- published: 05 Mar 2011
- views: 14449472
Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense. In the medical profession the term is now avoided in favor of diagnoses of specific mental disorders; the presence of delusions or hallucinations is broadly referred to as psychosis. When discussing mental illness in general terms, "psychopathology" is considered a preferred descriptor.
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 refers to defective function of mental processes such as reasoning. Another Latin phrase related to our current concept of sanity is "compos mentis" (lit. "of composed mind"), and a euphemistic term for insanity is "non compos mentis". In law, mens rea means having had criminal intent, or a guilty mind, when the act (actus reus) was committed.
now that i can see the tragedy, that's killing me
i will not lie down
it only happens when you're close to me, now you're too clean
for me to fuck you round
every night i tune right out just for the simple fact
that you are not around (you are not around)
i can escape the dreams of you because i know what i have found
and if i had some sort of temporary insanity, i could shift the blame
to the illness that infected me, so casually
to you it's just a game
every night i tune right out just for the simple fact
that you are not around (you are not around)
i can escape the dreams of you because i know what i have found
how could you?
you'd be much better off than them.