What would you describe as "insanity"? Most answers I've gotten have been along the lines of hallucinations. Anyone have another description or perhaps the same one? Perhaps you want to explain it too. I'm just trying to find an understanding
Insanity, insanity is not always Hallucination. I think when it's too much stress, too much depression.. Insanity.. is an Illness. I think it's when one person is just pushed too far. It's Madness...
Madness. I remember in middle school my class read the story "The tell tale heart" and we had to do a essay. Nm to much to right will edit later.
I've dealt with severe anxiety over a long period of time, and a lot of times I felt like I was going insane. What that means is a little bit complicated, I suppose. The way I look at it, insanity is when the logical part of your brain that lets you know "your fears are unwarranted" just kind of stops telling you that. During my time dealing with this, every headache certainly meant I had brain cancer, every time I saw a flash of color in my peripheral vision, surely I was going to start completely hallucinating soon. I'd have panic attacks where I'd think there was some entity out there that was out to get me, and every time I started to calm down, "No! That's exactly what it wants!" There were even times I was afraid the ground was just going to open up underneath me and I was going to fall to who knows where. I was afraid to take any medicine because surely in my state, such chemicals will kill me. Reading this, you're probably thinking it's absolutely silly to be afraid of such things. Any clearly thinking person is not going to be afraid of a random pit opening up in the floor of the second story of their house. That's totally absurd. But when I was dealing with this, not once did I think "You know what? That's not even possible. Why am I afraid?" I was fortunate enough to get over this, but that's what I think insanity is. The inability to think objectively and logically during chaotic situations, I suppose. Edit: Oxford Dictionaries' second definition of the word somewhat supports what I've been saying: 1.1 Extreme foolishness or irrationality
Well basically it is used to describe behaviors and mental patterns that are abnormal. It is not doing something over and over again. That is a myth. Insanity is actually more suited to the legal term which people can plead. Insanity is not medical and you will not be diagnosed as insane. We just throw around the term in society when we see people with abnormal behavior or a certain mental state.
That first part is a bit untrue. by doing something over and over again, you can go insane by doing something you know has no mental value towards you at all. you would be driven crazy by the task. kbye imma read homestuck now.
Its not what insanity is though... thats what "causes" insanity supposedly. Doesn't mean repetitive actions over a short period of time makes you insane. It may make you feel insane. But actually insanity is if your behavior and mental state is changed from those actions, causing unusual patterns. All i know is repetitive actions causing insanity is not true.
The last sentence of your post made it that much more entertaining to read. Anyways, repetitive tasks do not cause insanity. There is no scientific evidence (that I've been able to find) which suggests repetitive tasks contribute to the decline of mental health. What you may be thinking of is a rather famous quote: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." A quick search yielded the following results: There are 2 things that look like they may have something of value, the first link and the third link respectively. We can safely ignore the third one, as it's just the aforementioned quote. I looked through the second one and it's simply an article on repetitive thoughts, not actions. This article does not mention insanity or decline of mental health aside from depression. In case this is not enough, let's use an example. rrtyui, a very avid and very skilled osu! player. Often regarded as the best in the world. This player retried a single song upwards of 2700 times to achieve a perfect score. Not only that, but the nature of the game is repetitive in it of itself. You tap the same 2 keys on your keyboard over and over and aim at circles with your mouse, drawing tablet or touchscreen. I'm not going to sit here and explain how frustrating it must have been to retry this particular song 2700 times, I'm going to let the score speak for itself: This person is still in perfect mental health. Edit: bonus! I did some more searching to make sure I'm not just blowing smoke here, and I found this:
I think of it as having one definition, but it can be caused by multiple things. For example, this was due to guilt and lies. There's practically an endless line of causes.
On the my right hand, i say thanks for the wonderful sidenote. on my left hand, i cant see those images. on my non-existant upwards hand, i have to say that im probably wrong. but hey thats just my opinion. your a smart individual. have a nice day.
The first image was a screenshot of me searching for any links between repetitive tasks and mental decline, which were nonexistent. The one at the end of the post was a screenshot of a page I found which said that repetitive tasks actually reduce anxiety, suggesting the opposite is true. Sorry if I came across as douchey in the way I wrote that, but usually when people share misinformation they're the kind of people that ignore facts, so I was kind of expecting that from you. I do quite appreciate it when people actually read my posts and listen to what I have to say, so thank you. My bad again for the aggressive way I wrote that. Cheers!
