What percentage of people are sane?

Not statistically, but your own estimation.

What did you pick? Why?

What do you think about the psychological classification of disorders?
Are you sane?
Have you heard the hot dogs whispering conspiracy? How do we stop them?

 

First, in order to have order, you would have to define sanity.

 

I voted in the 11-20%.
As far as why:
I am old. I have lived a lot of life and I have worked with (and for) the public for a number of years. If not insane, they (the vast majority) are deceitful and narcissistic. Now I see hope for the future and all that jazz; but I still feel the majority of people are not sane.

 

I don't believe in sane or insane, so by my estimation it's 100% either way.

 

The reason I picked 11-20% is because of the high percentage of people that rely fully on their biases and are never truly honest with themselves.

It seems to me that if conditioning could be considered a program; that some people are cyborgs, while others are complete machines.

Add the high number of "sane" people like this, with the smaller number of brains that are truly and agreeably broken - and you don't have many sane people left.

Couldn't rep, but I love this answer.

I have some anxiety problems, have been diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, but I am more wary of psychologists and psychiatrists than I am of politicians. (Though there are some good ones out there in each category.)

 

lol - I would love to see sanity defined.

 

If a person isn't at least a little bit insane, they're faking it

 

99

 

I guessed 95%

but I based it on real life people

not on forum people


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If that's not insane, then what is? Would a sane person be those things?

 

I automatically think of psychoses when I try to define "insane". Disorders like GAD, depression or my own disorder do not make someone insane under a definition that requires some form of psychosis. Then comes the struggle to pin down who is psychotic, because many people have some serious delusions and major paranoia but manage to live normal lives. David Icke hasn't been locked up yet.

On the other hand, "sane" is supposed to mean "healthy", and I suspect the percentage of people with truly healthy minds is depressingly low. It'd be impossible to know or judge. Even people you've known for years can hide dark secrets, and to what degree do anxieties, bad habits and unhelpful thought patterns have to be diminished before you can declare a mind healthy?

 

I believe more than 90% is insane, look at this society, it's a sick society and people forgot how rebelion make them feel alive. I mean, it's insane because people are sick, psicologically sick.

Anyway every single person is insane, insane at the eyes of society. Everyone knows they are animals, human beings, not persons.

I like to believe people discovered mind and thought it would be brilliant to create illusions, to go on some kind of trip. Now they think that the illusion is their reality and they are trapped on ego and it's instability. Every mistic things to them are illogical, non sense. They lost the contact with life source. It's sad to see people waiting for death, believing that it will be better than this world, sacrifying the present for a future. Simply being alive and not living.

 

True enough!

 

I Tend To Agree....



Cheers Glen.

 

how the fuck should i know? i'm an ostritch

 

Everyone is insane. Some people are just more creative with their insanity.

I don't think much of the psychological classifications of disorders. Schitzophrenia is the real deal. Manic depression probably is. Things like depression and anxiety happen to everyone. I hate when people say things like, "I suffer from anxiety," because so does everyone else. Its a matter of finding ways to deal with it.

I don't like psychology because I think its a study that tries to classify everyone into neat little boxes when no boxes really exist.

Anti-social disorder is one thats always bothered me. You could say, "oh he chopped the heads off of 10 women and hid them in his basement because he suffers from anti-social behavior."

You could also say, "He's a murderer because he's a sadistic fuck and that sadism stems from the fact that he was raised by a sadistic fuck."

Many "psychological disorders" are merely a result of conditioning.

Narcissistic disorder is another. Disorder implies that the person can't help it. Yes, they can. Everyone can help being a selfish prick.

I think trying to classify purely psychological disorders (that is, disorders that aren't caused by biological factors) is counter-productive in that it allows the person being diagnosed to believe that its impossible for them to change.

When I think of the people I know that "suffer" from various psychological disorders, I always come back to the same conclusion. These people suffer from a lack of focus and perspective more than anything.

So, in conclusion. There is no insanity. There are only various degrees of perspective.

 

Globally? How would I know? I've never been to the states but I feel like the percentage is much higher there (jk to be clear). Since my view on the sanity of whole continents of people is based on pretty much nothing I feel I can not answer this question. If it's about my own environment: from my point of view certainly not more then 2%

 

Along these lines I'd say that the concept of sanity/insanity has been hijacked by the very professionals whom you're wary of for the purpose of profit so I think there is a wide range where most people can, depending on the situation, be declared insane at some point- contingent on the agenda of the person making the judgement. It is often a means of establishing precedent to push drugs- but it might be a means of mitigating legal issues and crafting an excuse for bad behavior. I think society is so sick that being perfectly sane is actually a handicap.

 

Have you guys heard of a bill passed around the same time as the Patriot Act? I was just reading about it last night but I can't remember the name....argh...well I'll get back to you on the name. But it basically gives the government free reign to give all school-age students a psychological screen without parental consent, opening a very wide door to mark certain kids as mentally unsound and push drugs on these kids. It also opens the door for marking children that show signs of critical thinking (oh, the horror!), classifying them as mentally unsound before they're even old enough to make their voice heard.

Oh and don't get me started on the drugs available for depression and anxiety, not to mention ADHD. If I had one criteria to qualify a sick society, pushing legal speed on young children would probably be it.

Edit: Its not a bill, its a comission. The New Freedom Comission on Mental Health of 2002. Congress awarded them an initial $20 million for the program.

 

So they are suffering until they find a way to deal with it :biggrin:

I share this opinion but only because many who are ought to be smarter then this use these boxes in the wrong way (that the majority of the peeps on this planet aren't smart enough in the first place is something I kind of accepted). The classifications can have purpose but they seem to be easily misused...