Are you crazy?

If you believe someone is normal you might not know them as well as you think.

We all have issues.

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A man gets a flat tire outside the fence of an insane asylum.​

While he's changing the tire he sees a patient on the other side of the fence observing him so he hurries. He gets the flat off and puts the spare on, but since he was rushing to get out of there, he accidentally drops all 4 lug nuts down a drain. While he's standing there staring at the spare with no lugs to secure it, scratching his head, he hears the patient on the other side of the fence say, "Hey! Hey! Hey!!! He calmly replies, "Yes?" The patient inquires, "Whatcha doin?" He explains his predicament and the patient asks, "Why don't you just take one lug nut off the other 3 wheels and put them on the spare to get you where you're going?" The man, surprised, says, "That is a really good idea. Why they got you locked up in there? You're really smart." The patient replies, "I'm crazy, not stupid."
 
fmdog44 said:
Define "crazy".
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Relevant question, largely because the label gets plastered on any behavior the labeler considers unacceptable or bizarre. There are societal definitions as well as clinical ones and despite the DSM-R, not all clinicians see things identically, except to use the manual to justify prescribing meds and classifications that will allow insurance to cover much of costs.

In the USSR high profile dissidents could get declared mentally unstable and confined to mental wards because regular prison might have made them martyrs that inspired more dissent. The official party line was "Anyone unhappy in and with our exemplary society must be insane."

During one VA cost cutting effort (in 70s i think) they actually reclassified people they'd previously diagnosed as seriously mentally ill as only partially disabled by it, and cut their benefits tho they were kept on heavy antipsychotic meds.
 
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