Can you prove your sanity?
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Well the doctor SHOULD realize you are not insane... since it's usually pretty obvious if someone is delusional or mentally ill in some way.
The thing is, at a psychiatric ward they assumem you're insane, meaning unless someone from the outside world proves otehrwise, you'll be stuck.
Personally I'd embrace it and kill people with sporks.
Personally I'd embrace it and kill people with sporks.
I'm confused... Wouldn't it depend on why you were placed into the institute in the first place?
Have some tests done on my phycological profile, and if that doesn't work prove to them that I am who I say I am with information only I would know.
Of course not, because sanity is simply experiencing the world the way the majority does, and I have no way of knowing whether or not I experience existence the same way my peers do.
Really bad acting, seriously, make it obvious that you're only acting insane.
For instance if you suddenly remember your trying to act insane say it out loud to them. Forget the name of your imaginary friend or change it, pretend to forget that you had an imaginary friend then later deny never having one.
Basically confuse the doctors by be so damn inconsistent that they kick you out or go insane themselves and so anyone they admitted to the asylum as insane would get checked over and that is when you make your case with more bad acting. Someone who's insane can't badly act insane.
For instance if you suddenly remember your trying to act insane say it out loud to them. Forget the name of your imaginary friend or change it, pretend to forget that you had an imaginary friend then later deny never having one.
Basically confuse the doctors by be so damn inconsistent that they kick you out or go insane themselves and so anyone they admitted to the asylum as insane would get checked over and that is when you make your case with more bad acting. Someone who's insane can't badly act insane.
Simple: claim amnesia and act pleasent.
Besides, sanity is a subjective term anyway. I usually define being insane as being able to think rationally, but this does not hold up entirely well for how we treat people nowadays. For example, we generally consider psychopaths to be insane (do note that I wrote psychopathic, not psychotic; people too often confuse the two), however they are more often than not able to think perfectly rationally; they just lack certain emotions that normal people have, namely empathy. This, to me at least, is very worrisome. If we are able to lock up people and label them insane simply due to what we don't consider to be "healthy" emotions, what's to stop each and every one of us from getting put away? It's not about being "sane," it's about trying to stay on the good side of people with authority. [/rant]
Besides, sanity is a subjective term anyway. I usually define being insane as being able to think rationally, but this does not hold up entirely well for how we treat people nowadays. For example, we generally consider psychopaths to be insane (do note that I wrote psychopathic, not psychotic; people too often confuse the two), however they are more often than not able to think perfectly rationally; they just lack certain emotions that normal people have, namely empathy. This, to me at least, is very worrisome. If we are able to lock up people and label them insane simply due to what we don't consider to be "healthy" emotions, what's to stop each and every one of us from getting put away? It's not about being "sane," it's about trying to stay on the good side of people with authority. [/rant]
Now let's get logic into this.gamefreakbsp said:
You are sane because you do not hallucinate. You are sane because you know what is real and what is not real. Streetlights does not confuse you because you know what it is. There is no such thing as a different perspective here. Only the "normal" perspective and the "twisted by the mind" perspective.
A person who is not sane might think he is perfectly fine, but he is not, he just lives in a twisted reality whether it is slightly twisted or fuck up beyond your imagination. Real world or mindfuck. Thinking rationally or not thinking rationally.
Proving your sanity is easy. Just be yourself and the doctors will realize you are not a crazy-person.
