anybody else think they're insane?

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laurathealien
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or at least really weird?
i dunno.
sometimes i just like, chill alone. and if i'm bored i just basically write to myself.
like i keep a notepad next to me while i'm chilling doing stuff and as soon as i think of stuff to myself i write it down. i basically am writing to myself because no one is going to ever read that stuff.

bleh bleh bleh.
i dunno.

also i do other weird shit too.
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it's one of those areas where catch 22 doesn't work - thinking yourself insane doesn't preclude you from actually being insane. but in a world where sane is considered normal, i think i'd choose insane any day of the week.

i write all the time too, usually with fountan pen (other times keyboard - just try sharpening the end of that!) and i just can't be without my notepad.

my feeling is that, when inspiration washes over you, you'd better have something to write on (and with). i actually made myself bleed one time and used a stone to write on the back of a bus ticket. is that insane? i can't even remember what was so important.

about the weird stuff, i actually started writing an erotic novella 3 days ago and i'm already 80 pages in. i'd never been into that sort of stuff before, but it's actually rather stimulating. and cathartic. and i would never tell or show anybody. except you!
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*fionaapplefan: glad you shared that with me then!

i also know what you mean about sometimes not even remembering what was so important to write down in the first place.
and sometimes it kills me if i have the perfect sentence in my head and then if i don't write it down right away i forget it and i spend so long trying to find that perfect word i had not just a minute ago.

and then when i get into these "writing fits" or whatever, i just feel like everything i am thinking i have to write it down.

but it's not just the writing thing.
and i don't necessarily mean insane in the conventional way that we are meant to believe it..
i do think everything is a little bit insane and everyone talks to themselves i mean, that's basically what THINKING is, really.
i guess sometimes i just feel so overwhelmed by it.
just the things i think sometimes.

i guess an erotic book would be one way to get it out haha
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yeah, about the novella - i'm not really like that, but it was just something i needed to get out of my system and next week it will probably be something entirely different.

i actually have a proper novel that i'm in an editing phase of at the moment and the trouble with editing is that it gives you no expressive outlet for your creative juices, hence the digression!

i have midheaven in gemini which screams writer at me, but i don't think that accounts for all the feelings that come out in my writing. i think that's more to do with having mercury and venus in cancer.

because it's so personal, i find it very difficult to show it to people i know - i guess it almost makes me feel like an actress who's done a nude scene and sits down to watch it with her parents!

there's a really good video on the internet by elizabeth gilbert called your elusive creative genius. it's all about the concept of having a muse that rushes over you with an idea and if you don't stop to write it down, it'll run off and find the next person. it's about 20 minutes long, but worth the watch as she also touches on mental health and the writer, suggesting that writers are more prone than most to bouts of insanity because we are so aware that there's more out there.
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I get you but i wouldnt call it crazy. I mean Salvador Dali has some weird stuff but it's pure genius to a lot of people. Even Escher's stuff was weird, and the Modern artists? What were they thinking to put some odd shaped peculiar piece in the middle of a park or central city. Then have the nerve to call it modern art? Lol.

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there's a really good video on the internet by elizabeth gilbert called your elusive creative genius. it's all about the concept of having a muse that rushes over you with an idea and if you don't stop to write it down, it'll run off and find the next person. it's about 20 minutes long, but worth the watch as she also touches on mental health and the writer, suggesting that writers are more prone than most to bouts of insanity because we are so aware that there's more out there.



that makes sense, since it's very mercurial and neptunian combination. Alot of people just jot down their thoughts on a journal, blog, diary whatever. The muse is always always flowing, it never stops. Information is never new, just rehashed and shown in a different perspective, ours.
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haha don't even get me started on modern art.. i'm studying in fine arts at university and trust me, modern artists weren't "insane" at all. after all the intense realism and pop art from the century before, it was just a natural progression to focus on the actual "art" aspect of art by highlighting shapes, colours, paint strokes and the bringing attention to the actual canvas it self as a piece of work. they we're trying to break the illusion that realism was trying to create.

anyways, sorry about that. just has to explain it.

but dali.. dali might have been insane. ;P
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Posted by Dogma
For example fionaapplefan cut herself with the rock to write something in blood that at that time she felt the need to express herself. this to me is unusual, as i would have asked someone to borrow a pen or wrote it in my phone however this shows alot in her character that she is self reliant and will not let anything stand in her way of being who she is whether the person next to her deems that unnaceptable, different, insane etc. Not allowing peer pressure to bare down her.




hi. yeah. a couple things. i'm a bloke, not a bird! and i didn't cut myself with a stone, i cut myself probably by biting but i don't remember. i just used the stone to dip in the blood because it was pointed enough to write with and the bus ticket was all the writing material i had on me.

and when i did it, we didn't have such things as mobile phones. we're talking late 80s early 90s. and if i remember rightly, it was late at night, so not many people around.

but the strange thing is - and i enjoyed what you said about self reliance - but even if there was someone else around, i'm not sure i would have asked (infp here). i think i would have gone somewhere quiet and done what i did anyway - so great the need to write down whatever the idea was before it flew away.

and you're absolutely spot on about peer pressure. i don't feel any at all. i figure, this is my life. i get one. i'm going to live it as true to who i am as i possibly can. i can just see a day though - in my future - when i'm going to have this incredible urge to write something down, but i won't be able to - because of that darn straight jacket they'll have me in!

oh well. que sera will be.
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i agree that we shouldn't have to feel like we need to conform to society's idea of what being sane or normal is.

it's just like saying young kids with tons of energy who can't stay still in the class room (for exmaple) have A.D.D.
if put in a different environment, those characteristics would play out differently and maybe be useful.


i think we all talk to ourselves, and like you said Dogma, writing things allows to clear our minds of a situation.

when i'm angry with someone, or hurt, or totally in love with them, i write how i feel. i have to. or else it just stay bunched up in my brain repeating itself and playing over and over.
by writing all those thoughts and emotions, i avoid blurting out nonsense to the people who i am thinking about.
because sometimes i'm thinking totally illogical things, exaggerations of a situation, or things that people would just take more intensely than how i mean it.

and that's something else i have a hard time with..
my intensity of thought and my passion towards thing. sometimes it is so much, people don't understand it and i come off as crazy or obsessed.

so then i write my obsessions down.
and it sometimes helps.
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Posted by laurathealien
or at least really weird?
i dunno.
sometimes i just like, chill alone. and if i'm bored i just basically write to myself.
like i keep a notepad next to me while i'm chilling doing stuff and as soon as i think of stuff to myself i write it down. i basically am writing to myself because no one is going to ever read that stuff.

bleh bleh bleh.
i dunno.

also i do other weird shit too.



i m not writing this coz i get crazy at libras...but it fits me...i m telling u there are even craziest and wierd people than you are. and thats how u can be candid with your self thinkin of jerk like me (i m goin to explain) and be happy for the thought tat atleast u r not like landon. now what wrong with me is that I DONT KNOW WHATS WRONG WITH ME. but SOMETHING ISNT RIGHT. sometimes i m looner. then some times i m a show stopper...one day i would be confined in my home not attending to friend's calls. other day i would be arranging college get together...one day i would ignore the prettiest girl arround approaching me...other day i would not move an inch from the point of sale "average lookin'" girl until either she give me cell or beat me with her shoe (which i love the most...)...people say i am a Capricorn...wtf...i m not going to take that...i do wierd things that in no way make capricorn.

Conclusion.
no two humans are born with same qualities...thats divine decision...we being humans are helpless with that...just enjoy what u r and dont push ur self for what u r not...

stay blessed
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If you feel like going crazy, you need to consult a psychiatrist. He will prescribe your medication. If you have anxiety you may be given (SSRIs) selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and beta blockers. And if you have depression you may be given antidepressants. If you have both antidepressant can be given. Other symptoms of anxiety are difficulty falling asleep, chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, shaking, tremor, body zaps, tingling sensation, burning skin sensation in the neck or face, feel like the floor is moving up and down. A person with anxiety may also experience stomach upset, anxiety-induced GI problem, bloating. There is so much air inside so there is chest pain or GI problem. You swallow too much air along with the saliva. So practice deep breathing. Because when you are on anxiety you breathe in more air than the amount of air that you breathe out.

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I am not insane but I am what goes on here. So I try to visit this page and interested to post my comments. I control my brain to function well. If I want to go crazy then I do it but for fun only and not applied to usual activities. Because this may cause a trouble. I use my good mentality to be helpful and useful. I prefer to use it to help others and make the most out of it. I advice and use it as a means of communication in order for me to understand my life and face its challenges and be able to think what should be discovered and understood. I use my brain to cope up with life situations. To deal with life effectively. But if a person is insane there are still lot of things to do. You can make your art.

Nathanael King is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner and weight loss & nutritional therapist. He also helps people suffering from panic attacks or social anxiety. He has written a book on how to build confidence instantly using NLP techniques. Please click here to download now. You can also sign up for weekly newsletter at http://www.SelfProgress.co.uk for your growth.
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I LOVE YOU PEOPLE 🙂 I've been told that i'm weird because sometimes "im an ice queen and then sometimes im really intense" said my former best friend. people accuse me of saying things they don't understand so i decided to stop telling people how i feel because i always feel the need to explain further then they are more confused then i feel like im nuts. so i write, write and write. i can't remember who posted about the urge to write it down when you think of a really good line but i can relate. i used to post those lines on facebook and then i just realized that they were wasted on them so now i just keep 'em in my journal
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I've 5 filled books of stuff that I write about the earlier ones have pretty deep depressing degrading thoughts in them, well they all do but they have have good normal random thoughts in them??_.I think I have a fractured personality, I don't even know if it exists but I know I don't have multiple split personalities but I empathise with people who do and I kind of understand what they are going through.

I have some repressed childhood memories that I need to go to see a therapist about I think because I can't remember the house that I lived up to when I was 4 but I can clearly remember my babysitters house that my mum used to drop me off to.

I don't know about anyone else here but is it normal for a 4 year old to dream about sex? because I had sex dreams when I was 4??_theres other stuff but I won't go into it..

I say my personality is fractured because I am me but there are polar sides to my personality that show when I'm in situations and they fluctuate quickly kind of like borderline personality and it leaves me drained??_.like I'm normal now but when I have sex I'm very dominant and sadistic but when I'm done i'm emotionally vulnerable and like the be held which is awkward when I pick guys up at a club and when I'm normal I'm just a funny go lightly guy carefree and indifferent.

I can go from hating myself to loving myself to hating myself really quickly same goes with people and the world in general.
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I keep a lot of things bottled up and have secrets that I can't even write down on paper because I don't want to look at them??_.every time I think of them I literally say "Monkeys" and the thought goes away depending on how big the secret is and severity determines how loud I yell it lol??_..If Ive yelled it once sometimes it resurfaces then I only have to say it under my breathe to keep it at bay??_.It didn't even used to be monkeys I just used to talk weird gibberish shit and curl my toes up and writhe.

it can be at any random time when I'm in thought kinda feels like tourettes really its such a sting impulse and I can't help it??_.I scare a lot of my family members and friends because of this and they hate it??_.they always ask me why I say it and they always know the answer ??_ its a secret.

My mum thinks I do it for attention??_.like the time I set her bed on fire or pushed her off a cliff into the sea??_yes I it happened I don't even know why I did it, I'm very impulsive??_sometimes I think about doing bad things then I g