How different must you be to be declared insane?
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I think the definition of insane is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  You're probably not as different as you think you are, we're all pretty much the same down deep.  We just express things differently.
1105321
I'm either a totally crazy, wacko, lunatic bouncing off the wall, nutcase Psycho!\n\nor maybe i'm\n\nA normal, boring, run of the mill, routine, stagnant, geeky doofus guy.\n\nI can't decide!
748927
the psychiatrist...\n\nseries of tests will determine whether they are insane or not... this is then proven to the jury / judge / defense lawyers / plaintiff lawyers
202370
It's amazing that although this question is posted in the Medicine section, there is no medical-informed answer before (and including) this one!\n\nLater addition:\nOK, the problem is that the concept of "madness", "mental illness" or "insanity", is too wide and complex to deserve a unique definition.\nA simpler scenario is the legal one (taken from the omnipresent Wikipedia), where a person is defined "insane" when presents inability to either determine the difference between "right" and "wrong" (or, in a more practical or direct sense, "legal" and "illegal") or understand the consequences of one's own actions.
707244
You can only do this if you are clinically insane.
512738
Everybody is different and crazy and some are more crazy and different than others!!
150810
most ppl already think i am. all i would have to do is carry out some of the stuff i say and they would be calling the lunie bin to come and get me.\n\n"Only the trully sane are those who are the insane for they embrace that crazyness that is inside each of us" - by???? (i forgot who said it)
318823
YOUR A FREAK. A SICKO. A MANIAC.....
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Intelligence is not used to classify sanity ro insanity.\n\nThe primary characteristic of an insane person is that they are unable to distinguish what is or is not part of physical reality.\n\nSchizophrenia, for example, is a mental illness in which the individual cannot distinguish between voices heard or conspiricies imagined and the real world as it is.  At a very specific point this individual is not merely suspicious and a loner, but insane because unable to distinguish between the imagination and reality.  With schizophrenia there are also specific, obvious physiological changes (especially to the individual's metabolism and glandular functions).  There are TREATMENTS but no cures for this disease.\n\nAnother form of insanity involves psychopathic behavior,a person who does not recognize right and wrong and treats morality as a game.  Psychopaths do not hallucinate but have no sense of right or wrong and are cunning at pretending to be sane.  A psychopathic illness can be INDUCED by trauma to the frontal lobe.  There is a strong connection between childhood bedwetting and firestarting and cruelty to animals and psychopathic personality.  See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopath \n\nBoth Schizophrenia and psychopathic disorders are INCURABLE.
266081
I have never freaked an insane in my life! I am appauled that you would even suggest that I would do such a thing!!!
64260
someone who is psychotic is obviously way out of touch with reality. They may be extremely hostile, paranoid, speaking in sentneces that make no sense, agitated, and could possibly become violent, but not always.
289267
YOu need to tell us what madness you mean and then maybe we could respond more sensibly ....
637656
Now you're getting into existentialism. Don't let people make fun of you. Some of the great philosophers tried to figure out these questions and had trouble with them. People who think you're nuts are people who don't have much of an active imagination for the possibilities of life.
969231
Yes and Yes - is what I say -- lol\nI think that being balanced is the challenge. Too much of one thing is not good -- so half sane half insane works fine for me -- hehehe\nWhen you switch up and allow yourself to be flexible and open to new things then - YEAH why can't we be all things? lol
427472
Respective to your question's sequence, sanity and insanity.
317568
Mistaken? Deluded? Mentally ill?
463975
yes, they are born insane.