What is madness?

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What is madness?
  • Lots of normal things are like being disciplinary or organized
  • Only mental disorders found in DSM etc.
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I had a chat with someone on quora about psychology and they said some stuff like it is all revisionist slop that lacked true objectivity and I tried to turn the discussion towards sociology by saying there are lots of madness that are considered normal and that psychology has been constructed by people adopting sort of obsessive and anxiety based traits like work addiction and being overly interested in a subject etc. These kinds of madnesses come together in creating a failed psychology that has to be revised.

So in your view, are we in a mad, mad world or are only things like schizophrenia madness?

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Buying a Nikon when there is a perfectly good Canon or Sony available instead.

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Your madness for cameras seems to supersede that maddening choice

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I own Canon and Nikon and Sony and Olympus and Fujifilm and and and…

I need a freakin’ 12 Step program for photographers.

:flushed:

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And a 12 step program for 12 step programs it seems

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Doesn’t it have to also cause some type of dysfunction in your life to be considered madness by the DSM ?

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i think thats one requirement

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Madness is some thing you are not or changed to something who you are not.

Cleanly explained :point_down:

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theres good stuff in that song

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I don’t think schizophrenia is usually madness, but a reaction to madness. I think of madness as illogical thinking that is harmful to someone.

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You have quite the collection there… :grinning:

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You are like one guy I knew. He always had to have the latest tech when it came to computers.

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Unpopular opinions/beliefs that aren’t result of societal peer pressure

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It seems to me that everyone has their own unique craziness, there are no normies. We have a local saying ‘theres nowt as queer as folk’ meaning there’s nothing as strange as people.