What does being crazy really look like?

I think there are at least two different kinds of 'crazy'. I know someone who is full blown bi-polar, has had at least 1 psychotic incident where they lost it,and now, for the first time in 6 or 7 years is FINALLY getting health care, and the drugs they need to start the journey to get their health better. During this last few months, they actually had a whole month where they didn't have the audible hallucination of people screaming, and although it returned, it is still much muted... Now, that is one kind of crazy. However, she is a lot more rational when it comes to day to day living than other people She at least KNOWS the voices in her head are self generated due to a chemical imbalance. You can have a rational discussion with her.
Other people who are supposedly 'sane', not so much.

yeah, I know a couple artists that need drugs to be "normal" but then can't do their art, and it's a balancing act.I know I'd rather be "eccentric" than boring.Enjoy

On the other hand, they don't want a psychotic episode either. That can be very damaging, and if it goes too far, then they wouldn't be able to do their art anyway.

Ramoss points out: Like the western world's prototypical starving artist, Vincent Van Gogh, who ended his life too soon for us in this world, but too late for his own mind.There are many - and I am one - who wish our insanity was so much the stronger to help find the path to our own unimpeded artistic nature. It is as if I see the truly insane as having some great secret conduit to a brilliant, gleaming torch of light, burning with intensity we others can only dream of, albeit so short the flame. They are truly at the battle line, pushing the envelope, where the rest of us wait and see. Soldiers, every one of them.Edited by xongsmith, : Wrong emphasis

hmmmm *googles*

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1. Affected with madness; insane.
2. Informal Departing from proportion or moderation, especially:
a. Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement: The crowd at the game went crazy.
b. Immoderately fond; infatuated: was crazy about boys.
c. Intensely involved or preoccupied: is crazy about cars and racing.
d. Foolish or impractical; senseless: a crazy scheme for making quick money.

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I have (or by faith had a gambling problem. Gambling is, by any logical definition crazy. Some would say that belief in God is also crazy, but I would have to differ(without begging ) This is why I always use dictionary terms. So we can at least be on the same page regarding definition of terms. As for contrary arguments, I have been known to blame demons at times, but they may simply be the hobgoblins of my little mind. The problem I have is providing evidence. People think that my belief is based on a faulty foundation of wisdom, but I am getting better at articulating myself, if not defending my belief. Besides...I think the invisible Creator of all seen and unseen needs no defending, anyway. How true, Rahvin!

Yeah, there is an extremely helpful sign; namely the handle of the poster. Except for the very newest posters, the people who will be a waste of time in the next thread emphasizing logical discussion of law, history, science, the constitution, current events, etc. are the same people who wasted your time in the last four such threads they participated in.If you truly want to avoid wasting your time, you don't have to wait for the all caps, multi-colored, large font posts, or the heartfelt arguments that jump shark. You know those things are coming.But those things are also part of the fun. Those ridiculous posts allow you to post paragraph long dismantlements with relentless, attack proof logic; perhaps with a little faux testiness or snark. And as you suggest, the truth does get in front of the lurkers.

The average person's understanding of "logic" is "what makes intuitive sense to me." The average person also has a different understanding of words like "theory" and "evolution" from the scientifically relevant usages of those terms.Most people in the US have learned about "logic" from Spock on Star Trek.Most people in the US have learned more about evolution from comic books and Pokemon and the creationist propagation of inaccuracies and outright falsehoods than they have from actual sources of accurate information.That doesn't mean they're insane. It means they've been deceived, that they are ignorant, that they are the victims of an extremely poor educational system that focuses far too much on rote memorization and standardized testing and not nearly enough on critical thinking skills or the actual acquisition of knowledge.The real world regrettably does not provide us with informed actors. It provides us with people who have never heard any real support of the subject matter, and who are instead fed PRATTs as if they were true refutations of accepted scientific theory. They are indoctrinated to distrust "authority" and the "educated elite" and to instead rely upon their own ignorant and irrational "gut." They are taught to equate the acceptance of scientifically accurate and verifiable models of reality with immorality and the rejection of their core social identity.It's insanity, sure, but the people themselves are not insane.