How insane do you think you are?

[Reality.Fantasy]

Do you have ADD?
Nope.

Are you literally diagnosed with insanity?
Nope.

Do you think you are insane?
Nope.

Do you ever question your sanity?
At times, but in a jokingly manner. A lot of adults think I have anger management problems, but I really don't. Sometimes stress is just so killer, I have to let go of my aggression before my insides implode. Only a couple instances where others have questioned my sanity like this have happened though. Once at band camp when I stormed through the Lodge after being harassed by one of the chaperones, pushing over a giant fan and destroying it on my way though. The other time was when I pushed my friend over who was digging her nails into me and drawing blood while yelling at me for sticking up for my beliefs. She had it coming.

Do we all question our sanity?
At one point or another, yes. But really, it's just us not fully understanding the limits and capabilties of our own minds and bodies. People are all learning about themselves everyday, so there will always be those times when you question your mental stability. It's normal.

 

[Soul Saver]

Grgh. Try explaining your own mental state to other people.

I'm in touch with reality, but also eccentric and look at things from a very different perspective to alot of people. Odd sense of humour, too. I should have gone insane or at least done something drastic by now, though, but somehow the shell has never cracked that much. I'm sane by the definition of the word, just.

Does your intelligence have any bearing on your mental state?
Almost certainly. Intelligence, even just broad thinking, too often leads to insanity.
Paranoid?
My middle name.
Some sort of mental disorder in the works?
Probably, but I'm not an irrational threat to anybody. Or am I?
Are you sure of who you are exactly?
Hardly. I just know that I am a unique, megalomaniacal, judgemental, but kind, considerate, and generous individual with strong opinions. To quantify that, INTJ or INTP, I think. Whoever I think I am, I am mentally stable.

Probably a bad idea to question one's own sanity and personality, but still.

 

[Korytco]

Grgh. Try explaining your own mental state to other people.

I'm in touch with reality, but also eccentric and look at things from a very different perspective to alot of people. Odd sense of humour, too. I should have gone insane or at least done something drastic by now, though, but somehow the shell has never cracked that much. I'm sane by the definition of the word, just.

Does your intelligence have any bearing on your mental state?
Almost certainly. Intelligence, even just broad thinking, too often leads to insanity.
Paranoid?
My middle name.
Some sort of mental disorder in the works?
Probably, but I'm not an irrational threat to anybody. Or am I?
Are you sure of who you are exactly?
Hardly. I just know that I am a unique, megalomaniacal, judgemental, but kind, considerate, and generous individual with strong opinions. To quantify that, INTJ or INTP, I think. Whoever I think I am, I am mentally stable.

Probably a bad idea to question one's own sanity and personality, but still.

Fascinating you answered all my hidden indirect questions directly.

 

[Dark Adonis Wilt]

I'm normal by my standards, but I suppose SOME could consider my mentality "insane". What I do with 50 midgets is my own business people.

 

[Kenpachi]

My sanity gets constantly questioned, which I find quite...
amusing
I actually was diagnosed with OCD, I was one of the shower-taking ones...
Not very fun.
I enjoy being all crazy and the like
As I always say:
Normality and Consistency are the defense of small minds

 

[celtic_silver]

Do you have ADD?
I've had ADHD diagnosed before. But then some other guy says it's Sleep Apnea. I got no real clue anymore to be honest.

Are you literally diagnosed with insanity?
I bloody well hope not. I don't really think anyone is completely insane, just insane to an extent.

Do you think you are insane?
Yeah. I'd have to say yes. I've done things which could possibly have gotten me seriously hurt merely out of curiousity. I've never been one to judge most things as impossible regardless of difficulty. And my views seem to differ greatly from most I know. So yeah, I'm completely fucking fruit loops. ^^

Do you ever question your sanity?
Not very often. At times I guess. It's one of those questions that tends to get drowned out by bigger things.

Do we all question our sanity?

I doubt it. Some may not know what sanity is, or even that someone can be insane. There's just too many people out there to presume they may all question their sanity.

 

[MAKOwarrior]

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


^^ 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 ?

i willingly run into burning buildings for no pay and no praise

oh yeah im out there

and i have adhd

 

[Bambi]

Let's put it this way, shall we? I just laugh and start giggling hysterically for no apparent reason.

I do that, especially when Im on my own which can be quite embarrassing
Unfortunately though, it also swings the other way and I might feel angry or upset for no reason

altho, the angriness often stems from the uber PMT I get, how many people do you know quit their job of 6 years because they had pmt haha. Oh well, Il get round to getting another one eventually

I think 'insane' is abit of a strong word tho, I'm pretty sure not one of us are. Abit crackers maybe, I mean we all have our issues but insane makes me think of One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest or something

Which incidentally is an epic film of complete win

 

[der Astronom]

Do you have ADD?

I don't think I've been diagnosed for it, but it's probably impossible that nobody has even a little bit of it. I think I have some.

Are you literally diagnosed with insanity ?

I don't believe I've ever seen a psychologist before. Or not often.

Do you think you are insane .

If I were insane, it wouldn't matter to me, and I wouldn't be aware of it. That term is too subjective anyways, and I otherwise have no opinion of it.

Do you ever question your sanity ?

I don't care enough to. If I'm insane, then I'm insane. If I'm sane, I'm sane.

Do we all question our sanity ?

People do, and I don't entirely know why, though I would guess it's because people are bothered by being social outcasts. If you're classified as "insane", people won't talk to you. They'll avoid you. It's probably because the majority of humanity is so socially oriented that they need to be comforted by reassuring themselves they're not crazy than to simply be whatever it is they may be, crazy or not. It is only because other people see you as being crazy that you start to believe it yourself; sometimes it's true, and sometimes it isn't. The cases of the geniuses is a good example of it.

Almost certainly. Intelligence, even just broad thinking, too often leads to insanity.

I would think that it's not the intelligence that leads to insanity, but the reception towards it. See, not everyone is quite as intelligent as particular geniuses are, and if their ideas aren't made clear because some of us have difficulty understanding such ideas on such a high level of complexity or degree of thought, it is easy for us to simply give up and shut out that idea as being "crazy" even if it is perfectly logical. And when people reject your ideas, even if they make the most sense to you because you have the capabilities of understanding it and they don't, it doesn't seem logical that such a "beautiful" or rational idea might be rejected, unless you can see that people have difficulties seeing it. The worse part, however, is that most people don't have a more progressive perspective of accepting that maybe they, or the entire world might be able to reflect on it and accept it later; they just don't think about it. So the intelligent person, of which few people are of the same caliber as himself, is easily isolated, and because his ideas are rejected, might possibly be lead to insanity.

I know I talk about Gauss a lot, but he is an interesting example of people capable of understanding the wisdom about widom itself. Instead of exerting his ideas on people, he knew that they wouldn't understand what he saw, and didn't publish stuff like non-Euclidean geometry. He also knew that he was able to see more things than normal people did, and worked alone because if he didn't, he'd be working with other people not in his league, and it would be quite likely that they didn't understand him. Granted, he still published a few things, though I'm sure it was only if he knew people who read it could understand it, but even then, they're not easy to read. Instead of letting people's rejection of his ideas bother him, he just chose to isolate himself. I think it was easier for him because he did math purely for the joys it gave him, and not necessarily because he wanted other people to see what he saw.

I hope, however, that might have been an interesting example of wisdom about wisdom.

 

[Dean Winchester]

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.

Yes, but the answer to that definition could have infinite possibilities, yet answers limited to our simple human knowledge.

As for myself, I am not insane, I am just the type that no one can find out what will I do next. Well sometimes I behave like I usually do here and everywhere; calmed, collected, logical, respectful and lenient towards most subjects. Yet, there's always the little "not-so-nice" me, who can be arrogant, someone who enjoys taunting others, somewhat mechanical (To the point of thinking of every thing as a problem that has a solution, even things as "feelings"), cold, and heartless, above all else, heartless. In fact, what I enjoy the most of "Mr.-not-so-nice-me" is that no one expects someone like me to be heartless at some point. Of course, "heartless mood" (another name for that bad mood), is ONLY ignited if provoked which would require an extreme amount of anger and annoyance far too great to be kept under control. So in a scale of probability, "heartless" mood happens 1 out of 100 if my anger gets beyond the bearable level. Sometimes years pass without that "bad mood" being brought to the surface, and when it does, people learn not to trigger it again.


Oh and Angelus, if only my Pre-Calculus teacher could meet you, she would be pleased to meet another Math geek (she is one as well, in fact she almost just talks about math problems all the time, that and about her studies when she visited Germany)

 

[der Astronom]

Yes, but the answer to that definition could have infinite possibilities, yet answers limited to our simple human knowledge.

Is this term as subjective as "good" and "evil" then? I thought there was a psychological definition of this.

Oh and Angelus, if only my Pre-Calculus teacher could meet you, she would be pleased to meet another Math geek (she is one as well, in fact she almost just talks about math problems all the time, that and about her studies when she visited Germany)

Then maybe she can tell me all about Gottingen, the place where Gauss lived and studied. I'd be interested in some math problems too.

 

[Dean Winchester]

Is this term as subjective as "good" and "evil" then? I thought there was a psychological definition of this.

Well there is definition:
Insane:"Exhibiting unsoundness or a mind disorder; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.

Insane:
1: a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as schizophrenia)2: such unsoundness of mind or lack of understanding as prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or as removes one from criminal or civil responsibility3 a: extreme folly or unreasonableness b: something utterly foolish or unreasonable

I am not that convinced though, yet it's all I could find at the moment. So based on this, I may be just a little insane. (5% of me)

Then maybe she can tell me all about Gottingen, the place where Gauss lived and studied. I'd be interested in some math problems too.

I'll ask her all about it and bring her reply. Her only problem is that she speaks too fast and her class is usually as fast as the words she can say per minute. She usually threatens us to make a BOMB Test if we don't do our homework, but since it's High School, most people doubt her doing it. I don't, so I do my homework (at least 85% of it).

Yet, she is the only one who was able to convince me that math is not an enemy, instead is a powerful ally if you are willing to take the chance to work hard to understand it.

 

[der Astronom]

Well there is definition:
Insane:"Exhibiting unsoundness or a mind disorder; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.

I know; they're pretty vague. If it's "not sane", you'd have to define what sane is as well. Sane in health, or sane in mind, or both? There's a difference. Although I'm fairly sure we're talking about the mind here, but that could mean anything.

I am not that convinced though, yet it's all I could find at the moment. So based on this, I may be just a little insane. (5% of me)

See, if being unreasonable is being insane, then that would mean we're insane and the geniuses, who think logically aren't. We just label things we're not familiar with or comfortable with as being insane as a blanket.

I'll ask her all about it and bring her reply. Her only problem is that she speaks too fast and her class is usually as fast as the words she can say per minute. She usually threatens us to make a BOMB Test if we don't do our homework, but since it's High School, most people doubt her doing it. I don't, so I do my homework (at least 85% of it).

Yet, she is the only one who was able to convince me that math is not an enemy, instead is a powerful ally if you are willing to take the chance to work hard to understand it.

Well, the problem is usually from the people that teach it to you, and depending on who explains it to you first, you either grow to have misconceptions of what math is, and probably grow to hate it, or you don't, and probably can appreciate it.

And what Gauss says is true: "If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."

People hate math because the person that taught it to them hates it too. It's probably also because they're unaware that math can be taught in many different ways. It must be, because there is rarely ever only one way to solve a math problem.

 

[Soul Saver]

I would think that it's not the intelligence that leads to insanity, but the reception towards it. See, not everyone is quite as intelligent as particular geniuses are, and if their ideas aren't made clear because some of us have difficulty understanding such ideas on such a high level of complexity or degree of thought, it is easy for us to simply give up and shut out that idea as being "crazy" even if it is perfectly logical. And when people reject your ideas, even if they make the most sense to you because you have the capabilities of understanding it and they don't, it doesn't seem logical that such a "beautiful" or rational idea might be rejected, unless you can see that people have difficulties seeing it. The worse part, however, is that most people don't have a more progressive perspective of accepting that maybe they, or the entire world might be able to reflect on it and accept it later; they just don't think about it. So the intelligent person, of which few people are of the same caliber as himself, is easily isolated, and because his ideas are rejected, might possibly be lead to insanity.

Fair point. Being misunderstood and rejected, etc, can lead to mental problems. As is the case with trauma and social problems.
But sometimes, people can be driven insane by what they think about as well. For instance, thinking about our place in the universe. That it's so big, yet also finite. And what created the universe? Other people might just close their minds to perplexing, ultimate questions. Apparently, unless I'm mistaken, you can suffer a brief psychotic episode from prolonged, deep thinking.
Perhaps I'm looking at it from the wrong direction.

It's amazing how little we really know about how the mind works.

 

[Dean Winchester]

Fair point. Being misunderstood and rejected, etc, can lead to mental problems. As is the case with trauma and social problems.
But sometimes, people can be driven insane by what they think about as well. For instance, thinking about our place in the universe. That it's so big, yet also finite. And what created the universe? Other people might just close their minds to perplexing, ultimate questions. Apparently, unless I'm mistaken, you can suffer a brief psychotic episode from prolonged, deep thinking.
Perhaps I'm looking at it from the wrong direction.

It's amazing how little we really know about how the mind works.

The problem is that the small amount of time we have to live isn't even a fraction of what we require to use our brain's full potential, thus making it harder to understand it. And yes, too much thinking can literally do you harm, call it like "too much reading + no rest = fried brain".

 

[Nikkolas]

I have a lot of problems.
As a mild fan of psychology, I diagnosed myself a few times. In reality though I'm not knowledgeable enough to really claim I have anything specifically. Just know I have a lot of anger issues and a great deal of paranoia about myself and people close to me.

Don't think that makes me insane though. Just a guy who is afraid of things and pissed off a lot.

 

[der Astronom]

Fair point. Being misunderstood and rejected, etc, can lead to mental problems. As is the case with trauma and social problems.
But sometimes, people can be driven insane by what they think about as well. For instance, thinking about our place in the universe. That it's so big, yet also finite. And what created the universe? Other people might just close their minds to perplexing, ultimate questions. Apparently, unless I'm mistaken, you can suffer a brief psychotic episode from prolonged, deep thinking.
Perhaps I'm looking at it from the wrong direction.

It's amazing how little we really know about how the mind works.

So now we know why religion exists--people are afraid that if they could find the answer themselves, they'd go insane?

How amusing.

Well anyways, I take it to mean that if we think about things that are far fetched from reality, like abstract stuff like math, we delve deeper into subjects that have little to do with reality, and our thoughts, therefore, start to have little to do with reality, even if math is a logical subject.