Definition of Insanity.
Definition:
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
-Benjamin Franklin “
This is as the man himself said it and I do not mean Benjamin Franklin but Albert Einstein. However science defines insanity as something completely different:
“A deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder.”
In English, the word “sane” derives from the Latin adjective “sanus” meaning “healthy”. The phrase “mens sana in corpore sano” is often translated to mean a “healthy mind in a healthy body”. From this perspective, insanity can be considered as poor health of the mind, not necessarily of the brain as an organ (although that can affect mental health), but rather defective function of mental processes such as reasoning.
Insanity
Insanity is a consequence of human nature. Throughout our lives, in our daily doings we face actions from fellow human beings or mother nature herself which can drive you on the verge of insanity. Facing mental intrusion can cause one to act or behave differently than what is considered the “norm”. But out of all types of “infringement/intrusion”, mental intrusion/intrusion is the worst.
I say mental infringement is the worst simply because of one thing- we allow it. Being a subject of something brutal or something strange which by the way your “human” mind can not decipher or understand can lead you into a mental lapse. You allow such situations to develop simply because you do not commit the required action to remove/change such a situation.
For example:
Jerry got beaten up at work. He suffered a black eye and a bruised lip. 4 days later he was healthy and back at work.
Michael suffered mental infringement. Sarah toyed with his mind. She created doubts and distrust in him regarding his own wife named Maria. Michael reacted to the mental infringment, who as a child had lost his girlfriend to David. Michael now enraged with anger went home and kicked the living shit out of his wife. This led to a divorce essentially tearing their childrens lives. Micheals son became a drug addict and his daughter a prostitue.
Can you see how a situation can occur to change ones mental state? I keep using the word infringement because I believe this is what describes it best. Such mental intrusion (i.e infringement) can lead to ones life being radically changed. We need to be able to recognise the power of emotion, the power of our individual human mind.
Our mental health is constantly in use so therefore being able to assess the moment others are trying to “hack” into your mind and make it overload is essential. The single moment you choose to reply to such a hack with a negative response you have fundamentally lost.
Awareness
Being a student of medicine I firmly believe in prevention being better than a cure so going by this principle I would say being aware of such attacks is important because Satan is the biggest mental intruder.
Insanity only really occurs when the person being infringed upon (mentally) actually reacts to the intrusion meaning they elicit an emotional response. This could be in the form of screaming, crying or physically abusing someone or yourself.
“Mental infringement which doesn’t elicit an emotional response is an attempted mental infringement.”
What do you think? Have you had such a moment where emotions has had you NOT thinking but acting?
Until next time, keep it real folks.
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