2007-01-25 03:23:16 · 16 answers · asked by bluenose 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hello,
(ANS) Insanity is a relative term, you have to ask what sanity is before you can understand what the lack of sanity really means.
**So sanity, is as far as I understand it means a range of behaviour that can be characterised by rationality of thought & calm collected thinking, of reasoned behaviour, where a persons behaviour is appropriate to the culture they live in & the situation they find themselves in. Sanity is balanced thoughtful behviour, where feelings are expressed approapriately too. Where emotions are grounded in a reality that is based on the rational & realistic experience.
**Therefore INSANITY is were the person looses touch with their rational self, were the emotional & mental balance has been tipped away from the normal. Where both emotional perceptions, repsonses and mental thinking can become distorted. Where the irrational self takes over, where the line between what is real and what is unreal becoms blurred.
**Insanity can be a passing or a temporary state (condition), or when someone is described as suffering a mental illness (medical model way of seing sanity/insanity) in the formal sense conditions can last a few months to many years. It depends on the state or condition involved.
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2007-01-25 03:44:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Insanity is existent in all of us,but when it exists at a level where it begins to affect one`s normal functions,then it could be deemed to require treatment.
Simply if mental processes impair quality of life that is insanity.
2007-01-25 03:36:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a relatively permanent disorder of the mind, often as the result of mental illness.
(Tomorrow, I'm going to be a teapot!)
2007-01-25 03:33:02 · answer #3 · answered by champer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mentally damaging (psychosis) or violent (psychotic) thought processes involving a serious and longer than temporary rift with reality
2007-01-25 03:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by Northern Spriggan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
2007-01-25 03:31:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the opposite to what one defines as sane
2007-01-25 03:27:32 · answer #6 · answered by qwerty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything that deviates too drastically to be comfortable from the popular fantasy, that we sometimes refer to as consensus reality.
love and blessings Don
2007-01-25 03:39:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Repeating the same behavior and expecting different results.
2007-01-25 03:30:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you're stark raving bonkers and don't really know who you are, who the P.M. is or what day it is. Those are the usual confines.
2007-01-25 03:29:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
doing the same over and over again but expecting different results
2007-01-25 03:30:27 · answer #10 · answered by edwarjd 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋