.
‘For one to consider himself insane is to submit to a group’s ideology’, yet why is the “groups idealogy” important.
Isn’t the basis of our ‘Society’, that the idealogy of our culture is based upon “Mental Health”.
Whilst I will admit, the mentallity of our Political, Industrial and Economic Leaders. Raise huge questions, as to the equalibrium of that ‘idealogy’.
However after you have seen, the devastation that a ‘Schitzophrenic’. Has done to a motorbike workshop and accompanying that person. To a Psychiatric Hospital and saw some other things that were equally unpleasant.
You get to the point when you ask, “am I Sane” and after viewing the results of 911, the New Orleans treatment after the Cyclone/Typhoon, the Bali Bombing, the Race Riots in Sydney and some other great things around the World.
You soon start thinking, am I insane for living here. Yes I am
SO STOP THE WORLD I WANNA GET OFF
What we commonly refer to as ‘madness’ is simply what society dictates as abnormal.Oh and in response to a comment on whether a culture could accept serial killers?America’s a great example.Aren’t the soldiers ploughing through Iraq nothing more than sanctioned mass murderers?
There are certainly cultural components to “unhealthy mentation.”
Some biochemical indicators are possibly relevant.
Thomas Szasz http://www.szasz.com is an example of a counter-argument.
You might enjoy a psychiatrist’s autobiographical accounts of taking initiation in a Siberian shamanic tradition, and successfully incorporating it in her hospital practice: “Entering the Circle” and “The Master of Lucid Dreams,” Dr. Olga Kharitidi.
Also, “Climb the Highest Mountain,” Mark Prophet, and “Men in White Apparel” and “Watch Your Dreams,” Ann Ree Colton, are good.
“The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?”, Free and Wilcock, http://www.divinecosmos.com may be of interest.
cordially,
j.
Insane and irrational are the same thing… To the degree that a man is rational he will further his life. This is in reference to the facts of reality and not subject to opinions.
Can a rational man live a rational life in an irrational society?
No… He will be forced by that society to act (irrationally) against his own best interest.
P.S. Rational = Moral. ie, Can a moral man live a moral life in an immoral society?
You have never encountered an insane person?
Insanity is irrational behavior such as going totally berserk for being given a yellow flower instead of a red one.
It probably has an infinite number of expressions and may be mild or severe, but it is irrational behavior and is not a matter of culture or customs.
Still, even those afflicted severely may be able to moderate their behavior a little — it seems that some still understand the need to moderate their behavior enough if they believe that their survival is at stake.
There are probably those too severely afflicted to even have this as a moderating factor.
If you are a mature person of strong character, I advise that you visit a hospital where such people are either kept or treated. Just watch out, even some of the staff sometimes may be mistaken for cases.