Best way to convince someone that they are crazy

[the spud]

A while back I did a thread about how to convince someone that you are crazy. After one genius misread the title, I got an idea. Why not do the exact opposite of that? So, what is the best way you can think of to convince someone that they themselves are crazy?

 

[gigastar]

Mess with them in small and passive ways, like switching thier shoes around or switching thier food with something else they know they didnt make today, or vanishing minor things like a toothbrush.

 

[hipster666]

Well the definition of insanity is a socially unacceptable behaviour. Since we all have inherently anti-social behaviours it should be easy to pick on one and make someone feel guilt or anguish about that. We are all, essentially, crazy in our own way, but believe in the common myth of a universal sanity that runs through all mankind which simply doesn't exist. Step across any border and your life-long beliefs and traditions can mark you as insane.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Well the definition of insanity is a socially unacceptable behaviour.

Are you actually serious or did you just copy paste this from somewhere?

OT: Get them to see a psychiatrist.

 

[The Night Shade]

Make them believe you never existed

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

Simple,doubt is a beautiful tool.If that person is not of the stupid same-same statistic majority then you can easily pick apart their "flaws" and actually make them insane.

 

[DJDarque]

Get them to look at how their parents act. That's how I know I'm crazy.

 

[TiloXofXTanto]

Convince them of your sanity, that always diminishes the other person's perceived sanity, but I honestly like Fagotto's idea as well.

Another good Idea is to throw them into a large group of weirdos and then convince him that those people are the majority in your country and that people such as him are considered strange...... Wait, that might convince said person of something else, never mind.

 

[sky14kemea]

You posted this thread twice, so I merged them together. ^^

Or as some would say, I heard you liked crazy threads so I put a crazy thread in your crazy thread.... 8D

Anyway, I think something like this would be an awesome way to try and convince someone they're crazy:

Spoiler: Dun dun dun!

 

[the spud]

You posted this thread twice, so I merged them together. ^^

Or as some would say, I heard you liked crazy threads so I put a crazy thread in your crazy thread.... 8D

Anyway, I think something like this would be an awesome way to try and convince someone they're crazy:

Spoiler: Dun dun dun!

Actually, the other thread was a bit different. That was how to convince someone that you yourself were crazy. This is for other people.

OT: That video was hilarious.

 

[sky14kemea]

You posted this thread twice, so I merged them together. ^^

Or as some would say, I heard you liked crazy threads so I put a crazy thread in your crazy thread.... 8D

Anyway, I think something like this would be an awesome way to try and convince someone they're crazy:

Spoiler: Dun dun dun!

Actually, the other thread was a bit different. That was how to convince someone that you yourself were crazy. This is for other people.

OT: That video was hilarious.

Oh man, was it? :/ I swear they had the exact same thread title, and the same sorta comments.

*looks back* Yeah... I'm sure it was a double post, did you hit the post button twice perhaps? Otherwise I'm really sorry. D:

 

[the spud]

You posted this thread twice, so I merged them together. ^^

Or as some would say, I heard you liked crazy threads so I put a crazy thread in your crazy thread.... 8D

Anyway, I think something like this would be an awesome way to try and convince someone they're crazy:

Spoiler: Dun dun dun!

Actually, the other thread was a bit different. That was how to convince someone that you yourself were crazy. This is for other people.

OT: That video was hilarious.

Oh man, was it? :/ I swear they had the exact same thread title, and the same sorta comments.

*looks back* Yeah... I'm sure it was a double post, did you hit the post button twice perhaps? Otherwise I'm really sorry. D:

Did I? How long ago did the thread you are speaking of pop up? Because the one I am thinking of I did like 2 months ago. Thanks for the help.

 

[sky14kemea]

Did I? How long ago did the thread you are speaking of pop up? Because the one I am thinking of I did like 2 months ago. Thanks for the help.

Yeah, the other thread was posted only a minute after this one. Phew, I thought I was going crazy there for a....

Wait a minute.. D:

 

[Grottnikk]

Wasn't there a scene in a movie one time, an old black and white movie, where this guy is trying to get a woman to think she's going mad? He has a light-dimmer and keeps making the lights fade bit by bit. The woman notices and mentions it but he keeps saying no, I can see fine...

 

[Entreri481]

Well, I don't think this counts, but I work with people who are a little crazy. The thing that makes them crazier is when you prove their original craziness to them. For example, a bi polar guy who thought he was John F Kennedy Jr, I used logic, video tapes, etc to show him that it was undeniably impossible that he could be john F Kennedy Jr... which made him crazier.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

There are a few good ways of doing this. The last one I did for example:

A guy asked me for a dollar so I started looking around with a quizzical expression on my face. He tried getting my attention again then I looked down at my hands and began FREAKING. THE. FUCK. OUT. What I said was, "Oh no...Oh God No! Their back!! Not the voices!!! DEAR GOD NO!!!" then I ran away. That's more along the lines of convincing someone else that I am insane but still...the druggies that ask for cash around DC would have probably gone wandering around asking passers-by if they existed.

The other idea I have is to...

Look at someone then quickly double take. After the double-take stop dead and stare at that person, focusing anywhere but their eyes (or breasts if you are a male and they a female. Sexual harassment is bad [sub]apparently[/sub]). Let your mouth drop open slowly, raising a hand to your gaping maw and take a step or two backwards. Whisper to yourself along the lines of "of God" or, "Dear God" or, better yet, "Not again". Shaking your head is also a good move as you continue backing away in horror from the person who, at this point, is likely trying to get your attention to see what's wrong. This one should end in retching and/or mock tears as you turn around and run away.

This one I got from a book I think...I can't remember. All you do is hang out at an airport. Talk to someone and when they get up to leave for their flight you are supposed to say something along the lines of "Oh my...I wouldn't get on that flight. I just have a really bad feeling about it." You then smile and tell them to have a nice flight. Once again, that's more along the lines of them thinking you're crazy.

 

[hipster666]

Well the definition of insanity is a socially unacceptable behaviour.

Are you actually serious or did you just copy paste this from somewhere?

Psychiatry lecturer asked our class in first year uni what the definition of madness was. Many ideas put forward and each one he knocked out of the park by giving examples of a place or time when such behaviour was considered acceptable, if not always normal.

I know we have a legal definition of insanity and psychiatrists have a loose definition of insanity, but it changes frequently depending on social norms and from country to country. Maybe socially unacceptable is a weak definition, but it does have the benefit of being accurate. Any society determines it's own level of sanity and therefore it's tolerated level of insanity. Any behaviour not in the first column often veers into the second thereby making it socially unacceptable, or at least not socially tolerated. Alas, I can't link you something my lecturer said twenty years ago, but you should check out any definition of madness and see how inconsistent it is.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Psychiatry lecturer asked our class in first year uni what the definition of madness was. Many ideas put forward and each one he knocked out of the park by giving examples of a place or time when such behaviour was considered acceptable, if not always normal.

I know we have a legal definition of insanity and psychiatrists have a loose definition of insanity, but it changes frequently depending on social norms and from country to country. Maybe socially unacceptable is a weak definition, but it does have the benefit of being accurate. Any society determines it's own level of sanity and therefore it's tolerated level of insanity. Any behaviour not in the first column often veers into the second thereby making it socially unacceptable, or at least not socially tolerated. Alas, I can't link you something my lecturer said twenty years ago, but you should check out any definition of madness and see how inconsistent it is.

Socially unacceptable behaviour encompasses a wide array of behaviours and "quirks". To say that socially unacceptable behaviour is the definition of insanity is to ignore the fact that every single individual has, at some point, did something that is considered socially unacceptable. If your definition is correct then every single person on the planet is insane. But that's not true, is it now?

It is inconsistent because there's no acceptable norm by which someone is considered insane. Socially unacceptable behaviour does not denote insanity and it never has.

 

[mikey7339]

I saw this on one of the failblog websites. Get a few friends together and pick a random stranger. Throughout the day all of you bump into the person once and say something like "This isn't real" or "You're Dreaming", "Wake Up!" and then just walk away like nothing happened.