What can cause insanity?
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This all depends on your definition of insanity, to me 'sane' is entirely subjective anyway. I consider myself sane but since I have a disorder many people consider 'insane' some people would label me as such.
While I cannot entirely tell if I was born with my DID I have memories of it from as young as three so I would like to believe I was born with it and therefore from one viewpoint it is possible to be born 'insane'.
Well I'll get off the soapbox now and get back to my six dozen cats and screaming
While I cannot entirely tell if I was born with my DID I have memories of it from as young as three so I would like to believe I was born with it and therefore from one viewpoint it is possible to be born 'insane'.
Well I'll get off the soapbox now and get back to my six dozen cats and screaming
Hey, The Killing Joke. Nice. I reread it a few days ago. It's still on my nightstand.E-mantheseeker said:
As for what can make a person go mad, I'd have to go with HP Lovecraft in his opening to Call of Cthulhu.
People can be born with chemical imbalances or harmful mutations, or they can develop psychological, sociological or sexual disorders over time just from extreme misfortune. But I think that we learn the behavior we typically associate with sanity from those around us. An adult who knows how to read, write, perform mathematics and use logic, but somehow never learned socially acceptable behavior or morality could easily fit under the term "insane."
*is reduced to a fit of shrieking insanity and lunges towards Pankeyman*Pankeyman said:Read this sentance over and over, keep trying to figure out it's meaning and it will come to you.
"Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
Here, let me tell you of what can drive a person to insanity, well... this is a bit more than just insanity, more like massive multiple personality disorder.
Truddi Chase: Raped and violently abused by her stepfather from the age of 2 till she ran away from home at 17, retreated deep into herself creating 92 documented alternate personalities called the troops. These multiple personalities, through therapy and hypnosis, wrote an autobiography called "When Rabbit Howls."
I greatly encourage all the literary minded members of the Escapist to pick up a copy of this book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDUw-yCRBUM
Truddi Chase: Raped and violently abused by her stepfather from the age of 2 till she ran away from home at 17, retreated deep into herself creating 92 documented alternate personalities called the troops. These multiple personalities, through therapy and hypnosis, wrote an autobiography called "When Rabbit Howls."
I greatly encourage all the literary minded members of the Escapist to pick up a copy of this book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDUw-yCRBUM
One day, one hour, it doesn't really matter. Any event that causes severe enough mental damage will cause someone to snap.E-mantheseeker said:
Also, the process to insanity can be slow and subtle, taking course over several years. Of course, there are those who are born with it.
It all really depends on your mental state, family's own mental health and how severe events are to you is what determines if you'll become insane or not.
hitting your head hard enough to fuck up your brain chemistry
i think it's dopamine (yep just asked my psychologist mate, my aunt has a phd but she sails around the world with my uncle so cant ask her haha) yeah dopamine, if you are given too much in a hospital it can give you schitzophrenia.
i think it's dopamine (yep just asked my psychologist mate, my aunt has a phd but she sails around the world with my uncle so cant ask her haha) yeah dopamine, if you are given too much in a hospital it can give you schitzophrenia.
