Is it normal that i like that i am insane?

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As a certified lunatic, I can say that I feel more benefits than impairments and am glad I am not like everyone else.

People diagnosed with mental disorders are often much more creative and intelligent than the general population. I find the biggest problem is that me and society do not understand each other at all.

It's actually the rest of them are insane because they do not understand my ideas.

I do take some pills to keep me from going to far out to where I have too much trouble being productive, but a bit of what society calls insanity is a gift most do not understand.

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  • charli.m
    9 years ago

    I mean this only in a good way...you do seem pretty crazy. But it's an aspect of your character I really like. There would never be a dull moment around you. I tthink I'd probably be a bit scared if I met you, even though i think you're awesome. You're kinda too real for me to comprehend, if that makes any sense. Probably not.

    I do worry about you, though. I find what you say on this site totally insane sometimes, but I've never felt that you've made any of it up. That's not what worries me, though. I worry that you'll get into some sort of situation where that will be viewed negatively, and I would hate for anything bad (like, legally or whatever) to happen to you, or if they tried to lock you away or something. I think you're a good person. I would hate to see anything go wrong.

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  • Energy
    9 years ago

    Ever since derealization hit me I've been viewing the world in a different light. I don't like it. I hate it. But I have no choice. There's no meds to make this go away. It has to heal with time. The world just doesn't seem as it was before.

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    • [Old Memory]
      9 years ago

      Derealization is a good term for how I often feel. I used to feel that way constantly like a zombie. When I took anti-psychotics a lot of it went away. I actually kind of enjoy it but I think it can be distracting. It's like getting high for free but doesn't help me when I have to work or socialize.

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      • Energy
        9 years ago

        It's like a constant bad high for me.

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  • mountain-man82
    9 years ago

    I know someone that had a psychotic breakdown and once he recovered from it he told me that he felt like he was blessed by that, that he felt closer to God when he was out of his mind, that he was more like Christ because he had to suffer. Your post sounds almost as crazy to me.

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    • [Old Memory]
      9 years ago

      I don't think there is much difference between being psychic and being psychotic. The reason people who are aware of things most people aren't will go insane is that too much of it can make the brain go haywire, which is where certain medicines come in to calm things back to a reasonable level.

      Also society has no idea what's going on so they don't know how to deal with that person.

      The mental health care in the U.S. is shit. Even well trained doctors seem to have no ability to understand what is actually going on. I don't think it's possible to understand something you aren't experiencing.

      I'm not even religious and have come up with my own ideas based off my experiences but I have interacted with other worldly beings on many occasions. Before I calmed down reality was glitching out like in the matrix but nobody understands what's going on because their reality is different. It's impossible to know if they even have a reality or who is real. I no longer care because it makes no difference.

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  • Outsider21
    9 years ago

    I agree, to most people, I would probably be considered insane as hell if I told them about the way I think/perceive things. I actually hear voices and stuff sometimes, but I am certainly a person with a lot to offer although in a way one could certainly consider me mad or insane as a result of my experiences and way of thinking

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  • iEatZombies_
    9 years ago

    I've always felt that the difference between what makes someone insane and what makes someone intelligent is organization. I feel that when people are insane, it's simply because they have too much unorganized information in their head at once. Your brain is a house. The more stuff you have in it, the more detrimental it is to organize. It's the difference between a beautiful brain and a rundown brain.

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  • thr
    9 years ago

    I have had moments in which I thought that 'insane' would be a fitting description for me, moments of horrible OCD problems. In such cases, if the insanity were a price to pay for intelligence/creativity, I would not want to pay it.

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  • Shrunk
    9 years ago

    I like that you're insane too~ But seriously, I kind of agreed with the others, that to be truly insane you wouldn't know there's anything wrong with you.. You seem pretty rational actually, I don't know if that's due to the meds. But I get what you mean if you have neuroses or something like autism spectrum- in my experience they tend to have more interesting things to talk about..

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    • [Old Memory]
      9 years ago

      I have an aspergers/schizoaffective diagnosis. It's suspected many of the smartest people have similar conditions. I agree I am more rational than most people. I'm not too neurotic but from what I can tell my world is very different than where other people are.

      I will describe things how I see them and nobody understands. The other day I realized I can bend light with my hands and nobody else has been able to see what I'm talking about. It actually gets quite annoying really.

      Insanity was actually a vague term to use but I've been called that a lot. I haven't met a sane person in my life.

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      • Shrunk
        9 years ago

        Bend light.. you mean when it reflects off your hands? that reminded me... whenever I'm driving at night i can see a something like a floating shadow over the hills in the road for a second or two that reminds me of cel shading, but i wonder if other people notice, i tried explaining but they weren't as interested, i find things like that pretty cool though

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        • [Old Memory]
          9 years ago

          Reflecting off my hands is a good way to describe it.
          I notice when I look at my hand and move it I can see it push the light that I see. For example if I'm looking at a tree and move my hand slightly in front of it the light from behind my hand pushes in front of it. I'm not quite sure how to explain this without being in person to show what I mean but so far nobody has seemed to understand what I'm talking about. Light has a slight bend around objects and if someone were to figure out how that works and manipulate it they could make an invisibility cloak to rob the bank.

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          • Outsider21
            9 years ago

            I don't exactly get what your saying, but I think what your seeing is probably the energies around your hand. You aren't bending the light so much as sending some energy in the direction of your choosing maybe, I don't know. I can see the energy fields around people and of course they move with the person as they move. I can see that, but I don't quite get how that could be used for an invisibility cloak although you could be on to something I don't know.

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          • Shrunk
            9 years ago

            I think I get what you mean. And someone has actually made a prototype invisibility cloak, it uses the same principle as mirages (which now that I think of it is sort of how that floating shadow appears, just at night instead of day)

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  • RoseIsabella
    9 years ago

    Why do I feel like I know you?

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    • [Old Memory]
      9 years ago

      Only on here.

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      • [Old Memory]
        9 years ago

        I also work at that store you go to.

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        • RoseIsabella
          9 years ago

          ROTFMAO!!!

          Okay, is it normal that I'm thinking of a Dead Milkmen song now?

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  • anti-hero
    9 years ago

    No you're not.

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    • [Old Memory]
      9 years ago

      10 out of 10 doctors have disagreed. I'm actually more reasonable than anyone I know so insanity is nothing more than opinion.

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      • anti-hero
        9 years ago

        Didn't know it was you. Okay I believe you.

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  • thegypsysailor
    9 years ago

    If you think you are insane, then you are definitely NOT insane, and that is a clinical fact. Insane people have no idea they are insane, and would argue to the death that they are not.

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    • [Old Memory]
      9 years ago

      This is actually a common myth that is not usually true. Most people who end up diagnosed with severe mental disorders are usually aware that something is different, but are often not sure what. Intelligence has a big effect on the outcome of someone mentally ill.

      Some symptoms the patient is often unaware of such as delusions, lack of insight or multiple personalities, etc.

      I would probably have no idea I thought differently than normal if nobody ever pointed it out. I ended up being sent for mental health screening when I was high school because I was still in there at 22. Most people thought I was on meth and acid and a bunch of drugs even though I wasn't. I'm required to get annual updates to be able to continue getting a drivers license and my insurance.

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      • thegypsysailor
        9 years ago

        If you haven't already, you must read Catch 22.

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