I think the problem with your definition of psychosis is that
it fits everyone.
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Nathan Cain <
IndieCrime@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> People lie all the time when they rear
the
>> consequences of the truth.
>> If that makes someone crazy then we're all
nuts.
>> Even little children
>> lie. Psychotics exhibit symptoms like
hallucinations
>> and thought
>> disorders. A psychotic doesn't think she's
lying,
>> and there's the big
>> difference. Brigid doesn't see things that
aren't
>> there, and her
>> actions, to me, seems more Machiavellian than
they
>> do crazy. She's
>> playing for keeps, and she has an ends justify
the
>> means philosophy.
>
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> As with all diseases, there are varying degrees
of
> psychosis. Hallucinations are not a required
symptom
> of psychosis. Even among the famous psychotics
who
> claimed hallucinations like David Berkowitz,
the
> claims are questionable. Psychosis implys a world
view
> altered from that generally accepted. The brother
who
> thought he was Teddy Roosevelt in ARSNIC AND OLD
LACE
> was psychotic. The belief that there is a
"dingus"
> handed down from the Knights of Malta, encrusted
in
> jewels covered with lacquer, is fanciful.
Killing
> people to get hold of it, is psychotic.
>
> Most children and even more teenagers display at
some
> point or other behaviors that can be classifieded
as
> psychotic. This is why, in civilized states,
children
> are not tried by the same requirements adults are.
The
> belief in Santa Clause or a world where
Santa
> Clause-like beings exist is psychotic.
Very
> intelligent children never really buy into it.
Most
> people grow out of it. Most religious beliefs,
having
> no empirical evidence to back them up, represent
a
> shared psychosis which is why religions are
so
> dangerous.
>
> The Machivellian world view is largely a
psychotic
> one. In modern usage, it's Machivellian to take
your
> boss out to dinner regularly and buy him gifts.
It's
> psychotic to encourage him to sleep with your wife
or
> murder him to gain his job.
>
> Ted Bundy was a psychotic. His psychosis made
it
> impossible for him to attain sexual gratification
with
> living women. In order for him to have dead women
to
> have sex with, he found it most expedient to kill
them
> himself. He didn't have hallucinations. In fact he
was
> pretty shrewd. It was the belief that he could
only
> achieve pleasure with the dead that drove him
crazy.
>
> Patrick King
>
>
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