No one believes what someone locked up in a booby hatch says, so its pretty much futile. Just enjoy the padded walls and free drugs till they deem you fit for the public.
Can you prove your sanity?
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It would be data they would have access to, but the average person would not be able to know that about me.MancalaManiac said:
Sanity is overrated MWUAHAHAHAHA!E-mantheseeker said:
OT: theoretically speaking, if you were able to rationally discuss the supposed symptoms of your insanity, it means your conscious brain is fully capable of logical thinking, thereby proving your sanity
As long as I get free food & game/internet access, I'll just play along & let them figure it out for themselves. By the time some kind of DNA testing or blood samples are required, I'm sure they'll be asking my why I didn't admit I had stolen a genuinely crazy person's identity. Now if I'm in the assylum "instead of jail", I'l fain true insanity & let them tell me I have split personality disorder.
I haven't even proved my sanity to myself, so what makes me think that I can prove it to some hoity-toity doctor person?
And to be honest, who needs it?
And to be honest, who needs it?
Sanity is statistical; if the majority questions your behaviour and/or rational, you're 'technically' insane, if only due to non-conformity. On the other hand, the actual definition of insanity that I most consistently hear is 'going through the same exact process repeatedly, expecting a different result'.
Unfortunately, that definition directly implies that the person simply doesn't understand cause and effect, rather than an actual psychotic break from reality, which is a more commonly recognized example of insanity.
But if you can question your own mental health, you're probably sane. Mostly.
Unfortunately, that definition directly implies that the person simply doesn't understand cause and effect, rather than an actual psychotic break from reality, which is a more commonly recognized example of insanity.
But if you can question your own mental health, you're probably sane. Mostly.
Proof: There are two potential cases.
1. I am who I believe I am. Knowing myself as I do, I recognize myself to be insane.
2. I am in fact the named patient. I believe otherwise, and hence I am insane.
3. I am someone else entirely. Again, I believe otherwise, and thus I am insane.
By recognizing my own lack of sanity, I prove that I am in fact as sane as is possible for any human being.
QED you raving lunatics.
1. I am who I believe I am. Knowing myself as I do, I recognize myself to be insane.
2. I am in fact the named patient. I believe otherwise, and hence I am insane.
3. I am someone else entirely. Again, I believe otherwise, and thus I am insane.
By recognizing my own lack of sanity, I prove that I am in fact as sane as is possible for any human being.
QED you raving lunatics.
gee free food , nice warm jacket , and the finest mediations mmmm .... nap time
then when the doc turns his back , take the ink stamp saying not insane and stamp self , and take insane stamp and stamp forehead of doc and call security
not insane stamp thingy courtesy of the simpsons
then when the doc turns his back , take the ink stamp saying not insane and stamp self , and take insane stamp and stamp forehead of doc and call security
not insane stamp thingy courtesy of the simpsons
This topic reminds me of the Rosenhan experiment [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment] In which doctors got sane people admitted to a mental hospital, and then had them try to convince the staff they were sane. Needless to say, they failed to get out without accepting treatment.
"I told friends, I told my family, 'I can get out when I can get out. That's all. I'll be there for a couple of days and I'll get out.' Nobody knew I'd be there for two months ? The only way out was to point out that they're [the psychiatrists] correct. They had said I was insane, 'I am insane; but I am getting better.' That was an affirmation of their view of me." David Rosenhan in the BBC program "The Trap."
Therefore, it is impossible to convince a doctor you are sane, especially if he already thinks you are not. Once you are in, you are screwed.
"I told friends, I told my family, 'I can get out when I can get out. That's all. I'll be there for a couple of days and I'll get out.' Nobody knew I'd be there for two months ? The only way out was to point out that they're [the psychiatrists] correct. They had said I was insane, 'I am insane; but I am getting better.' That was an affirmation of their view of me." David Rosenhan in the BBC program "The Trap."
Therefore, it is impossible to convince a doctor you are sane, especially if he already thinks you are not. Once you are in, you are screwed.
I wud roll around on the floor singing camp fire songs - Im sure that wud do the trick =)
lol k seriously - I dont think there is a way to do it =P Which sucks majorly actually. Maybe just try to be as understanding as possible? Thats the only thing I can think of that wud be a good sign. I dont think screaming and banging around the cell wud help much.
lol k seriously - I dont think there is a way to do it =P Which sucks majorly actually. Maybe just try to be as understanding as possible? Thats the only thing I can think of that wud be a good sign. I dont think screaming and banging around the cell wud help much.
