Nobody bothers observing what the difference between insanity and madness is.
Insane: a subjective observation you make about another, they clearly have a self-consistent reasoning process with a metric that you don’t share. But communication and cooperation is still possible. Aka Neurodivergent
Mad: an objective observation that someone is illogical, goes against established and observable evidence, may harm self or others, aka nut case
I don’t need to read your argument because I came to the exact same conclusion. I just don’t think madness or insanity are useful terms for understanding psychology, nor is making a distinction between the two really worth the effort.
Why is psychology this way?
the coolest thing ever is
The BAD EVIL Disorder
in psychology language
everything has to be a “disorder”
They name the conditions by how they affect normal people, not how the conditions affect us.
Admittedly, I literally told off a priest and a cop at completely different times in the same day, when I was 5…
Nobody bothers observing what the difference between insanity and madness is.
Insane: a subjective observation you make about another, they clearly have a self-consistent reasoning process with a metric that you don’t share. But communication and cooperation is still possible. Aka Neurodivergent
Mad: an objective observation that someone is illogical, goes against established and observable evidence, may harm self or others, aka nut case
Edit: clarified sentences
bestie, wtf are you talking about?
Neurodivergence as a concept and how academic psychology perceives it. Everything is a disorder if it doesn’t fit the neurotypical mould.
Here’s my argument from Mastodon regarding this: https://mastodon.social/@voodooattack/116564124322479196
I don’t need to read your argument because I came to the exact same conclusion. I just don’t think madness or insanity are useful terms for understanding psychology, nor is making a distinction between the two really worth the effort.
Anything that is not a cis white guy who wants to march waving a big national flag is a disorder.