There's "crazy," as in seriously bonkers totally nonfunctional broken-mindedness... and then there's "crazy," as in weird and different and makes everyone nearby wonder what drugs you're on (or off), but not danger-to-self-and-others, not incapable of making conscious choices, not unable to establish & maintain social relationships.
And we don't have a decent set of vocab for distinguishing between the two. They're both lumped under "mentally ill" with a pack of technical terms that even the experts don't consense on the meanings of. (And modern psychology treats all religion as kind of benign delusion, except when you have too much of it and it's considered a dangerous delusion.)
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Date: 2010-01-12 03:39 pm (UTC)There's "crazy," as in seriously bonkers totally nonfunctional broken-mindedness... and then there's "crazy," as in weird and different and makes everyone nearby wonder what drugs you're on (or off), but not danger-to-self-and-others, not incapable of making conscious choices, not unable to establish & maintain social relationships.
And we don't have a decent set of vocab for distinguishing between the two. They're both lumped under "mentally ill" with a pack of technical terms that even the experts don't consense on the meanings of. (And modern psychology treats all religion as kind of benign delusion, except when you have too much of it and it's considered a dangerous delusion.)