Do you ever feel like you need to go insane?

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04 Jun 2012, 4:45 pm

I'm pretty grounded, no urge and no capability to go insane. I wish sometimes I did have that. Squeeky wheel gets the grease.

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04 Jun 2012, 6:58 pm

Yeah, its like that old quip about the chineese man who says to his mentor that the night before he dreamed about "being a butterfly?" And he responded by what if you "are a butterfly dreaming he is a man?" .
We actually had some interesting discussions on this in college. And since I have had dreams within dreams in the past, it gets really weird at time.
Then I had professors who gave me thought/sensory experiments ( not involving any chemical) that showed how mutable "Reality" can actually be. And I discovered Quantum mechanics the same year..
Leaving me wondering even more if there is anthying resembling Objective Reality at all.
But under stress/depression this is not a happy subject because it usually comes with a lot of depersonalization..

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04 Jun 2012, 7:48 pm

I regularly feel the urge to kick ass in the most literal sense of the word.
I haven't done that in a very long time. I was in my teens when I felt the satifisfaction of doing something like that and I am 45 now.
Since my mother decided that it would be a good idea for a shy child like me to get involved in judo and later taekwondo I was actually quite good at it for someone my size.

Sometimes I think it's not so bad to let myself go and to let things escalate. People who go crazy seem to get more help and understanding than people who remain polite, rational and quiet all the time.

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04 Jun 2012, 7:54 pm

pokerface wrote:

People who go crazy seem to get more help and understanding than people who remain polite, rational and quiet all the time.

Yep. Not being able to go crazy I consider to be a disability of mine. Nobody takes you serious, doesn't matter how obviously bad your problems are.

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04 Jun 2012, 7:57 pm

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This is like, instead of being driven insane by society... you just go along with that gust of volatile extremity and just do something that you never did before. Like masturbate in a church.

I mean, why not? Repetition in life, as most people seem to be just so happy to solely experience, is a life totally wasted.

Does anyone think insanity is possibly instinctual?

Someone would probably call the cops on you.

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04 Jun 2012, 7:59 pm

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Does anyone think insanity is possibly instinctual?

I think sometimes it makes you stronger. But don't forget that there are people who want to help; for whatever reason.

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04 Jun 2012, 8:00 pm

I tend to feel that when I come onto this forum.

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04 Jun 2012, 8:05 pm

DanRaccoon wrote:

I tend to feel that when I come onto this forum.

Before or after?

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04 Jun 2012, 8:23 pm

edgewaters wrote:

I'm pretty grounded, no urge and no capability to go insane. I wish sometimes I did have that. Squeeky wheel gets the grease.

No, you don't really want psychosis. It's the loneliest place, despite what 'help' you may or may not get.
That said, I didn't look psychotic when I was. Sometimes you don't know who the real crazy people are.

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04 Jun 2012, 8:27 pm

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edgewaters wrote:

I'm pretty grounded, no urge and no capability to go insane. I wish sometimes I did have that. Squeeky wheel gets the grease.

I have never been psychotic just agressive. A real psychosis is probably a horrendous thing to experience. However, I do think that a psychotic episode can happen to anyone.

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04 Jun 2012, 8:31 pm

I think people are coming at this with different definitions of 'insane'.

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04 Jun 2012, 8:40 pm

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I think people are coming at this with different definitions of 'insane'.

Yeah, so?

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04 Jun 2012, 8:42 pm

I was just pointing it out. People who are saying they wish they could go insane, would probably not want to do so under the medical definition.

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04 Jun 2012, 8:49 pm

puddingmouse wrote:

edgewaters wrote:

I'm pretty grounded, no urge and no capability to go insane. I wish sometimes I did have that. Squeeky wheel gets the grease.

No but I don't have the ability to break down whatsoever. Psychosis is one thing but just going a little crazy is another.

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04 Jun 2012, 8:56 pm

I'm emotionally undemonstrative and tend not to act up. My way of 'going crazy' in the sense you mean is self-harming behaviours in private. Even then, I feel guilty and self-conscious about doing them afterwards.

So I do see what you mean. It was just a difference of definitions.

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04 Jun 2012, 9:04 pm

puddingmouse wrote:

I was just pointing it out. People who are saying they wish they could go insane, would probably not want to do so under the medical definition.

Insanity is not a medical term and therefore does not have a medical definition though.

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