Doesn't everybody already know they are crazy?

Question

I have spent so much time reading through amateur psychological diagnosis, and empathetic responses. I have been in and out of mental hospitals, seen people debilitated with clinical insanity. Why is it that in America people waste so much time insisting there lives are a wreck because of some special disorder..i.e. ADHD, Bi-Polar Disorders, Anxiety disorders, Panic Attacks, Chronic Fatigue, Fybromyalgia, Environmental Allergies, Super special allergies that make them somehow fragile, PTSD, PMS...blah, blah,blah. It's like people have nothing else to do but obsess about what is wrong with them, and why they can't live like "everybody else" and need special exeptions. EVERYONE has obstacles. Some much more valid. How come people can't suck it up and just live WITHOUT whining? Everybody sees sickness, tradgedy, death.....this is a part of life. Why has it become almost a competition...of people using some excuse. As soon as your answer starts with "But I'm really sick.." You are doing it

Exactly my point. Everyone is a little crazy. No one fits into the textbook definition of sane and well-adjusted. Those that do then have grandiosity and denial issues. It seems if you are quirky and look for a diagnosis as to why....you end up with a prognosis that cripples you. People limit themselves by what they are told they have....Instead of perservering through life with integrity. The more therapy and doctors.....the more neurotic the society.

Answer 1

Often people haven't matured enough and simply act to have attention like my young daughters: "Mommy, I'm hurt soooo badly!"

Answer 2

I agree with you 100% I am dealing with someone right now who is a complete mental case. I'm sick of em. [e-mail]

Answer 3

I think a little craziness is healthy.

Answer 4

everyone just want to feel that there is somethimg special about their suffering.