BLOG SESSION

June 2017

Welcome back to another fascinating Blog Session everyone!

We're talking about a topic that we joke about, make fun of, and laugh off.  But, it isn't funny anymore.

There are people who are certifiably insane.  Let's put it this way, there are many people who are able to be, or needing desperately to be certified.  Once they are certified, they can officially be recognized as needing treatment for a mental disorder.

A nicer way to describe insanity is this: extreme foolishness or irrationality.

Just think of the many young people who do foolish things, or who are irrational, and it is attributed to their young age.  So people will say they are just young and foolish.  They are not being sensible.  They are ridiculous.  They are acting irrationally.  They will grow out of it.

But then, they don't grow out of it.  They just get older and act more foolish, more unsensible, more ridiculous, and even more irrational.

Is it possible that those young people never received sane advice or proper guidance?

Another more serious way to describe insanity is this: the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.

There are some people who suffer from bouts of insanity. Just think about the many people who plead insanity after they have harmed someone.  Are they really insane?  Or are they very much conscious of what they are doing, intentionally do it, are not sorry for it, but don't want to suffer the consequences for what they have done.

Pleading Insanity

We are living in a time and culture globally, where people are acting as if they are insane.

Is it the media?  Is it the technology?  Is it the lack of proper parenting?  Is it an absence of good role models?

What exactly causes people to lose their marbles so to speak?

Think about all of the above for a moment, then pull your trusty Journal and ink pen out, and write the following down inside . . .

Journal Notations

Overview of Insanity

Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.  Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity; likewise, not all acts showing indifference toward societal norms are acts of insanity.  In modern usage, insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense.  In the medical profession the term is now avoided in favor of diagnoses of specific psychiatric diseases; the presence of delusions or hallucinations is broadly referred to as psychosis. When discussing psychiatric illness in general terms, "psychopathology" is considered a preferred descriptor.

Can we make nice a society of insane individuals who are doped up on medications (both legal and illegal) that tone down the volume of the insanity within?

Are we simply living among weak individuals who cannot handle living in an upright and sane manner?

If any of the readers here have studied Abnormal Psychology, then you will be familiar with the following . . .

Abnormal Psychology definition

a branch of psychology concerned with mental and emotional disorders (as neuroses, psychoses, and mental retardation) and with certain incompletely understood normal phenomena (as dreams and hypnosis).

In essence, Abnormal Psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder.  Although many behaviours could be considered as abnormal, this branch of psychology generally deals with behavior in a clinical context.

For notation in your Journal:

The question then becomes, what is an "abnormality"?

Definition:  The state or quality of being abnormal.  An abnormal feature, characteristic, or occurrence, typically in a medical context: "a chromosome abnormality".

What is abnormal behavior, and what does it consist of ?

Abnormality

Behavior

Abnormality (or dysfunctional behavior), in the vivid sense of something deviating from the normal or differing from the typical (such as an aberration), is a subjectively defined behavioral characteristic, assigned to those with rare or dysfunctional conditions.

Have you ever been around individuals whose behavior is incomprehensible to all the people around them?

Have you ever been around a person who makes others feel threatened or uncomfortable?

If so, then there is a need to consider the degree to which a norm is violated, the importance of that norm, and the value attached by the social group to different sorts of violation.

For example, is the behavior (or the violation) rude, eccentric, abnormal or criminal?

If we agree that different cultures have different definitions of normal, then can there be one definition of abnormal?

I think that everyone will agree that there are certain behaviors that are abnormal, and in some cases extremely abnormal.  No matter what culture you are from.

Now whether or not a family, society, culture, or nation is comfortable with abnormal behavior is another question.

Lets talk about some specific abnormal behavior . . .

1)  Walking around with your pants hanging down to show

      your behind.

2)  Lusting over children as an adult.

3)  Being obsessed with anything that makes you do harm to

      others.

4)  Harming defenseless animals, or others.

5)  Having a lack of self-respect to the point where you are no

      longer rational about your actions in life.

6)  Being suicidal.

7)  Jumping off of cliffs or running your car into objects,

      water or people.  (on purpose)

8)  Laying down on train tracks.

9)  Being obnoxious continually and acting in inappropriate 

      ways.

10)  Being destructive to people, property, or self.

11)  Enjoying bullying others.

12)  Using substances that are deadly in excessive amounts.

13)  Cutting your "self", skin, or body parts on purpose.

14)  Consuming or eating deadly foods, substances or liquids.

15)  Being an adult and acting like an adolescent.

16)  Being abusive mentally, emotionally, or physically to 

        others.

17)  Having no compassion, empathy, or concern for others.

18)  Stealing, Raping, Killing as if it is normal behavior.

What is Insanity?

Just so you know, as we close out this Blog Session, there is a new clothing line that will be out soon for gifts for those who may be in need of these specific outfits . . .

Insanity Wear

(Creme Tone)

Insanity Wear

(White Tone)

There is lots more to talk about ~ We'll return to continue in our next fascinating Blog Session.  Until we return . . .

Peace, Love & Light,

 René

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