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Leesa (gallytrotter@mchsi.com) 12:47 pm UTC 09/18/07 |
| In reply to: | definitions of the disturbed mind - tragichippy 07:47 am UTC 09/18/07 |
| What interesting points. I think the danger factor of the fringe/unhinged can be equally distributed across the board of those departing from 'normal'. You take a Mark Chapman character or the Manson family members--these people all qualify under a mental diagnosis. 'Crazy' can be wacky, 'off- the-wall' and actually add some colour without being a social danger. I guess I'd be inclined to see crazy as more benign and possibly reasoned with. Mental illness can run the gamut of behaviour but often can't be controlled with intervention because it's more of a medical condition. Like I've mentioned here before, my father-in-law had dementia for 3 hellish years, living in his own private Idaho, so to speak. Susan sounded just like him. She would listen to reason, but couldn't resist twisting everything with pretzel-logic to make reality conform to her own little universe. She had to make her fantasies more real and used this format to weave them over and over again so they became so for her--which doctors will tell you is the WORST thing that can happen for a person with such a disorder. Which is why I felt so strongly she shouldn't be allowed to continue to do this to herself here as well as impact the RR the way the way that she had. She had more going on that simple delusion, I think. And yeah, I considered here a guilty pleasure to read her twisted responses when she wasn't manic. But when she was, and I caught myself reacting to her really obnoxious moments, I felt like we were watching the bodies being removed from a gruesome trainwreck--hard to look away, but disrespectful to watch something so sad and personal. Someone suggested that maybe Bright Eyes is actually her shrink!! At least both are off the board... Leesa > > As for curtailing the Susans/'mentally ill', which are not > > necessarily the 'crazies', you just have to boot them. > > being mentally ill does not in the majority of cases mean > you are delusional. > > being crazy is more akin to delusional. you've so much > more to fear from crazies then the mentally ill. trouover agaible > is trying to decipher between the two... and no, they > aren't always mutually exclusive. > > being "kkkerrrazzzy" is what people going through a > midlife crisis - having been through several by age of 25, > i'd know ;) - and idiots who have no idea of what real > craziness is profess to. > > Susan was a whole different ball game that gave all the > above a bad name, although i had fun trying to follow the > tapestries in her mind... > > | |
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