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Are you insane?
I've heard many people online call themselves 'crazy' or 'insane' (and 'random', but I won't get into the actual definition of it) and they consider it a compliment. Now, please hear me out as I say this.
If you want to be crazy or insane or whatever, fine.
I just don't understand when this became a good thing. There are people in asylums and other mental health institutions struggling with their minds, souls and losing their lives over it. Having multiple personalities usually means a person was SEVERELY abused as a child or went through a different traumatizing event.
Having schizophrenia makes you paranoid, upset, pull your hair out and people with it DON'T enjoy it.
"But I'm not crazy like that…" Then what are you trying to say? That you're different from other people? That's not crazy. It's simple originality.
But then, are you that much different than others? "Of COURSE I am! I'm so different than anyone I know-" Let me stop you there. Please.
I don't know who you know, but I promise this much: Even if you are one in a million, there are 6,697 other people on Earth just like you.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm not trying to make you upset by saying you aren't special, because you are.
But insane? But crazy? I don't think so.
And maybe you'll claim to have ADHD or be bi-polar, or something to that affect. That's not insane. That's not crazy. That's where you have some fairly common problems that can usually be dealt with fairly easily.
But, if you start seeing aliens come through your ceilings and they start probing you or if you're convinced that there is sufficient evidence that our President is the second coming of the Anti-Christ (1), you may be insane.
If you find yourself strapped down to a bed in a hospital where people are using tranquilizers to calm you or if you are convinced that your life is a television show, you may be crazy.
This is coming from an average American woman. Whenever someone calls themselves crazy and I try and explain how they aren't, they look at me as if I, myself, have lost my mind.
My point here, people, is that you should use the words 'insane', 'crazy' and others more carefully.
Please help spread mental health awareness.
I've heard many people online call themselves 'crazy' or 'insane' (and 'random', but I won't get into the actual definition of it) and they consider it a compliment. Now, please hear me out as I say this.
If you want to be crazy or insane or whatever, fine.
I just don't understand when this became a good thing. There are people in asylums and other mental health institutions struggling with their minds, souls and losing their lives over it. Having multiple personalities usually means a person was SEVERELY abused as a child or went through a different traumatizing event.
Having schizophrenia makes you paranoid, upset, pull your hair out and people with it DON'T enjoy it.
"But I'm not crazy like that…" Then what are you trying to say? That you're different from other people? That's not crazy. It's simple originality.
But then, are you that much different than others? "Of COURSE I am! I'm so different than anyone I know-" Let me stop you there. Please.
I don't know who you know, but I promise this much: Even if you are one in a million, there are 6,697 other people on Earth just like you.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm not trying to make you upset by saying you aren't special, because you are.
But insane? But crazy? I don't think so.
And maybe you'll claim to have ADHD or be bi-polar, or something to that affect. That's not insane. That's not crazy. That's where you have some fairly common problems that can usually be dealt with fairly easily.
But, if you start seeing aliens come through your ceilings and they start probing you or if you're convinced that there is sufficient evidence that our President is the second coming of the Anti-Christ (1), you may be insane.
If you find yourself strapped down to a bed in a hospital where people are using tranquilizers to calm you or if you are convinced that your life is a television show, you may be crazy.
This is coming from an average American woman. Whenever someone calls themselves crazy and I try and explain how they aren't, they look at me as if I, myself, have lost my mind.
My point here, people, is that you should use the words 'insane', 'crazy' and others more carefully.
Please help spread mental health awareness.
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I love all my self-proclaimed 'insane' and 'crazy' friends, though. And man do I know a lot of them.
.... Only one do I actually consider insane.
Really though, people with mental health problems don't /like/ being called insane. So just be normal people.
THIS IS NOT MEANT AS A STAB TO ANYONE, AT ALL.
I just felt like I had to say it. I visited an asylumn once and I was there for 2 weeks. It was not fun, the people were not 'awesome' or 'cool', it wasn't enjoyable in any way and I can't POSSIBLY comprehend why you continually insist on calling yourselves this.
I
you and hope you have a good day.
~ 
~ 
xxxx
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.... Only one do I actually consider insane.
Really though, people with mental health problems don't /like/ being called insane. So just be normal people.
THIS IS NOT MEANT AS A STAB TO ANYONE, AT ALL.
I just felt like I had to say it. I visited an asylumn once and I was there for 2 weeks. It was not fun, the people were not 'awesome' or 'cool', it wasn't enjoyable in any way and I can't POSSIBLY comprehend why you continually insist on calling yourselves this.
I
you and hope you have a good day. ~ ~ xxxx
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I actually have a slight case of schizophrenia (nothing major) and clinical depression (along with my extrreme paranoia like EXTREME...and OCD) but that's nothing to falunt about. I contantly have to visit with the guidance counselor and have don things I'm not proud of....
I agree 100% wtih what you've said.
I agree 100% wtih what you've said.
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