You consider yourself mentally ill, or you consider yourself insane?
Gah. This is a case where the linguistics are bogging us down. "Insane" being the catch-all term used in a non-legal sense, "mentally ill" being the personal unverified (save for the OCD) conclsion of self, not external by professionals of any sort.
Using ksol1460's definition, I am sane. Using my own, I'm not, but I'll bridge it to say "mentally ill" if that's more helpful.
I always figured a lot of the "this character walked into my head" was just a description of the person's subjective experience-- that they weren't necessarily out to prove this person existed as a real separate individual.
Right, whereas I've been taking such statements more literally, and getting very confused--because if someone walked into your body, that's a spirit possession, and as far as I know from my experiences, I've never met a spirit, ghost or entity that looked and acted like it walked out of Final Fantasy or Evangelion.
Dead people? Sure. Animated people? Never. But again, that's me, not everyone.
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Re: Sanity
Date: 2005-08-10 11:42 am (UTC)Gah. This is a case where the linguistics are bogging us down. "Insane" being the catch-all term used in a non-legal sense, "mentally ill" being the personal unverified (save for the OCD) conclsion of self, not external by professionals of any sort.
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I always figured a lot of the "this character walked into my head" was just a description of the person's subjective experience-- that they weren't necessarily out to prove this person existed as a real separate individual.
Right, whereas I've been taking such statements more literally, and getting very confused--because if someone walked into your body, that's a spirit possession, and as far as I know from my experiences, I've never met a spirit, ghost or entity that looked and acted like it walked out of Final Fantasy or Evangelion.
Dead people? Sure. Animated people? Never. But again, that's me, not everyone.