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Originally Posted by SageTree
Insanity is not found in the Diagnostic Critea Manual for the APA, American Psycholgical Association. It's not real, so this isn't a real problem. It's more like an 18th century term or slang for things much much more specific.
Sage
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Originally Posted by HYPERFUKBOT
I don't agree with that. The root for the word "sane" come from the latin "sanus" which i believe would be translated as healthy.. So it could be concluded that "insanity" would refer to an unhealthy mind.. which points more towards "mental illness" than "abnormality" to me.
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You can take unhealthy to mean whatever yo want. I think people who are obsessed with material posession have an unhealthy tendency that add to their suffering cause by attachment. Does that make materialist metally ill too? By your definition the answer would be yes since it based on opinion of what a healthy mental state is.
If you told a doctor you were insane, he would ask you what that meant to you hopefully, and then would proceed to help you if you have an actual disorder to diagnose, otherwise theropy would be a fine answer to most of life's confusions and difficulties for those with normally functioning levels of horomones.
Maybe I'll ask my wife the psychologist what she'd say if someone said they were insane......likely the same thing I said, since I have helped her study and reviewed every paper up through and in her masters. But still I'd like to hear her opion of what insanity means to a professional. Wouldn't you?