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'insane'

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    What do you think upon hearing this word? I'm not bothered about knowing its actual definition, I'm just curious as to what goes through your mind upon hearing that someone is 'insane'. Do you picture them in a mental institute? Rambling on about ghosts? Or just a normal person who doesn't see the world quite the same as you?

    Post away. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
     
    I personally think of someone who does outrageous things. Not necessarily good or bad, just out of the blue kind of things. Something along the lines of 'That's so insane!'
     
    When I think of "insane," I think of someone who's lost their mind.
     
    I thought it meant the same as crazy, all my life. Then I learned the literal definition, and now that is all I can think of when I hear it.
    Insane, insane, insane...you can call me 'crazy' that I may well be. But you can never ever call me 'insane'.

    Ha ha...
     
    I think of people who are mental and try to do terrible things all the time >:(
     
    Personally, I think it's a word that can be taken on different levels. There's the lower level of 'insanity' which is just a step above weird, such if a friend was doing something completely out of the blue and crazy, but isn't harming anything around them. Then there's those who are on a higher level of insanity, thus as those who are classified as 'criminally insane'. Those guys are the ones who are doing crazy things and harming those that are around them.

    I myself take the word lightly. Sometimes I would tell my friend or sister 'you're insane' after doing something silly. However, if I'm watching a show or the news and there's something about a serial killer murdering people in some crazy way, then I would use the word 'insane' in a much serious manner. Usually, you can tell which one I'm saying by the tone of my voice.
     
    When I call someone insane I mean they have no moderation or self-awareness, though I wouldn't call every immoderate, self-absorbed person insane. They'd need to be doing something that didn't make sense before I could do that.

    When it comes to people who might actually be clinically insane I usually would say they're "special," "funny," or "look at the world different." Something like that.
     
    Insane is a word I admire when they're used to describe people who are peculiar and who spark a curiousness in me that make me want to know more about them. They're quirky beyond the norms of being quirky, they naturally push the boundaries of being odd and unusual by just being themselves and not caring about other perceptions. Those are my favorite types of people.

    Insane is also a word I use for people who are beyond genius.
     
    When I think of the word "Insane" I think of the Song "Almost Easy" by Avenged Sevenfold because the lyrics have the word "insane"


    :t354:TG
     
    I see a medical term (albeit a dated one) and presume a person seriously called insane has been professionally diagnosed thusly.
    It is a spectrum, though: insane individuals can vary from 'misunderstood' to 'kept in a straightjacket'.
     
    That's insane! That's great! That's amazing! Oh you mean the real term?

    Urm, I think it means someone's crazy, but you've put it in a different way making me see it in another light.

    How about murderers who are insane? Are they in a world were killing is acceptable? hmmmm
     
    The literal definition for insane is someone who doesn't learn from their mistakes. They do something, get a bad result, and then try the same thing the same way and believe it will turn out differently.

    But I always think of a crazy person when I hear it. Well, I used to. Wild and silly.
     
    I think of someone who has a severe enough psychiatric disorder so as to not be able to be held responsible for their actions, since that is roughly its legal definition. I use to think of it as a synonym of 'crazy', but it isn't and so I don't anymore. :P Although I will sometimes colloquially use it to mean 'crazy'.

    Some people are referring to 'clinically insane', but there's actually no such thing because insanity has no clinical definition.
     
    Because I spent so long studying it, my mind always goes to the British legal definition of insanity (which is NOT the same as psychiatric mental illness):

    M'Naghten Rules said:
    To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
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    Then my mind goes to Rihanna, as she had a song that had the lyrics of 'disease of the mind'. So... whenever I think of insanity, I think of Rihanna!
     
    Charizard★ said:
    I personally think of someone who does outrageous things. Not necessarily good or bad, just out of the blue kind of things. Something along the lines of 'That's so insane!'
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    This is sort of the way I see it. :x Usually when someone actually means there's a clinical defect with their mind or something, they'll say anything along the lines of "mentally unsound" and whatnot. So insane is more of a descriptive word for someone who does crazy or seemingly-random things, usually for a laugh or to show off.
     
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