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Leesa (gallytrotter@mchsi.com) 12:52 pm UTC 09/18/07 |
| In reply to: | re: definitions of the disturbed mind - Leesa 12:47 pm UTC 09/18/07 |
| Sorry, I meant 'without' intervention... Leesa > 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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