Is Insanity "resistible" (Sometimes)?

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Let's use a Popular Song from the '70s to illustrate my question.

 

How many have heard thee song "Delta Dawn?"

 

Nevermind.

 

Delta Dawn has her suitcase all packed to elope.

 

She's jilted and thirty years later she still shows up downtown every day, with the same suitcase in hand, wearing the same ancient rose and looking for her "Mysterious Dark-Haired Man."

 

Lets treat the song as a case study.

 

Delta dawn isn't crazy on day one.

 

We might grant her the next few days. The mystery man might have been unavoidably detained. He might have a satisfactory explanation.

 

Well hey, although it sounds like a soap opera plot, there might be valid reasons for being a year, or even a couple decades late.

 

However, while we may be willing to listen to his rap when and if he shows up...

 

It would seem reasonable to unpack the suitcase and get on with life.

 

Re-Packing will be a very minor consideration, should we decide that it is warranted.

 

But here is the Real Question:

 

As Delta Dawn shows up day after day, proverbial suitcase in hand...

 

#1} When precisely does her Persistence cease being Reasonable and become evidence of Serious Psychosis?

 

#2} Was there ever a time that she could have re-evaluated her behavior and pulled back from the brink of Madness, simply by Will and Reason?

 

A friend who was in the last year of study to be a Psychiatrist, when he decided that all of Psychiatry was Pseudo-Science and dropped out, said,

 

"If there was a time that she Could have stopped going downtown everyday with a suitcase in her hand, then there was a time that she Could have stopped, but Didn't.

 

"On the other hand, if there was never a time that she Could have stopped, then no, there was never a point that she Could have stopped."

 

But seriously...

 

Hardware Glitches are Real.

 

Software Glitches are Trivial.

 

But in the Human Brain the two seem inextricably intertwined.

 

Can letting the wrong sort of Software Sub-Routines flourish lead to Insanity?

 

{Well yeah, If your Software Glitches cause you to neglect good nutrition while importing Beaucoup Psychedelics and Poisons—but that isn't what I mean...}

 

 

 

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But here is the Real Question:

 

As Delta Dawn shows up day after day, proverbial suitcase in hand...

 

#1} When precisely does her Persistence cease being Reasonable and become evidence of Serious Psychosis?

 

#2} Was there ever a time that she could have re-evaluated her behavior and pulled back from the brink of Madness, simply by Will and Reason?

 

A friend who was in the last year of study to be a Psychiatrist, when he decided that all of Psychiatry was Pseudo-Science and dropped out, said,

 

"If there was a time that she Could have stopped going downtown everyday with a suitcase in her hand, then there was a time that she Could have stopped, but Didn't.

 

"On the other hand, if there was never a time that she Could have stopped, then no, there was never a point that she Could have stopped."

 

But seriously...

 

Hardware Glitches are Real.

 

Software Glitches are Trivial.

 

But in the Human Brain the two seem inextricably intertwined.

 

Can letting the wrong sort of Software Sub-Routines flourish lead to Insanity?

 

{Well yeah, If your Software Glitches cause you to neglect good nutrition while importing Beaucoup Psychedelics and Poisons—but that isn't what I mean...}

 

 

 

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But what happens if the pattern you pictured is broken and the subject goes about life as normal? Would anybody else ever know about it? If not, then how could you have enough information to even ask the question you did? Many of us so called normals have experienced short periods of abnormal behavior or thoughts, and survive the experience and go on to have a life where they can support and take care of themselves. If they remember the abnormal experience they probably will not want to brag about it or even share it with anybody else. Personally I think mental illnesses are caused by physical problems, even if we haven't been able to detect what they are.

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Okay, maybe she was Mad as a Hatter years earlier, and the incident merely brought her loose screw to the fore.

 

And maybe, in another possible World, she might have stopped the Suitcase Thingy, still been Beaucoup Crazy, just more difficult, even impossible to detect.

 

You say that you think Madness is Organic.

 

That sounds very Reasonable and Objective.

 

However, one of the ways the brain programs itself is by rewiring neurons.

 

Wear a special vizor to make everything appear upside down and in mirror reverse continually...

 

And sometime about the sixth month a radical shift will take place.

 

All at once things will once again appear normal.

 

Millions of neural pathways have been physically shifted.

 

Take the vizor off and everything will once again appear upside down and backwards.

 

It will take about six months for the effect to reverse itself again.

 

HMMMmmnnnn...?

 

Wonder if we wore the vizor only on Alternate Days?

 

{And what if I take The Red Pill AND The Blue Pill along with a couple hits of Speed, all washed down with a Pint of Jack Daniels?}

 

Apparently that didn't occur to the experimenters.

 

Point is:

 

Behavior—Mere Software—Wearing a Novelty Visor Continually—

 

Is causing Physical Changes in Your Brain.

 

So the Question Remains:

 

Can letting the wrong Software Sub-Routines run for too long on the old Mainframe, cause it to re-wire itself bonky?

 

I haven't a clue.

 

 

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