Tiny survey/research question if anyone feels like helping
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A person who's view and or understanding of the world does not allow them to function in society.
I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.
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crazy.
That's all, just plain "crazy."
Sorry, but could you expand on that a bit? It's a rather non-specific word. Just continue the word-associating a step more, if you would. What does 'crazy' mean to you?
What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.
Nuts, whacko, looney-toones, woo-woo, cuckoo for cocopuffs.
Sorry, that's all word association gets me.( EDIT-- that was a first, word- association response. My total opinion on the subject is much more sophisticated, if I stop to think about it.)
Seeking a better definition? it has something to do with not perceiving the world in a realistic fashion, on a level other than political. Not sure whether or not it involves taking action based on that perception.
Something on the order of believing that cars driving down the street are not cars, but some kind of living, breathing murderous cousins of fire-breathing dragons, alive, aware, self-willed, intelligent living things rather than mechanical devices controlled by a human intelligence within.
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Hey everyone, I'm writing a paper, and I'd like to test one of my opinions a little before I build on it, so I have a question for anyone who cares to answer.
What is the very first thing you think when you see or hear the words mental illness? Just word-associate it for me.
(No snark, please. Any response of "liberal/conservative/specific person" won't really help me.)
What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.
PR,
Off the top of my head "inability to cope with dominant social structure or inability to conform to social norms by choice when required to do so."
Sure, many may choose not to conform, but they are able to if a situation necessitates it. For instance, if you go around flapping your arms and screeching like a fruit bat you are not mentally ill, but if a car hits a motorcyclist in front of you and you are actually unable to stop being a fruit bat and come down to earth to try to be of some help, or at least out of the way, then you are mentally ill.
I think most of these problems are dietary, some psychological, and very few of them may have a genetic origin, but that would be my general definition.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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Something on the order of believing that cars driving down the street are not cars, but some kind of living, breathing murderous cousins of fire-breathing dragons, alive, aware, self-willed, intelligent living things rather than mechanical devices controlled by a human intelligence within.
It's surprisingly hard to hunt them. :(
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Schizophrenia Of all the mental illnesses that I know of, this is so dramatic that it pops up first, before anything else.
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Same as Siggy.
It's not personal. It's just war.
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I PM'd. but if you don't get the email, same as Siggy.
Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in taxpayer funded bailouts, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes?
Yeah, me neither....
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Hello,
A man, sitting on a bed, alone in a small room, looking sad.
--Anthony
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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner
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Emotional wreckage. Unprocessed grief.
Lady Cavalier said, without being coached: emotional violence. (Yeah, we're really good at Charades.)
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Mental illness = jews, cops, politicians, journalists, teachers.
My report on "Cops As Psychopaths" is very popular:
http://dragonaters.blogspot.com/2011/09/police-officer-as-psychopath.h
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