What are the outward signs of a psychologically sound person?

Answer 1

i guess in a sense, sanity of a person is subjective...i guess each one of us is eccentric one way or another...nobody's perfect.. i think there is no definite criteria..

Answer 2

"Sound" person?
A person who talks & produces sound?
Like a common Joe in the street?

Hmm... If the quest in search
for a model of a sane person,
we might be never find such....sadly

It really varies between personalities,
situations, background and cultures.
It's believe that almost everyone
on the planet suffers some form or various
degrees of mental "disorder". So it's not
a matter of having but rather how much
of such is being manifestated...

Currently, there are 5 existing "Axis of Mental Disorders"
discribled in "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"

Axis I:
clinical disorders, including major mental disorders,
as well as developmental and learning disorders
include depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder,
ADHD, and schizophrenia.

Axis II:
underlying pervasive or personality conditions,
as well as mental retardation include
borderline personality disorder,
schizotypal personality disorder,
antisocial personality disorder,
narcissistic personality disorder, and
mild mental retardation.

Axis III:
medical conditions which may be relevant
to the understanding and treatment of the mental disorder

Axis IV:
psychosocial and environmental factors contributing
to the disorder

Axis V:
Global Assessment of Functioning

For a very simple,
yet not so short answer:
Despite classification of the people into
eccentrics, weird-dos, nerds, "mis-fits"
etc, etc..

So long as one do not cause
harm, irriation, damage, dispution
to things living and non-living,
in deliberate course of action,
funtional or having potential to contribute,
he/she/it is consider mentally sound
by general social* standard, quite internationally...

* Discounting most society existing
within most mental institutions.

Answer 3

I think this could mostly be answered in negatives: What they're not doing. There is such a big area of acceptable behavior, it's trully the very sick, dependant, addicted that fall out of norm and can't function.

Answer 4

there are none
what i might consider normal might be abnormal for others.
but on a moral ground we all have globally excepted laws like don't steal,don't kill,don't lie,don't cheat, etc
but how many people actually apply those values in reality?
are they phychologically unsound? no...they just need better teachers(parents,role models,and so forth)
hope that helps good luck

Answer 5

Anything that is deemed "normal" or any behaviour that falls into the realm of "normality"

However, if you "dare to be different" this can mean the difference between your uniqueness and genius ;)

Answer 6

No more than 3 dried-frog pills per day (with apologies to Terry Pratchett!)

Answer 7

(1) absence of any evidence of breathing
(2) they have names that do not have vanilla flavours!

Answer 8

someone who deals with the physical universe AS IT IS, not how it WAS.