insanity

Is insanity really a social undesirable, a disease, a mental instability? Or is it just the ability to strip away the cloudiness of the strangled thing known as existence and focus on what the harsh realities of existence are?

Beings that are labelled as insane claim to hear voices, see the dead, even communicate with beings both demonic and ethereal; perhaps this state of so called psychosis is really a period of complete lucidity wherein the person in question, the term victim here would be inappropriate, is able to see the world for what it truly is, removing the socially built defence mechanisms that are ingrained into us as children.

Is it not feasible to conceive that if a person is seen to be mentally unstable, labelled with schizophrenia or possibly delirium, that they are not in fact mentally superior beings that can perceive more than the average populous which causes them to be severely ostracised by the inferior members who don’t have cranial capacity to deal with the revelations that they are being presented with.

It is reasonable to assume, whilst working on this line of thought, that all supposed mental abnormalities are simply an over sensitivity or awareness to the environment within which we are forced to survive; depression, delusions of persecution or grandeur, schizophrenia, even anxiety.

Depression would be explainable by theorising that those labelled as depressive are simply able to see the truth of their surroundings, that people live and people die, people work, love and marry and it is all for the same futile purpose, that there is no purpose. That there is no such thing as happiness as it is part of the basic human condition tom constantly strive to better oneself and therefore no matter how much we gain or achieve we will never be content. Those who are not depressive could simply be protecting themselves in the soft cloud that emerges at childhood, where wishes come true and all good dogs go to heaven, the harsh reality that we are all slaving uphill in a never ending barren plain would cause a catatonic system shut down.

As for delusions, either or grandeur or persecution, well, as the two are generally clinically intertwined it would be appropriate to theorise the two concurrently.

Who is to say that those beings that consider themselves to be greater than mere mortals are not? Why can they not be psychic, have super strength, or even commune with the dead and creatures from the unknown? Who are we, as society; to judge that they are not better than us, have knowledge we could not begin to imagine or handle within our limited intellectual scope? Is it all tied in with fear? We are unable to decipher the meaning if these peoples supposed gifts and therefore we label them as freaks-hence where the delusions of persecution come into play. Are the really delusions? If someone had power to see the future or to talk to other worldly spirits, can any one of us say it would be a great leap to imagine them locked up in an underground lab whilst there brain was stripped and examined and they were subjected to hours of relentless torture therapy to establish how their power could be manipulated and sold to the highest buyer?

Anxiety, the over awareness of a situation leading to a state of panic in which hyperventilation ensues, which as a result can lead to violent shaking and a lack of mobility and in some cases black-out’s. This is a highly rational medical explanation. What is not explained, however, is what it is that causes the panic ands why some people “suffer” from this over awareness. What if, these worriers or pessimists, are simply more aware of the fragility of the human race and how long and how many times mankind has been teetering on the brink of destruction and how easily at any moment our entire civilization and way of life could instantly be changed or obliterated. Maybe these people who have anxiety attacks are simply more aware than the average Homo sapiens that think they are clever for figuring out tools before the rest of the chimps. Perhaps even great Notradamus would in our society be labelled as suffering from anxiety for he among history seemed to be aware of the violent nature of humanity and its potential for carnage.