Insanity is caused by bad blood. Also, severe psychosis can be traced back to too much pressure on the brain.
The best treatments would be bleeding and trepanning.
The best treatments would be bleeding and trepanning.
faith wrote:but snapping at people is still an indication of social misconduct. I mean people with no outer indications.
ange_de_lumiere wrote:The life of Van Gogh was very sad; I don't consider him a crazy person just because he cut off part of his ear...and strange acts of suicide are not acts of craziness either--especially if the depression and eventual suicide was due to something such as WWII, as in Virginia Woolf's case.
Yes. But like LejuN and flowers said before, the fact that you are aware of a 'right' frame of mind probably means that you're not losing it. When you convince yourself that your 'wrong' frame of mind is the 'right' one is when you're probably in trouble. But you wouldn't know that at the time.I think that any person who has gone through extreme stress, or what they percieve as a particularly hopeless situation, probably has at one point wondered if they aren't losing their mind.
But not all our knowledge comes from personal experience. I'm not referring to a priori knowledge or anything of the sort, just to a posteriori knowledge gained in different ways. So even if your particular experience is of a certain kind you should still be aware that other people's isn't. However, it's of course hard to break out of the emotional circle your own experience has put you in and look at things objectively, in any given situation. Especially if your own experience has caused a great deal of emotion. And this can work with both negative and positive emotions. We call someone 'brainless' or 'stupid' if they never expect something to go wrong because in their experience it never has. Maybe we should start calling people the same who think that nothing will ever go right just because that's what their own experience is... (<- that was directed at myself ;; )but our perceptions as to how people are and will treat us are affected by how we have been treated in the past in similar situations
Or as another wise man put it 'everything is what it seems if you look deep enough tonight and see'. But you have to look first. I think this is a journey that not everyone can make, purely due to weakness, hence why most people reject it even while still in a subconscious level. Their mind refuses to let them venture into the territory even though they wouldn't know to tell you that they tried to in the first place. Those that do venture it might lose their minds in the process, but find the risk to be worth it because they value 'the truth' above anything. But there is a difference between a search for 'the truth' that a healthy mind makes, and the endless circles an unwell mind goes through thinking it's in fact progressing. I hope I'm making sense.As Klaha said once in his lyrics, "Reaching for the truth, is after all, ultimately making you confused by what is just on the surface, so..."
Yeah... exactly. But you're not aware that you're performing the same task, either because you're not through dealing with it yet and your mind refuses to let you move on until it's settled, or because there is some physical obstruction that medication can help you with. A healthy mind will not get caught up in this circle until it's been consumed and all other 'reality' forgotten. An unhealthy mind will.Knave wrote:insantiy is performing the same task over and over and expecting different results
amasanin wrote:Yes. But like LejuN and flowers said before, the fact that you are aware of a 'right' frame of mind probably means that you're not losing it. When you convince yourself that your 'wrong' frame of mind is the 'right' one is when you're probably in trouble. But you wouldn't know that at the time.
But not all our knowledge comes from personal experience. I'm not referring to a priori knowledge or anything of the sort, just to a posteriori knowledge gained in different ways.
However, it's of course hard to break out of the emotional circle your own experience has put you in and look at things objectively, in any given situation. Especially if your own experience has caused a great deal of emotion. And this can work with both negative and positive emotions.
We call someone 'brainless' or 'stupid' if they never expect something to go wrong because in their experience it never has. Maybe we should start calling people the same who think that nothing will ever go right just because that's what their own experience is... (<- that was directed at myself ;; )
But there is a difference between a search for 'the truth' that a healthy mind makes, and the endless circles an unwell mind goes through thinking it's in fact progressing. I hope I'm making sense.