Voices in your head, and insanity (do they go together?)

[Michaelangelica]

"Insanity" is a hard word to nail down as it is so culture specific. One definition is loss of touch with reality; but then you have to define "reality"

I would see problems with voices when they could not be distinguished form your normal thought 'voices' and such voices encouraged self harm,violence to others, paranoi, or loss of touch/communication with friends, workmates and loved ones. Then a referral to a metal health specialist is warranted. Even if the symptoms distress you in any way it needs to be discussed with a health professional.

[ntuc]

"voices in your head" is actually a form of false sensory perception projected by one's subconscious mind as a result of abnormal proprioceptive reactions to certain stimuli such as one's surroundings etc.



Whilst as for insanity, it would mean a scenario in which one is substantially or totally unable to differentiate / distinguish realities from hallucinations.



In short, the ones living in insanity would just live in their world of hallucinations and then take them "accordingly" as the world of realities of their own.



And that's simply the reason why the insane people can hardly establish any proper purposeful and meaningful interpersonal communications with the other mentally-sane people.



It is due to the fact that insane people are totally and erratically incoherent and delirious in terms of what they say, their behaviours, personalities, thoughts (or rather purely illusions / hallucintations) and lives.



And hence, they would have much more serious, or rather severe problems of systemic false sensory perceptions other than the "voices in their head" alone. Next, in many cases, they quite often, maybe "seeing imagery things" too, and then just react sponstaneously to them without even any cognitive deterrents / inhibitions / hesitations.



In a nutshell, "voices in your head" in most cases, maybe to a certain remote and rare extent, associated with insanity.



Hence, as a matter of fact, having "voices in ones' head" doesn't necessarily mean that the particular people concerned are insane. As such, there are thus no direct and conclusive associations between these two extreme medical scenarios, in terms of their degrees / levels of severities.



Lastly, as long as one could retain his / her awareness (of the reality scenarios / what really happens in reality) well enough, he / she would be able to let go and then slowly and gradually, expel totally all those false sensory perceptions through medication and non-medicational means of psychotherapies, interpersonal, communications, emotional, moral, interactive supports from their close ones of whom they feel comfortable with as well as self-control / self-determination / self-disclipines exercised on their own to let go and expel all those false sensory perceptions.



'Where there is a will, there is always a way'

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

It is due to the fact that insane people are totally and erratically incoherent and delirious in terms of what they say, their behaviours, personalities, thoughts (or rather purely illusions / hallucintations) and lives.

Bullpoopies! I know of many that are most definitely insane (incl. myself) that are perfectly capable of lucid thought and reasonably rational interaction with others on occasion

[ntuc]

Bullpoopies! I know of many that are most definitely insane (incl. myself) that are perfectly capable of lucid thought and reasonably rational interaction with others on occasion


Ok, now let us just consider the formal definition of insanity :


Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely: brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, disturbance, insaneness, lunacy, madness


and then, the combination / majority of the pathological symptoms stated below which lead to the medical scenario / diagnosis of insanity :


Previous history of mental illness
Previous history of alcohol or drug abuse
Aggression
Emotional lability
Increased energy
Elevated mood
Suspicious mood
Thoughts of conspiracy
Hallucination
Delusions


So, just what is "voices in one's head" alone compared to the definition and combination of the list of the symptoms for insanity diagnosis above ?


Thus, just to what extent that the "voices in one's head" are associated with the extremely severe mental disorder of insanity whose striking and decisive symptoms would definitely and primarily involve serious thought and behavioural as well as personality derangements ?


Anyway, an unbiased medical diagnosis from the related specialists would be fairly conclusive on this issue.

[lemit]

I think I heard a long time ago that Edison tried to find a way to record thoughts but failed. Maybe it was voices in my head that told me that.

But anyway, since we have no way to record those voices, we have no way to measure them or even objectively verify their existence. They are therefore nonrefutable phenomena and can be discounted.

That doesn't make any difference. If you hear voices in your head and they cause you pain or cause you to inflict pain on others, get some help. If they don't, don't worry about them.

Conversely, if you don't hear voices in your head, but you feel pain or inflict pain on others, get help. If not, don't worry.

It isn't the voices that are important. It's your health.

--lemit

[ntuc]

It isn't the voices that are important. It's your health.



Yup, I agree with that.


And precisely in terms of one's mental health.